...such denomination."31 And with respect to physicians, it is dclared that " no person duly authorised to practice physic or surgery, shall be allowed to...professional character, and which information was 35 3 Johns. Cas. 82. 4 Johns. M 1 Caines' Rep. 158. ISJohns. Rep. 233. 5 Johns. Rep. 158. Rep. 492....

...denomination. (2 RS 406, § 72.) And no practitioner of physic or surgery, duly licensed, shall he allowed to disclose any information which he may have...attending any patient in a professional character, if the information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for his patient as a physician, or do any...

...in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules and practice of such denominations. APPENDIX. 199 allowed to disclose any information, which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...

...excused, but prohibited, as a witness, from disclosing information which he has acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, and which information...necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient. And see Johnson v. Johnson, 4 Paige, 460, 468. On the principle, which governed the cases last noticed,...

...defendant in error on the ground that it was within Comp. L., § 5943. The section is in these terms : "No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery...he may have acquired in attending any patient, in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...

...was a privileged communication, under the provisions of How. Stat. § 7516, which provides that— "No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery...which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...

...objected to as incompetent under the statute, and the objection sustained. The statute is as follows : "No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery...which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...

...that he was a physician." The statute under which this ruling of the court wag had reads as follows: "No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery...which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...

...the prohibition of section 10181, 3 Comp. Laws (5 How. Stat. [2d Ed.] § 12826), which provides: " No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery,...he may have acquired in attending any patient, in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...

...statute — Comp. L. § 5943 — provides that " ISTo person duly authorized to practice physic and surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information...he may have acquired in attending any patient, in his professional character, and •which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such...