...even as much as a minute after actual death whether the patient were not still breathing.2 1 " Nny, further, I esteem it the office of a physician, not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolour*; and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a...

...reference is all that is necessary. Simpson was fully persuaded of the truth of Bacon's aphorism : — " I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolours." Eight well did he carry out these principles, and thereby win the everlasting gratitude of every sufferer....

...I wish to provoke anew discussion of the subject. For I believe with Bacon, who so quaintly said: " I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors." In reading the history and literature of the subject I am unable to understand why the opinions...

...forego a weighty part of our professional duties whenever we forget the axiom of Bacon, that " it is the office of a physician, not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolours." And as medical men we are called upon to mitigate and remove those " pangs and agonies of travail," ^s...