Excerpt from An Address Before the Medical Society of North Carolina: At Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851 However, I shall not discuss here the legal privileges, nor the cherished errors Of these Charlatans, who are so well versed in the f'gospel of enlightened selfishness as to deny the importance of every consideration, the value of which they cannot estimate in dol lars and cents. Nothing is to be made by an argument with or a bout them. That sort of gratuitous advertisement would only en able them the more readily to climb up into public View, confident, in their own minds, that the application of the Old adage, who shall decide when Doctors disagree, could not result to their dis advantage. It will not be expected of me, therefore, to occupy your time with any further allusion to them particularly, as I de sire to make a few remarks, before I pass on to the consideration of the proper subject of this essay, in defence of the profession of medicine, the peculiar advantages we possess for prosecuting the study of it successfully, and in praise of those noble spirits who bring to the practice of their art, learning, humanity, discretion and integrity, the four cardinal virtues of a really deserving physician. 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.