The Jurisprudence of Medicine in Its Relation to the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Evidence: With a Supplement on the Liabilities of Vendors of DrugsT. & J. W. Johnson, 1869 - 310 sider |
Andre udgaver - Se alle
The Jurisprudence of Medicine in Its Relations to the Law of Contracts ... John Ordronaux Begrænset visning - 2006 |
The Jurisprudence of Medicine in Its Relation to the Law of Contracts, Torts ... John Ordronaux Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2016 |
The Jurisprudence of Medicine in Its Relation to the Law of Contracts, Torts ... John Ordronaux Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
action Alab alleged amici curiæ apothecary apply assumpsit attendance called cause character charge cian civil law Coll common law compensation competent consequence constitutes consultation contract counsel court cure damages dandelion death defendant degree Denio diploma disease doctrine dollars drugs duty entitled evidence examination expert fact fees Foord fractured bone give guilty held honorarium implied injury insanity judgment jury label latter liable license malpractice mandamus mandate manslaughter medi medical society medicine ment nature necessary negligence obligation opinion ordinary skill particular party patient perform person pharmaceutist Phys physi physician or surgeon plaintiff poison practice medicine practitioner prescribe prescription principle pro hac vice profes profession professional provisions quantum meruit question qui tam R. S. cap reason recover regard relation responsibility rule services rendered sick statutes surgeon surgery testify testimony tion tort treatment undertakes unless vendor Wend wrong
Populære passager
Side 4 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
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 250 - ... recognized as presenting valid claims for gratuitous services ; but neither institutions endowed by the public or by rich individuals, societies for mutual benefit, for the insurance of lives or for analogous purposes, nor any profession or occupation, can be admitted to possess such privilege. Nor can it be justly expected of physicians to furnish certificates of inability to serve on juries, to perform militia duty, or to testify to the state of health of persons wishing to insure their lives,...
Side 169 - Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Side 247 - ... 8. A physician, when visiting a sick person in the country, may be desired to see a neighboring patient who is under the regular direction of another physician, in consequence of some sudden change or aggravation of symptoms. The conduct to be pursued on such an...
Side 243 - But such variation and the reasons for it ought to be carefully detailed at the next meeting in consultation. The same privilege belongs also to the consulting physician if he is sent for in an emergency, when the regular attendant is out of the way, and similar explanations must be made by him, at the next consultation.
Side 239 - ... entitled to all its privileges and immunities, incurs an obligation to exert his best abilities to maintain its dignity and honor, to exalt its standing, and to extend the bounds of its usefulness. He should therefore observe strictly such laws as are instituted for the government of its members — should avoid all contumelious and sarcastic remarks relative to the faculty, as a body; and while, by unwearied diligence, he resorts to every honorable means of enriching the science, he should entertain...
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 240 - Equally derogatory to professional character is it for a physician to hold a patent for any surgical instrument or medicine ; or to dispense a secret nostrum, whether it be the composition or exclusive property of himself or of others.
Side 235 - A physician ought not to abandon a patient because the case is deemed incurable; for his attendance may continue to be highly useful to the patient, and comforting to the relatives around him, even in the last period of a fatal malady, by alleviating pain and other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish.