STUDIES ON TUMOUR FORMATION
STUDIES ON TUMOUR FORMATION
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肿瘤形成的研究
DOI:
10.1136/pgmj.26.301.611-a
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发表时间:
1950
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G. W. Nicholson
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作者:
G. W. Nicholson
doctors who gave nothing without their patient's consent and discussed their ailments scientifically with them. A slave assistant, if he were present at this sort of treatment, would burst out laughing, and say, "You fool, you are not doctoring your patient, but almost educating him, so as to be not a healthy man but his own doctor." This differential treatment is nowhere indicated in the Hippocratic Corpus. In the Epidemics, for instance, the occupation of patients is often given with their case-histories; these mention shoemakers, leather-workers, an officer in charge of the market, a miner, vine-dressers, fullers, stone-cutters a schoolteacher , a gramm.aticus, the keeper of a palcestra, a cook, a gardener, a groom, a boxer, a ship's supercargo, a merchant, many wives and children, and also many slaves, mostly domestic. These cases are all carefully investigated and described. The aim of the treatise is purely descriptive, and treatment is hardly mentioned, but no difference whatever appears in the attitude to the various cases. Perhaps the doctors who wrote our treatises were more conscientious than the majority. In conclusion, a few remarks on the Hippocratic Oath may be of interest. Certain general provisions are well known; lethal drugs are not to be administered to anyone who asks for them, abortion is not to be practised, and the persons and private affairs of all patients, bond or free, are to be respected. But the learner also swears not to practise surgery, but to yield place to practitioners of that art. This undertaking cannot without hypocrisy be an ethical condemnation of those who did certain dirty work when it was necessary. It has been interpreted by Dr. Edelstein in his edition (Supplement No. 1 to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943) as a provision due to the ascetic tradition of the Pythagorean philosophers, who had a rule against shedding blood. According to him the whole Oath has a Pythagorean flavour, and was originally conifined to doctors of this philosophical or religious persuasion. Its other provisions have been retained with sound instinct by the medical profession until our own day. THIS iS a collected series of the papers by Nicholson which appeared originally in Guy's Hospital Reports. Nicholson's work, long familiar to pathologists, is well worthy of a larger audience. Few medical men have written more piquantly, or argued so logically from facts. Throughout we have a series …