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Excerpt from The Young Stethoscopist, or the Student's Aid to Auscultation
I first caught a love for physical and rational diag nosis, as a means of cultivating the higher faculties of the mind, which I trust I shall ever carry with me.
In conclusion, while presenting this little work on the physical signs, let me disclaim all intention of pla cing them higher than they really deserve. Fifteen years ago, they were sneered at by many persons. N ow, very few would be foolish enough to do so, and the tendency is strong to overrate them. Amidst the niceties of our physical examinations we are apt to neglect the rational signs. The truth is, that he who scoffs at either must necessarily be a child in the diag nosis of not a few diseases and he who cultivates both with the clear, keen-sighted eye of a true observer, and then notes their mutual relations, is the truly wise physician. Both categories of signs are useful, each in its own sphere; and neither should be allowed to predominate; neither should be neglected.
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