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The Morison Lectures.-On Insanity, with Special Reference to Heredity and Prognosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

A. R. Urquhart
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In the daily routine of medical work we are called upon to deliver what may come to pass. The constant weighing and measuring of our observations and experience lead us naturally to an estimation of probabilities. Recovery or death—success or failure in the appointed strife with disease—that is the momen tous question to which the physician must endeavour to find an answer. Things have happened; what is to come to pass? Much of skill in prognosis is personal, empirical, and incommunicable; but, as our science advances, with the contributory aid of all the sciences that are subordinate to the master art of healing, so, in just proportion, our premonitions will be determined.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 53 , Issue 221 , April 1907 , pp. 233 - 321
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1907 

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(1) The Morison Lectures, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, January, 1907. Google Scholar

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