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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    and aged practitioners. XXXI.—Period of senescense in physicians considered. XXXII. Chap. III. Of die conduct of physicians to apothecaries. Connection between the apothecary and physician. I.— Apothecary often precursor to the physician, and com- monly acquainted with the diseases of the family. II.— Rule to be observed in the intercourse and co-ope- ration of the physician and apothecary. III.—Duty and responsibility of the physician. IV.—Particular directions to be observed in visiting country patients with the apothecary. V.—Profits of apothecaries. VI.— Physicians visiting the patients of apothecaries, in their absence, not approved of. VII.—Duty of apo- thecaries in recommending physicians to families. VIII. —Establishment of funds for the benefit of the widows and children of apothecaries. IX. Chap. IV. Of professional duties in certain cases which require a knowledge of law. Medical gentlemen exempt from serving on inquests, juries, &c.; but frequently called upon to exercise duties which require juridical knowledge. I.—Duty of physicians in cases of last will and testament—know- ledge of law required. II.—Commissions of lunacy-—■ appointment of a curator. III.—Treatment of lunatics as authorized by law. IV.—Asylums for lunatics subject to strict regulations of law. V.—Opinions given in cases of sudden death. VI.—Justifiable homicide. VII.—Excusable homicide. VIII.—Suicide. IX.—Man- slaughter—Murder. X.—Murder of bastard children. XI.—Duelling. XII.—Duty of surgeons with respect to attending a duellist to the field of combat. XIII.— Private and personal duty of physicians with respect to duel—true honour considered. XIV.—Homicide by poison—cases adduced. XV.—Law in cases of rape. XVI.