Medical etiquette: handbook of elementary deontology / Translated from the 2nd French edition by W.P. Grant, with a preface by Sir Dyce Duckworth.

  • Surbled, Georges, 1855-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Medical etiquette: handbook of elementary deontology / Translated from the 2nd French edition by W.P. Grant, with a preface by Sir Dyce Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    By Sir Dyce Duckworth, Bt., M.D., LL.D. The author of this Handbook has requested me to write a preface to the English transla- tion of it, and I have readily consented to his wish. I read the French edition when it appeared last year, and was much impressed by its general tone. I am not aware of any such work having been produced in this country, certainly in recent years, and I feel sure that such teaching is most necessary and important for young practitioners at the outset of their career. The subjects dis- cussed are nowhere systematically treated in our British Schools of Medicine, and are only occasionally referred to by teachers in their respective courses of lectures. The author adopts the term Deontology which sufficiently defines the scope of his