that make up the community, the more clearly shall we see that the practice of medicine has a peculiar and complex environment, and that WE SHOULD MAKE SKILL IN PREVENTING, RELIEVING, AND CURING DISEASE OUR CENTRAL THOUGHT AND OUR CHIEF RELIANCE, AND, AS MEN AND BROTHERS, SHOULD DISCHARGE EACH AND EVERY DUTY TO OUR GREAT MASTER'S ENTIRE FAMILY, AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL PLACES, WITH FIDELITY AND HONOR; and, further, that we must also possess professional tact and business sagacity if we would succeed in the profession to the fullest extent that lies in us and create for ourselves corresponding spheres of usefulness in the world.
IN CONCLUSION, WE FONDLY HOPE THAT OUR LITTLE BOOK MAY TEACH THOSE WHO FOLLOW ITS SUGGESTIONS TO SURMOUNT MANY OF THE OBSTACLES AND TO DECIDE A MULTITUDE OF THE DILEMMAS THAT ARISE IN THE COURSE OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE; AND ALSO AID THEM TO DISCERN THE STRAIGHT AND NOBLE PATH MORE CLEARLY AND TO FOLLOW IT MORE BRAVELY, More faithfully, and MORE SUCCESSFULLY; For IF IT DOES THESE, IT WILL BE OF IMMEASURABLE BENEFIT TO OUR PROFESSION AND THUS GRATIFY THE WISH THAT FILLED OUR HEARTS AND INSPIRED US TO ATTEMPT ITS AUTHORSHIP.
Ability, popular test of professional, 110
Abortion, solicitations to produce, 97-99
Accidents, demeanor in attending, 398
Account-books, why keep, 23
Accounts and bills, professional, 335-390
Esculapius and Hygeia, symbols of, 176
Affidavits, professional making, 158
Ailments, slight, never to be ridiculed, 156
Alcoholism, deaths from, 396
Allopathy, a hostile misnomer, 299-302
Analyses, why make all privately, 252
Anatomical museum impostors, 226
Anesthetics, precautions regarding, 207, 208
Apologetic letters condemned, 177
Assistant, lending self as, 162
Assistants, four excellent, 242
Attending after other physicians, 83, 131
Attending by the year condemned, 349
Attending out-patients at business places, 78
Attending practice for another, 131, 132, 369
Autopsies on deceased patients, 142, 143
Avarice denounced, 365
Bandaging too tightly, 206
Baptism, conditional infantile, 171
Best time to talk business, 340
Bills and accounts, for services, 335-390
Bills, special color for, 388
Bills, when to render, 358, 364
Black-lists for mutual protection, 389, 390
Blame, things that lead to, 395, 396
Boasting, the habit of, 48, 175
Book-agents, cautions in regard to, 107
Book-keeping, suggestions on, 23, 345-347
Books, buying medical, 107
Books, family medical guide, 227
Books, posting one's account, 345-347
Boots and shoes, creaking, 117
Bores and hypochondriacs, 65, 214, 215
Borrowing condemned, 116
Branch offices, 7
Bread-pills condemned, 190
Broaching the fee question, 340, 360
Business, a good time to talk, 340
Business system, the necessity of, 12
Calls, daily list of, to prepare, 23
Calls, hurried, responding to, 26, 216
Cards, professional business, 22
Carriages and horses, 36-38
Case, how to withdraw from a, 179
Cases, benefit of remembering, 126, 183
Cases, hopeless, attendance on, 367
Cases, how to decline to attend, 215, 216
Cash system, the, extolled, 338, 339
Catholic patients, our duty to, 170-172
Cautions, 27, 393, 398
Censure, when to expect, 395, 396
Certainty in medicine, 270-273
Certificates, clergymen's, to quacks, 324, 325
Certificates, indefinite death, 158, 392
Certificates of sickness, 95
Chair or table, surgical, in office, 10
Changing diagnosis and prognosis, 153
Changing medicines, tact in, 219
Chapters, beginning of, 1, 45, 97, 134, 165,
203, 240, 257, 276, 311, 335, 391
Charges, attempts to increase one's, 350
Charges in important cases, 352-354
Charging by the case, advantage of, 352-354
Charities, medical, abuses of, 384-387
Charity, the demands of, 71, 128, 369, 370
Cheap doctors not esteemed, 352
Cheerfulness in the physician extolled, 63
Children, crossness and tears in, 232
Children, the governing influence of, 70, 126
Christian Science denounced, 283, 293
Chronic discharges, suppressing, 234, 235
Chronic diseases, patients with, 183
Cigarette habit, the danger of, 163
Cipher codes condemned, 314
Clandestine visits, caution concerning, 180
Classes of people encountered, 18, 150, 177,
178, 192, 193, 374, 399
Clergymen, the ministrations of, 165, 167, 324
Coarseness and vulgarity condemned, 117
Coincidences, lucky and unlucky, 208
Collecting fees, the subject of, 335-390
Collector and his collections, 387, 388
Colored patients, 347
Commission, the sin of, versus omission, 203
Companions, kind to select, 12-15
Competition, wars of, 41, 44, 348, 349
Concealing contagion, 101, 159, 160
Conditional baptism, how administered, 171
Conduct in the sick-room, 63, 67, 184
Confidants, the danger of making, 153
Confidence, the, of patients, 67, 178
Confinements, attending women in, 145-147
Constitution, knowing the family, 137, 138
Consultation fees, 263
Consultation, when to ask for, 259, 260
Consultations, management of, 264, 268
Consultations, punctuality in attending, 261
Consultations, radical changes after, 262
Consultations, suspense preceding, 262
Consultations, the object of, 261
Consultations, the subject of, 87, 259–269
Consultations, whom to call into, 261, 268
Consultations with irregulars, 303
Consulting physician, dispensing with, 264
Contagious diseases, cautions, 101, 159-161
Contagious diseases, the dread of, 376
Contingent fee, why not work for, 357, 358
Contracts to do, what a physician, 90, 92, 215
Conversation, power and influence of one's, 69
Costly articles, money wasted on, 220
Costly medicines, ordering, 328
Countenance, the physician's, 63, 219, 391
Creed limiting, or limiting practice, differ-
Creeds in medicine, 277-280
Critic, duties of literary, 90
Critics and wiseacres, 217, 218
Crude therapeutics condemned, 250, 251
Cuckoo, selfish habit of, 42
Death of physicians, 379, 381, 382
Death, references to, 169, 173-176
Death, the power of the tyrant, 166, 176
Death-certificates, indefinite, 158, 392
Debates, points to observe in, 105, 106
Debts, paying promptly commended, 116
Decrying medicine condemned, 270-273
Delusions regarding physicians, 118, 237, 378
Diagnosis, hints regarding, 70, 92, 153, 155
Dialogue, an instructive, 141
Dictionaries and encyclopedias, 50
Diet-list, how to make a, 248
Dining with patients condemned, 122
Discharges, suppressing chronic, 234, 235
Discoveries, profession's attitude toward
new, 282
Discussions, public, with irregulars, 284
Disease and death everywhere, 401, 402
Diseases, chronic, attending, 75
Diseases, fee in advance for secret, 358-360
Diseases, increased human tolerance of, 276
Diseases, number of mankind's, 400
Dishonesty, where oftenest found, 192-196
Dismissal of physician, 87
Dispensaries and hospitals, encroachments
of, condemned, 384-387
Dispensary and hospital versus home pa-
tients, 79
Disreputable patients, 76, 177, 178, 180
Disreputable titles, 119
"Doctor," calling Tom, Dick, and Harry, 319
Doctor or physician? 19
Donations, giving for charity, 128
Doses, heroic, giving, 196, 331
Double callings condemned, 30, 31, 118
Dress and manners, influence of, 28-30, 117
Dressing too warmly, 230
Drinking intoxicants, 14, 118, 119
Druggists and pharmacists, 311-334
Drugs, necessity for pure, 329, 330
Drugs that enslave, why avoid, 255
Drunk, oh pshaw ! he is only, 398
Drunkards, the death of, 396
Drunken doctors, 118-120
Duties, five cardinal, 197
Duty, our, to the dying, 169, 173, 174
Duty, our, to the laws, 188
Earnestness extolled, 49, 152, 173, 183
Eat anything, may the patient? 248
Eating with patients condemned, 122
Education, importance of, to physician, 50-54
Emergency cases, duty in, 26, 86, 154, 266
Employers, attending cases for, 341, 342
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, 50
Engagements, obstetrical, 145, 146
Enmity, personal, provoking, 35, 36, 120
Entanglements, how to avoid. 185
Epidemics, duty in, 159, 160, 376
Epidemics, why physicians escape, 237
Errors in bills, 347
Eruptions, bringing out, 234, 235
Eruptions, driving in, 234
Estate, the, of deceased physician, 379-381
Estates, charges against, 346, 367
Ethics, medical, the subject of, 79-90
Euthanasia, shall we produce? 396
Eucharist, the holy, 171
Examinations, gentleness in making, 72
Examinations, making careless, 155, 197-199
Examining boards, medical, 289
Exceeding the agreement in operating, 206
Exorbitant charges condemned, 367, 368
Expedients in collecting, 362, 363
Expedients, unethical, condemned, 38, 100
Experience, the value of medical, 76, 136-138
Experiments on patients condemned, 144
Experts, pseudo-medical, denounced, 94, 95
Exposing false systems, art of, 285, 286
Extreme unction, 170
Extremists among our enemies, 292–295, 298
Faith, controlling power of, 127
False certificates, 96, 158
Fame, evanescence of, 337
Familiarity, undue, why avoid, 13, 122, 182
Family feuds, 159
Family, physician attending his own, 361
Family physician, exit of the, 34
Far-away patients, 148, 360
Fashion and wealth, the influence of, 290
Fashion, power of, in medicine, 191, 299, 300
Fashionable frauds as patients, 371
Fashions, conforming to medical, 299, 300
Fee in advance for secret diseases, why, | Hospital and dispensary practice versus pri-
Fees for important cases, 352-354
Fees, lawsuits to recover, 366
Fees, the subject of professional, 355-390
Fees, whom to hold responsible for, 341, 342
Fee-tables, medical and surgical, 24, 348, 349
Female, examining, against her will, 209
Females, the influence of, 125
Fertility in expedients extolled, 201
Feuds, family, 159
Feuds, professional, condemned, 46, 348, 349
Fickleness toward physicians, 192, 195
Finances, the physician's, 378-381
Fingers, the tips of the physician's, 118 '
Foreign languages, usefulness of, 55
Foreigners as patients, 54
Formulas, secret, denounced, 314
Formulas, using stereotyped, condemned, 57
Fornication, recommending, denounced, 227
Fortitude extolled, 174
Four great divisions of life, 376
Fractures, popular error regarding, 207
Frauds, 371
Free dispensaries, 384-387
Friends, the faculty of making, 62, 63
Frivolity condemned, 122
Gambling by physicians denounced, 14
German language, usefulness of the, 54
Giving patients up to die, 201, 202
Golden Rule, the, 81
Gratifying the whims of patients, 211-213
Greek language, usefulness of the, 53
Guaranteeing cures, why condemned, 75, 157
Habits, disgusting, condemned, 117, 118
Habits, professional, extolled, 12
Hardships of medical life, 129, 374-379
Harlots, consorting with, results of, 14
Health, advising trips for, 245-247
Health, how to maintain your, 28, 129, 130
Heart disease, death from, 129, 394
Hell on earth, living in a, 124, 220
Heroes, who are the, of science? 109, 278
Heroic doses, giving, 196, 331, 332
High science, its place and power, 109, 110
Hobbies, success with, 284
Holy Eucharist, the, 171
Home, "not at," when called for, 26, 216
Homeopathy, 298-310
Honesty, where oftenest found, 371, 373
Hope, 63, 168, 173, 175, 176
Hope, taking away, 166
Hopeless cases, attending, 367
Horrifying remedies denounced, 243
Horse and carriage versus walking, 36-38
Hospital and dispensary encroachments de-
nounced, 384, 387
Hospitals, sending your patients to, 247, 248
Hours, designating the, on bottles, 254
"How is business?" Doctor, 49
How to invest your surplus, 281-283
Human fickleness, comment on, 192, 195
Human gullibility, endlessness of, 283, 287
Human life, the value of, 72, 397
Human life-power, variations in, 399-401
Human nature the same everywhere, 43, 402
Humanity, the demands of, 369, 370
Humoring the sick, 211-213
Hurried calls, answering, 26, 361
"I cannot afford it," 373
"I forgot you," as an excuse, 148
Idiosyncrasy must be respected, 296
Ill patients, why never abandon, 201, 202
Important cases, the fees for, 252, 353
'In my opinion," 158
Incidental visits, 77, 198
Income of medical men, 379
Incompatibles in prescribing, 55
Indorsing domestic remedies, 212
Infants, having physicians for sick, 233
Influence of dress and manners, 28-30, 117
Influence of females, 15, 125
Ink, the best color to use, 345
Inquiries in the presence of strangers, 150
Insanity, certificates of, 159, 208
Insults, what to take as, 153
Intercurrent causes of death, 392
Interest, evincing, in cases, 73
Investments, making, 383, 384
Irregular physicians, contact with, 14, 265,
266, 303
Irregular, what constitutes an, 267
Irregulars, discussions with, condemned, 284
Irregulars, popular favor shown, 289, 290
Irregulars, proper course toward, 14, 265,
266, 303
Jealousy, professional, condemned, 41-43, 46
Joint fees, the division of, 369
Joint practice of medicine and pharmacy
condemned, 30, 31, 312
Junior, posing as a, condemned, 140-142
Keeping articles belonging to patients, 100
Kindness, the influence of, 71-74
Labeling medicines, mistakes in, 332, 333
Labels, bottle, naming the hours on, 254, 255
Labels on bottle, the advantage of dating, 333
Languages, learning foreign, 53, 54
Last visit to cash patients, 363
Latin, the great usefulness of, 52-54
Lavish prescribing, 219
Laws, exceptional kindness to physicians, 158
Laws, medical, extolled, 287, 288
Laws, physician's duty to the, 188
Lawsuits, medical, condemned, 95, 366
Lawsuits to recover fees, 366
Ledger, why keep a, 23,
Legal duty to patients, our, 78, 90, 92, 215
Liberal profession, why medicine is a, 280
Library, creating a medical, 107, 108
Library, familiarity with contents of, 108
Life, should a physician ever shorten? 396,
397
Life-insurance of others, meddling in, 92
Life-insurance on one's self, 382
Limiting one's practice considered, 34
Liquor, prescribing, 121
List of daily visits, to prepare, 23
Literary critic, the duties of, 90
Local option, prescribing liquor under, 121
Local treatment commended, 156
Locate, where to, 3-8
Longevity of physicians, 381
Malingerers and pretenders denounced, 79,
156
Malpractice suits denounced, 92, 94, 95,
203-206
Malpractice suits, why more surgical than
medical, 204
Mankind, the study of, 57, 240, 241
Mankind's dependence on physicians, 402,
Manners and dress, 40, 49, 61-63, 66-70, 122,
126
Marriage, fraud in, condemned, 227
Marriage of physicians, the, 123, 124
Marry, should syphilitics? 227
Masseurs and nurses, 318
Maxims, useful, on bills, 340
Maximum fee, charging the, 352-354
Medical art, imperfection of the, 270
Medical ethics, 79-90
Medical examining boards, 289
Medical journals, subscribing to, 107, 108
Medical literature, varieties compared, 108
Medical profession, greatness of the, 401-404
Medical science, progress of, 276
Medical skill, popular tests of, 64, 72
Medical societies, 102-106
Medicine, decrying, condemned, 270-273
Medicine, power of fashion in, 191, 299, 300
Medicine, the degree of certainty in, 270-273
Medicine-haters as patients, 295
Medicines, carrying a supply of, 297
Medicines, costly, suggestions regarding,
315, 316, 328
Medicines examined at every visit, 250
Medicines furnished, charges for, 315, 316,
327, 328
Medicines, prescribing unpleasant, 240
Medicines, supplying one's own, 109, 252, 297
Medicines, tact in changing, 219
Medicines, the bad effects of, 243
Medicines, the palatability of, 240
Medicines, unused, a discredit, 220
Memory of cases, 126, 183
Menial labors, by physician, 154
Mental capacity, how to test a patient's, 172
Mental therapeutics, 190, 241
Messengers not responsible for fees, 342
Metric system, the, 113
Microscope, working with the, 145
Midwives, assisting in their cases, 146
Mineral versus vegetable medicines, 243
Minor duties, 64, 72
Mischief-makers, contact with, 185
Miserly patients, 355
Mistakes of pharmacists, 319, 320, 333
Morals, preaching to delinquents, 162
Morphia granules, supplying, 297, 298
Mortality among physicians, 379
Motto, an excellent, 160
Name, what is in a? 142
Neglectful and perverse patients, 211, 212
Neighborly visits, making, 41
New remedies, how aided, 241
Newspaper ads., why unethical, 132
Newspaper notices from physicians, 40, 131,
132
Newspaper squibs condemned, 89
Night emissions in young men, 228
Night visits, making, 179
No charge for these services, 366, 367
"No cure, no pay" condemned, 357
Nostrums, why we condemn, 327
Novelty, influence of, in medicine, 241
Number, the, of mankind's diseases, 400
Nurses, proper demeanor toward, 210
Obstetrical cases, attending, 145, 147
Obstetrical chair or table in office, 10
Office, absence from one's, 26, 216
Office, charges for advice at, 24
Office consultations, 25
Office, dispensing medicines at one's, 25
Office fees, the subject of, 25
Office-holding physicians, 31, 32
Office hours, 20, 21
Office, locating and arranging one's, 8-12, 22,
25, 27
Office practice, 25
Office signs, 18-20
Office students, 16-18
Offices, branch, the disadvantages of, 7
Officinal terms in prescribing, 252
Old fashion in prescribing, 191, 285
Old lady with salve, caution about, 213
Old persons, operations upon, 395
Old woman of Paris, the, 191
Omission versus commission, 203
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