Medical ethics, or, a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons ... to which is added an appendix, containing a discourse on hospital duties / by Thomas Percival.

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
Date:
1803
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    should subsist between the gentlemen of the faculty f and an account of every case or operation which is rare, curious, or instructive, should be regularly drawn up and preserved. XIII.—Scheme for hospital registers. XIV.—Advantages arising from the scheme. XV.—Close and crowded wards reprobated. XVI.— Establishment of a committee of the gentlemen of the faculty considered. XVII.—Importance of fre- quent consultations,, and the mutual assistance of the physicians and surgeons. XVIII.—Rules to be observed in consultations. XIX.—Rules to be observed re- specting operations. XX.—Hospital consultations ought not to be held on Sundays, except in cases of urgent necessity. XXI.—Stated days for operations, often inconvenient and improper. XXII.—Dispensaries. XXIII. —Asylums for female patients labouring under syphilis.—Rules to be observed in lock-hospitals.— XXIV. —Asylums for insanity. XXV.—Modes of ac- quiring knowledge in the treatment of insanity recom- mended. XXVI.—Treatment of lunatics—tenderness —indulgence. XXVII.—Boldness of practice sometimes required in cases of mania.—Hospitals for small-pox— Inoculation, &c. &c, require no professional duties not already enumerated. XXVIII. Chap. 11. Of professional conduct in private, or general practict. Moral rules of conduct, the same with those to be ob- served towards hospital-patients. I.—The strictest temperance required. II.—Proper conduct to be ob- served respecting prognosticslions, and the disclosure of circumstances, to the friends of the patients. 111. Proper conduct respecting interference in cases under the charge of flfeottar. IV.—Conduct to be observed towafds a physician formerly employed by the patient, but