 | 1825 - 418 pages
...ahout this period, we have the following bumiliating description by our 'ingenious' historian, Smith. " Few physicians amongst us are eminent for their skill....practice and profitable subsistence. This is the less to.be wondered' at, as the profession is under no kind of regulation. Loud as the call is, to our shame... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - 1845 - 788 pages
...could not have been very elevated, and quackery must have flourished in great perfection. Smith says, " few physicians amongst us are eminent for their skill....is the less to be wondered at, as the profession is nnder no kind of regulation." (History of New York, by William Smith, AM p. 326.) That in a statu of... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1853 - 698 pages
...pretenders have recommended themselves to a full practice and profitable subsistence. This," he adds, "is the less to be wondered at, as the profession...under no kind of regulation. Loud as the call is, they have no law to protect the lives of the king's subjects. Any man at his pleasure sets up for a... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1869 - 868 pages
...natural Tempers than ' the People of England ; and hence Instances ' of Suicide are here very uncommon. Few ' Physicians amongst us are eminent for their...Egypt ; ' and too many have recommended themselves to 1 a full Practice and profitable Subsistence. This ' is less to be wondered at, as the Profession is... | |
 | Joseph Carson - 1869 - 266 pages
...Smith, who wrote in 1758, when speaking of the profession of New York, says: "A few physicians among us are eminent for their skill. Quacks abound like locusts in Egypt, and too many have been recommended to a full practice and profitable subsistence; this is less to be wondered at, as... | |
 | 1869 - 468 pages
...natural Tempers than ' the People of England ; and hence Instances 1 of Suicide are here very uncommon. Few ' Physicians amongst us are eminent for their 'Skill. Quacks abound like Locusts in Egypt; 1 and too many have recommended themselves to ' a full Practice and profitable Subsistence. This '... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pages
...thought and language, are visible in all our proceedings, public and private. 1O, THE EARLY PHYSICIANS. THE history of our diseases belongs to a profession...themselves to a full practice and profitable subsistence. Loud as the call is, to our shame be it remembered, we have no law to protect the lives of the king's... | |
 | Joseph Meredith Toner - 1874 - 128 pages
...may support a minister and a schoolmaster; that thus the service of God i Few physicians amongst na are eminent for their skill. Quacks abound like locusts...and too many have recommended themselves to a full and profitable practice and subsistence. This is the less to be wondered at, as the profession is under... | |
 | 1869 - 448 pages
...natural Tempers than ' the People of England ; and hence Instances ' of Suicide are here very uncommon. Few ' Physicians amongst us are eminent for their...full Practice and profitable Subsistence. This ' is less to be wondered at, as the Profession is ' under no kind of Regulation." Admitting this to be a... | |
 | State Medical Society of Wisconsin - 1879 - 706 pages
...early date is evident from the language of Smith, in his History of New York: " Few pli3rsieians among us are eminent for their skill; quacks abound like...and too many have recommended themselves to a full and profitable practice and subsistence. This is the less to be wondered at, as the profession is under... | |
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Few physicians amongst us are eminent for their skill. Quacks abound like locusts in Egypt, and too many have recommended themselves to a full practice and profitable subsistence. This is the less to be wondered at, as the profession is under no kind... 
