The tobacco habit: its history and pathology : a study in birth-rates. Smokers compared with non-smokers.

  • Tidswell, Herbert Henry.
Date:
1912
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The tobacco habit: its history and pathology : a study in birth-rates. Smokers compared with non-smokers. 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.

    258/268 page 242
    they desire to follow it, without remuneration and without bond; to admit to my lessons, my discourses, and all my teaching, my own sons and those of my tutors, and those who have been inscribed as pupils, and who have taken the medical oath, but no one else. I will lorescrihe such regimen as may be for the benefit of my patients, according to the best of my power and judgment, and 2]reserve them from anything hurtf^il and mischievous. I will never, if asked, administer poison, nor be the author of such advice. Neither will I give to a woman a pessary to procm'e abortion. I will maintain the purity and integrity both of my conduct and my art. I will not cut any one for stone, but leave the operation to those who cultivate it. Into whatever dwellings I may go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, abstaining from all mischief and corruption, especially from any immodest action towards women or men, free-men or slaves. If during my atten- dance, or even unprofessionally in common life, I should hear or see anything which should not be revealed, I will consider it a secret, not to be divulged. May I, if I observe this oath and do not break it, enjoy good success in life, and in the practice of my art, and be esteemed for ever. Should I transgress and become a perjurer, may the reverse be my lot. Owing to the commercial spirit which has gained ascendancy in modern times, we are unable to fulfil those clauses of the oath that relate to free medical education, but some of the other clauses are obligatory in our own day. In our own day we attempt to prescribe such regimen as may be for the good of the patient and to preserve him or warn him from anything hurtfal and mischievous. May I ask if it is the custom of all medical men to warn their patients about the poisonous nature of tobacco ? Secondly, are all medical men careful to maintain the purity and integrity of their conduct and art by setting an example of a good and natural life ? Therapeutists, physiologists, and a number of medical men have testified to the fact that tobacco- smoking is injurious both to mind and body, and yet we
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3