She says, as her excuse, Oh, he does not
like to be fidgetted after. Yes, he said so some weeks ago; but he never
said he did not like to be "fidgetted after," when he is in the state he
is in now; and if he did, you ought to make some excuse to go in to him.
More patients have been lost in this way than is at all generally known,
viz., from relapses brought on by being left for an hour or two faint,
or cold, or hungry, after getting up for the first time.
[Sidenote: Is the faculty of observing on the decline.]
Yet it appears that scarcely any improvement in the faculty of observing
is being made. Vast has been the increase of knowledge in
pathology--that science which teaches us the final change produced by
disease on the human frame--scarce any in the art of observing the signs
of the change while in progress. Or, rather, is it not to be feared that
observation, as an essential part of medicine, has been declining?
Which of us has not heard fifty times, from one or another, a nurse, or
a friend of the sick, aye, and a medical friend too, the following
remark:--"So A is worse, or B is dead.
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