This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...is preferable for doctors on the whole, because the money is lost sooner. This tendency to invest at a distance is due to a peculiar human trait which is crystallized in the expression, "the distant hills are always green." One reason why physicians, teachers, and people of moderate income generally are led into making ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...is preferable for doctors on the whole, because the money is lost sooner. This tendency to invest at a distance is due to a peculiar human trait which is crystallized in the expression, "the distant hills are always green." One reason why physicians, teachers, and people of moderate income generally are led into making bad investment is because rogues are often shrewd enough to allow them to pay on the instalment plan, while secure investments are not presented in that way. It is much the same way when responsible business men fall into the hands of charlatan doctors. Charlatans are shrewd enough to present their claims in a way which does not belong to the method of honorable physicians. Some of the most responsible doctors will always be in the hands of financial fakirs, and some of the most responsible business men will always be in the hands of medical fakirs. The reason for the worldly success of a narrow-diameter charlatan who strongly promulgates one idea coming from a panacea mind, depends upon a public which possesses in large part the panacea mind also. One small shot will drop and fit into a series of a thousand small holes over which a large round idea would roll until it came to a mind of sufficient calibre to halt and hold it. The public is habitually looking for some simple remedy for its ills, and someone always proclaims loudly that he has that simple remedy--therefore he is accepted by a public which is assured that he has what it is looking for. Another reason why people flock to medical charlatans of various kinds is because they are seeking relief that is not given them by regular physicians. Is it the fault of the people that millions of hard earned dollars are annually expended for patent medicines? Not at all. People are se...
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