The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . ing. 1905. If a pliysician possesses knowledge that enables him toremedy diseases heretofore regardenl as incurable, what virtue ormodesty is there to hide his Jight under a bushel ? In thisfree country people think and act f(»r themselves and all have adeep concern in the subject of health. The strong popular prejudice against doct()rs who advertise isdue to the fact that, by this method, so many ignorant charla-tans are enabled to palm off their worthless services upon theignorant and credulous; but the pra
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . ing. 1905. If a pliysician possesses knowledge that enables him toremedy diseases heretofore regardenl as incurable, what virtue ormodesty is there to hide his Jight under a bushel ? In thisfree country people think and act f(»r themselves and all have adeep concern in the subject of health. The strong popular prejudice against doct()rs who advertise isdue to the fact that, by this method, so many ignorant charla-tans are enabled to palm off their worthless services upon theignorant and credulous; but the practice of such impositionshould not cause a presumption against the public announcementof real skill, for the presence of baser metal bears conclusive evi-dence that the jtnre also Whoever ])ossesses any thing which will benefit humanity,either mentally, morally, or physically, ought to inform the worldof his possession. We say ought, for it is a moral duty. Toconfine a knowledge of it to a certain nation, race, or class, is to 850 COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISEIL Fig. WorlfVs Dispensary.—One of ihe Manufacturing Chemists Rooms. endovse the ris^hts and customs of the Persian Masri. If Cliris-tianity had been confined to the Israelites, how much of the goodwhich we attribute to its promulgation would we have to sub-tract from the present result! But the gospel was to be preachedto all nations,—its ministers were to go among the people andtell them, or otherwise inform them, of the great good which hadbeen conmiitted to them. They were to tell them of the greatcure for spiritual illg. But mans ills, like his nature, are two-fold,for he also has physical ills, and it is not just as rational for thephysician to tell the people how and wliere they may find aremedy for physical disease as for th^ Christian minister to tellthem how and where they may find .-i cure for spiritual disease ?If the minister neglected to tell them, all (physicians included)would accuse \\\m
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