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58 - Stancell—Annual Essay—Empiricism. To say nothing of the practice of certain dailies in charging a great price for their subscription and then making one-third of their matter patent medicine advertisements, from a business standpoint. If a grocer was to make a third of his sugar sand, he would be quickly condemned; why,'then, should the press be allowed to insert such vile things as the big G advertisements and those of tansy and pennyroyal pills in the columns which all people, refined or not, are to read. The press has unlimited influence over the minds of a great class Their influence amounts, certainly, in this country, to power. Power has never yet been abused, but that it reacted and severely injured the abuser There will be a reaction at some time in this case. The practice of giving certificates as to the efficiency of these things is a field which it is difficult to clear. Many a preacher, hard up for cash or some other object, gives a certificate to these people, which they publish. Very many preachers take the mixtures and perhaps very many are benefited at the time and give the testimonials in good faith; as to those who give them for the first mentioned cause, nothing further need be said. Those who are honest and are asked to do so, should remember that patent medicines have become an evil of the greatest magnitude, against which it is the duty of every person who wishes well to society and the race to oppose the barrier of his judgment, as well as against the numerous quacks themselves, who thus ravage the purses and constitutions of the dupes of their barefaced impositions. That when they sign such an instrument they cast their own good name and character against all honest effort, true philanthropy and the cause of science. What can be said of the physician who so bemeans his art and judgment as to publish endorsements of these preparations ? It is usually found that he either has. never received a deg ree or that he graduated from some one horse medical school, where attendance upon two five months courses of so-called lectures was the principal requirement for graduation. This particular kind of doctor is rapidly being exterminated since the debut of the State examining boards except in Kentucky, where he is said to flourish still in his pristine glory. The last cause to be noticed in this paper is the uncrupulous druggist Druggists are at times unscrupulous. An ignorant person comes into, the shop. One-half of it is filled with patent articles which yield an enormous profit. The patient states his case, the druggist recommends a nostrum, which the ignorant person purchases and retires with. Sometimes this program is varied by the purchaser asking to see a doctor, when the druggist says to him that he had better tell him what his trouble is, and, after learning it, he persuades the patient to purchase a nostrum, or else prescribes for him himself. Of course it is the height of empiricism for druggists to prescribe, and honest ones will not do so except in an emergency, when a physician cannot be had. Druggists are found who excuse their prescribing and keep-
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
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Date | 1895 |
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Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1895 |
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Volume Number | 42 |
Page Number | 25 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 58 - Stancell—Annual Essay—Empiricism. To say nothing of the practice of certain dailies in charging a great price for their subscription and then making one-third of their matter patent medicine advertisements, from a business standpoint. If a grocer was to make a third of his sugar sand, he would be quickly condemned; why,'then, should the press be allowed to insert such vile things as the big G advertisements and those of tansy and pennyroyal pills in the columns which all people, refined or not, are to read. The press has unlimited influence over the minds of a great class Their influence amounts, certainly, in this country, to power. Power has never yet been abused, but that it reacted and severely injured the abuser There will be a reaction at some time in this case. The practice of giving certificates as to the efficiency of these things is a field which it is difficult to clear. Many a preacher, hard up for cash or some other object, gives a certificate to these people, which they publish. Very many preachers take the mixtures and perhaps very many are benefited at the time and give the testimonials in good faith; as to those who give them for the first mentioned cause, nothing further need be said. Those who are honest and are asked to do so, should remember that patent medicines have become an evil of the greatest magnitude, against which it is the duty of every person who wishes well to society and the race to oppose the barrier of his judgment, as well as against the numerous quacks themselves, who thus ravage the purses and constitutions of the dupes of their barefaced impositions. That when they sign such an instrument they cast their own good name and character against all honest effort, true philanthropy and the cause of science. What can be said of the physician who so bemeans his art and judgment as to publish endorsements of these preparations ? It is usually found that he either has. never received a deg ree or that he graduated from some one horse medical school, where attendance upon two five months courses of so-called lectures was the principal requirement for graduation. This particular kind of doctor is rapidly being exterminated since the debut of the State examining boards except in Kentucky, where he is said to flourish still in his pristine glory. The last cause to be noticed in this paper is the uncrupulous druggist Druggists are at times unscrupulous. An ignorant person comes into, the shop. One-half of it is filled with patent articles which yield an enormous profit. The patient states his case, the druggist recommends a nostrum, which the ignorant person purchases and retires with. Sometimes this program is varied by the purchaser asking to see a doctor, when the druggist says to him that he had better tell him what his trouble is, and, after learning it, he persuades the patient to purchase a nostrum, or else prescribes for him himself. Of course it is the height of empiricism for druggists to prescribe, and honest ones will not do so except in an emergency, when a physician cannot be had. Druggists are found who excuse their prescribing and keep- |
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