Charter, Ordinances and By-laws of the College of Physicians of PhiladelphiaT.K. and P.G. Collins, 1851 - 53 pages |
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... Associates , on which he shall note the date of the election of each ; the time of his death , resignation , or loss of membership , and the residence of Associates . He shall cause to be inserted , in a book provided for the purpose ...
... Associates , on which he shall note the date of the election of each ; the time of his death , resignation , or loss of membership , and the residence of Associates . He shall cause to be inserted , in a book provided for the purpose ...
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... Associates shall be distinguished practi- tioners of medicine , residing without the limits above mentioned . 4. No person who gives his support to any system of practice , which is sustained by efforts to weaken or diminish public ...
... Associates shall be distinguished practi- tioners of medicine , residing without the limits above mentioned . 4. No person who gives his support to any system of practice , which is sustained by efforts to weaken or diminish public ...
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... Associate who may be hereafter so engaged , shall forfeit his right to membership , on the fact being reported by the Censors . But an appeal from the decision of the Censors is permitted , as in other cases . 5. Candidates for ...
... Associate who may be hereafter so engaged , shall forfeit his right to membership , on the fact being reported by the Censors . But an appeal from the decision of the Censors is permitted , as in other cases . 5. Candidates for ...
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... Associate , who may come to reside within the limits described in Chapter II . Sect . 2 , shall be admitted to a Fellowship ... Associates shall have the privilege of attending the meetings of the College , but shall take no part in the ...
... Associate , who may come to reside within the limits described in Chapter II . Sect . 2 , shall be admitted to a Fellowship ... Associates shall have the privilege of attending the meetings of the College , but shall take no part in the ...
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... and proper . 2. The numbers of the said Summary of Transac- tions shall be furnished to each Fellow and Associate of the College without charge . CHAPTER VII . COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION . 1. At the 21 Summary of Transactions,
... and proper . 2. The numbers of the said Summary of Transac- tions shall be furnished to each Fellow and Associate of the College without charge . CHAPTER VII . COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION . 1. At the 21 Summary of Transactions,
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66 April 66 July Adam Kuhn aforesaid amendment annually appointed Associates Atlee ballot Benjamin Benjamin Rush Benjamin Say Caspar Caspar Wistar Censors CHAPTER charge circumstances City of Philadelphia College of Physicians Committee of Publication Company for Insurances consulting physician corporation Curator deemed disease dollars DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS Edward Hallowell EDWARD HARTSHORNE elected Fellowship George Granting Annuities Hall Committee Henry income Insurances on Lives Isaac James John Redman Joseph Joseph Leidy Lewis Library Committee Lives and Granting meeting in January ment Michael Leib mittee month motion Mütter Museum operation ORDINANCES AND BY-LAWS party patient should never Pennsylvania Company person Philadelphia physician Physicians of Philadelphia practitioner present presiding officer profession professional question receive regular ROBERT BRIDGES RODMAN Samuel D Secretary sick Stillé surgical Thomas Dent Mütter tion Treasurer trust Vice-President William H William Shippen yearly ground rent
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Page 45 - ... suffer such publications to be made ; to invite laymen to be present at operations, to boast of cures and remedies, to adduce certificates of skill and success, or to perform any other similar acts. These are the ordinary practices of empirics, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician.
Page 25 - Physicians should, therefore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their office ; reflecting that the ease, the health, and the lives of those committed to their charge, depend on their skill, attention and fidelity. They should study, also, in their deportment, so to unite tenderness with firmness, and condescension with authority, as to inspire the minds of their patients with gratitude, respect and confidence.
Page 44 - Every case committed to the charge of a physician should be treated with attention, steadiness and humanity. Reasonable indulgence should be granted to the mental imbecility and caprices of the sick. Secrecy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly observed ; and the familiar and confidential intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion, and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor.
Page 7 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 35 - It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements or private cards or handbills, inviting the attention of individuals affected with particular diseases...
Page 48 - But no one can be considered as a regular practitioner or a fit associate in consultation, whose practice is based on an exclusive dogma, to the rejection of the accumulated experience of the profession, and of the aids actually furnished by anatomy, physiology, pathology, and organic chemistry.
Page 71 - SEC. 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 occasion is to give advice adapted to present circumstances; to interfere no...
Page 56 - The opportunity which a physician not unfrequently enjoys of promoting and strengthening the good resolutions of his patients, suffering under the consequences of vicious conduct, ought never to be neglected. His counsels, or even remonstrances, will give satisfaction, not offence, if they be proffered with politeness, and evince a genuine love of virtue, accompanied by a sincere interest in the welfare of the person to whom they are addressed.
Page 45 - ... danger when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed by him, that it ought to be declined whenever it can be assigned to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick...
Page 59 - 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 a due respect for his seniors, who have, by their labors, brought it to the elevated condition in which he finds it.