CHAPTER XXIV.
PROFESSIONAL DISCORD.
The old lady described by Addison, as being required to render up her final account to Rhadamanthus, declared that she "had been so taken up with publishing the faults of others that she had no time to consider her own." Now in order to avoid the reproach of such a condition, it may be well for physicians, individually and collectively, to keep a watchful eye over their own conduct. We are publishing no secret, nor making any extraordinary confession, when we acknowledge that there are many names on the lists of regular physicians which should never have appeared there; names of men not without talents or merits, but men who might have graced some other profession or occupation, and shone with lustre in some other sphere, yet are illy adapted to the profession of medicine. It is not every man who would make a brave soldier, or
