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268 through inattention to apparently small matters. Considerate persons are aware of this, and will not put full confidence in one who does not appear to bestow sufficient thought upon every subject to which his attention is properly called.

The moral and social habits of physicians are always matters of great importance. Pleasant, agreeable and courteous manners are no insignificant qualifications. All rudeness of every kind, should be studiously avoided, and every thought, word and deed should be governed by a careful circumspection. The days of professional obscenity and profanity are, or ought to be, past; such things are no more becoming in the physician than in the clergyman, and all refined communities should withhold their patronage from every vulgar or indecent practitioner. No matter about his supposed professional acquirements, if he lack the other essentials let him be discarded. The public can, if they will, reform all abuses of this kind. Every physician should be, in his address and behavior, under all circumstances, a real gentleman. It is not sufficient if he be courteous only towards his select friends