Code of ethics of the American Medical Association.

  • American Medical Association.
Date:
1849
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    or to perform any other similar acts. These are the ordinary practices of empirics, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician. § 4. Equally derogatory to professional charac- ter is it, for a physician to hold a patent for any surgical instrument, or medicine; or to dispense a secret nostrum1, whether it be the composition or exclusive property of himself, or of others. For, if such nostrum be of real efficacy, any con- cealment regarding it is inconsistent with bene- ficence and professional liberality; and, if mystery alone give it value and importance, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance, or fraudulent avarice. It is also reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of patent or secret medicines, or in any way to promote the use of them. Art. II.—Professional services of physicians to each other. § 1. All practitioners of medicinek, their wives, and their children while under the paternal care, are entitled to the gratuitous services of any one or more of the faculty residing near them, whose assistance may be desired. A physician afflicted i [Seo Percival's Medical Ethics, ch. ii. § 22.] k LWd. ch. ii. § 16.]