 | 1803 - 400 pages
...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 t.-omfort to the sick; that by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may soot!: the bed of death... | |
 | 1824 - 216 pages
...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...the depressing influence of those maladies, which rob the philosopher of fortitude, and the Christum of consolation. MÏMORAWIIA. (Ej* In translating... | |
 | Michael Ryan - 1836 - 608 pages
...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...the depressing influence of those maladies, which rob the philosopher of fortitude, and the Christian of consolation. IV. Officious interference, in... | |
 | College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1846 - 478 pages
...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...tranquillity of the most resigned in their last moments. 6. A physician is not to abandon a patient because the case is deemed incurable; for his attendance... | |
 | 1847 - 834 pages
...ought to be 1847.] 417 declined whenever it can be assigned to any other person of sufficient judgment and delicacy. For the physician should be the minister...life of a sick person can be shortened not only by acts, but also by the words or the manner of the physician, and that most unintentionally on his part.... | |
 | 1847 - 134 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1848 - 910 pages
...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 ; mat, by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may smoolhe the bed of death, revive expiring life,... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1849 - 214 pages
...efficacy, if it be not regularly exemplified in his own conduct." NOTE III. Chap. ii. § 3. p. 49. " A Physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick." MR. GISBORNE, in one of his interesting letters to me on the subject of Medical Ethics, suggests, that... | |
 | Kentucky State Medical Society - 1851 - 394 pages
...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; that, by 21 such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may smoothe the bed of death, revive expiring life, and... | |
 | 1852 - 542 pages
...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...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... | |
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... 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... 
