Category: History - British
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A partnership [495] between medical men is an association of persons, standing to one another in the relation of principals, for jointly carrying out the objects of their profes...
6. CHAPTER V.Malpractice, or _mala praxis_, may be defined to be an improper discharge of professional duties, either through want of skill or negligence. It is now more particularly applied...
3. CHAPTER II.The Roman Law considered the services of an advocate and of a physician as strictly honorific; and, as in the Roman age, practitioners in law and medicine, were usually men of l...
15. CHAPTER XIV.A commission merchant, dealing principally in alcohol, is not a druggist, within the meaning of the Massachusetts’ Act, regulating the sale of alcohol by druggists [460]; and al...
14. CHAPTER XIII.The need of dentists existed long before dentistry. The Preacher knew of the inconveniences which arise when the grinders are few. Marcellus, about B. C. 380, gave two receipts...
8. CHAPTER VII.It was decided nearly one hundred years ago, in the Duchess of Kingston’s case, that a medical man has no privilege to avoid giving in evidence any statement made to him by a pa...
2. CHAPTER I.The first medical practitioners in England, of whom we have any record, were the Druids: these philosophers, theologians and soothsayers, also practised medicine and surgery, an...
5. CHAPTER IV.The law has nothing to do with the merits of particular systems or schools of medicine. Their relative merits may become the subject of inquiry when the skill or ability of a pr...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Whenever the subject matter of a legal enquiry is such that, from its partaking of the nature of a science, art or trade, inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of...
13. CHAPTER XII.A knowledge of the causes and nature of sundry diseases which affect the human body, and of the best methods of treating and curing such diseases, and of healing and repairing d...
7. CHAPTER VI.Whenever death ensues as the alleged consequence of malpractice it becomes necessary to inquire into the conduct of the physician, so as to determine how far his want of skill,...
4. CHAPTER III.If Smith says to Brown, a medical man, “Attend upon Robinson, and if he does not pay you I will;” that being a promise to answer for a debt of Robinson’s, for which he is also l...
12. CHAPTER XI.It is a well settled doctrine that where one occupies a position which naturally gives him the confidence of another, or which in any way gives him an influence, or an undue adv...
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11. CHAPTER X.No man may disparage the reputation of another. Every one has a right to have his good name maintained, unimpaired. Words which produce any perceptible injury to the reputation...
10. CHAPTER IX.The opinion evidence of medical men in questions of insanity is not, as a rule, looked upon with any very great degree of favor by the courts who have to decide upon the compete...