The Washington times., 1905-06-09


as effective in squirting the bar TO action.
as the bite OF a mosquito on the pachy-
dermatcuS hide OF Il rh!noceroS, Moth
Ing has come OF all your laraAastlns,
nothing will eve. come Of IL However,.
l thank yoe for your attempted peseise
service.
Why don't you expess the rasealsts OF
the other profeSsionsr Why aon'S you
give the physicians s taste OF yo0r
lsshT Il would dc them good ever, II
You accomplished no rraors Ia their case
than YOU did IN the matter os what
readers
Permit me. In caesicg. 20 Inquire why
came 70 50 abrupt an eDaH Had yol ex-
h1uSred the subject or Was pressure
oreusaE 70 eea1 upon yoDc
Respectfully.
Our correspondent IS probably clear
in has Own mind. but one OF his ea-
pressions must not be passed over
without correction The Times has
never attempted 10 castigate the law
yers OF Washington It has urged
them to purify their body by the ex-
cision OF certain diseased spots upon
its surface. That the results Of The
Times efforts have not been apparent
up to the present time is perfectly
true, but If our correspondent will
possess his soul in peace he may, be-
fore many moons have passed over
his head, hear of something to his.
and the public, advantage.
We mou foit O,,v.
we have mot yet exhausted the sub
ject OF "criminals-at-law," and that
we are proud to assert that we have
something more than the moral sup
port and personal Endorsement, not
only OF the leaders Of the bar, but of
the bench. The few enemies The
Times has made in this crusade for
righteousness it is distinctly proud of.
There are many reasons why The
Times has not attacked the learned
doctors who minister to our physical
ailments. foremost among which is
the one alleged above: we are not yet
through with the lawyers. But in
addition to this let our correspondent
reflect that the law is rather more
OF an exact science than medicine is.
and that all The Times has attacked
the bar for is the retention of thieves
client-betrayers, and title-forgers in
good and regular standing before the
courts. When our physicians can
agree among themselves as to what
medicine is and in what its proper
practice consists, then it will be time
to consider it's abuses.
In the meantime we wish to express
our personal appreciation of the medi-
cal fraternity and to put ourselves on
record as thankful that in a some
what extended experience we have
never met, either socially or profess
sionally, any physician who was not
distinguished for skill, honesty, and
gentle humanity. We cannot speak
OF the living. but we may properly
lay claim to admiration for men like
Samuel c. Busey and William w.
Johnston.
However, we are willing to please
our correspondent as far as possible.
and, therefore, reprint a portion of
the Spectators twenty-first issue, of
March "A. ITO, which contains a
resume OF all the classic asperstons
upon the physicians:
III we look into the pro-
1efnon OF phyfic, we fhall find a mott
formidable body Of men; the fight of
them is enough to make a man serious,
Ior we may lay it down as a maxim.
that when nation abounds In phyfi-
clans, It grows thin of people. Sir
William Temple is very much puzzled
TO find out reafon why the northern
nlve, as he calls it, does not fend out
1uch prodigious fwarms, and over-run
the world with Goths and Vandals.
as it did formerly: but had that ex-
ceilent author obferved that there
were no ftudents in phyfic among the
fub1ects Of Thor and Wooden, and that
this fcience very much fiourishes in
lne NORTH at prerent, he might have
found better folution for this diff
Guilty than any OF thofe he has made
ufe OF. This body OF men In cur own
country, may be described like the
British army in Caefars time: fome
OF them fay in charicts and fome on
ioot. II the infantry do lefs execution
than the charioteers. it is becaufe
they cannot be carried 70 foon into all
quarters Of the town. and difpatch fo
much bufinefs In TO fhort a time. Be-
fides this body of regular troops, there
are ftragglers, who without being duly
lifted and enrolled. do infinite mif-
chief to thofe who are 70 unlucky as
to fall into their hands.
There are. befides the aboye-mep-