On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne.

Date:
1847
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    ON THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIA.NS^ The Medical Profession enjoys in Great Bri- tain that degree of estimation and credit, whicli a science, administering to mankind the greatest of all comforts except those of Religion, justly deserves. Hence Physicians in this kingdom are almost invariably men of liberal education and cultivated minds. Hence too the art of Medicine is carried among us to a singular height of excel- lence. In Spain, Physicians (unless the case be re- cently altered.) are apparently not respected much more than farriers are in England. In point of a In some parts of this [work] I am indebted for several important hints to Dr. Gregory's Preliminary Lecture On the Duties and Offices of a Physician : and for others to the first part of a treatise entitled, Medical Jurisprudence, or a Code of Ethics and Institutes adapted to the Pro- fessions of Physic and Surgery; by my excellent friend Dr. Percival of Manchester; wliicli, as far as it was tlicn composed, was communicated to me by him in the kindest manner. [This latter work was afterwards enlarged and published v/ith the title, Medical Ethics; or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, adapted to the Professional Con- duct of Physicians and Surgeons, 1803. 8vo. It is also found in the second volume of Percival's Works, l vols. 8vo. 1807.]