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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    market town, will sell in a year, may not per- haps cost him above thirty or forty pounds. Though he “should sell them, therefore, for three or four hundred, or a thousand per cent profit, this may frequently be no more than the reasonable wages of his labour charged, in the only way in which he can charge them, upon the price of his drugs,”* The statement here given, exceeds the emoluments of the general,ity of apothecaries, in country districts. And a physician, who knows the education, skill, and persevering attention, as well as the sacrifice of ease, ^ health, and sometimes even of life, which this profession requires, should regard it as a duty not to withdraw, from those who exercise it, any sources of reasonable profit, or the honor- able means of advancement in fortune. Practices prevail in some places injurious to the interest of this branch of the faculty, ® See^Siaith's Weallb of Nations, book I. chap. x.