The Idolatry of Science 



In no branch of Science is this more con- 

 spicuous than in that of medicine. The less 

 a medical professor can prove the more will 

 he assert. He has no patience with logic, 

 and no respect for the laws of evidence. 

 He will not argue or listen to argument, he 

 brings forward no reasonable evidence, and 

 will not attend to reasonable evidence 

 brought before him by others. He is a man 

 of Science, he peddles in a laboratory, he 

 asserts, and when he speaks let no dog bark ! 

 The priceless principle of the freedom of the 

 person, for which through long centuries the 

 English race has struggled and died, he 

 waves aside with his aseptic squirts and 

 serum syringes, and claims the right to inject 

 his nostrums into our bodies with or without 

 our consent, and upon the prone trunks of 

 the helpless hospital patients who refuse their 

 consent he recommends injection "by 

 stealth." 



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