TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEdical history and non-medical writers
Y1  - 2009/03/25
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.340
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1295
EP  - 1295
VL  - 301
IS  - 12
N2  - 
For instance, we generally take it for granted that the clinical teaching of medicine is a modern institution. Even such men as Lancisi in Rome, who seems to have been the first in modern times to gather students around the bedside of patients for educational purposes, and Boerhaave, who first systematized the method, apparently adopted it only in a limited way. That clinical teaching must have been rather common in Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, however, is shown by a famous epigram of Martial,1 which runs as follows in Witherington's translation:

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M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.340
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.340
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