The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . nteed to all by theliberal laws of our country, is professional tyraiMiy and meritsonly his contemptuous disregard. Nor does he display any falsemodesty in the manner of making known his skill. He main-tains that he has an undoubted right to place his claims topatronage before the public by every fair and honorable recognizes the display of goods in the merchants showwindows as no less an advertisement and in no better taste thanthe publication of a card in the newspaper. So likewise heregards the va
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . nteed to all by theliberal laws of our country, is professional tyraiMiy and meritsonly his contemptuous disregard. Nor does he display any falsemodesty in the manner of making known his skill. He main-tains that he has an undoubted right to place his claims topatronage before the public by every fair and honorable recognizes the display of goods in the merchants showwindows as no less an advertisement and in no better taste thanthe publication of a card in the newspaper. So likewise heregards the various devices by which the extremely ethical (?)physician seeks to place himself conspicuously before the public,as but so many modes of advertising, and as no more modestthan the publication of cures actually performed, or hisannouncements thi-ough the press, of his superior professionalresources for treating certain maladies. (See ^ 677.) 1903. The physician who affects a holy horror of the advertising doctor,^ liberally bestowing upon him the epithet ADVEKTISING. «47 Fig. Worlds Dispensary.—rrescription Dcpiii tinent. of (jiiack, announces/^^»»sg//* a graduate, talks learnedly, andgives notice to the public in some way that he is ready to servethem. He endeavors to impress upon the mind of the patientand family his skill, frequently exaggerates the extent of hispractice, rides furiously about when he has no professional calls,keeps up business appearances by driving several horses, or joinsintlnential societies. He may make a great display in manner,<li<ss, pretensions, writing for the newspapers, exhibiting literaryjtedanlry, and referring to the superior facilities affoi<led bysome particular school or society to which he belongs ; or byediting a medical journal, ostensibly for the advancement ofmedical science, but practically to disjylay titles or |)rofessor-ships, to publish reports which flatteringly allude to cases hehas treated, the mimbcr of capi
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