Medical ethics, or, A code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons / by Thomas Percival.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Medical ethics, or, A code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons / by Thomas Percival. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Page § 6. Mora] and religious influence of sickness to be cherished and promoted . . .29 § 7. Propriety of suggesting to patients, under cer- tain circumstances, the importance of making their last will and testament . . . .30 § 8. Parsimony in prescribing wine and drugs of high price reprobated . . . ib. § 9. Hospital affairs and occurrences not to be in- cautiously revealed . . . .31 §10. Professional charges to be made only before a meeting of the Faculty . . . ib. §11. Proper discrimination between the Medical and Chirurgical cases to be strictly adhered to . 32 § 12. What circumstances authorize new remedies and new methods of Chirurgical treatment . ib. § 13. Unreserved intercourse should subsist between the gentlemen of the Faculty; and an account of every case or operation which is rare, curious, or instructive, should be regularly drawn up and preserved . . . . ib. § 14. Scheme for hospital registers . . 33 §15. Advantages arising from the scheme . 34 §16. Close and crowded wards reprobated . 35 § 17. Establishment of a committee of the gentle- men of the Faculty considered . . .36 § 18. Importance of frequent consultations, and the mutual assistance of the Physicians and Surgeons . . ib. §§ 19—22. Rules to be observed in consultations . ib. § 23. Rules to be observed respecting operations . 38 § 24. Hospital consultations ought not to be held on Sundays, except in cases of urgent necessity . 39