Medical Ethics: Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons

Thomas Percival

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A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740–1804) wrote on many topics, but he was particularly concerned about public health issues arising from the factory conditions of the Industrial Revolution. Calling for improved standards of care, he believed that the working poor should be treated the same as wealthy private clients. Following a disastrous dispute in 1792 which closed the Manchester Infirmary's Fever Hospital during an epidemic, Percival was asked to draft regulations on professional medical conduct. In 1794 he privately circulated a tract, Medical Jurisprudence, which he later revised for this 1803 publication. Based on Hippocratic and Christian principles, Percival's work is considered the first modern formulation of doctor-patient etiquette. His Essays Medical and Experimental (revised edition, 1772–3) and the four volumes of his collected works (1807) are also reissued in this series.

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Note. XXI - The salutary connections of sickness not to be rashly dissolved—Cautions concerning the removal of patients into an hospital—Extracts from the Memoirs of the Rev. Newcome Cappe
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NOTE. XXII - Duty of hospital trustees in electing the medical officers of the charity—Advertisement of the governors of the Salisbury Infirmary.—Memorial to the trustees of the Manchester Infirmary
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Note. XXI - The salutary connections of sickness not to be rashly dissolved—Cautions concerning the removal of patients into an hospital—Extracts from the Memoirs of the Rev. Newcome Cappe
pp 239-242

NOTE. XXII - Duty of hospital trustees in electing the medical officers of the charity—Advertisement of the governors of the Salisbury Infirmary.—Memorial to the trustees of the Manchester Infirmary
pp 243-246