The moral aspects of medical life / consisting of the Akesios of K.F.H. Marx ; translated from the German, with biographical notices and illustrative remarks, by James Mackness.
- Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx
- Date:
- 1846
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Credit: The moral aspects of medical life / consisting of the Akesios of K.F.H. Marx ; translated from the German, with biographical notices and illustrative remarks, by James Mackness. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I DESGENETTES. 313 ! stances, the force of right principles, of rigid and prudent I economy, of reliance on the Divine blessing, can and do I raise men above them, and enable them to hold a straight- 1 forward course, and though the medical man has a right, I like other men, to expect to live by his profession, he should ! ever remember that it is a profession—a profession of a high order, and that its rewards are not solely or chiefly I pecuniary. ‘‘ If,” says Simon, “ in the exercise of those ] inferior callings which originate in the social mechanism, , a man considers himself freed from all obligations to the common good, and proposes to himself, as the end to be j obtained by his labours, his own welfare and that of his tl family, if even in functions of a higher order, and having j to do with more important interests, man, by virtue of his M being a man before he was a citizen, may lawfully propose to himself the same end, an imperative duty comes in to ( place a limit to this right in the case of him who is placed S higher in the hierarchy of intelligences, and impose on 3 him obligations more extensive, and proportioned to the ' power wdiich he has of contributing to the happiness of his Ij fellow-creatures.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22316188_0329.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
