Report Of The Committee On Claims On The Petition Of John Thomson

Author : New York Legislature
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396605253
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Select Committee to Whom Was Referred the Petition of John Thomson, to the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1825 (Classic Reprint) written by New York Legislature and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee to Whom Was Referred the Petition of John Thomson, to the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1825 In the Opinion of your committee, and from their own knowledge of facts, there are to be found some very use ful citizens, who have acquired superior skill in curing particular diseases. Whether their skill and usefulness are the result of accident or research, and whether they have become such by labor and experience, is not mate rial to the question, as to the repeal or continuance of the law now in existence. Your committee, however, do not readily see the justice or expediency of the law restrain ing them from a free use of their skill, in providing for themselves a livelihood and a subsistence. For a law to say to any individual, that you shall not use the sim ple remedies which the God of Nature has so profusely scattered around him, to heal disease, is to require him to surrender the right to pursue happiness in the path in which she alone may possibly be found. If, then, a law which would lay such a prohibition upon an individual, in using means to promote his own happiness, or if you please, to cure his own diseases, and that of his family and friends, would be absurd and oppressive, it would seem that he has the same right to use it for the benefit of others. But it may be said, that to all this there can be no objection, if there is no fee or reward taken or received for the servi ces rendered. The taking the fee or reward, then, is the offence, and not the injury done to those who are so unfor tunate as to fall into the hands of quack's, steam doctors, root doctors, or empirics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.