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unwary. The title of a fraudulent institution now commanding 
so considerable a degree of public attention was probably adopted 
with a deliberate purpose of deception. Like colorable imitation 
of trade marks and copyrights, it is a manifest counterfeit. The 
University of Pennsylvania is located in Philadelphia, and it an¬ 
nually graduates a large number of physicians. The ‘Philadel¬ 
phia University of Medicine’ might easily pass for it at a dis¬ 
tance from the city, and a degree given by this miserable make- 
believe concern might readily be mistaken for the imprimatur of 
what is recognized as one of the foremost of the great medical 
schools of the United States. Evidently the main object of this 
swindle, apart from the pecuniary purpose it subserves to those 
who run it, is to supply credentials to intending quacks, by which 
these villainous cheats may be helped to impose upon the public. 
The wickedness of such a fraud it is not needful to enlarge upon. 
The injury done to properly instructed and reputable practitioners 
of the healing art aud the disgrace brought upon the fair fame of 
this city by its existence here are sufficiently bad results; but 
worse than these is the sending forth to work havoc upon the 
community at large of licensed murderers, whose pills and pow¬ 
ders are potent only to kill such patients as may fall into their 
hands. A sad feature of this discreditable business is the connec¬ 
tion with it of several ministers of the Gospel. Some of these 
perhaps amenable rather to the charge of thoughtlessness and in¬ 
discretion than of deliberate and conscious criminality. The fa¬ 
cility with which names of the highest respectability are obtained 
as ‘ trustees,’ ‘ visitors,’ &c., of unworthy institutions and enter¬ 
prises of a questionable character has become a great abuse. It 
would be a point gained if the easy-going gentlemen who lend 
their credit to these improper uses could be made to realize their 
responsibility, and an occasional recoil upon them of their good- 
natured folly is not altogether to be regretted. The ecclesiastical 
authority to which the clergymen alluded to are answerable has 
already taken steps towards an investigation of their connection 
with the counterfeit ‘ degree’ mill. There is no reason to suspect 
that there will be any whitewashing in the case. Such of the 
persons implicated as are found to have a guilty knowledge of the 
