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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    CONTENTS. -»©<*- N. B. The Roman Numerals refer to the Sections, and the Figures to the Pages. PrEFACE.—Origin of the work.—Suspension of it.— Farther progress of it.—Addition of supplementary notes and illustrations 1—7. Chap. I. Of professional conduct relative to hospital or other medical charities. Duties of hospital physicians and surgeons.—Tender- ness.—Steadiness.—Condescension.—Authority. I.— Choice of their attendant physician or surgeon, how- far allowable to hospital patients. II.—Feelings and emotions of patients, under critical circumstances, to be duly regarded. III.—No discussion concerning the nature of their case to be entered into before them. IV. —Delicacy in many cases particularly required ; and secrecy sometimes to be strictly observed. V.—Moral and religious influence of sickness to be cherished and promoted. VI.—Propriety of suggesting to patients, under certain circumstances, the importance of making their last will and testament. VII.—Parsimony in pre- scribing wine and drugs of high price reprobated. VIII. —Hospital affairs and occurrences not to be in- cautiously revealed. IX.—Professional charges to be made only before a meeting of the faculty. X.—Pro- per discrimination between the medical and chirur- gical cases to be strictly adhered to. XI.—What cir- cumstances authorize new remedies and new methods ef chiurgical treatment. XII.—Unreserved intercourse should