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Excerpt from Medical Sentinel The method in vogue in most courts of calling expert medical men is no credit to the legal or the medical fraternity. Whether the proposition is one that the defendant was insane when he committed the alleged crime; or that the plaintiff seeking to recover from a rich corporation is a malingerer and a hypocrite; whether the man died from poison administered by the defendant or from natural causes, there can, it is sad to say, generally be found so-called experts who will swear whichever way they are paid to swear. Such witnesses are never prominent members of the profession. But whenever such testimony is given, which is influenced by the dollars received from one side or the other, a reflection of a discreditable character is cast upon the entire profession to which such witnesses belong. The com ments of the newspapers - their jokes in their funny columns - te garding the matter do not merely reflect on the individual physicians who permit themselves to be placed in an equivocal position, but on all other physicians in the community. Physicians are human, but not more than one in a hundred will be influenced in his testimony a hair's breadth by the fact that he receives fees for his services from one side or the other. But the one in a hundred - assuming that that is a proper proportion - is willing to be influenced, and the lawyer who approaches him outlines in every particular the sort of questions he will ask, on direct examination, and indicates the sort of answers he desires in return. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.