An exposition of quackery and imposture in medicine; being a popular treatise on medical philosophy / With notes by W. Wright.

  • Ticknor, Caleb, 1804-1840
Date:
1839
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Credit: An exposition of quackery and imposture in medicine; being a popular treatise on medical philosophy / With notes by W. Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hue and money necessary to kcquire a good medical education ? Shame on any enlightened community hat tolerates such inconsistencies—such abuses! tbuses to science, to itself, and to posterity.* The members of the profession ought to be untiring; in their efforts to inform the /public mind, and to give t proper direction to public opinion ; and not the pro¬ fession alone, but all educated men are under obliga- ion to lend a helping hand ip effecting a reformation. Legislatures will then do the/ir duty, if they hold their popularity too dear to do it Sooner. Pennsylvania and Connecticut have set a noble example ; and least of all hould it be said that the “/Empire State” is a laggard ti any cause that has for its aim the good of humanity. So inveterate is prejudice, or so closely does affection ling to the departed, that1 it is comparatively rare that |hysicians are allowed to/make mortem examina¬ tions of their patients, even in the most interesting and instructive cases. One, of a family of several children, lies with some obscure /disease^ and the physician de- ires to make an examination, but bis request is not istened to by the afflicted parents. They are not ware that their othei/ children are likely to be st¬ acked with the same disease, and, therefore, do not jee the benefit that map result to the living by an in- of the dead. It is universally ignorant are the most obstinate ipection of the bodies lie case that the most * Does not the legislati n their opposition to seeking for the seat of the dis- re of England deserve, to the fullest stent, every degree of reprobation that can be lavished, for the protection afforded to quackiry, by allowing the most pernicious Iiedicines to be sold, and toVeceive a bonus from the quacks, in le form of fees for licence, stamps, &c. ?—Ed.