Abstract
No one general practitioner will have all methods of treatment available to him, even less will he be able to practise them all himself. Here follows a brief description of some of the myriad treatments. In figure 11.1 is shown the decisions a doctor might make in choosing a method of treatment. Of course, different methods are not necessarily exclusive.
‘Reflecting today on the case of a poor woman who had continual pain in her stomach, I could not but remark the inexcusable negligence of most physicians in cases of this nature. They prescribe drug upon drug without knowing a jot of the matter concerning the root of the disorder. And without knowing this they cannot cure, though they can murder, the patient. Whence came this woman’s pain (which she would never have told had she never been questioned about it)? From fretting for the death of her son. And what availed medicines while that fretting continued? Why, then, do not all physicians consider how far bodily disorders are caused or influenced by the mind?’
John Wesley; Diary, May 12th, 1759
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Sims, A. (1983). Methods of Treatment. In: Neurosis in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17113-2_11
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