Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1

CHAPTER I.

OF THE RIGHT TO PRACTISE MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

LEGAL DEFINITION AND HISTORY OF THE TERMS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

AT common law the right to administer drugs or medicines or to perform surgical operations was free to all. And such was the rule of the Roman civil law. But the importance of prescribing certain educational qualifications for those who made such pra...