Medical Ethics Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE
- QUICQUID DIGNUM SAPIENTE BONO-QUE EST
- CHAP. I Of professional conduct relative to hospital or other medical charities
- CHAP. II Of professional conduct in private, or general practice
- CHAP. III Of the conduct of physicians to apothecaries
- CHAP. IV Of professional duties in certain cases which require a knowledge of law
- AN APPENDIX
- Note. I Hospital at Manchester
- Note. II Distribution of printed copies of the Medical Ethics
- Note. III Situation, construction and government of hospitals
- Note. IV House of reception for patients ill of contagious fevers
- Note. V Caution or temerity in practice
- Note. VI Temperance of physicians
- Note. VII A physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick.—Enquiry, how far it is justifiable to violate truth for the supposed benefit of the patient
- Note. VIII The practice of prior physicians should be treated with candour, and justified so far as truth and probity will permit
- Note. IX Theoretical discussions should be generally avoided
- Note. X Regular academical education
- Note. XI Pecuniary acknowledgments
- Note. XII Public worship; scepticism and infidelity
- Note. XIII Union and consultation of senior and junior physicians
- Note. XIV Retirement from practice—when—Letters from Dr. Heberden; and Sir G. Baker, Bart
- Note. XV Partial insanity with general intelligence—Lucid interval
- Note. XVI Duelling.—Letter from Dr. Franklin
- Note. XVII Punishment of the crime of rape.—Disney's views of ancient laws against immorality, &c.—Eden's principles of penal law
- Note. XVIII Uncertainty in the external signs of rape—communication from Mr. Ward
- Note. XIX The smoke from large works a nuisance—Coalbrook-Dale
- Note. XX Discourse on Hospital Duties; by the Rev. T. B. Percival, LL. B—Brief memoirs of him
- Note. XXI The salutary connections of sickness not to be rashly dissolved—Cautions concerning the removal of patients into an hospital—Extracts from the Memoirs of the Rev. Newcome Cappe
- NOTE. XXII Duty of hospital trustees in electing the medical officers of the charity—Advertisement of the governors of the Salisbury Infirmary.—Memorial to the trustees of the Manchester Infirmary
QUICQUID DIGNUM SAPIENTE BONO-QUE EST
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE
- QUICQUID DIGNUM SAPIENTE BONO-QUE EST
- CHAP. I Of professional conduct relative to hospital or other medical charities
- CHAP. II Of professional conduct in private, or general practice
- CHAP. III Of the conduct of physicians to apothecaries
- CHAP. IV Of professional duties in certain cases which require a knowledge of law
- AN APPENDIX
- Note. I Hospital at Manchester
- Note. II Distribution of printed copies of the Medical Ethics
- Note. III Situation, construction and government of hospitals
- Note. IV House of reception for patients ill of contagious fevers
- Note. V Caution or temerity in practice
- Note. VI Temperance of physicians
- Note. VII A physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick.—Enquiry, how far it is justifiable to violate truth for the supposed benefit of the patient
- Note. VIII The practice of prior physicians should be treated with candour, and justified so far as truth and probity will permit
- Note. IX Theoretical discussions should be generally avoided
- Note. X Regular academical education
- Note. XI Pecuniary acknowledgments
- Note. XII Public worship; scepticism and infidelity
- Note. XIII Union and consultation of senior and junior physicians
- Note. XIV Retirement from practice—when—Letters from Dr. Heberden; and Sir G. Baker, Bart
- Note. XV Partial insanity with general intelligence—Lucid interval
- Note. XVI Duelling.—Letter from Dr. Franklin
- Note. XVII Punishment of the crime of rape.—Disney's views of ancient laws against immorality, &c.—Eden's principles of penal law
- Note. XVIII Uncertainty in the external signs of rape—communication from Mr. Ward
- Note. XIX The smoke from large works a nuisance—Coalbrook-Dale
- Note. XX Discourse on Hospital Duties; by the Rev. T. B. Percival, LL. B—Brief memoirs of him
- Note. XXI The salutary connections of sickness not to be rashly dissolved—Cautions concerning the removal of patients into an hospital—Extracts from the Memoirs of the Rev. Newcome Cappe
- NOTE. XXII Duty of hospital trustees in electing the medical officers of the charity—Advertisement of the governors of the Salisbury Infirmary.—Memorial to the trustees of the Manchester Infirmary
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- Medical EthicsOr, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons, pp. 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014