The domain of medical police / by Louis Elsberg.

  • Elsberg, Louis, 1836-1885.
Date:
[1862?]
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Credit: The domain of medical police / by Louis Elsberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [From the American Medical Monthly for May, 1862.] THE DOMAIN OP MEDICAL POLICE. (ABSTRACT OF A PAPER READ BEFORE THE NEW YORK SANITARY ASSOCIATION, FEB.. «th, 1862.) By LOUIS ELSBERG, A.M., M.D. [Note.—The following sketch accomplished, it is believed, some little good by presenting at one view the extensive, and in this country hitherto but little cultivated, field of Medical Police. It is published with the hope of extending its usefulness fro bono publico. It must be looked upon but as a Bird's-Eye View of a Domain to the extent or details of which the writer has contributed scarce anything. In some introductory remarks it was stated: The general survey though hastily and imperfectly performed, without many claims to orio-- inality or profundity, and prepared under the pressure of other duties —is intended to furnish systematic headings for the various questions that arise; shelves, as it were, upon which you might arrange your knowledge in systematic order; and if the attempt prove a failure, I shall find consolation in view of the vastness and intricacy of the in- quiry. Exhausting nothing, I intend to touch upon many things. I shall often but indicate the various points for consideration without 'passingjudgment,' and again, state conclusions without giving the course of reasoning by which they have been arrived at, or the argu- ments by which they might be sustained. I intend, briefly, to run over the volume as it were before us, not in its separate pages, but by its preface and table of contents.] Medical Police—politia medico,—is an institution necessary to the security and perpetuity of society; a necessity resulting, indeed, from the very constitution of society. It is an integral part of State polity.