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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    hesitate. As an instance of this kind, we have seldom, if ever, known a greater absurdity, or an error of position more manifest, or one involving a more entire abandonment of the established laws of evidence, than the effort to pass a palpa- ble misrepresentation as deserving more confidence and worthy of more respect than the candid and truthful statement of such men as the editors of the Boston Medical and Surgical Jour- nal, of the Ohio Medical Journalrof the Charleston Medical Journal and Review, and the New Jersey Medical Reporter. But, when it is shown, most conclusively, as it will be in a fu- ture number, that the editors are fully supported in their state- ments, by a multitude of other witnesses, of a high order, &iis circumstance will show the greater absurdity of the effort to their discredit, and make it difficult to find its parallel, unless we find it in the conduct of Paracelsus. That such an absurdity as the one above mentioned, should be perpetrated by a man of sense, is a matter of wonder and surprise ; and these feelings, with us, have been mingled with regret, because the gentle- man involved in the matter has often charmed us with his eloquence, and feasted us upon his intellectual treasures. If great men are not always wise, according to the proverb, it is strange they should be so unwise, as to force, even upon their friends, the disagreeable duty of resisting their invasion of great and important principles, which involve all that is sa- cred, and all that is dear, this side of heaven. But, it is even possible, perhaps, for great men to put themselves to the ex- treme limits of the pale of that charity which suffers long, and is kind; which envieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. Nothing is more imperi- ously demanded than this heavenly charity, in the medical fra- ternity, at the present time ; and it may well allure us to its embrace by its noble origin, its real excellence, its exalted destiny, and its glorious reward. Its birthright is an inheri- tance of which we cannot be deprived by the fall of nations; for it is incorruptible, undefiled, and fadeth not away. We are assured that the charity which never faileth, will rise tri- umphant above the ruins of kingdoms, and the conflagration