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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    Note XX. Page 117.- DISCOURSE ON HOSPITAL DUTIES; BY THE REV. THO. B. PERGIVAL, LL. B. THIS Anniverfary Difcourfe was addrelTed to the gentlemen of the faculty, the officers, the clergy, and the truftees of the Infirmary at Liverpool, for the benefit of the charity; and I believe was highly approved by the judicious audience, before whom it was delivered. As the preacher affumed topics of exhortation, not before adopted by divines on fuch occafions, it may be proper to ftate, that he was pe- culiarly qualified, from his knowledge of the polity of hofpitals, to execute with ability fo delicate and fo arduous a talk. After paffing feveral years at St. John’s College in Cambridge, in the purfuits of ge- neral fcience, he removed to Edinburgh to engage in the ftudy of phyfic. But notwithstanding his acqui- iltions in the healing art, to which he applied himfelf with great affiduity, he uniformly difcovered a predilection for theology.. It became expedient, therefore, not to oppofe the ftrong direction of his mind. He returned to Cambridge; and when he had taken the degree of LL. B. was admitted into holy orders. Being appointed to the chaplaincy of the Britifli company of merchants at St. Peters- p p 2