Clinical medicine is a pragmatic discipline. Because of its aim to alleviate pain and suffering as well as to foster well-being, its practitioners can be lulled into thinking that there are times when basic science is irrelevant to the practice of medicine. This attitude is evaluated by comparing a 19th century medical curiosity, the nasogenital reflex, to a set of reflexes, the little used and little known Chapman's reflexes. We must always attempt to substantiate the principles of clinical medicine.
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Zucker, A. (1993). Chapman’s reflexes: Medicine or metaphysics? Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 93(3). https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.1993.93.3.346
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