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In General, The Physician Enjoyed No Special Trust
- Privy Council Observation, 1791:
- "We doubt that human laws can constrain [a person] to see a physician in whom he has no faith, or even mistrusts, and the district physicus, no matter how skilled he may be, often enjoys the least confidence among the common folk."
- Question: Was the distrust due to what the physician did as a physician?
- Lindemann: "Neither the therapies [the physician] advocated nor his explanations of disease differed greatly from what other healers believed and did." (p. 304)
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