PART III. THE RECIPROCAL DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF PHYSICIANS AND THE PUBLIC. Article I.-Duties of Physicians to the Public. SECTION I. As good citizens, it is the duty of physicians to be vigilant for the welfare of the community and to bear their part in sustaining its institutions and burdens. They should be always ready to give counsel to the public in relation to matters appertaining to their profession, as, for example, on subjects of medical police, public hygiene and legal medicine. It is their province to enlighten the public in regard to quarantine regulations, the location, arrangements and dietaries of hospitals, asylums, schools, prisons and similar institutions; in relation to the medical police of towns, drainage, ventilation, etc., and in regard to measures for the prevention of epidemic and contagious diseases. And, when pestilence prevails, it is their duty to face the danger and to continue their labors for the alleviation of suffering and the saving of life, even at the risk of their own lives. SECTION 2. Physicians should always be ready, when called on by the proper authorities, to enlighten coroners' inquests and courts of justice on matters strictly medical, such as involve questions relating to insanity, legitimacy, or sudden and violent deaths, and in regard to the various other subjects embraced in the science of medical jurisprudence. But, in these cases, and especially where they are required to make post-mortem examinations, it is just and right, in consequence of the time, labor and skill required and the responsibility and risk they incur, that the public should award them more than a mere consulting fee. SECTION 3. There is no profession, by the members of which eleemosynary services are more freely dispensed than they are by physicians; but justice demands that some limits should be placed to the claims upon such offices at their hands. Poverty, professional brotherhood, the benevolent and scantily remunerated occupation of the individual patient, and certain of the public duties referred to in Section I of this Article, should always be recognized as presenting valid claims for gratuitous services. But neither institutions endowed by the public or by rich individuals, societies for mutual benefit, for the insurance of lives or for analogous purposes, nor any profession or occupation can be admitted to possess such privilege. Nor can it be justly expected of physicians to furnish certificates of inability to serve on juries, or perform military duty, or to certify to the state of health of parties wishing to insure their lives, obtain pensions or the like, without a pecuniary acknowledgment. But to indigent persons such professional services should always be cheerfully and freely accorded. Article II.-Obligations of the Public to Physicians. SECTION 1. The benefit accruing to the public, directly and indirectly, from the active and constant labors and beneficence of the medical profession are so numerous and important that physicians are justly entitled to the utmost consideration from the community. The public ought, likewise, to entertain a just appreciation of the proper qualifications of a practitioner of medicine; to make a due discrimination between true science and the assumptions of ignorance and empiricism; to afford every encouragement and facility for the acquisition of medical education, and not to allow the provisions of their statute books or of the prospectus of their chartered institutions to interpose any obstacles to the attainment of the fullest knowledge of every branch of medical science, or in any way, to restrain the most entire freedom of thought, investigation and action in matters appertaining to the practice of medicine. INDEX. PAGE. A Case of Appendicitis in a Large Inguinal Hernia. A. W. Yale, M. D... 192 .14 Address of Welcome. E. D. Doolittle, M. D. 9 Address of Welcome. Ethelbert D. Warfield, LL. D. II Address of Welcome, Response to. Theo. Sureth, M. D. 13 Advanced Biology, With Relation to Homœopathic Principles. I. W. Heysinger, M. D. 170 A Few Points on Nasal Diseases. H. F. Schantz, M. D. 407 A Few Remedies Rarely Prescribed in Diseases of the Eye. D. W. 398 A Few Thoughts on Our Materia Medica. Aug. Korndorfer, Sr., M. D. 365 47 American Institute of Homœopathy, Code of Medical Ethics of the 473 50 Anal Fissure. G. B. Moreland, M. D. 250 An Unusual Case of Diphtheria; Nasal Intubation; Recovery. H. M. Gay, M. D., and C. S. Raue, M. D. 166 A Plea for the Indicated Remedy. S. W. S. Dinsmore, M. D. BAKER, W. F., M. D. Locomotor Ataxia; A Case 151 155 BETTS, B. F., M. D. The Obligations of the Physician in the Care of 92 BIGLER, B. E., M. D. The Salt River Valley Climate (Arizona) 296 43 Board of Medical Examiners, Special Committee to Interview the BOILEAU, J. D., M. D. Food Impurities and Adulterations Calcarea Carb., Kali Carb. and Graphites. Edward Cranch, M. D....... 387 9 CARMICHAEL, T. H., M. D. Loyalty to the Pharmacopoeia CHASE, T. L., M. D. Diseases of the Fallopian Tubes 102 Chorio-Epithelioma Malignum; Report of a Case; Resume of the His- CHRISTINE, G. M., M. D. The Treatment of Certain Intra-Abdominal Diseases From the Standpoint of Surgery PAGE. 438 229 Code of Medical Ethics of the American Institute of Homœopathy 473 Committee on Legislation, Motion in Reference to Reappointment of Present Committee on Legislation, Report of the G. B. Moreland, M. D., Chairman Committee on Publication Committee, Press Committee to Interview Medical Examiners 48 36 Committee on Organization, Registration and Statistics Committee on Organization, Registration and Statistics, Report of the. 50 28 50 50 50 Corresponding Members, List of Committee to Interview Medical Examiners, Report of the Communication From the Pennsylvania State Nurses' Association ... Corresponding Secretary, Report of. E. M. Gramm, M. D. Delegates and Committees Delegates to the American Institute of Homœopathy Delegates to the Interstate Committee of the American Institute of 50 Delegates to the Interstate Committee of the American Institute of Ho- 36 Diacetic Acid in Diabetes Mellitus. J. C. Guernsey, M. .D Discussions and Papers 168 115 83 Diseases of the Fallopian Tubes. T. L. Chase, M. D. Dispensaries of the State of Pennsylvania, Homœopathic Donation to the Trustees of the Institute of Drug Provings 102 35 Early Operation in Appendicitis From a Pathological Standpoint. J. E. Eserin in Post-Operative Intestinal Paralysis. T. J. Gramm, M. D. 118 Ethics, Code of Medical, of the American Institute of Homœopathy Examination of Students, Report of Committee on PAGE. 473 50 41 244 466 ....... 401 299 263 166 45 .323 22 Food Impurities and Adulterations. J. D. Boileau, M. D. GOFF, ELLA D., M. D. Report of Treasurer GOLDEN, G. M., M. D. GRAMM, E. M., M. D. GRAMM, T. J., M. D. Arthritis Deformans; With Report of a Case Excision of the Elbow Joint D. GRAMM, T. J., M. D. 138 244 168 390 85 85 .... 401 HAAS, G. H., M. D. Eye-Strain; Its Consequences and Treatment Health Boards in Rural Districts, Resolutions in Reference to Homœopathic Dispensaries of the State of Pennsylvania Hospital versus Home Care of Confinement Cases. Emma T. Schreiner, 35 454 Human Environment. W. E. Rotzell, M. D. 307 Interstate Committee of the American Institute of Homœopathy, Dele- 50 Interstate Committee of the American Institute of Homœopathy, Report JAMES J. E., Jr., M. D. Chorio-Epithelioma Malignum; Report of a KORNDORFER, Aug., Sr., M. D. A Few Thougths on Our Materia Medica. 365 |