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