Physicians appreciate very well that they understand little about a patient by knowing how
he is; they must also know how he got there. The his¬ tory is as important in diagnosis as the …

A MEDICAL history has many and great values. More than any other element, it helps to a
proper understanding of the case, and is the best basis for both diagnosis and treatment …

I find myself familiarly at home in this place. Here was the original spring of American
medicine, as my own University was the origi-nal spring of Canadian medicine. For a long …

International Universities Press, New York, 1957. 73 pp. $2.00. This is the first of a series of
monographs devoted to the proceedings of the Institute on Social and Historical Medicine …

SIn,-I have real witlh mluch interest your articles on the" Study of-Medical History, as a
necessary part of Mledical Editcation"; and they have suggtested to me a few remarks …

If you look at a large painting only a few feet away from it, you will only see a small-perhaps
insignificant-detail of it; if you view it at a distance of some yards, your eyes will absorb a …

BOOK REVIEWS AND JOURNAL NOTES the history of medicine seen through the
enthusiastic wonder-filled eyes of a restless world-wandering physician in love with …

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a recent address, urges hia hearers not to look with contempt
on their old'medical books;" the debris of broken systems and exploded dogmas," he …

There is one group of writers and speakers which holds that the professional historian alone
is capable of writing on medical history and that amateurs are poachers who should go back …

This volume is the first of a new series of monographs published by the Institute on Social
and Historical Medicine. The purpose of this organization is" to inquire whether medical …