A MIRROR OF HOSPITAL PRACTICE. The

change from

our

heading of Cases from Practice" remarks, has been advisedly made. they ordinarily occur in practice?hos"

usual

to that which heads these It is very few

cases as

private?which will bear elaborate or detailed narration. The point of them is lost in the paltry records, such as much the same," "improving," "repeat," which most properly constitute an essential part of the daily record, as far as the work of the hospital in which they occurred is concerned. If, indeed, only the remarks" appended to cases" as usually received, were given, their point and use as a means of informing and others would be indicated. In the Mirror" guiding sufficiently we hope to furnish the busy practitioner who has not the pital

(ir

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leisure

or

inclination to extract the essence out of

of notes written

daily during

features of the case,

or

appear in our pages. In this we hope to bo

its treatment which

abundantly

throughout India, and if they

a

lone record

the progress of the case, all the

care

records to the form which would

assisted

give

it

a

medical officers

by

not to reduce their

bring

claim to

hospital

them into accordance

suggestions, the operation can be perprovided fair transcript is furnished. by no means intended to exclude detailed and minutely

with these views and formed here, It is

detailed

prived

"

a

cases" from these pages. Some cases cannot be dedetail, and the more minute the observa-

of one item of

tion and detailed the narrative the better.

exceptional,

and

our

But such

cases

are

Mirror is intended rather to reflect the

a few mass of common cases which may possess one or singular features, so that this feature alone may appear, or appear in greater relief.

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