tailieunhanh - MORAL PRINCIPLES AND MEDICAL PRACTICE, THE BASIS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENC

The science of Medicine is progressive; genius irradiates its onward march. Few other sciences have advanced as rapidly as it has done within the last half century. Hence it has happened that in many of its branches text-books have not kept pace with the knowledge of its leading minds. Such is confessedly the case in the department of Medical Jurisprudence. This very term, Medical Jurisprudence, as now used in colleges, is generally acknowledged to be a misnomer. There is no reason why it should be so used. The leading medical writers and practitioners are sound at present on the. | MORAL PRINCIPLES AND MEDICAL PRACTICE The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence. by Rev. CHARLES COPPENS . Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the John A. Creighton Medical College Omaha Neb. author of Text-Books on Metaphysics Ethics Oratory and Rhetoric. NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO BENZIGER brothers Printers to the Holy Apostolic See. TO Mr. JOHN A. CREIGHTON THE FOUNDER OF THIS medical college AND OF st. JOSEPH S HOSPITAL AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF HONOR FOR HIS ENLIGHTENED PATRONAGE OF LEARNING AND HIS CHRISTIAN CHARITY TOWARDS HIS FELLOW-MEN THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. Permissu Superiorum. The undersigned Provincial of the Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus in virtue of faculties granted to him by Very Rev. L. MARTIN General of the same Society hereby permits the publication of a book entitled Moral Principles and Medical Practice by Rev. Charles Coppens . the same having been approved by the censors appointed by him to revise it. THOMAS S. FITZGERALD . St. Louis Mo. July 2 1897. Imprimatur. MICHAEL AUGUSTINE Archbishop of New York. NEW York July 20 1897. COPYRIGHT 1897 BY BENZIGER BROTHERS. PREFACE. The science of Medicine is progressive genius irradiates its onward march. Few other sciences have advanced as rapidly as it has done within the last half century. Hence it has happened that in many of its branches text-books have not kept pace with the knowledge of its leading minds. Such is confessedly the case in the department of Medical Jurisprudence. This very term Medical Jurisprudence as now used in colleges is generally acknowledged to be a misnomer. There is no reason why it should be so used. The leading medical writers and practitioners are sound at present on the moral principles that ought to direct the conduct of physicians. It is high time that their principles be more generally and distinctly inculcated on the younger members and especially on the students of their noble profession. To promote this object is the purpose aimed at