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WHY DO WE DIE?

THE ROAD TO A HEALTHY OLD AGE

By T. Bodley Scott, M.R.C.S.
(Eng.).

Author of “The Religion of a Doctor.”

SECOND EDITION.

Crown 8vo, cloth, 5/- net.

Third Impression.

“In this book an attempt is made todemonstrate both to the medical profes­sionand the laity that premature decay,physical and mental, may within limits beprevented. . . . We have perused the bookwith pleasure, and cordially recommend itto our readers.”—Medical Times.
“We can cordially commend this workto readers of advancing years, whethermedical or lay. To the former it presentsan old subject in a new way, and to thelatter will convey some very wholesomematerial for thought.”—Lancet.

T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.      London.

WHY DO WE DIE?

BY
T. BODLEY SCOTT
M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Ed.
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE

First published in 1921

(All rights reserved)

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PREFACE

The attitude and the pretensionsof the “medicine man” mayperhaps have had some value in the dayswhen the multitude was full of superstitionand had no scientific knowledge, but wehope those days of ignorance have passed,though we fear superstition remains. The“medicine man” was a more or lessclever poseur, who used his small amountof knowledge to conceal his very largeamount of ignorance. The medical profession,till the more recent years, cannotbe entirely acquitted of the same sort ofdishonesty, but a new era of open-mindednessand honesty has, I think, begun.

To get any real success in the treatmentof disease, we must get confidences, not6one-sided, but on both sides, betweenourselves and our patients, and so aloneshall we get that co-operation withoutwhich there can be little expectation ofsuccess. At present we see this successmore in the wonderful results of psychotherapythan in the treatment of objectivedisease, but I firmly maintain that mutualtrust will prove its great value in thisalso. Is it reasonable to expect that menof equal learning and intelligence as ourselveswill accept our treatment andadvice without knowing the rationale ofthem? Should we do it in the case oflegal or religious matters? Our patientsknow as well as we do that medicalknowledge is in a continuous state offlux and that as yet we are nowhere nearfinality. The dazzling garment of omnisciencewill be discovered to be thesomewhat shop-worn cloak of ignorance.A wise and observant patient can helpus enormously in the investigation of7a difficult problem in disease, for the subject

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