Public opinion being unenlightened in medicine, physicians should not be influenced by it : an address to the graduating class of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville / by Paul F. Eve.

  • Paul F. Eve
Date:
1855
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Credit: Public opinion being unenlightened in medicine, physicians should not be influenced by it : an address to the graduating class of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville / by Paul F. Eve. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [13] odicals proclaiming Christianity. The secular press may have been subsidized on the subject, and eleven columns devoted to quack advertisements, and only nine of its twenty to all other topics, counted in one newspaper; we may blush at the disgust- ing, mendacious and loathsome licentiousness of the charlatanic proclamations which daily offend the senses, but it was hoped that the religious periodicals of the country would sustain the American press for independence, truth and morality. In Great Britain a society has recently been organized for the suppression of notices offensive to morals; and their language is, the obscene advertising quack, whose personal position is so execrably low, that his own relations and friends sicken at the sound of his name, and who often forges a new name for himself, that the loathsome traffic in Avhich he is engaged may not hang to his skirts, when his laden coffers warrant his retirement from his dishonest public life; this man, whose written words sounded in human tones in a London thoroughfare, would call down upon him the shame of the vilest mob, dares, by the pen and printer, to diffuse incessantly a pestilence of vice through the length and breadth of the land. The character thus described may be read any day in our newspapers, the editor of one of which, (Bonham Advertiser, Texas,) has had the honesty to refuse the price of blood offered him by the vile impostor, and published the fact that with the advertisement came fifty-two paragraphs, (the periodical is weekly,) requesting the compositor to insert them according to the season of the year; the same pills being good for colds, coughs, asthma and rheumatism, in winter; diarrhoea, bilious complaints, indigestion and dysentery, in sum- mer; and dropsy and skin diseases about autumn and spring.— I rejoice to state the fact that the London Times, the greatest of all newspapers, the Manchester Chronicle, the London Illustra- ted News, and even the London Punch, will not upon any terms
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