to go forward and speak from the stand, and not more than ten minutes at one time (p. 24). Resolved, That the President shall be authorized annually to appoint delegates to represent this Association at the meetings of the British Association, the American Medical Society at Paris, and such other scientific bodies in Europe as may be affiliated with us (p. 30). Resolved, That all voluntary communications hereafter presented to the Association, shall be referred to a special committee of to be appointed by the President on the first day of each annual meeting, whose duty it shall be to examine such communications, and report upon the propriety of the presentation and reference to the Committee of Publication (p. 40). Resolved, That any new Medical Institution not heretofore represented in this body, be required to transmit to the Secretary, with the credentials of its delegates, evidence of its existence, capacity, and good standing (p. 42). RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE TENTH MEETING, HELD IN NASHVILLE, 1857. (See TRANSACTIONS, vol x.) Resolved, That the Committee of Publication be instructed to append the Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association to each volume of its present and future annual Transactions. CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS. OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO THEIR PATIENTS, AND OF THE ART. I.-Duties of physicians to their patients. § 1. A physician should not only be ever ready to obey the calls of the sick, but his mind ought also to be imbued with the greatness of his mission, and the responsibility he habitually incurs in its discharge. Those obligations are the more deep and enduring, because there is no tribunal other than his own conscience to adjudge penalties for carelessness or neglect. 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. §2. 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. The obligation of secrecy extends beyond the period of professional services;-none of the privacies of personal and domestic life, no infirmity of disposition. or flaw of character observed during professional attendance, should ever be divulged by the physician, except when he is imperatively |