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Title: Doctor and Patient

Author: S. Weir Mitchell

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DOCTOR AND PATIENT.

BY

S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D., LL.D. HARV.
MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRESIDENT
OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA, PHYSICIAN
TO THE ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL AND INFIRMARY
FOR NERVOUS DISEASES.

_Introductory_.
_The Physician_.
_Convalescence_.
_Pain and its Consequences_.
_The Moral Management of Sick or Invalid Children_.
_Nervousness and its Influence on Character_.
_Out-Door and Camp-Life for Women_.

_THIRD EDITION_.

PHILADELPHIA:
J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
LONDON: 36 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1901.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY

THE PHYSICIAN

CONVALESCENCE

PAIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

THE MORAL MANAGEMENT OF SICK OR INVALID CHILDREN

NERVOUSNESS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER

OUT-DOOR AND CAMP-LIFE FOR WOMEN

INTRODUCTORY.

The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of
subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought.
Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of
physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity
rather than the medical attendant. The larger number have from their
nature a closer relation to the needs of women than of men.

It has been my fate of late years to have in my medical care very many
women who, from one or another cause, were what is called nervous. Few
of them were so happily constituted as to need from me neither counsel
nor warnings. Very often such were desired, more commonly they were
given unsought, as but a part of that duty which the physician feels, a
duty which is but half fulfilled when we think of the body as our only
province.

Many times I have been asked if