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1 Law and the Doctor: An Address before the Academy of Medicine, Toronto, Nov. 7th, 1916 1916

handle is hein.beal/lwatdtr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Reprinted from Dominion Medical Monthly, December, 1916. The Law and the DLator An Address before the. Academy of Medicine, Toronto, Nov. 7th, 1916 By WILLIAM RENWICK RIDDELL, LL.D., Etc. Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario In accepting with much pleasure, as I did, the invitation of your President, to address your Academy again, I requested in- formation as to the matter with which my address should deal and I have been furnished with a list of subjects upon which some one or other member desires me to speak. The subjects have a familiar ring; I have met them time ands again; but they are of sempiternal interest to the medical pro- fession, and deserve respectful treatment. Many difficulties disappear if, leaving the'separate fact, the superficial, we seek after the principle, the essential. That the medical man may understand, or at least may rightly appreciate, the rules of law, he must consider the basis of law, not alone the individual dictate-(were it not that I might be misunderstood I would say prescription). Law and Medicine rest upon wholly different bases, and should, and in the nature of things must. Medicine-I mean true scientific medicine-endeavors by all legitimate means to discover the workings of nature. Control over nature she has none, and can have none. Whether inherent in the very essence of things, as the Pantheist thinks, or implanted therein by an Almighty God, as the Christian holds-whether it must needs have been so, or the Supreme says I willed it to be so -there is a system, a manner of working, a rc

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