Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-29
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.

| g LANDER AND NT ALICE EXPOSEE
- PROFESSIONAL CLARA CTER VLNDICA
TED-BASE ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE UP0l
THE PUBLIC!
For a number of years the undersigned has beei
made target for the assaults of malice and envy
which he has thus far refraned from noticing as the,
were covertly and feloniously made; but now, tina
they emanate directly from ostensibly profcssiona
men, through ostensiby professional periodical, ht
feels due to himself and his thousands Of friends il
California, who have been recovered from the very
brink of the grave through his SKILL well as to thou
sands of others who may hereafter need his profes
sonal services to refute his unprincipled calumnia
tors, and make manifest the unworthy motives by
which they have been and are now actuated
About one year ago, ascertaining that the eXtraor
dinary success annoyed in California had singled me
out rs an object of special attack from those whose
lack of professional skill, want Of industry other
naptude had left them still innocent of practice %
such an extent as to compel them to seek precarous
livelihood by other means than that of profession in
which they were evidently out of their proper ele-
ment forwarded to Philadelphia such unmistakeable
vouchers, that by their inconesbe evidence, and by
means OF the attestatons of professional and other
gentlemen of rreproachable character, the PIIILA-
DELPlIIA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE was pleased 20
accord me DIPLOMA, together with the honorary
| title of "a. E."
! This proceeding on the part of the Philadelphia
College, palpable crushing a rebuke to those
who had sandered my professional character in this
country, that find them giving vent to their petty
spleen in the following paragraph published in the
November number of the Pacific Medical and Surg-
cal journal :"
"The Pennsylvania University has conferred an
honorary degree oil Nj. ID. on notorious charlatan
'of this city. How much did the ancient and hOnora-
"be University receive for such prostitution Of its
venerable seal?"
Itis altogether unnecessary to point out the filthy
venom of the above paragraph, which at sweep
accuses the whole Faculty of Of most revered
Medical Institutions with the vilest possible corrup
tOn, and presuppOses them capable of being purchas
cd Its clear that the writer of the unmanly para
graph measured the Faculty by his own guage.
month afterwards the following elegant SeqU{tWr
appeared in the same journal for December:
I'VE made a serious mistake last month in announ-
cling that the Pennsylvania University had conferred
the honorary degree of NJ. ID. notorious charla-
tan of this city. We could hardly believe il while
writing it, but had been directly informed that
could not with reason doubt. But since then, hav-
ing seen the catalogue of graduates, &c, of this
nowned University, we are pleased to find it sued
by no dshOnor 1t was reserved for the comparative
ly new insttution-the Philadelphia Medical College
to confer this honorary degree We find the name of
the charlatan conspicuous in its list of graduates,
with the honorable A. +. appended. 1t is impossible
to imagine any motive for this neophyte college
to thus degrade its SEAL &C, &C.
Were not that the integrity and character of the
honorable Institution from which received my Dip
Iona is called in question, and aspersed in the above
extract would have passed that in silence
knowing as do, and the public of California does
that the fangs of the reptile have been already drawn
by Its snguary quacksh propenstes, and that it is
poweress to harm where its true character is known
But, to obvate all chance of injury 10 the reputa-
ton of the Honorable Faculty of the Philadelphia
statement;
am a regular graduate Of the University of Pesth,
in Hungary; subsequently acknowledged and ndorsed
by the Josephenan Institute at Vienna. Soon after
Hungary, my native land, tried to throw of the Aus
tran yoke, and, impeled by my love of country and
of liberty TOOK up arms in her defente, and was
appointed to high rank in the Medical STAFF in the
city where graduated. The subsequent struggle is
known to all, and, among thousands Of others, found
myself an exile from my native land and deprived by
that exile of all titles and privileges had formerly
al in, tVr, SO, Al,.
ofmy flight saved life only, and being exile,
could never again obtain the restitution renewal of
my DIPLOMA. had however, preserved the skill for
which that Diploma had been awarded, and which,
most proud to say the people of California have
notably indorsed since my residence in their midst
Fortunately, had friends in Philadelphia and other
Atlantic cities wh0 like myself, eXiles; and, be-
ing personally cognzant of the truth of the above
statements, transmitted the requisite vouchers to
them, when they severally made oath to the facts be-
fore the Honorable Faculty of the Philadelphia Col
lese, and their own irreproachabe characters and
steadast integrity being undoubted, the Honorable
Faculty Immediately accorded me the DIPLOMA now
in my possession.
Aud now, who are my traducers What Is their
standing, when compared to the Honorable Board Of
scientific gentlemen whom they so wantonly and ma
icOusly assa in order to vent their abuse upon me
1t is notorious that the conductors of the "Pacic
Medical and Surgical Journal have not been able to
maintain themselves by the practice Of the Medical
Profession, but have frequently been compelled to
nave recourse to other employments Whether their
misfortune in this respect proceeds from want of
skill, want of energy ond industry, plentiful lack
of brains it is not for to say but the people of
California, with whom they claim to have resided for
several years, have pronounced their verdict in the
premises by not ntrustng them with the care Of their
health and happiness.
have now only to add, in proof of the charge that
their assaults are the results of envous malice, that
of the editors of the Medical and Surgical Jour-
nal was exceedingly anxious to become my partner,
prior to my reception of DIPLOMA from the PHILA-
DELPHA MEDICAL COLLEGE; and yet he hestates not to
assail me now after that document has been ac-
corded to me- together with the honorary title of A. f.
have now been before the public of California for
five years, and the thousands Of gratifying acnowl-
edgments in my possession, from people of the first
standing and intelligence, would of themselves be "a
sufficient refutatOn of the slandeTous inuendoes of
journal which is not recognized by the Medical Pro-
fession generally, and which almost everybody knows
to be little better than advertising medium for
men who skulk uHder its assumed title of "Surgical
and Medical" to lay their before the public
and att the same time garrulous and viudictve to
all who employ the regularly acknowledged medium
OF intercourse with the public the Public Press.
With these remarks leave the subject for the consid-
Grafton of the liberal and enlightened people.
l.. J. CZAPKAY, NJ. D.,
Late Chief Surgeon Of the hungarian Army, and
Honorary Member of the Philadelphia College OF
Medicine.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. "a, 1858. dec29-1t