The Jurisprudence of Medicine in Its Relations to the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Evidence: With a Supplement on the Liabilities of Vendors of DrugsThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006 - 310 sider Ordronaux, John. The Jurisprudence of Medicine in its Relation to the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Evidence: with a Supplement on the Liabilities of Vendors of Drugs. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1869. xvi, 310 pp. Reprint available March, 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-503-3. Cloth. $95. * According to Kronick, this is the "first genuine work on medical jurisprudence as distinguished from legal medicine." It contains four sections: Rights, Remedies, and Liabilities of Physicians, with a subchapter on superintendents of asylums for the insane; medical evidence, with a full chapter on evidence in cases of alleged insanity; the ethics of medicine; and, the jurisprudence of pharmacy. A lawyer and physician who held chairs at Columbia Law School and Dartmouth Medical School, Ordronaux [1830-1908] also served as the first New York State commissioner for the mentally ill. Kronick, Landmark Books in Legal Medicine, 1981. |
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Side 18
... liable , the guarantee is only a collateral undertaking , and under the Statute of Frauds , must be reduced to writing before any recovery at law can be had under it.2 But if A. say to B. , abso- lutely and unqualifiedly , " attend upon ...
... liable , the guarantee is only a collateral undertaking , and under the Statute of Frauds , must be reduced to writing before any recovery at law can be had under it.2 But if A. say to B. , abso- lutely and unqualifiedly , " attend upon ...
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... liable to pay what such attendance is reasonably worth . Though the de- fendant may , at any time , give notice to the plaintiff that he will not be liable for further services2 - yet a guaranty , though in writing , and duly executed ...
... liable to pay what such attendance is reasonably worth . Though the de- fendant may , at any time , give notice to the plaintiff that he will not be liable for further services2 - yet a guaranty , though in writing , and duly executed ...
Side 24
... liable if he fail to treat the patient skillfully . " Therefore , as impossibilities are expected from no man , so the physician must treat each case according to circum- stances , watching and ministering sedulously to its necessi ...
... liable if he fail to treat the patient skillfully . " Therefore , as impossibilities are expected from no man , so the physician must treat each case according to circum- stances , watching and ministering sedulously to its necessi ...
Side 29
... liable for the damage so occasioned ; since , by entering upon the business he has prevented the employment of some better qualified person , and the detriment thus occasioned to his principal is a sufficient consideration to uphold an ...
... liable for the damage so occasioned ; since , by entering upon the business he has prevented the employment of some better qualified person , and the detriment thus occasioned to his principal is a sufficient consideration to uphold an ...
Side 30
... liable to an action . The surgeon would also be liable for such negligence if he undertook , gratis , to attend a sick person , because his situation implies skill in surgery ; but if the patient applies to a man of a different ...
... liable to an action . The surgeon would also be liable for such negligence if he undertook , gratis , to attend a sick person , because his situation implies skill in surgery ; but if the patient applies to a man of a different ...
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Side 249 - ... and in regard to measures for the prevention of epidemic and contagious diseases ; and when pestilence prevails, it is their duty to face the danger, and to continue their labors for the alleviation of the suffering, even at the jeopardy of their own lives. § 2. Medical men should also be always ready, when called on by the legally constituted authorities, to enlighten coroners...
Side 98 - Forrester (ubi sup.), and the rule is that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might by the exercise of ordinary care have avoided the consequences of the defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover; if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own Or.
Side 249 - As good citizens, it is the duty of physicians to be ever vigilant for the welfare of the community, and to bear their part in sustaining its institutions and burdens; they should also be ever ready to give counsel to the public, in relation to matters especially appertaining to their profession, as on subjects of medical police, public hygiene, and legal medicine.
Side 248 - PHYSICIANS. § 1. Diversity of opinion and opposition of interest may, in the medical, as in other professions, sometimes occasion controversy, and even contention. Whenever such cases unfortunately occur, and cannot be immediately terminated, they should be referred to the arbitration of a sufficient number of physicians, or a court-medical.
Side 240 - All practitioners of medicine, their wives, and their children while under the paternal care, are entitled to the gratuitous services of any one or more of the faculty residing near them, whose assistance may be desired.
Side 249 - Some general rules should be adopted by the faculty, in every town or district, relative to pecuniary acknowledgments from their patients ; and it should be deemed a point of honor to adhere to these rules with as much uniformity as varying circumstances will admit.
Side 234 - The obligation of secrecy extends beyond the period of professional services; — none of the privacies of personal and domestic life, no infirmity of disposition or flaw of character observed during professional attendance should ever be divulged by the physician except when he is imperatively required to do so.
Side 222 - Every person who shall administer to any woman d"st"oy1ch!id.t° pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug, or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument, or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless tbe same shall have been necessary to preserve the life...
Side 248 - ... than is absolutely necessary with the general plan of treatment; to assume no future direction unless it be expressly desired; and, in this last case, to request an immediate consultation with the practitioner previously employed.