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
Note. III - Situation, construction and government of hospitals
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. 140 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014