Medical law for medical men : their legal relations shortly and popularly explained with chapters concerning dentists, chemists, and midwives / by Percy Clarke and Charles Meymott Tidy.

  • Clarke, Percy
Date:
1890
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Credit: Medical law for medical men : their legal relations shortly and popularly explained with chapters concerning dentists, chemists, and midwives / by Percy Clarke and Charles Meymott Tidy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the said should be forthwith placed under care and treatment. My reasons for this conclusion are as follows : (Here set out reasons fully.) [If the lunatic is to be received as a single patient in a house belonging to or kept by a medical practitioner under the order of a County Court Judge, magistrate or justice, add : 4. I certify that the said is suffering from unsoundness of mind of a temporary character.^] 5. The said appeared to me to be \p7' not to be] in a fit condition of bodily health to be removed to an asylum, hospital, or licensed house.^ 6. I give this certificate, having first read the Section of the Act of Parliament printed below. Dated this day of ,18 (Signed) of3 Extract from Section 23 of the Lunacy Acts Amendment Act, 1889. * Any person who makes a wilful mis-statement of any material fact in any medical or other certificate, or in any statement or report of bodily or mental condition under the Lunacy Acts, or under this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.' 1 Or from decay of mind in old age, or is desirous of volun- tarily submitting to care and treatment, as the case may be, ^ Omit this clause in case of a private patient whose removal is not proposed. ^ Full postal address.