In Lecture I, there are paragraphs numbered 1 to 8 but omitting 4. This is as in the original, as is the inconsistent hyphenation of the words “lawgiver” and “twofold”. In two instances, errors of punctuation have been corrected, and in one case obscured words have been guessed. These places are on pages 56, 76 and 111, marked like this.
by
Rev. CHARLES COPPENS, S.J.,
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the John A. Creighton Medical College,Omaha, Neb., author of Text-Books on Metaphysics, Ethics,Oratory, and Rhetoric.
NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO:
BENZIGER BROTHERS,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.
TO
Mr. JOHN A. CREIGHTON,
THE FOUNDER OF THIS MEDICAL COLLEGE
AND OF
ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL,
AS
A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF HONOR
FOR
HIS ENLIGHTENED PATRONAGE OF LEARNING
AND
HIS CHRISTIAN CHARITY TOWARDS HIS FELLOW-MEN,
THIS VOLUME
IS
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
The undersigned, Provincial of the Missouri Province of the Society ofJesus, in virtue of faculties granted to him by Very Rev. L. Martin,General of the same Society, hereby permits the publication of a bookentitled “Moral Principles and Medical Practice,” by Rev. CharlesCoppens, S.J., the same having been approved by the censors appointed byhim to revise it.
THOMAS S. FITZGERALD, S.J.
St. Louis, Mo., July 2, 1897.
✠ MICHAEL AUGUSTINE,
Archbishop of New York.
New York, July 20, 1897.
COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS.
The science of Medicine is progressive; genius irradiates its onwardmarch. Few other sciences have advanced as rapidly as it has done withinthe last half century. Hence it has happened that in many of itsbranches text-books have not kept pace with the knowledge of its leadingminds. Such is confessedly the case in the department of MedicalJurisprudence. This very term, Medical Jurisprudence, as now used incolleges, is generally acknowledged to be a misnomer. There is no reasonwhy it should be so used. The leading medical writers and practitionersare sound at present on the moral principles that ought to direct theconduct of physicians. It is high time that their principles be moregenerally and distinctly inculcated on the younger members, andespecially on the students of their noble profession. To promote this object is the purpose aimed at by the author. His brief volume is notintended to be substituted for existing text-books on MedicalJurisprudence, but to supply some chapters imperatively demanded by science for the thorough treatment of this i