Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1842, Vol. 26
Now, my dear Sir, permit me to say I have often pitied you when I have imagined you sitting surrounded by piles of illegible manuscripts pressing for insertion, in grave and solemn counsel with yourself whether to print the dull thing in hand and thus encourage nascent genius, let the doctor's ideas shoot and fill up two 01° three pages of the never-to-be-postponed weekly; while, at the same time, you run the risk of letting down the character of, our new-england Medical and Surgical Hebdomadal, of endorsing yourself a numbskull and a dolt, and, finally, of having some dozen of your more astute readers turn up their noses in a paroxysm of hypercriticism, and loading your goodly sized, fair-faced, handsome missal with the taunting epithets of insipid, ?at, intolerable, wishy-washy, jejune, and so on, and so on.
Don't conclude I have left out of the account the possibility of your losing a subscriber if you refuse to print it. Not at all. But, be not of fended if I say that if any of your contributors, after the unvarying and stereotyped indulgence and courtesy you have many years manifested in meeting the perplexities of conducting the only medical journal that has. Existed in the Northern States, should abandon you for not giving him ia sertion, he must have either an empty head or a perverse heart.
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