On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne.

Date:
1847
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Credit: On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dispensaries, of asylums for lunatics, and the es- tablishment of societies for the relief of decayed members of the Medical Profession, their widows, and their orphans*. His exertions, however, ought to be conducted with such prudence and candour, as to make it evident to every impartial observer that they are not prompted by vanity or interested views ; but result entirely from an earnest wish to relieve the distresses of the afflicted, and to pro- mote the improvement of the science of Medicine in all its branches. To the poor, as already has been intimated, his charitable aid should be cheer- fully extended, not only when they are brought before him by means of public institutions, or are recommended to his care in the course of his dis- tant circuits; but whenever the vicinity of their ° It is one of the offices of a Physician to visit, when re- quired by the magistrates of the district, private houses licensed for the reception of insane patients, and to report the state of them. In drawing up those reports impartiality and plain dealing are indispensable duties. • [Of these Societies (besides several whose benefits are confined to certain counties and districts,) there are in England the four following: 1. Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in London and its Vicinity, instituted in 1788; 2. Medical Benevolent Society, for the Relief of its distressed Members, insti- tuted in 1816; 3. Benevolent Fund of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, instituted in 1836, for the relief of distressed medical men, and their widows and orphans; and 4. General Medical Annuity Fund, in- stituted in ISl.s, for the relief of distressed Members, and their widows and orphans.]