Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — The Medical Practitioner and the Charlatan. [ARTICLE]

The Medical Practitioner and the Charlatan.

Do not draw a wrong inference from the frank statement of the difficulties which beset the medical practitioner. Think, rather, if truth is so hard of attainment, how precious are the results which the consent of the wisest and most experienced among the healers of men agrees in accepting. Think what folly it is to cast them aside in favor of palpable impositions stolen frdm the records of forgotten charlatanism, or of fantastic speculations spun from the squinting brains of theorists as wild as tho Egyptian astronomer.— Oliver Wendell Holmes.