Medical science and quackery, a popular discussion / by C.M. Dake, M.D.

  • Dake, C. M.
Date:
[1860?]
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    L,tKO MEDICAL SCIENCE AND QUACKERY; A POPULAR DISCUSSION. [SO BY C. M. DAKE, M. D., President of the Livingston County Homoeopathic Medical Society; Mem- her of the American Institute of Homccopathy; Honored Graduate of the Homceopathic College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Etc.. etc. The leading principles and truths of the iiealing art, arranged in systematic order, comprise a brief philosophical definition of Medical Science. Medical—(L. medicus)—healing, medicinal, pertaining to healing; medeor, to cure, remedy, help, be good for or against. Science, (L. scientia,) knowledge, skill, expertness; scio, to know, the comprehen- sion of truth, or facts, by the mind. The boastful pretensions, or mean practice of an ignoramus, particu- larly in medicine, empiricism, Dr. Webster denominates Quackery. Medical societies of the Allopathic and Homoeopathic schools in the State, of New York, have also defined quackery, in the following words: The importance of the medical profession requires that it should be exercised with fidelity to its scientific and governing principles, with honor to all its members, and with justice and humanity to the sick. A departure from the above principles constitutes Quackery, which degrades the medical character by ignorance, artifice, unapproved meth- ods of practice, and by the use of remedies dangerous to health and life. Any physician and surgeon who divides his responsibility with a known quack, and associates with him in medical consultation, receiv- ing a fee, or the usual charges for such services, or practices with nos- trums, secret medicines, or patent remedies, is guilty of quackery. Public advertisements, or private cards, inviting customers afflicted with defined diseases ; promising radical cures; engaging no cure, no pay ; producing certificates and signatures, even from respectable indi- viduals, in support of the advertiser's skill and success, and the like, are all absolute acts of quackery, which medical institutions should also repress, and punish by rejection, or expulsion, of those who commit them. %