 | Medicine - 1865 - 738 pages
...consideration which is higher than rule, and that is the duty which every citizen of this country — which every right-minded man, owes to his neighbour to prevent the destruction of human life, and in that duty I cannot say but that Dr. Patcvson failed." His Lordship may pardon me for returning... | |
 | Scotland. High Court of Justiciary, Alexander Forbes Irvine - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 622 pages
...add, with his duty as a citizen of this country, to keep that opinion to himself. In that I cannot say he did right. I should be very sorry to lead you to...consider what effect that is to have, or whether it is to have any effect upon your minds. It is a very painful subject — a subject which I would fain avoid... | |
 | Medicine - 1885 - 942 pages
...consideration which is higher than rule, and that is the duty which every citizen of this country — which every right-minded man, owes to his neighbour to prevent the destruction of human life, and in that duty I cannot say but that Dr. Patcvson failed." Mello»! Tlmri July 23, 1SCS. extent responsible... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1906 - 494 pages
...reminded him (p. 283) that 'there is a rule of life far higher than professional etiquette — a duty that every right-minded man owes to his neighbour — to prevent the destruction of human life.' The editor of the volume has done his work energetically ; not contenting himself with reproducing... | |
 | Stanley Bean Atkinson - 1908 - 258 pages
...consideration that is far higher than professional etiquette — the duty that every right-minded man owes his neighbour — to prevent the destruction of human life in this world.' Inglis, LJ-C., in R. v. Pritchard (1865). Chronic or slow poisoning (including drugging and alcoholic)... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society (Great Britain) - Crime - 1905 - 136 pages
...There is a rule of life, and a consideration that is far higher than these, and that is the duty of every citizen of this country, that every right-minded...neighbour, to prevent the destruction of human life in tins world, and in that duty I cannot say but Dr. Paterson failed." These two opinions, expressed by... | |
 | R.B. Baker - Philosophy - 2007 - 243 pages
...consideration that is far higher than those - and that is, the duty that every right-minded man owed to his neighbour, to prevent the destruction of human life in this world, and in that duty I cannot but say Dr. Paterson failed ([29], p. 283). The medical press was at first inclined to accept this... | |
 | William Roughead - True Crime - 2000 - 580 pages
...is far higher than these — and that is, the duty that every rightminded man owes to his neighbor to prevent the destruction of human life in this world, and in that duty I cannot but say Dr. Paterson failed." VI The Solicitor-General had, relatively, an easy task. The fact that... | |
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I care not for professional etiquette or professional rule. There is a rule of life, and a consideration that is far higher than these — and that is, the duty that every right-minded man owes to his neighbour to prevent the destruction of human life... 