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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Mistakes of physicians. --Oliver W. Holmes, in a lecture upon physiciaus, gives the following accounts of some mistakes which have been made in medicine. Sooner of later everybody is tripped up in forming a disgnosts. I saw Volnan one of the carotid arteries for a supposed aneurism, which was only a little harmless tumor, and kill his patient. Mr. Dease, of Dublin, was more fortunate in a case he boloty declared an abecess, while others thought it an aneurism. He thrust a lancet into it and proved himself in the right. Soon after he made a similar diagnosis. He thrust in his lancet as before and out gushed his pattent's blood and his life with it. The next morning Dense was found dead, floating in his blood. He had divided the femoral artery. I have doomed people and seen others doom them, over and over again on the strength of physical signs, and they have lived in the most contumaclous and scientifically unjustifiable marner as long as they some are living still.