Error of position : being a discussion of the ultra medical policy of the American Medical Association, as advocated by medical professors, Medicus and others : showing the policy to be adverse to the great interests and institutions of society, and the peace and prosperity of the nation / by Professor Milo.

  • Milo, Professor.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Error of position : being a discussion of the ultra medical policy of the American Medical Association, as advocated by medical professors, Medicus and others : showing the policy to be adverse to the great interests and institutions of society, and the peace and prosperity of the nation / by Professor Milo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such measures, their operations demand the attention of all good citizens who would preserve the rights and liberties be- queathed us by our noble ancestors, and which were pur- chased by their blood and treasure. I cannot conceive that there is a heart so callous, or an understanding so depraved, as to attend to a discourse of this nature and not to feel the force of it. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. Departed patriots, though dead, still speak, and admonish us. Says one : Let me exhort and conjure you, never to buffer an invasion of your political constitution, however mi- nute the instance may appear, to pass by without the most determined and persevering resistance. One precedent cre- ates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures ; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy. Be assured, that the laws which protect our civil rights grow out of the constitution, and they must fall or flourish with it. This is not the cause of faction, or of party, or of any indi- vidual, but the common interest of every man in the nation. The doctrine, that it is the right and privilege of the Asso- ciation to give any orders they please, and when they please, and our duty to obey, is too strong for a lady's stomach, or even for a gentleman's, if he is a Republican, and especially one of the old style of Seventy-six. It cannot be digested, so as to promote the health of the economy, and, for our own part, we cannot even swallow it; but we see some who are trying to do it, and the Association are trying to force the operation,by the use of means like those employed by the anaconda and other powerful serpents, which take their game with a sort of a twist, in the exercise of a force something like a powerful hug, and then slobber it extensively to make the hair lay down and slip easy. But, with all the force and all the slobbering, we would just as soon try to swallow a common iron-tooth harrow. In a variety of other matters, we are called upon to engage in the amusement of those who strain at a gnat and swal- low a camel ; but the absurdity of the operation makes us