Daily Republican., 1880-06-02
lExzFass from q Lestars BY DF.
King NJ Kllissn HALL, PkiisasI-

vi THIS leotur0 was delivered 10 y5t
people. DR.. King is the gentleman =,
4 fsrrsd v By US In our columns Of Il
u 2sth ult.
3 What Il true Of ether professions
alarAingly true Of the medical profsl
+ sion. II Ia overerswdsd with men wh
= have sought II as butterflies do "a,
den Of rsses, On account Of its gentilit
and generally considered lucrative n
r turns. The vsrious medical schools Q
]. the eoun.ry manufasture doctors 90 rap
idly and extensively as other industria
, establishments turn out boots and shoe
: and kindred articles demanded by th,
J. million.
A very large porportisn Of the ner
: holding the diplomas Of these schsoli
are no more qualified TO minister to 3
diseased body than q milknaid Is pre-.
pared to discuss with Tyndall some
abstruse ssientifs problem. These
} graduates, believing In themselves and
i proudly exhibiting their diplomas,
hang ont their signs and append To
their otherwise uneuphonisus names
the title Of IN. d." and announce 70
J the world that they are prepared to
practice. Where 10 their experience 7
They have none. The simple faot that
they have attended q course Of medical
lectures does not qualify them for the
profession they have entered upon.
The reader may say these men have
every qualification but experience, and
this they gain in time. Admit that
such Is the fact; are You. ready for
thsm TO finger with unskilled hands
your puise, and 30 prescribe for your
ailments, or those Of your family Are
you ready to have them experiment on
You or yours, that they may acquire
the necessary experience Il success.
fully handle other cases which may
come later In their career.
In addition to the class Of so.ealled
physicians above mentioned, there
are others palming themselves of up
ON the community as doctors, who
have failed TO pass examination, and
who are ont today without diploma.
Some Of these practitioner. have never |
been inside Of college walls, and have
had no hospital practice. They are
sslf-nade physicians, and as such are |
disgrace to themselves and q curse TO
the community In which they an.
nounce themselves as full-nedged doc
tors. What every man wants who is
diseased, is q physician qualified by
culture, practice, and long experience,
to prescribe for him. When Q physi.
clan has become SO familiar with the
physical man, and so thoroughly con
versant with the diseases whioh flesh
is heir to, that he can tell its symp
toms, describe its various phases, aud
above all, check its spread and heal
the man diseased, then, and not till
then, is he prepared TO take his fellow
men from diseased state to one Of
health and enjoyable life.
''Here will take the occasion TO say
no man has higher regard or more
thorough veneration for the conscien-
tious family physician than I. Such q
man is entirely void Of selishpess and|
prejudice. He Is q constant student.
dc keeps pace with every fresh thought
advanced puts into practice most vii.
lingly as an auxiliary, anything that
sroves itself better than he has yet /
known. They deserve the confidence,
love and respect Of all who know them.
At least he never condemns short Of q
thorough investigation. Such d man
will tell You that the best Of them are
cropping about in the dark; that is one
round Of experiment. The {
principle Of antidotes has proved un. 8
latisfactory-yea, q failure. A. Il. 10
Stevens, NJ. D., says, the older physi. o
'ians grow, the more sksptical they be- 4
ome In the virtue Of their own medi- v
ines.' Professor Willard Parker "
ays; 'Of all sciences, medi- O
Inc is most uncertain" Professor Z. q
J. Davis, "The vital effects Of nedi. 4
inc are little understood ]. Mason II
Food, N. D., THE science Of medicine Il
barbarous jargon.' DR.. Bostwick, ii
uthor Of History Of Medicine" Every 10
ose Of medicine is blind experiment q,
rofsssor Evans, N. D., 'The medical o,
ractice of the present day is neither OF
hilosophy nor common sense Pro- ca
'sser Gregory, Gentlemen, ninety ul
Inc medical facts are medical lies. DC
r. McLintock "Msrcury has made en-
ore oripples than all wars combined. ",
nd he should have added that the nj
resent abuse Of soda Of potassi in Its br
resent form is destroying myriads Of fr,
smachs beyond redemption. w
sir Ashley Cooper says, The science tn
medicine is founded on conjecture da
I'd improved by murder oliver
'sndell Halmes said before medical
ass in the year 1861, The disgrace
medicine has been that colossal Th
stem ofself-deception, in obedience ch
which mines have been emptied Of Ur
% cankering minerals, the vegetable wa
ngdom robbed of all Its growth, the ye
trails Of animals taxed for their i'm me
lritiss, the poison bags of reptiles vi
aimed Of their venom, and all the roi
noeivable denominations thus obtained ocs
rust down the throats Of human be- wi
gs sufferizg from some fault Of organ SUI
ation, nourishment or vital stimula, In
M CHI
THUS might enlarge to Vie extsp. "a
volumes In quoting the long list Of doc
ysieians' structures on themselves. IN dro
licA they tell yon that medical sci TIL
90, thus far Is net only not beneficial, Pei
: absolutely injurious and killing in ste,
effects. Notwithstanding all this, tail
,toA and early education ever hold q his
ndsrful power. over us, and It mai Of ,
8 not how unreasonable and absurd suc
teachings and customs or habits fror
y seem 70 us, and how plainly II and
y have been proved to us that they day