Dental Quackery: An Address Before the American Dental Convention at Niagara Falls, August 5 1859 (Classic Reprint)

The prevalence of quackery in all departments of medical science, its rapid growth under the new systems evolved during the present century, and its novel and alarming ramifications in that branch of practice whose professors we are, affords a theme quite extensive enough for the present paper, and one that yields, even to the most ordinary observer, too many illustrations to present any difficulty except that of selection. It cannot be denied that it is the duty of all regular practitioners, however onerous, unpleasant, or, in a pecuniary sense, unprofitable, that duty may appear to be, to wage incessant war against irregularism, or quackery. Every honorable man, in whatever station of life, should leave his testimony against dishonesty, and this is, in a peculiar sense, the duty of those to whom society entrusts its health and happiness. It is a portion, and no small portion, of the pledge tacitly made by the youthful physician, surgeon or dentist, when he receives at the hands of the faculty a diploma of skill and learning, that he will discountenance, and as far as in him lies, put down all who would pursue his road without the necessary qualifications.
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