Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1912 — "Liked to Be Gulled." [ARTICLE]

"Liked to Be Gulled."

Sir William Gull, the 'well-known London physician, was once the victim of an amusing piece of repartee on the part of a fellow practitioner. The occasion was a dinner party at which several distinguished medical men were present. The conversation happened to turn upon the subject of quackery, and Sir William Gull evpressed his conviction that a certain amount of it was essential to success in practice, adding: "It Is an example of the old saying, ’Populus vult declpt’” like to be deceived). “Quite so,” said the host; “now, can any one present give an English equivalent to that?" “Nothing easier," dryly remarked a well-known physician of one of the Manchester hospitals. “The public liked to be ‘gulled.’"