Contract of physician, legal effects of special,

when must be in writing,

made on the Sabbath is valid,

privity of, between patient and physician

not necessary to support malpractice,

Contributory negligence of patient, when it modifies physicians'

responsibility,

Credit, answering for another's debt,

Definition of "a physician" at law,

Damages for malpractice, when may be vindictive,

Dentists on same footing as surgeons,

Diagnosis, protracted error in, constitutes want of skill,

Diploma, a guaranty of ordinary skill,

its character may be questioned,

when from college in another State,

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85

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can not be questioned except on matters of science,

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Experts, must base opinion upon the entire evidence,

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must state reasons of their opinions,

can not express opinions where facts are controverted,

conjectures of, have no weight per se,

may be asked as to analogous facts,

can not read from professional books in court,
but may refer to them,

no precise rule as to their qualification,

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150

153

154

164

may express opinions upon an admitted state of facts,

and pronounce upon symptoms, but not the point at issue,

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facts,

under the civil law,

must be reasonable,

may express opinion upon an hypothetical statement of

Evidence in cases of alleged insanity,

Fecs not a salary,

in England,.

in United States,

physicians may charge for services of their students,
not to be graduated by degree of benefit conferred, .
where only injury ensues to patient, none recoverable,
no limits to them established by law,

when they cease to be valid,

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when they may be paid from assets of a deceased insolvent,
Fee-bills must specify items,

Licenses, where required, unlicensed physicians can not recover

Malpractice, Blackstone's definition,

definition of by American courts,

if not wanton or intentional, not criminal,
proofs of, must agree with allegations,

particular acts of, may be given in evidence,
privity of contract not necessary to constitute it,
damages for, how measured,

evidence of, from different systems of practice,
criminal,

criminal intention when inferrible,

presumption of it may be founded upon negligence,
in cases of, death and treatment must be connected,
no distinction between licensed and unlicensed physi-
cians,

distinctions between it and misfeasance,

Prescriptions, legal character of,

prevention of disease, when part of his duty,
power over patient discretionary,

Pleas in bar of actions by physicians,

Prescribing remedies, questions of competency in,

unauthorized publication of,

rights of patients in,

legal relations of apothecaries to,

Professions, how considered at law,

Professional books not admissible in evidence,

Promise to cure must be proved, .

Questions, illogical to experts,

relating to insanity,

Remedies, legal of physicians under civil law,

Roman law, its estimate of negligence,

want of skill, .

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Salary of contract physicians, when due,

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Schools of medicine, no distinctions between at law,
Services, gratuitous, liabilities in case of,

never to be implied, but must be proved,

rules governing their duties,

Visits, no limits assignable to number of physicians,

when frequent, reckoned as ordinary, and not consultations,
frequency, or paucity, no criterion of diligence or negli-

Warranty of patient's recovery never implied.

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