Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — Bad Medicine in China. [ARTICLE]

Bad Medicine in China.

The Chinese penal code provides that when an unskillful physician,in administering medicines or using the acupunc-' ture needle, proceeds contrary to the established forms, and thereby causes the death of the patient, the magistrate shall call in other physicians to examine the medicine or the wound. If it « . appears that the injury done was unintentional, the practitioner shall be treated according to the statute for accidental homicides,and shall not be allowed any longer to practice medicine But, if designedly departed from the established forms, and has practiced deceit in his attempts to cure the malady in order to gain property, then, according to its amount, he shall b,e treated as a thief; and if death ensue from malpractice, then for having thus used medicine with intent to kill he shall be There appears to be nothg in the “Celestial” code answering to the laws of ‘‘barbarian” nations, concerning civil damages recoverable by parties made to suffer by ‘‘unintentionaTLmalpractice. A hen-pecked husband says that he pities the man vfho ever gets his widow’s might, ’