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gained their chief distinction, a distinction which will belong to them through all time.
The physician should be the handy man of Nature, and he should
strive to aid and to imitate her efforts to effect a cure. His first
care should be to remove, so far as is possible, the causes of the
disease; and then, in the conduct of the treatment, he should keep
in view at all times the special circumstances of the case, giving
closer attention to the patient than to the disease itself. In short,
he should aim at being useful, or at least he should be careful not
to do any harm.
