Excerpt from Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 13
The practical use of medical knowledge consists, generally, in the facility and rapidity with which it can on any occasion be brought to bear on a given case. A man may be able to write an elaborate treatise on any medical subject, and yet, in a case of emergency or complexity, he may be totally unable to bring the stores of his mind into practical application at the moment when he is most in need of his knowledge. For this reason, we have adopted a new plan in the present volume: at the end of which we have compiled a "Synopsis", which will enable the practitioner to avail himself of the most practical indications of treatment which different authors have recommended within the last six months; and we purpose, at some early period, to bring out a more complete Synopsis of this description, embracing all our preceding twelve volumes. If we may judge from our own experience at the bed-side, we think such a Pocket Dictionary of Practical medicine would be very useful; and, now that so great a variety of methods are resorted to in the treatment of diseases, such an easy book of reference becomes even absolutely necessary, to assist the memory of those who are actively engaged in practice.
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