December 06
"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes
man from animals". Of one thing I must complain — that when we have gradually
emancipated ourselves from a routine administration of nauseous mixtures on
every possible occasion, and when we are able to say, without fear of dismissal,
that a little more exercise, a little less food, and a little less tobacco and
alcohol, may possibly meet the indications of the case — I say it is a just
cause for complaint that when we, the priests, have left the worship of Baal,
and have deserted the groves and high places, and have sworn allegiance to the
true god of science, that you, the people, should wander off after all manner of
idols, and delight more than ever in the hands of advertising quacks. But for a
time it must be so. This is yet the childhood of the world, and a supine
credulity is still the most charming characteristic of man. "
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