Note 793 — ON INJURIES OF THE HEAD.

This passage indicates strongly our author’s partiality for prognostics, or rather, I should say, for prorrhetics. It would appear to have been a primary consideration with him, in all cases, to secure the physician from blame, and to teach him how to gain the confidence of the patient and his attendants. Few who have practiced medicine for a great many years, will question the propriety of these rules of conduct, or doubt the importance of taking all honorable steps to ensure the confidence and good-will of patients and their friends.