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Medicine is relentlessly antihistorical. Current practitioners care little that once upon a time we bled patients whose febrile countenance was overstimulated or that we distinguished between intermittent and remittent fevers. We care about facts that are true in the here and now. The past is for emeritus professors to ponder.
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Karlawish, J.H. (2008). Dementia. In: Pignolo, R.J., Crane, M.K., Forciea, M.A. (eds) Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries. Aging Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-428-5_6
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