Report of the trial on an indictment for libel in "The American lancet" : containing the whole evidence, speeches of counsel, recorder's charge, &c. : accusers in behalf of the state, J.B. Beck, E.G. Ludlow, and divers others against J.G. Vought, Wm. Anderson & Samuel Osborn.
- John G. Vought
- Date:
- [1831]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the trial on an indictment for libel in "The American lancet" : containing the whole evidence, speeches of counsel, recorder's charge, &c. : accusers in behalf of the state, J.B. Beck, E.G. Ludlow, and divers others against J.G. Vought, Wm. Anderson & Samuel Osborn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![APPENDIX. [A] To the Editor of the ' N. Y. Medical and Physical Journal.' ' The last No. of the • North American Medical and Surgical Journal, published in this city, ' under the auspices of the Kappa Lambda Society of the United States,' contains an ' article,' entitled ' Medical Politics,' comprising both an angry philippic against you, for having ventured to notice, without anathemas, a pamphlet entitled ' A report of the trial of an action for libel, in which Dr. George M'Clellan was plaintiff,' SfC.— and also a furiouB diatribe against the offending pamphlet and its ' re- porter.' '• The incoherence of this ' article,'—the absence of all specification in its charges,—and the manifest heat in which it has been written,— ought to convince all observers that it has been prompted by such ex- s.sivc iniiuilon as could h« caused only by the touch of unwelcome truth. - The alleged misrepresentation must be in the following passage, viz : •• ' This society publishes a journal or medical review, purporting on the face of it to be fair and impartial. For a considerable time after th<* establishment of that journal, it sailed under false colours, bearing the names of certain respectable men, as individual editors, while in fact it was published by the 6ecret-oath society. The impartiality of & review, commencing with a display of candour like that, and conducted by fifty physicians or more, bound together by a solemn obligation of mutual commendation, can be readily appreciated.' '• Now, every word of the above citation, is easily shown to be true. (I) That the society publishes a journal. To deprive the editors of the benefit of a quibble which would distinguish between the publication of the journal ' by,1 and its publication ' under the auspices of the associa- tion, I refer to their' preface to the fourth volume,' in which the editors disclose the existence of the Kappa Lambda Society, for ' several yeare' then past; the branches of which,'established in various parts of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21161665_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
