Ever faithfully your’s,
T. H. B.
Tilford, March 1st, 1836.
FOOTNOTES:
[47] These letters were written by Dr. Burder, an English physician, in answer to the inquiry made of him by Dr. Hope, “Can your opportunities and experience furnish me with some hints how to offer ‘a word in season’ to those who are seriously ill?” They were published first in a periodical of extensive circulation, and afterwards in the Appendix to the Memoir of Dr. Hope.
CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS
ADOPTED BY THE
NATIONAL MEDICAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA, JUNE, 1847.
CHAPTER I.
OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO THEIR PATIENTS AND OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF PATIENTS TO THEIR PHYSICIANS.