Oration before the Medical and Surgical Society of Baltimore : at their third anniversary, January 18, 1858 / by Christopher Johnston.

  • Johnston, Christopher.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Oration before the Medical and Surgical Society of Baltimore : at their third anniversary, January 18, 1858 / by Christopher Johnston. 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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    The iron money of Sparta was not counterfeited, but coins of the noble metals are daily imitated and foisted upon the community. It is for this reason, also, that Quacks abound, and out-herod Berod to mislead the unwary while they stamp their base currency with the effigy of that Truth which is our own. The fiery Thompsonian, the extinguishing Hydropath, the Swedish Muscle- Puller, the inflated axiomatic Homeopath, or the genera] Dulaneyian Medicine Man, exist hardly so much by reason of the simple minded- ness of their clients, and credulity of their sup- porters, as because of the excellence of that of which they set up a vain and obscure semblance. With colossal effrontery they vaunt their systems and obscenities, and Prometheus-like, steal tire to animate a host of grateful former sufferers of their own creation. Unfortunately it happens that some of their certificate-givers are not myths, but real personages; and amongst this unblushing few are found members and lights of a sister profession that is under particular obligation to the Medical Profession. And the -Dear Public ffive ear, and as vulgus decipi vuli ergo decipi- ahn-. Nevertheless, neither Medicine nor her Legiti-