Probably in no region of the world does there exist a more attractive field for medical pretenders, than the thickly settled foreign settlements of the city of New York. Here they may thrive and fatten, as they ply their nefarious trade, doubtless slyly laughing the while, on account of the simplicity of their helpless victims. The poor hungry wretch who steals a loaf of bread is held legally accountable for the theft, and if caught, he is punished therefor. The unscrupulous quack, by reason of his shrewdness, goes scot-free, though a vastly greater villain. To quote from a recent editorial in the "New York Times": "A course in medicine and surgery is expensive, and takes a lot of time, while a varied assortment of pseudo-religious and pseudo-philosophic phrases can be learned in a few days by any man or woman with a disinclination for honest work." A recent English writer argued that it were folly to attempt the suppression of quackery by statute; for, says he, the freeborn Anglo-Saxon considers that he has the inalienable right of going to the Devil in his own way. And he resents anything like dictation in the sphere of medicine, as much as in religion. FOOTNOTES: [223:1] Thieves' slang for cheating. [223:2] One who used loaded dice in gambling. [223:3] _Beware of Pick-Purses, or a Caveat for Sick Folkes to take heede of unlearned Physitions and unskilfull Chyrurgians._ By F. H., Doctor in Physick. Imprinted at London, 1605. [225:1] _The Modern Quack or Medicinal Impostor._ London. Printed for Thomas Warner, at the Black Boy, in Pater Noster Row, 1724. [225:2] _Cautions and Advice to the Public respecting some Abuses in Medicine, through the Malpractices of Quacks or Pretenders_, by William Jackson. London. [No date.] [226:1] P. Coltheart, Surgeon, London, 1727. [227:1] Joh. Hermann Baas, _History of Medicine_, p. 771. [227:2] _Social England_, vol. v. p. 66. [231:1] A. T. Schofield, M.D., _The Unconscious Mind_, pp. 334-5. [231:2] Dr. John Duncan Quackenbos, _Hypnotic Therapeutics_, p. 88. [232:1] John D. Jackson, M.D., _The Black Arts in Medicine_. [236:1] Dr. Austin Flint, in the _North American Review_, October, 1889. ADDENDA COPY OF CERTIFICATE