THE CALL OF THE LAND 



Great Britain. "An ocean of ale will float 

 its owner to a coronet, but the man who 

 only cures the ailing attains at the best but 

 a baronetcy." In America the greatest 

 medical and surgical practitioners do not, 

 as they certainly should, receive the social 

 esteem shown to high statesmen, ecclesias- 

 tics and financiers. 



The faults most commonly charged 

 against medical doctors are three that 

 they are quacks, that they are unfeeling, 

 and that they are the foes of faith. 



Taking the medical profession as a 

 whole, reproach at any of these points is un- 

 deserved. The fact, no doubt, is that in 

 each of the three particulars some medical 

 gentlemen are out of order, others appear 

 to be out, but are not really so, while the 

 majority, or the tendencies of the majority, 

 are beyond impeachment or complaint. 



Professing powers of magic cure, boast- 

 ing intuitive discovery of secrets whose 

 seal ages-long scientific experiment has 

 found hermetic, courting public attention 

 and professional patronage through delu- 



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