Asked by Mr. Ward if he did not think it strange plaintiff should have told Dr. Renner that he felt nothing until someone pointed out that his coat was torn, witness reminded counsel that this statement was made some time after the accident. "I saw him the day after the accident, when he told) me what happened, and the first statement is always the true one."
Witness was of opinion that plaintiff got a severe physical and mental shock simultaneously, but there might have been nothing noticeable by peOple looking on at the moment, Do you agree (counsel asked) that the worst kind of treatment for a nervous sufferer is to keep on examining him?—] " s have a full clinical examin It is very easy for a 1 man by talking to a patient to induce these subjective symptoms}—A medical man will never harm his patient. Subjective symptoms may be suggested without the knowledge of the physician or the patient-His Lordship—Patients can imagine they have got symptoms simply by reading medical works, can they not?
Witness—Yes, and also from the word. of their physician,
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