PART I.

VOL. I.

Of the College of Physicians 1

Its powers and privileges 23

Of the College of Surgeons 54

Of the Society of Apothecaries 59

Of the exemptions and liabilities of Medical practitioners 72

Of actions by Medical practitioners 77

Of actions against Medical practitioners 80

Midwifery 82

Of the preservation of Public Health 85

Burial of the dead 92

Of Quarantine, Lazarettos, and other establishments of Plague Police 104

I. Are all epidemic Fevers contagious? 115

II. Does the matter of contagion require the aid of a certain state of the air (“Pestilential constitution of the Atmosphere”) to give effect to its powers and propagation; and to what causes are the decline and cessation of a contagious pestilence to be attributed? 120

III. Can filth and animal putrefaction generate contagion? 122

IV. Can a fever produced by fatigue, unwholesome food, &c. be rendered contagious in its career by animal filth, impure air, &c.? 126

Medical Police 138

Bills of Mortality 143