Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, Volume 46

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American Institute of Homoeopathy., 1893
Includes World's Homoeopathic Convention #1, 1876; 4, 1891; 7, 1906 others are in book collection.

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Page 284 - ... 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...
Page 293 - ... 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. Nor can it be justly expected of physicians to furnish certificates of inability to serve on juries, to perform militia duty...
Page 284 - 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 20 - October of each year, and as often in addition as may be necessary for the transaction of such business as may properly come before it...
Page 270 - These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the...
Page 265 - Candidates for Membership shall present to the Board of Censors a Certificate of three members of the institute, that the applicant has pursued a regular course of medical studies, according to -the requirements of the existing institutions of the country, and sustains a good moral character and professional standing.
Page 286 - But, as professional engagements may sometimes interfere, and delay one of the parties, the physician who first arrives should wait for his associate a reasonable period, after which the consultation should be considered as postponed to a new appointment. If it be the attending physician who is present, he will of course see the patient and prescribe; but if it be the consulting...
Page 286 - ... 2. In consultations, no rivalship or jealousy should be indulged; candor, probity, and all due respect should be exercised towards the physician having charge of the case.
Page 286 - ... first arrives should wait for his associate a reasonable period, after which the consultation should be considered as postponed to a new appointment. If it be the attending physician who is present, he will of course see the patient and prescribe; but if it be the consulting one, he should retire, except in case of emergency, or when he has been called from a considerable distance, in which latter case he may examine the patient, and give his opinion in writing and under seal, to be delivered...
Page 284 - ... use of them. ART. II. — Professional services of physicians to each other. § 1. All practitioners of medicine, their wives, and their children while under the paternal care, are entitled to the gratuitous services of any one or more of the faculty residing near them, whose assistance may be desired.

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