TY  - JOUR
T1  - TReatment in internal medicine
Y1  - 1959/05/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.03010020111030
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 253
EP  - 253
VL  - 170
IS  - 2
N2  - The writer of the foreword of this volume states, "In this book, I find that Dr. Hyman has again gathered together an amazing amount of information on treatment, and on treatments that have recently been developed." What is amazing is the amount of misleading and wrong information that it contains. In sentences replete with such terms as "anti-infectives," "toxicoderms," "adrenergics," "tuberculocide," "probatory treatment," "antitensives," and "generalist" the reader is told some surprising things. For instance on the first page, apropos of "an integrated program for the care of the infected patient," it is stated that the busy practitioner has neither the time nor the facilities for exhaustive investigation. Hence he is advised to make an "educated guess" on the basis of clinical findings, then "open fire with the particular therapeutic product that appears most apt to decimate the assailant, and least apt to add insult to the defendant's existing injuries....
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03010020111030
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010020111030
ER  -