SOCIAL ETHICS
To the Editor:
The following is a remarkable illustration of the advance in our conception of social obligations to unfortunates:
The president (of the Chicago Medical Society, December 13, 1867) “appointed a committee to consider the wisdom of the members of the society signing a petition requesting that the physician who was then imprisoned (Dr. Mudd) for caring for the wounds of Lincoln’s assassin should be released. The members of the society were of various opinions in regard to the ethical position of the unfortunate doctor.”[[2]]
[2]. Chicago Medical Recorder, April, 1913, p. 238.
Julia I. Felsenthal.
Chicago.