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A CARD TO EHE PUBLIC.

o-PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER INDICATED
BASE ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE UPON THE PUBLIC
For a number of years the undersigned has been
made target for the assaults of malice and envy which
he has thus far reiraihed from noticing they
coverty and feloniously made but now, that they
directly from ostensby professional through
ostensiby professional periodical he feels it due to
himself and his thousands of friends in California, who
have been recovered from the very brink of the grave
through his SKILL we'll thousands Of others who
hereafter need his professional services, refute
his unprnciped calumniators, and make manifest tho
unworthy motives by which they have been and are
actuatel.
About year ago, ascertsining that the exraordi
nary enjoyed in California had singled out
object of special attack from those whose lack Of
professional Skill of industry, other napttudo
had left them still innocent OF practice. to such
extent to compel them to seek precarious livelihood
by other than that of profession i'll which they
were evidently out of their proper element forwarded
to Philadelphia such unmistskable vouchers that BY
their lncon:esbe evidence and by means of the atea
talons OF professional and other gentlemen OF ire
proachabs character, theipuILADELpHIAC OLLEG b
OF MEDICINE was pleased to accord Inc DIPLOMA,
together with the honorary title Of A. E.
Ihis p oceedng on the part of the Philadelphia Col
lsge was papabe crushing rebuke to those who
had slandered my professional character this country
that ind them giving vent to their petty spleen in
the following paragraph, published in the November
number of the Pacific Medical and SURG ical Journal
The Pennsylvania University has conferred an hon.
orary degree of NJ. d. notorious charlatan of this
city. How much did the ancient and honorable Uni
versity receive for such prostitution of its venerable
seall'
II Is altogether unnecessary to point out the hlhy
venom OF the above paragraph which at one sweep
cuses the whole Faculty OF OF most revered
Medical Institutions with this ves possible corruption
and presupposes them capable of being purchased 1t
IS clear that the writer of the unmanly paragraph mca
sured the Faculty by his own guase.
A month afterwards the following elegant sequitur
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. d. notorious charlatan
Of city. We could hardly believe it while writing
II. 40 intorp hat We
not with reason doubt But since then, having tho
cataio2 ue OF graduates of this renowned Universe
ty, we are pleased to find it sued by dishonor 1t
was reserved for the comparatively institutonthe
Philadelphia Medical College-to confer this honorary
degree We find the of the charlatan conspicu-
GUS IN Its LIST OF graduates with the honorable A. L.
appended 1t is Impossible to imagine any motive for
oven THIS heophyte college to thus degrade its seal
were 1t not that the integrity and character of the
honorable Institution from which received my Dipo-
ma Is called IN question, and asperSed i'll the above
tract would have even passed that in silence
knowing as do, and as the public If California does
that the fangs of the reptile nave been already drawn
10y It's slnguary quackiSh propcnsities and that il
poweress to harm where its character is known.
But, to ooviate all chance otnjury the reputation
OF the Honorable Faculty OF the Philadelphia College,,
make the following plain and unvarnshed statement:
am regular graduate Of the University Of pesth,
IN hungary; subsequently, acknowledged and Endorsed
Dy the Josephenlan Institute at Vienna. Soon after
hungary, my native land, tried to throw off the Aus
tran yoke aud impelled by my love Of country Of
npefty took up arms i'll her defense. and appoin
graduated The subsequent struggle is known to all,
anu, among thousands of Others found myself AN ex
lie from my native land, and deprived by that exile II
all titeS ana privileges had formerly enjoyed in that
country or Ill Austria. In the hurry of my flight
saved life only and being exile could again
obtain the restitution or renewal Of nv diploma [
had however, preserved the skill for which that Dipo-
ma had been awarded, and which, most proud to
say, the people efCaorna have noab Endorsed since
my residence in their midst Fortunately, had friends
in philadelphia and other Atlantic cities Who like nv
sen were exlles; and, being personally cognizant Of
the truth OF the above statene transmitted tho
requisite vouchers Them when they s.erally made,
oath to the facts before the Honorable Faculty the
Philadelphia College, and their irraproachabIe
characters aud steadiast integrity being undou5ted the
Honorable Faculty Immediately accorded me the d.
PLoMA how III my possession.
And now, who my tr,ducersl What is their
standing, when compared to the Honorable Board of
scientific gentlemen whom they go wantoniy and mali
cously &sssil IN order t. I'll abuse upon me 1t
is orous that the conductors Of the Pacific Medical
ant Surgical Journal have not been able maintain
themselves by tie practice Of the Medical Profession:
but have frequently been compeiea have recourse
to other enlpioyments. Whether their misfortune i'm
this respect proceeds from want of skill want of en-
esy aud industry plentiful lack of brains is not
for NE to say; but the people of California with whom
they ciin 10 have resided for several years. have pro
nouneed their verdict in the preniisesby not enrustng
them with this care of their health ANA lappincss
have only to add, in proof of the charge that
their assaults the results of envious malice that
one of the editors of the Medical Surgical Journal
was exceedingly anxious to become my partner prior
to my reception of diploma from the PHILApEf pHIA
MEDICAL COLLEGE; and yet he hesates not 10 assa mo
now even after that document has been accorded to me-
together with the honorary title of A. e.
have now been before the public of California for
i've years. and the thousands of gratifying acknow-
edsment' in my possession, from people Of the first
standing and i'll diligence, would of themselves be n
sufficient refuttion from the sanderous nueadoes of
journal which is not recognized 10y the Medical Profess
sion generally, and which almost every body knows to
be little better than advertising medium for men
who skuk under its assumed title Of "SurcicaI and
Medical to lay their wares before the public, and at