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![From the JV. I. Morning Courier [cOJVKtWICATED.] It is understood that some of I e members of the Medical Society ia this, city, think themselves privileged o use the ignominious lash of private per- secution upon such physicians a are not members of their Society. They also appear to take the law in tlir own hands, and choose wh > shall, and who shall not be members of thi County Society, notwithstanding al! legal qualifications that are presented y applicants. The physician to the New- York Infirmary for diseases of t; bowels, No 139 Graud-st. is made an example of their good feelings, id is one whose situation he is willing should be investigated by a gene us public. In Juue last, a legal diploma was filed, and handed to the bdical Society, (or a committee »f (he same) with a request for membe tiip, according to law, and propo=p(! by a member of the Society. This n rejected, on the principles thai in ap- plicant's name was attached ta compound, sanctioned by lb U .ted States as his own improvemeB for curing bowel complaints, wh '^ac- cording to the Society bye lawaoust deprive him of membership. It was stated to the Society, that said provement never has been held as a se- cret or a nosirum—but publi' explained, for the benefit ot II w 10 choose to profit by it in variourays; (see Vougbt on Bowel Com in.nts, pp. 53. 60, 66, 171, containing - nulas for Alkaline Draughts Enemas and Baths, the only ones of th< ike kind on medical record.) <>!. w'.ich ground the applicant retained 1 standing in the Medical Society ot 'he county of Monroe. It was also i ted that the article in question, so jiuch envied ;>nd harped upon, belon d to the Apothecary department of ihe New York Infirmary for bowe complaints; and so far as -elated to the practice of medicine and surge , he was willing, in every particular, to conform to the laws and rules o he Society; but his membership (as also that of many others) was deniei He was deprived the liberty of jusiifying himself, and the power of maki; his own defence. The applicant corn- men: 1 the «tudy of medicine iler Doctors M'Clelland and Low, in Al- bany, in 1808—closed under E, Stearns, and at the University of Penn- sylvania, in 1812 and 1813 ; an has since practised medicine in this city, Albany, and Rochester, and is member of two Societies in this state. The objection was, not because e is unqualified, either personally or le- gally, to practice medicine, but ecause he is authorised by government to use his improvement in the heaig art at his own discretion, lor the gene- ral good of community. Othei were also rejected, who merit the honors of the profession, (if any there I worth contending for in the present state of affairs) equal to many who st d polished members of the Society. And why? Quere—Was it not becise some of the Society were tearful they Would use their influence in fai r of the Professors of Rutger's College ? We look for that day when < r legislature will revise the medical laws to prevent quackery and impos on, and place individuals, medical institu- tions, and professors who have qual merits, with equal rights and privile- ges—competition is the grand imulus of improvement, and monopoly the quietus of ambition and enten se. A PHYSICIAN,^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21161653_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
