Page:A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America - John Morgan.djvu/28

 I doubt not that every practitioner here of education, experience and integrity, has pursued the plan which, in his opinion, was best suited to the place and people. But as circumstances alter, so does the propriety of particular established customs, which gradually give way to others better suited to those changes which happen in a course of years. May I not hope to meet with the same candour that I show to others, and be admitted to act from the same honest principles, in recommending what I think an improvement of practice, that I allow those who have pursued a plan different from mine?

there is the least appearance of being particular, or wherever I have spoken expressly of the pracitioners of this town, it has been in the most becoming manner and without the least censure, well knowing how much I myself need the indulgence of others.

"Mecum habito et novi quam sit mihi curta suppellex."

confirmation hereof, I shall adduce a few instances to which the reader may refer. Thus I have said, p. 18. "and here we may congratulate ourselves, that in this, and some of the large neighbouring towns, we have a number of skillful physicians