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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... obtain , being considered as essentially opposed to that spirit of the common law which favors the right of every man to practice in any profession or business in which he is competent . And medicine being regarded by it as an honor ...
... obtain , being considered as essentially opposed to that spirit of the common law which favors the right of every man to practice in any profession or business in which he is competent . And medicine being regarded by it as an honor ...
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... obtained , he inferentially admits his want of that ordinary skill belonging to his calling , and thus perpetrates a fraud upon the public . Should he fail to benefit the patient , the evidence of this duplicity and ignorance would ...
... obtained , he inferentially admits his want of that ordinary skill belonging to his calling , and thus perpetrates a fraud upon the public . Should he fail to benefit the patient , the evidence of this duplicity and ignorance would ...
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... obtaining compensation without at the same time derogating from the dignity of their calling . A new action based upon the legal fiction of an implied promise , was invented for the purpose of meeting precisely such cases , and it is ...
... obtaining compensation without at the same time derogating from the dignity of their calling . A new action based upon the legal fiction of an implied promise , was invented for the purpose of meeting precisely such cases , and it is ...
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... obtain patronage evinced by soliciting it , the practitioner of medicine be- comes a guarantor of his own proficiency to the lowest extent necessary to successfully minister to the sick . In other words , spondet peritiam artis . § 20 ...
... obtain patronage evinced by soliciting it , the practitioner of medicine be- comes a guarantor of his own proficiency to the lowest extent necessary to successfully minister to the sick . In other words , spondet peritiam artis . § 20 ...
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... obtaining as well in the medical as in other professions , and to provide at the same time for the universal wants of society , it has been finally determined to consider the least amount of skill compatible with a scientific know ...
... obtaining as well in the medical as in other professions , and to provide at the same time for the universal wants of society , it has been finally determined to consider the least amount of skill compatible with a scientific know ...
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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.