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Excerpt from A Valedictory Address, on the Art of Examining the Sick: Delivered to the Graduates of the Medical College of Ohio, on the First Day of March, 1836
Why is this the case? Because the science of diagnosis and the art of examining the sick are not sufficiently studied. Without a thorough acquaintance with the former, it would be preposterous to pretend to practice the latter. While the latter teaches you merely how to prosecute an examination, the former enables you to interpret the physical and vocal signs furnished by the patient. To make a suc cessinl practical application of diagnosis your examination must be conducted with strict regard to some settled and natural method. This, in truth, is so absolutely requisite that should you venture, irre spective of method, to prosecute an examination in the presence of an educated and enlightened physician, he would denounce you as an awkward, illiterate and a blundering quack. It is the condu'ct Of the physician, in the discharge of this duty, that announces in language not to be misinterpreted, whether he should be detested as an empy ric or respected as an intelligent and accomplished physician.
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