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Excerpt from The New Jersey Medical Reporter, and Transactions of the New Jersey Medical Society, 1852, Vol. 5 Another serious cause of our losing public esteem is our wil lingness to take cases which have been previously under the treatment of quacks. The evil of this is inestimable. Not only does the physician almost inevitably suffer the disgrace in case of a fatal termination, but, if his skill surmounts all the injury which may have been done, the quack boldly asserts, and is generally believed, that the patient was recovering when the case was taken from him. We should abstain from every appearance of evil. In no respect should we acknowledge even tacitly any nearer professional affinity with a quack than with one engaged in the most disgusting of human employments. One who deliberately makes money from the gullibility of mankind, who trades in the blood of his fellow creatures, who destroys life either actually or by preventing the use of means necessary to save it, is worse than the combination of blackleg, thief, and murderer. And not only is he worse, but so are all those who. 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.