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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    [15] His name doing many wondrous works? As His true disciples are always known by their disinterested love to man, and imita- tion of His blessed example, might we not in all charity exclaim of them, as did once a spirit on a similar occasion to certain vag- abond Jews, exorcists, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are yeV Says the editor (Prof. Hunt) of the Buffalo Medical Journal, there recently appeared in a religious newspaper of that city, edited by an esteemed clerical friend, an account of a mongrel establishment for curing diseases by homoeopathy and hydro- pathy, whose attending physician was a man known by the editor, and a majority of his readers, to be a jail-bird, a man of low morals in his daily life, and a criminal upon occasion, abhorred by the virtuous, convicted by jurymen, sentenced by judges, cropped, shaved, and dressed in striped clothes by turn- keys, is now, upon his release from durance vile, considered a fit subject for a laudatory notice in a denominational paper of large circulation. Said an eminent divine to an equally emi- nent physician, have you ever read Hahneman's Organon? No, replied the doctor; and let me ask you, in return, if you have read the Mormons' Bible? Only a few years ago a clergyman received a sprain in a wrist-joint, and while recovering from it under a regular physician, drove a spirited horse against the ad- vice of his medical attendant; as the pain now returned, he called in a bone-setter, who of course reduced a dislocation, which was well known never to have existed; and soon after there appeared in the daily prints a naming notice of this natural doctor, written by the patient.* Even reverend gentlemen bearing high literary honors, have been heard to speak of the roots of a disease. This word is derived from dis, meaning sep- * Facts of these last anecdotes derived from Prof. W. Hooker's work on Physi- cian and Patient.
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