Year: 1859

Wy, which he has thus far refrained from NOTICING o.
as they were covertly and feloniously made hui
now, that they emanate directly from ostensibly
professional men, through an ostensiblv protes
sional 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, as we'll as to thousands of 9th
ers who may hereafter need his professional ser
vices TO refute his unprincipled calumniators,
and make manifest the unworthy motives which
have and now actuate them.


About one year ago, ascertaining that the ex.
traOrdnary success | enjoyed in California had
singled me ont as an object of special attack
from those whose lack of professional skill, want
of industry, or other inaptitude had left them
still innocent of practice, to such an extent as
to compel them to seek precarous livelihood bv
other means than that of profession in which
they were evidently out of their proper element,
l forwarded to Philadelphia such unmistakable
vouchers, that by their incontestible evidence,
and by means of the attestatons of professional
and other gentlemen Of irreproachabe character,
the PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF MEDI-
! CINE was pleased to accord me DIPLOMA,
together with the honorary title of "A. En
| This proceeding on the part of the Philadelphia
College, was so palpable, so crushing a rebuke to
those who had slandered my professional charac-
ter in this country, that find them giving vent
to their petty spleen in the following paragraph,
published in the November number of the Pa
ciiic Medical and Surgical Journal:'


! The pennsylvania University has conferred
an honorary degree of NJ. d. on a notorious
charlatan OF this city. How much did the ancient
and honorable University receive for such a pros
! tltuton OF its venerable seal p


| 1t is altogether unnecessary to point ont the
! filthy venom Of the above paragraph, which at
one sweep accuses the whole Faculty of one of
our most revered Medical Institutions with the
vilest possible corruption, and presupposas them
capable of being purchased. 1t is clear that the
writer of the unmany paragraph measured the
Faculty by his own guage.


A month afterwards, the following elegant
sequitw appeared in the same journal for Deem
Der:


We made serious mistake last month in
announcing that the Pennsylvania University
had conferred the honorary degree of NJ D. on a
notorious charlatan Of this city. We could hardl V
believe it while writing it, but we had been so
directly informed that we could not with reason
doubt. But since then, having seen the catalogue
of graduates, &c, of this renowned University,
we are pleased to find it sulied by no dishonor.
1t was reserved for the comparatively new insti-
| tution-the Philadelphia Medical Colege-to
confer this honorary degree. We find the name
OF the charlatan conspicuous in its list of gradu-
ates, with the honorable A. E. appended. 1t is
Impossible to imagine any motive for even this
neophyte college to thus degrade its seal" etc,
etc.


We're it not that thc integrity and character of
the honorable Institution from which received
my Diploma is called in question: and aspersed


in the above extract would have even passed
that over in silence, knowing as do, and as the
public of California does, that the fangs Of the
reptile have already been drawn by its snguarly
quackish proppnsites. and that it is powerless to
harm where its true character is known.
But TO obviate all chance of injury to the
reputation OF the Honorable Faculty of the Phil
adelphia College, | make the following plain and
unvarnshed statements:


am regular graduate of the University Of
Pesth, IN Hungary; subsequently acknowledged
and ndorscd by the Josephenian Institute at vi
| enna. Soon after, Hungary my native land,
tried 10 throw off the Austrian yoke and, imprl-
! led by my love of country and of liberty, | took
| up arms in her defence, and was appointed to n
! 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 depri-
we'd by that exile of all titles and privileges had
! formerly enjoyed in that country or in Austria
In the hurry Of my flight I saved life only, and
being an exile, could never gain obtain the res
! titution or renewal of my Diploma. | had, how
ever preserved the skill for which that Diploma
| had been awarded, and which, I am most proud
| to say, the people of California have notably
indorsed since my residence in their midst For
tunately, had friends in Philadelphia and other
Atlantic cities, who, like myself, were exiles:
and, being personally cognizant of the truth OF
the above statements, transmitted the requisite
vouchers TO them, when they severally made
oath to the facts, before the Honorable Faculty
Of the Philadelphia College, and their own ire
proachable characters and steadfast integrity
being undoubted the Honorable Faculty immc-
diately accorded me the Diploma now in my
possession.


And now, who are my traducers? What is their
standing when compared to the Honorable Board
of scientific gentlemen whom they so wantonly
and malicionsly assal in order to vent their abuse
upon me? II is notorious that the conductors of
the "Pachc Medical and Surgical Journal" have
not been able to maintain themselves by the
practice of the Medical Profession but have fire.
qncntly been compelled to have recourse to other
employments Whether their misfortune in this
respect proceeds from want of Skill waAt of
energy and industry, or plentiful lack of brains,
it is not for to say; but the people of Calfor-
MIA, with whom they claim to have resided for
several years, have pronounced their verdict in
the premises by not enirusting 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 envious
malice that one of the editors of the Medical and
Surgical Journal was exceedingly anxious to be-
come my partner, prior TO my. reception of n
Diploma from the Philadelp phia Medical College;
and yet he hesitates not to assail me now, even
after that document has been accorded to me,
together with the honorary title of 4. f.


have now been before the public of California
five years, and the thousands OF gratifying ac-
acknowledgements in my possession, from people of
the first standing and intelligence, would of
themselves be n sufficient refutation from the
slanderous inuendocs of a journal which is not
recognized by the Medical Profession generally,
and which everybody knows to be little better
than an advertising medium for men who skul
under its assumed title of " Surgical and Medical
to lay their wares before the public, and at the
same time are garrulous and vindiclive to all
who employ the regularly acknowledged Medium
of intercourse with the public, l. Q: the Public
Press. With these remarks | leave the subject
for the consideration of the liberal and eni ght-
ened people.


L. j. CZAPKAY, NJ D.,


late Chief Surgeon of the Hungarian Army, and
Honorary member of the Philadelphia College