Field's Medico-legal guide for doctors and lawyers / by George W. Field.

  • George W. Field
Date:
1887
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Credit: Field's Medico-legal guide for doctors and lawyers / by George W. Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cures and remedies ; to adduce certificates of skill and success, or to perform other similar acts. It is generally derogatory to professional char- acter, and opposed to the interests of the profes- sion, for a physician to hold a patent for any surgical instrument or medicine, or to prescribe a secret nostrum, whether the invention or dis- covery or [be the] exclusive property of himself or others. It is also reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of pat- ented medical or surgical appliances, or of pat- ented, copyrighted or secret medicines, or of proprietary drugs, medicines, wines, mineral waters, health resorts, etc : Trans. Med. Soc. (K Y.) 1882, p. 74. As to the rules governing consultations, the code provides as follows : Members of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and of the medical societies in af_ filiation therewith, may meet in consultation legally qualified practitioners of medicine. Emergencies may occur in which all restrictions should, in the judgment of the practitioner, yield to the demands of humanity. To promote the interests of the medical pro-