(foirapoiuteitce. A PROTEST. To the
Editor,
"
Indian Medical Gazette."
Sik.?I feel impelled, in ray
own name and in that of many other members of our service and profession, to send the following protest. It has always been and still is, I am happy to believe, entirely contrary to the spirit which should act'iate the members of the great medical profession, to advertise oneself or one's professional friends or associates in any manner whatsoever, either directly or indirectly. In the case which I refer to it is almost impossible to take up certain newspapers or medical magazines " without finding some reference to a" great discovery by " a great honour a particular medical officer or to his " disthe reference is to Sometimes a tinguished colleagues." scientific or professional matter ; at other times to some energy and knowledge publication, skill at a game?the " with which an epidemic has been stamped out," etc , etc. Whatever the reference may be and whatever the means by which the publicity has been obtained, the result is the same, rithe notoriety attachable to Beecham's pills or Clark's blood mixture I protest also against the fulsome adulation indulged in by one individual, the lofty praise by the other.
If the ''discoveries" are really of any truth or value, time will surely bring the discoverer the notoriety wished for. Pure genius is always modest. Let us hope that the above will act as a sufficient deterrent to such practices in the future, and enable those concerned to realise, however faintly, the disgust excited in the minds of all those who have the true welfare and dignity of the profession at
heart.
TTTlM n A DT A TXT SURGEON-CAPTAIN. OTTtin
Editor,
"
Indian Medical Gazette."
Sik.?I feel impelled, in ray
own name and in that of many other members of our service and profession, to send the following protest. It has always been and still is, I am happy to believe, entirely contrary to the spirit which should act'iate the members of the great medical profession, to advertise oneself or one's professional friends or associates in any manner whatsoever, either directly or indirectly. In the case which I refer to it is almost impossible to take up certain newspapers or medical magazines " without finding some reference to a" great discovery by " a great honour a particular medical officer or to his " disthe reference is to Sometimes a tinguished colleagues." scientific or professional matter ; at other times to some energy and knowledge publication, skill at a game?the " with which an epidemic has been stamped out," etc , etc. Whatever the reference may be and whatever the means by which the publicity has been obtained, the result is the same, rithe notoriety attachable to Beecham's pills or Clark's blood mixture I protest also against the fulsome adulation indulged in by one individual, the lofty praise by the other.
If the ''discoveries" are really of any truth or value, time will surely bring the discoverer the notoriety wished for. Pure genius is always modest. Let us hope that the above will act as a sufficient deterrent to such practices in the future, and enable those concerned to realise, however faintly, the disgust excited in the minds of all those who have the true welfare and dignity of the profession at
heart.
TTTlM n A DT A TXT SURGEON-CAPTAIN. OTTtin
