Medical ethics, or, A code of institutes and precepts adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons : with additions illustrative of the past and present state of the profession and its collegiate institutions in Great Britain / by the late Thomas Percival.

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Medical ethics, or, A code of institutes and precepts adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons : with additions illustrative of the past and present state of the profession and its collegiate institutions in Great Britain / by the late Thomas Percival. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tleiit too soon, is, in their way of thinking, an unpardonable crime. I must confess, 1 could never bring an apothecaries bill to £3. in a fever; whereas, I have known some of their bills in this disease, amount to 40, 50, and £60. Though Sydenham’s and RadcliiTs bills, never amounted to forty shillings in a fever, the apothecaries would never call in a physician, who did not put fifteen or twentv shillings a day in their pockets. If they can'r cure with less charges, I can’t forbear saying, that I have the same opinion of their integrit}' as I have of their understanding. The less apothecaries gain, the better patients mar afford to see their doctors.” But, he recom- mends notwithstanding, “ the most venerable sages of the profession,” to court the apothe- caries, for ‘‘ whose reputation, he asks, can long stand the shock of an universal change rung upon their melodious mortars ?” Dover condemned the moral statutes of the college, as vieling the ignorance of the apothecaries,