THE LIVER. 



INTRODUCTION. 



order to study and carry out the practice of 

 medicine in an accurate and scientific manner, it is 

 essential that we should be deeply impressed with its 

 importance; and to be so impressed, we must be- 

 lieve in it, and worship it as our god. These words, 

 or something very similar, were uttered by a continental 



classical and philosophic 



whose life and writings breathe a sinn-re philan- 

 in a deep sense, and constitute, according 

 to my humble opinion, the foundation and moral status 

 of all nirdi<Ml practice. It is evident, indeed, that the 

 practitioner who has no faith in the compass that guides 

 him, or the efficacy of his art, cannot devote himself to 



study and practice of it with that zeal, perse- 



uce, and pleasure he otherwise would have done. 



: , it will not suffice for the physician only to be 



convinced of the utility and efficacy of the remedies he 



prescribes ; it is of the greatest import to the success of 



tment, that the patient share his confidence in 



Q as \vt 11. 1: >'fore, important to all of us to 



form early a reasonable opinion on the degree of efficacy 



Cabaniao, " Da Degre de certitude de la Medicine." 

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