Via medica : a treatise on the laws and customs of the medical profession in relation especially to principals and assistants : with suggestions and advice to students on preliminary education / by J. Baxter Langley.

  • Langley, John Baxter, 1819-1892.
Date:
1867
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    III. Mr. Langley makes enquiries with reference to the antecedents of every assistant before entering his name upon his books, and he refuses, under any circumstances, to register any one who is known to have been guilty of drunkenness, immorality, or dishonesty. Nevertheless, he can only undertake to establish a primd facie case of respectability, and each principal is expected to make more complete and rigid enquiries himself. As a protection to his clients, he keeps a record of all those assistants who have at any time misconducted themselves in the manner referred to. When, therefore, a client is about to engage an assistant from an advertisement or otherwise it may be prudent for the principal to enquire whether any thing is known by Mr. Langley of the antecedents of the candidate for employment. (See Via Medica, p. 78). IV. Locum Tenens.—Gentlemen are engaged and sent out by Mr. Langley to take entire charge, and he under- takes to make all necessary enquiries with reference to them. As a rule no gentlemen are sent to such appoint- ments who are not personally known to Mr. Langley, and he has a regular staff of such gentlemen upon whom he can place complete reliance. In such cases, where a locum tenens is sent from this office, a fee of half-a-guinea is charged to the principal. (See Via Medica, pp. 40, 50, 61, 86). V. Legal forms of agreements for all kinds of engage- ments, bonds not to practise, &c., are kept in the office, and are supplied to principals or assistants at a cost of half- a-guinea. (See Via Medica, p. 51).