Note 209 — CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT.
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The successive efforts made to extend protection by judicial ruling to communications between physician and patient will appear from a consideration of the cases that are usually cited as authority for the English rule: Annesley v. Earl of Anglesea (1743), 18 How. St. Tr., 1,139; Duchess of Kingston’s case (1776), 20 How. St. Tr., 355 (cf. p. 572, p. 585, p. 586, p. 613); Wilson v. Rastall (1791)., 4 Term R. (Durnford & East), 753; Rex v. Gibbons (1823), 1 C. & P., 97; Broad v. Pitt (1828), 3 C. & P., 518; Greenough v. Gaskell (1832), 1 My. & K., 98. See also Wheeler v. Le Marchant, 50 L. J. Ch., 795 (1880).