Excerpt from Prescribing and Treatment in the Diseases of Infants and Children

In have to do with Of There is every reason also to agree with Charles West when, in his Introducing Lecture on the Discuss of Infancy and Ohildh 0 makes a statement to the effect that fully ird of the patients met with in practice are children. It will ollow, then, from a considera tion of these two estimates, that many thousands of medical men in the United Kingdom (to say nothin Of the registered practitioners abroad) have a third part Of their practice taken up with the numerous and varied diseases of infants and children. One would naturally expect to find therefore that the 'early training of this large number of practitioners who, in after years, have so much to do with children's diseases, would include special clinical instruction in these disorders, and that in fact no inconsiderable portion of their curriculum would be taken up in t is way. A layman if he were told that it was quite possible for a medical man to Obtain his degrees or diplomas and commence prac tice, without ever having seen a single case of disease in an and or child, would be somewhat s But if s were informed, in addition, .that such was My the rule, he would be more astonished still. 8 ialiam is an immrtsnt feature in the medical pro casion of today, and what further development it will reach to it is at present impossible to foresee. But it is the o inion of the wisest of the leaders of the medical wor d that no matter what 8 ialism a practitioner may afterwards devote his w ole atten tion to, yet it is better for him at first to en for a fewyesrsingeneral practice, soastootaina thorough and comprehensive graspofdisease in all its forms. What as already been adduced, there fore, as a plea for a more complete training in the diseases of children for the general practitioner, will apply equally to him who looks forward in the future to concentrate his labours on one particularremedy for every disorder. If, how itioner has at hand a summarised list b have been found serviceable in thi see of infants and children, it may be vary his treatment in accordance 'ent phases of the malady, and tha1 take a renewed interest in the actia es. In this we the collective experie 7 workers will help us ultimately to certainty in controlling disease towar (forts of medical science have ever been.

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