RT Journal
T1 THe patient is the unit of practice
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD October 7
VO 113
IS 15
SP 1439
OP 1439
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800400067045
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800400067045
AB The author of this book tries to systematize medicine so that it can be utilized by the student in a chartlike fashion. He discusses at length the constitutional potentialities of disease and the psychogenic factors concerned in the patient's attitude toward his problem. A great deal of space is taken up by the psychosomatic approach. In his "diagnostic or working hypothesis" he reports a case of numerous functional complaints associated with delusions and illusions. However, even after meticulous observations no examination of the spinal fluid is reported and no diagnosis is made as to the mental aspect of the patient. He goes at length into the various diagnostic procedures, which, of course, are exceedingly elementary. The charts are not at all inclusive. For instance, the chart on the etiology of dyspnea is so confusing that it emphasizes the necessity for the student to have a photographic mind. The therapeutic principles