William Osler-the one about “the desire to take medicine” separating man from his fellow creatures-which comes from a published speech he gave in 1894 but is instead cited to a 1957 article in the Boston Globe.) It was then entered into testimony in 1962 at the U.S. (It appears on page 652, uncited, but Seldes was not very demanding of primary sources. But it became widely popularized in 1960, when a version appeared in The Great Quotations, a wildly successful 893-page American reference book by George Seldes. It first appeared in a speech delivered at the Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago, and was then embellished in several regional medical journals between 19.
It is usually attributed to the popular but largely un-fact-checked AZQuotes site.īut the bogus quote has actually been published, in one form or another, since 1899. BorrowDirect+ (search & browse partner libraries)īenjamin Rush NEVER wrote or suggested that the Constitution “should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom".Ī bogus quote attributed to him that ends with that line-invoking the fear that “medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship” and claiming laws that “restrict the art of healing to one class of men” were “un-American”-is shared endlessly on social media.Lippincott Library of the Wharton School.Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.
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