CHAPTER I.. _of Professional Conduct Relative to Hospitals, or Other

Of Professional Conduct relative to Hospitals, or other Medical Charities.

§ 1. Duties of hospital Physicians and Surgeons.—Tenderness.— Steadiness.—Condescension.—Authority 27

§ 2. Choice of their attendant Physician or Surgeon, how far allowable to hospital patients ib.

§ 3. Feelings and emotions of patients, under critical circumstances, to be duly regarded 28

§ 4. No discussion concerning the nature of their case to be entered into before them ib.

§ 5. Delicacy in many cases particularly required; and secrecy sometimes to be strictly observed 29

§ 6. Moral and religious influence of sickness to be cherished and promoted 29

§ 7. Propriety of suggesting to patients, under certain circumstances, the importance of making their last will and testament 30

§ 8. Parsimony in prescribing wine and drugs of high price reprobated ib.

§ 9. Hospital affairs and occurrences not to be incautiously revealed 31

§ 10. Professional charges to be made only before a meeting of the Faculty ib.

§ 11. Proper discrimination between the Medical and Chirurgical cases to be strictly adhered to 32

§ 12. What circumstances authorize new remedies and new methods of Chirurgical treatment ib.

§ 13. Unreserved intercourse should subsist between the gentlemen of the Faculty; and an account of every case or operation which is rare, curious, or instructive, should be regularly drawn up and preserved ib.

§ 14. Scheme for hospital registers 33

§ 15. Advantages arising from the scheme 34

§ 16. Close and crowded wards reprobated 35

§ 17. Establishment of a committee of the gentlemen of the Faculty considered 36

§ 18. Importance of frequent consultations, and the mutual assistance of the Physicians and Surgeons ib.

§ 19-22. Rules to be observed in consultations ib.

§ 23. Rules to be observed respecting operations 38

§ 24. Hospital consultations ought not to be held on Sundays, except in cases of urgent necessity 39

§ 25. Stated days for operations often inconvenient and improper 39

§ 26. Dispensaries ib.

§ 27. Asylums for female patients labouring under syphilis.—Rules to be observed in Lock Hospitals 41

§ 28. Asylums for insanity 43

§ 29. Modes of acquiring knowledge in the treatment of insanity recommended 44

§ 30. Treatment of lunatics—tenderness—indulgence 45

§ 31. Boldness of practice sometimes required in cases of mania.—Hospitals for small-pox—inoculation, &c. &c., require no professional duties not already enumerated ib.