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.
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![cusing, and sycophantic fawning, to obtain his election ? and when o tained, did he not advise the dissolution of said Society . Quere 3d.—Were not a greater part of the present officers of the Medical Society, members of the Medico-Chirurgical Society; and were not their meetings turned into caucuses, and they employed in election- eering for themselves ? Quere4th.—Was not a certain professor in Barclay-street College, the secret spring of this hidden machinery; and was not every thing arranged according to his beck and nod ? Q,uere 5th.—Was not a certain honest gentleman humbugged by a certain caucus-nomination, in order to secure his support for the caucus ticket ? Quere 6th and last.—Is not the Medical Society of the City and County of New-York, as at present organized, a mere tool of the Bar- clay-street College, and is not the profession disgraced by being re- presented by a set of whippers-in, who have neither name, talent,princi- ple, nor honour? More Anon. Note.—The author of these queries may have been mistaken in rela- tion to the Medical Society. A Member. [From the JV. Y. Constellation.] Libel Suit.—A case has just been tried before the Court of Sessions in this city, wherein the state was plaintiff, and Drs. Vought, Anderson, and Osborn, were defendants. It was for an alleged libel published in the Lancet, of which the defendants were editors. The libellous words consisted in accusing Dr. Beck,and some dozen or fifteen other physicians, among whom were most of the medical professors of the college, of having formed a secret association for the very laudable purpose of mo- nopolizing the cream of the practice, and of keeping down those aspiring fellows, the younger members of the medical profession. This accusation was taken in high dudgeon by the professors, and others therein men- tioned, more especially as they were termed in the libellous article, the immortal seventeen, in allusion to those political champions in the senate, who denied the people the privilege of voting for their own electors. But the jury, not having the fear of the immortals before their eyes, and it being proved that such secret association did exist, returned a verdict of not guilty.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21161665_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
