Via medica : a treatise on the laws and customs of the medical profession in relation especially to principals and assistants ; with suggestions and advice to students on preliminary education.

  • Langley, John Baxter, 1819-1892.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Via medica : a treatise on the laws and customs of the medical profession in relation especially to principals and assistants ; with suggestions and advice to students on preliminary education. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    CHAPTER IV.—The Business Relations of the Parties. How engagements are usually made between Principals and Assistants. Advertising. Employment of Agente. Swindling in agency; how to guard against it. Ship appointments. Salaries of different classes of Assistants, and of the Locum tenens. Assistantship with a view to Partner- ship—^what can and what cannot be done. CHAPTER v.—Duties in the Surgery. The basis of the mutual contract between the parties. The source of quarrels between Principal and Assistant. What the Assistant is expected to do. The lessons to be learned. Dispensing. Stock-keeping. The visiting list. The day-book. Routine of work. Book-keeping. Bad ^'^riting. The Ledger. Posting. Making out bills. Receipt of accounts. The cash-book. The necessity of systematic arrangements. Druggists' invoices and parcels. CHAPTER VI.—Preliminary Studies. The education of the student whilst yet an Assistant. The necessity of preliminary study. What can be learned in a provincial surgery. How to gain a knowledge of principles. Zoology ; Botany; Natural Philosophy. Books worth reading. The Microscope. General duties. Conclusion.