Essays And Orations Read And Delivered At the Royal College of Physicians to W
Essays And Orations Read And Delivered At the Royal College of Physicians to W
Henry Alford
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75 the difficulty must doubtless be increased when his patient is of so elevated a station that Ms safety becomes an object of anxiety to the nation. In such circumstances, the phy- sician has a duty to perform, not only to the sick personage and his family, but also to the public, who, in their extreme solicitude for his recovery, sometimes desire disclosures which are incompatible with it. Bulletins respecting the health of a sovereign differ widely from the announcements which a physician is... called upon to make in humbler life, and which he entrusts to the prudence of surrounding friends. These public do- cuments may become known to the royal sufferer himself. Is the physician, then, whilst endeavouring to relieve the anxiety or satisfy the curiosity of the nation, to endanger the safety of the patient; or, at least, his comfort ? Surely not. But whilst it is his object to state as accurately as 76 INFLUENCE OF DISEASE [Ess. V. possible the present circumstances and the comparative condition of the disease, he will consider that conjectures respecting its cause and probable issue are not to be hazarded without extreme caution.
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