A similar defect can be pointed out in the analogy of the case of the juggler. However much he felt embarrassed by the keen eye which he was conscious was watching him, he knew that if the way in which his feats were performed was discovered, his skill would nevertheless be appreciated and admired. The physician, as you have seen, has no consolation of this kind. He knows that those who watch him have generally so little knowledge of disease, and of its treatment, that they cannot estimate with any correctness the skill with which he meets the various phases presented by disease, with its numerous and changing complications; and yet they are quite confident that they are exactly right in their judgment on such points. He is watched by ignorance, and ignorance, too, believing itself to be wise. And farther, as the clergyman, if he be one, who, instead of possessing true eloquence, is skilled in the mere tricks of oratory, would prefer an ignorant and indiscriminating audience, and fears one of an opposite character; and as a bungling juggler had rather be watched by unskilful than skilful eyes; so the ignorant and dishonorable physician is more at home, when the eyes of the multitude are fixed upon him, than when he is under the scrutiny of his medical brethren. And as many, who are incapable of being real orators, study most faithfully the tricks of oratory, and so far succeed as to deceive the superficial and the ignorant, so there is many a physician, who, instead of bestowing all his energies upon the management of disease, wastes them in learning the tricks of the charlatan, which will enable him, like the mock orator, to make a show of skill and acquire the reputation of possessing it with the multitude. This he can do with more certainty than the pretender in oratory, because he deals with subjects on which most men are profoundly ignorant, and yet think themselves to be very wise. It is for this reason, that the quackish physician, in common with the open quack, addresses all his appeals to the multitude, and brings all his arts to bear upon the one point of making such false displays as will impress upon their minds the idea that he has uncommon knowledge and skill. He therefore loves their credulous gaze, while he hates the intelligent scrutiny of his brethren. There is no one thing, in which the difference between the empirical and dishonorable physician and the high-minded and truly skilful practitioner is more strongly marked than in this.