New Jersey Medical Reporter and Transactions of the New Jersey Medical Society, Volume 11848 |
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... friends from the northern section of the State , ( particularly the officers of the Society , ) that they cannot reach Burlington by the Mail Pilot Line before one o'clock , P. M. , by the present arrangement of the Line ; and we would ...
... friends from the northern section of the State , ( particularly the officers of the Society , ) that they cannot reach Burlington by the Mail Pilot Line before one o'clock , P. M. , by the present arrangement of the Line ; and we would ...
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... friends and medical attendants the most serious apprehensions of the death of the patient . The opinion among medical men in Boston , where it was first introduced , and where the most approved modes of administering it are adopted , is ...
... friends and medical attendants the most serious apprehensions of the death of the patient . The opinion among medical men in Boston , where it was first introduced , and where the most approved modes of administering it are adopted , is ...
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... friends in favour of false systems of practice , without forfeiture of professional good standing . The Committee submit this inquiry without comment , themselves believing that profes- sional harmony and good feeling are greatly ...
... friends in favour of false systems of practice , without forfeiture of professional good standing . The Committee submit this inquiry without comment , themselves believing that profes- sional harmony and good feeling are greatly ...
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... friends cannot repel the charge , that he had invented and patented several secret nos- trums , which he sold at a high price . With so dishonorable a rise , his sun might be expected to culminate in even greater dishonour , and it does ...
... friends cannot repel the charge , that he had invented and patented several secret nos- trums , which he sold at a high price . With so dishonorable a rise , his sun might be expected to culminate in even greater dishonour , and it does ...
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... friends pursues the rational course to learn a disease , let us examine which of them treats it rationally . If summoned during the early stages of pneumonia , the allœo- pathist practises venesection , and exhibits saline purges and ...
... friends pursues the rational course to learn a disease , let us examine which of them treats it rationally . If summoned during the early stages of pneumonia , the allœo- pathist practises venesection , and exhibits saline purges and ...
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Page 150 - ... the profession, are so numerous and important, that physicians are justly entitled to the utmost consideration and respect from the community. The public ought likewise to entertain a just appreciation of medical qualifications; to make a proper discrimination between true science and the assumptions of ignorance and empiricism...
Page 142 - There is no profession, from the members of which greater purity of character and a higher standard of moral excellence are required, than the medical ; and to attain such eminence is a duty every Physician owes alike to his profession and to his patients. It is due to the latter, as without it he cannot command their respect and confidence, and to both, because no scientific attainments can compensate for the want of correct moral principles.
Page 143 - ... solicitude which he experiences at the sickness of a wife, a child, or any one who by the ties of consanguinity is rendered peculiarly dear to him, tend to obscure his judgment, and produce timidity and irresolution in his practice. Under such circumstances, medical men are peculiarly dependent upon each other, and kind offices and professional aid should always be cheerfully and gratuitously afforded.
Page 143 - ... require him temporarily to withdraw from his duties to his patients, and to request some of his professional brethren to officiate for him. Compliance with this request is an act of courtesy, which should always be performed with the utmost consideration for the interest and character of the family physician, and when exercised for a short period, all the pecuniary obligations for such service should be awarded to him.
Page 140 - ... often, is a relapse. Patients should never allow themselves to be persuaded to take any medicine whatever, that may be recommended to them by the self-constituted doctors and doctresses who are so frequently met with, and who pretend to possess infallible remedies for the cure of every disease. However simple some of their prescriptions may appear to be, it often happens that they are productive of much mischief, and in all cases they are injurious, by contravening the plan of treatment adopted...
Page 141 - ... 10. A patient should, after his recovery, entertain a just and enduring sense of the value of the services rendered him by his physician ; for these are of such a character, that no mere pecuniary acknowledgment can repay or cancel them. CHAPTER II. OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE PROFESSION AT LARGE.
Page 145 - The responsibility must be equally divided between the medical attendants — they must equally .share the credit of success as well as the blame of failure.
Page 141 - Every individual, on entering the profession, as he becomes thereby entitled to all its privileges and immunities, incurs an obligation to exert his best abilities to maintain its dignity and honor, to exalt its standing, and to extend the bounds of its usefulness.
Page 140 - The obedience of a patient to the prescriptions of his physician should be prompt and implicit. He should never permit his own crude opinions as to their fitness to influence his attention to them. A failure in one particular may render an otherwise judicious treatment dangerous, and even fatal. This remark is equally applicable to diet, drink, and exercise. As patients become convalescent, they are very apt to suppose that the rules prescribed for them vany be disregarded, and the consequence, but...
Page 149 - Poverty, professional brotherhood, and certain of the public duties referred to in the first section of this article, should always be recognized as presenting valid claims for gratuitous services; but neither institutions endowed by the public or by rich individuals, societies for mutual benefit, for the insurance of lives or for analogous purposes, nor any profession or occupation, can be admitted to possess such privilege.