[Review of works on medical ethics / by Thomas Percival and others. Anon.

  • John Brown
Date:
1850]
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Credit: [Review of works on medical ethics / by Thomas Percival and others. Anon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    __ ^ / Cl^(^ ^6 M> Percival’s Medical Ethics, New Edition, with Notes, by Dr Greenhill. Code of Medical Ethics. By the American Medical Associa¬ tion. Kichard Baxter’s Compassionate Counsel to Students of Physic. Sir Thomas Broivne’s Peligio Medici^ and Christian Morals. Gaubius de Regimine Mentis quod Medicorum est. Fuller’s Good Physicianf and “ Lifr of Paracelsusf in his Holy and Profane State. Simon, Deontologie Medicale^ ou des Devoirs et des Droits de Medi- cins. . Gisborne, Gregory, and Ware, on the Duties of a Physi¬ cian. Hueeland on the Relations of the Physician to the Sich, to the Public^ and to his Colleagues. British and Foreign Medical Journal for April 1846, Art. IX. Dr Aikin’s Letters to his Son on the Choice of a Profession and the Conduct of Life. ^Ye have named these excellent works, more with the view of re¬ commending them to the study of such of our readers as may be so inclined, than of reviewing them in the technical sense, still less of going over exactly the same ground which they have already so well occupied and enriched. Our object in selecting their names out of many others, is, that they are good and varied, both as to time, and view, and character,—and also that we may be saved the referring to them more particularly. Our observations shall be of a very miscellaneous and occasional kind—perhaps too much so for the taste or judgment of our readers; but we think that a rambling excursion is a good and Avholesome thing, now and then. System is good, but it is apt to enslave and confine its master. Method in art is what system is in science; and we, physicians, know, to our sad and weighty experience, that we are more occupied with doing some one thing, than in knowing many other things. System to an art, is like an external skeleton to a crab or a tortoise, more of a shield and covering than a support and instrument of power. Our skeletons are inside our bodies, and so generally ought our systems to be inside our minds. ^ ^