Such patients are to be expelled from the infirmary: (1) Who at their admission falsified their disease, or intentionally concealed any material part of it. (2) Who refuse the food, drink, medicines, or operations prescribed, or take any medicines, drink, or food, not ordered by the physicians or surgeons.
The History and Statutes of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: E Balfour and Smellie, 1778:76-7