The ancient physician's legacy to his country ... Or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... / [Thomas Dover].

  • Dover, Thomas, 1660-1742
Date:
1762
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country ... Or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 232 ] A Physician, who is called to a Patient as a Second, fhall by no Means caufe the former to be rejected, neither fhall he make any Innovations in the Practice, (extreme Cafes excepted) before he fhall have confulted with him; and to prevent all occasions of Frauds of this kind, whom¬ ever is fent for to a fick Perfon, fhall firft enquire of the Patient, or By-ftanders, whether any Phyfician has already prefcri- bed, under Penalty of twenty Shillings. Afterwards however,as the Patient di¬ rects, he may either alone, or jointly with the former, or any other, proceed in the Affair. Notwithstanding he fhall do his beft to have the former retain’d with him 5 but if this cannot be effected with Confent of the Patient or his Friends, nothing however leffening fhall he fay of him, neither by Looks, Gefture, by a forbidding Silence, or any other Method fhall he traduce that Other’s Adions to the Parent or By- ftanders; but on the other hand he fhall commend him, and that not with falfe Praife, giving him the Name of an honeft good fort of a Man, but (what is much more to