Clinical Medicine

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 296

Clinical Medicine (Gr. klinē, 'a bed') is that department of the art which is occupied with the investigation of diseases at the bedside of the sick; and a clinical lecture is one delivered to students there. So with clinical surgery. Clinical baptism is baptism administered to sick or dying persons on their sick-bed; a clinical convert is one converted on his death-bed.

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