Percival's Medical Ethics.

The physician who really wants to know the manner in which our present Principles of Medical Ethics was derived will find the history excellently told in the present volume. The book includes not only a general consideration of the regulation of physicians but also a biography of Thomas Percival and a presentation of his original code and of the various codes of principles of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association from time to time. Like most other critics of the present Principles of Medical Ethics —and almost everyone knows that they can stand a great deal of rewriting and improvement—Dr. Leake occasionally fails to understand some portions simply for the reason that he is not a practicing physician. It is a fundamental fact that the provision of a series of principles of ethics for any professional group must be made by members of that group as well as by