DEVIL AMONG THE DOCTORS.
The proverb says—Two of a trade never agree. We know that two of a trade are apt to quarrel, aud that professional dislike, born of professional jealousy, betrays men, otherwise just, into disreputable courses. Our lawyers fight for clients with the same ferocious vehemence that dogs fight for a bone. Our doctors »gr«»
no better than our lawyers. What we are about to relate will show the lengths some Doctors go in the expression- of professional dislike. Doctors Pendergrast and Matthews engaged to Lecture for the Young Man’s Christian "Association. One was to enlighten us on Natural History ; the other on that curious instrument called Microscope. But alas! for philosophy. ®r. Fischer off-red his services to the Young Mfen’s Christian Association. They were accepted ; and all was so far, smooth—delightfully calm indeed as well as pleasant. Three medical men,who could unite in nothing ■ else, firmly knit in the great work of developing sciences non-medieal I What could be better ? But Satan set himself to work; for no sooner did Doctors Pendergrast and Matthews hear that Dr. Fischer was to lecture for the Young Men’s Christian Association than they refused to do so. This display of professional antagonism rather astonished the Association who could not conceive why Dr. Pendergrast should refuse to talk about the Microscope, or Dr. Mat’bews to wax communicative concerning Natural History, because Dr. Fischer would in his turn occupy the Association platform. Their conduct under the circumstances reflects credit upon the Association. They accepted the services of Dr. Fischer who delivered last Friday evening a Lecture at the Odd Fellow’s Hall on — Life in its lesser forms. His professional rivals thus rebuked will retire and keep their wrath warm by nursing it. The 'lesson read them they, would do well to learn. Doctors are wonderful people we admit; but bigotry is odious whatever form it may assume, and the wisdom of Doctors wiser than either Pendergrast or Matthews the citizens of Auckland can make shift to dispense with.
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Auckland Examiner, Volume 2, Issue 54, 24 December 1857, Page 2
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