 | Medicine - 1880 - 396 pages
...to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For, the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick ; that, by such cordials...influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquility of the most resigned in their last moments. The life of a sick person can be shortened... | |
 | Medical Association of the State of Alabama - Medicine - 1875 - 372 pages
...assigned to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that by such cordials...influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquility of the most resigned in their last moments. The life of a sick person oan be shortened... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 446 pages
...the authority of the physician, and expose him to be suspected of interested motives. the minister of hope and comfort to the sick ; that, by such cordials...influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquillity of the most resigned in their last moments. The life of a sick person can be shortened... | |
 | Wayne J. Urban - Education - 2000 - 1372 pages
...to protect private patients from unsettling knowledge. Ill ... the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that by such cordials...counteract the depressing influence of those maladies which rob the philosopher of fortitude, and the Christian of consolation. In one of the first modern debates... | |
 | R.B. Baker - Philosophy - 2007 - 243 pages
...some discreet relative, or other sympathising friend; for the medical attendant should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick - that, by such cordials to the drooping spirit he may soothe the bed of death, revive expiring life, and counter-act the depressing influence of those maladies... | |
 | David G. Satin - Medical - 1994 - 514 pages
...to any other person of sufficient judgement and delicacy; for the Physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick, that by such cordials...the depressing influence of those maladies, which rob the philosopher of fortitude, and the Christian of consolation. (Percival, 1803/1977, p. 22) The... | |
 | Robert F. Weir - Medical - 1997 - 294 pages
...sixty years, the text of this Code of Ethics is historic: . . . the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that, by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may soorh the bed of death, revive expiring life, and counteract the depressing influence of those maladies... | |
 | Albert R. Jonsen - Medical - 2003 - 448 pages
...comfort them and relieve their pain. Thomas Percival eloquently urged his colleagues to be "the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that by such cordials...counteract the depressing influence of those maladies which rob the philosopher of fortitude and the Christian of consolation."3 German physician Carl FH Marx,... | |
 | Robert Baker - Medical - 1999 - 452 pages
...to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For, the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that, by such cordials...influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquility of the most resigned, in their last moments. The life of a sick person can be shortened... | |
 | Lilian R. Furst - Medical - 2000 - 334 pages
...to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For, the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that, by such cordials...influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquillity of the most resigned in their last moments. The life of a sick person can be shortened... | |
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For the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick ; that, by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may smooth the bed of death, revive expiring life, and counteract the depressing influence of those maladies which often disturb... 
