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Excerpt from Some Remarks Upon a Publication by the Philadelphia Medical Society Concerning Swaim's Panacea
The opposition of the Faculty I had anticipated: and it has ensued, with some exceptions of remarkable candour. The success of my medicine was an invasion of their province, and should be resisted -it mortified their pride of learning, and should be discountenanced. It is, moreover, 'a' cardinal prin ciple of their sect to decry secret preparations - nor could it be expected that their reprobation would 6be confined to the medicine, and that I personally should escape censure, - for whatever abstraction there may be in their researches, it does not obtain in their controversies; But putting aside opinions, the facts stated by the Committee are scanty indeed; and some of them so insignificant as scarcely to be read with gra vity. A lady with a real or fancied rheumatism takes some bottles without avail - a gentleman has a small sore on his leg, and takes the Panacea without benefit, but is cured in a week by the regular skill of the physician: these wretched details serve only to show how much that cause lacks weight, which cannot spare from the balance even the atoms of plan sibility.
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