Information for the legislature and people of the State of Pennsylvania, and professional men throughout the United States : in relation to various systems of superstitious frauds, and particularly those inflicted upon the credulous by pretended doctors in medicine : together with an explanation of the homoeopathic and other systems of deception : advice to students of medicine, young physicians, the public, &c.

Date:
[1838?]
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Credit: Information for the legislature and people of the State of Pennsylvania, and professional men throughout the United States : in relation to various systems of superstitious frauds, and particularly those inflicted upon the credulous by pretended doctors in medicine : together with an explanation of the homoeopathic and other systems of deception : advice to students of medicine, young physicians, the public, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ADVICE ADVICE TO STUDENTS. in consequence of students in different parts of the United States frequently writing to me respecting the character of the Medical Colleges of Philadelphia, I will take this method of informing them that I believe there is a better opportunity afford- ed in this city for receiving medical information, than there is in any other part of this or perhaps any other country. There is at the present time three chartered Medical Colleges, all in a prosperous condition, in the city; the professors of which are, with few exceptions, men of talent and probity. It is, however, of the greatest importance that young men should inquire into the character of each professor of the institution he intends con- necting himself with, before he does so; as it frequently happens that men altogether destitute of the proper qualifications of a teacher, and void of the high and noble spirit which every medi- cal man ought to be endowed with, are raised to the honorable station of professor by the influence of friends. Should a young man connect himself to an institution where a man of this char- acter is stationed as teacher, he will discover, when it is too late to retrace his steps, that his labour has been in vain. He may, it is true, have the honors of the institution conferred upon him, but he will find that he will not be employed as physician by those who are acquainted with the character of his teacher; nor can he console himself, when called to the bed-side of the afflictedj that he has received his medical information from the lips of the most experienced of men. There is one circumstance existing at this time among our medi- cal professors, which cannot fail in proving fatal to the future wel- fare of the young man who condescends to receive instruction from