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Excerpt from The Duties of Physicians in Relation to Popular Medical Delusions: An Address Delivered Before the Covington and Newport Medical Society, June 14, 1859
It is, again, the duty of the physician, and especially of med ical someties, to instruct the public upon all matters that may promote the general health; to warn the community against all errors in hygienics that may bring with them, as a consequence, endemic or epidemic diseases to suggest such facts bearing upon the prevention of disease, and the preservation of health, as may be within the comprehension of uninstructed minds, and can be intelligently applied by the people to their own wants and neces sities. Immense public benefits may be conferred by the profes sion in this way and I am happy to. Think that, in this respect, medical men have, in general; fully come up to their obligations. It is true we can boast of but one Jenner but if it were possible to sum up the useful facts contributed by the multitude of the less distinguished and less fortunate, the mass would astonish the world, and every man capable of feeling gratitude for inestimable benefits would acknowledge that he owed the' medical profession more than the world's wealth could repay. And I might go on reciting to you duty upon duty that we owe, and, I trust, discharge to our fellow -men, until your patience should be exhausted, and you would desile me to have done with the thrice told tale; but there is one duty of paramount importance that I can not pass over, and one, too, that I fear we do not discharge as we should I mean the duty of warning the public, in season and out of season, against that many-headed monster - Modern Quackery.
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