 | Medicine - 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... | |
 | William Smith - New York (State) - 1829 - 362 pages
...different kinds and various species. Gentlemen of estates rarely reside in the country, and hence few 01 no experiments have yet been made in agriculture. The...profession is under no kind of regulation. Loud as the call i?, to our shame be it remembered, we have no law to protect the lives of the king's subjects from... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 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 - New York (State) - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | History - 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 - American literature - 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... | |
 | United States - 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... | |
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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... 
