SKILL— Physician must have ordinary, 57, 58. What is ordinary, or reasonable skill, 59. Amount required, 59–62.   —  — varies, 60, 61. Liability if skill not applied, 62. Skill and diligence must be joined, 63. School considered in determining, 64. Proof of skill, 64. Required in non-professional, 64, 65.   —  — volunteer, 65.   —  — gratuitous services, 65, 66.   —  — dentists, 162. SLANDER—_See_ DEFAMATION. SMALL-POX— Duties of physician in cases of, 143. Innoculation, 147. Exposing patients with, 147. SMITHS— As practitioners, 4. SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICES—2, 3, 8. SURGEONS— United with barbers, 4–6. Union dissolved, 5. Qualification under Henry VIII, 9. Fees, 15. Right to amputated limbs, 143. Attending duels, 144. T. TEETH— Value of, 166. Dentists pulling wrong tooth, 163. Artificial, need not be perfect, 163, 168. Contract for purchase of, 169. Artificial are necessaries, 171. U. UNDUE INFLUENCE— When exercised over patient, 138, 140. Setting aside will for, 141, 142. Exercised by dentist, 171. UNITED STATES— As a rule any one may practise, 47. The law sometimes interferes, 47. Statutory requirements, 48, 51. UNPROFESSIONAL MEN— Liable for gross negligence, 65. Liability for gratuitous services, 66, 67. When criminally liable, 92. Admitting, at a confinement, 144. UNREGISTERED PHYSICIAN— Practising for reward, 45, 46.   —  — charity, 46. V. VACCINATION— Negligence of physician, 22. VISITS— Physician best judge of number, 23. As a friend, 24. VOLUNTEER— Held more strictly than one called in, 65, 66. W. WIFE— May generally bind husband to pay doctor, 35, 36. But husband may select physician, 36. Cannot bind him for clairvoyant services, 36. Selling deleterious drugs to, 186. WILL— In favour of medical man, 141, 142. WITNESS—_See_ EXPERTS. Fees to medical men, 26, 37. WOMEN PHYSICIANS— Among the Druids, 2. In England in early times, 2, 3, 10, 14. Penalty for practising, 7. In Greece and foreign lands, 13. In United States, 14. In England under the Medical Act, 14. In Ontario, 14. As liable for negligence as men, 61. Printed for the Publishers by MOORE & CO., 20 Adelaide Street East, Toronto. ENDNOTES. [1] The Faërie Queene, b. III., cap. 5, sts. 31, 32, 33. [2] 32 Henry VIII., cap. 42. [3] 21 & 22 Vic. cap. 90. [4] 3 Henry VIII. cap. 11. [5] _Rose_ v. _Coll. of Phy._, 3 Salk. 17: 6 Mod. 44. [6] 55 Geo. III. cap. 194. sec. 5. [7] _Apoth. Co._ v. _Lotinga_, 2 Moo. & R. 499; Glenn’s Laws Affecting Medical Men, p. 207. [8] True Blue Laws of Connecticut, by J. H. Trumbull, 1876. [9] Prof. H. C. Bolton, _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, vol. 18 p. 191. [10] 3 Ortolan, Expli. des Instituts, sec. 1199, quoted in Ordronaux’s Jurisprudence of Medicine.