APPENDIX IV.

CHURCH DECREES RELATING TO MEDICINE. [424]

Prohibition of the study and practice of medicine and law to members of religious orders.

Text of the decrees.

Significance of the prohibition.

Not all priests, but only members of religious orders involved.

Church decrees as to the physician's duty in securing the last rites of the Church for his patients when in danger of death.

Text of the decrees.

Misunderstanding.

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