Medical ethics, or, a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons; I. In hospital practice. II. In private, or general practice. III. In relation to apothecaries. IV. In cases which may require a knowledge of law. To which is added an appendix; containing a discourse on hospital duties; also notes and illustrations / by Thomas Percival, M.D.

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Medical ethics, or, a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons; I. In hospital practice. II. In private, or general practice. III. In relation to apothecaries. IV. In cases which may require a knowledge of law. To which is added an appendix; containing a discourse on hospital duties; also notes and illustrations / by Thomas Percival, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 560 ] fail to invigorate and enlarge the undemanding; whilft the obfervance of the duties which they enjoin, will foften your manners, expand your affec- tions, and form you to that propriety and dignity of conduct, which are effential to the chara&er of a gentleman. The academical advantages you have enjoyed at Cambridge, and thofe you now poffefs in Edinburgh, will qualify you, I trufl, for an ample and honourable fphere of aftion. And I devoutly pray, that the bleffing of God may attend all your purfuits ; rendering them at once fubfer- vient to your own felicity, and the good of your fellow-creatures. Senfible that I begin to experience the preflure of advancing years, I regard the prefent publication as the conclufion, in this way, of my profeflional labours. I may, therefore, without impropriety, claim the pri- vilege of confecrating them to you, as a paternal legacy. And I feel cordial fatisfattion in the occa- fion, of thus teflifying the efteem and tendernefs with which, whilffc life fubfifts, I fhall remain, Your affeftionate friend, THOMAS PERCIVAL. Maiicbejler, Feb. 20, 1B03.