Produced by Geoff Horton, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's Note | | | | 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. Full details can be found | | in the html version of this ebook. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ MORAL PRINCIPLES AND MEDICAL PRACTICE, THE BASIS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. 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. =Permissu Superiorum.= The undersigned, Provincial of the Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus, in virtue of faculties granted to him by Very Rev. L. MARTIN, General of the same Society, hereby permits the publication of a book entitled "Moral Principles and Medical Practice," by Rev. CHARLES COPPENS, S.J., the same having been approved by the censors appointed by him to revise it. THOMAS S. FITZGERALD, S.J. ST. LOUIS, MO., July 2, 1897. * * * * * =Imprimatur.= ✠ MICHAEL AUGUSTINE, _Archbishop of New York._ NEW YORK, July 20, 1897. COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS. PREFACE.