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In 1860 Dr. Jacob Bigelow, a former president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, published Nature in Disease, a compilation of essays that encouraged the medical profession to understand the natural course of disease and to test the value of therapeutic measures by using the scientific method. In an essay entitled "On the Treatment of Disease," he wrote: "In self-limited diseases, our treatment must be of the expectant character. It consists in doing what we can for the comfort and safety of the patient, avoiding useless and troublesome applications, watching against accidents and complications and waiting for the salutary operations of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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