Show A strange case EDITOR JOURNAL JOURNAL terra firme the healing art par excellence is claimed by theological chronology the most ancient profession on eai eaith th since the first man eat the in digestible dig estable apple and is backed by all materialistic anthropologists anthropologist ts who assign dates to the profession before the birth of adam we do not wish to be hypocritical but this looks like a libyer bletch of measurement ur it is indeed a phenomenal wonder that the word truth holds a standing in the classic vocabulary of this supremely artificial age for the h word ord truth is the nati to c conventional on v ent ional society I 1 ani am metaphorically cognizant w with ith the defunct word truth in a n medical trial in the land of nod where a man was tried and condemned for healing 0 mortals of the chronic ironic cl disease of clis dishonest honesty in the trial the plaintiff was as INI medica edica prosecuting al lorney medical power jury medical medica friends judge black death the evidence for tile the plaintiff being called testified my aly name is wis was present on the night on the arrest saw the prisoner restore men to health who were smitten with the epidemic of ol 01 poverty the next witness being called stated my my name is scrofula I 1 earn my daily pabulum swearing for the learned M Ds saw the defendant heal a man of tile the leporsky of dishonesty without a permit from the medical judge the next witness stated 1 I am a medical student I 1 know the defendant to be an avatar in alchemical science and a dangerous foe to our medical fraternity judge did the prisoner at the bar by doing 13 good to mortals which is evil t to 0 our profession trans transgress Wess our law and merit punishment lie ile did your ho lio he healed men for the fun of it the testimony for plaintiff being closed prosecuting Altorn arose with anity and addressed the jury anal analyzed I 1 zed the of fence received the testimony and explained the enormity of the crime the conclusion of which was that the s super sundance mun dance science of the pr prisoner honer is homicidal to the medical profession the judge said gentlemen of the he jury you must not let your judgement jud gement he be d dwarfed by the pretty su suggestion esti estion of the soul you must regard in such cases only the mortal evidence eviden cu of your learned profession fes sion you must understand I 1 am the judge of black death that brings wealth and fame faine to the medical profession in the ancient land of cain you will perceive it do does es not require mancial light to seethaa see that from physical death comes fane and fortune to the luminous avatars of maturia medica LI edica the true physician will get fat and extend his on sickness this is self evident for wo we are the brain and thinking faculty of the we ve do not say as the greeks great is diana for they were he athens but we say as christians great are the propagators of death A brief consultation ensued when the jury returned a verdict of guilty the prisoner being 0 charged cli arged with healing a man of dishonesty without a medical fee the judge then proceeded to pronounce the solemn ben sentence tence of death upon the occult prisoner oner who fur lovin loving al his fellow man was found guilty of benevolence in the first degree the judge said to plaintiff prisoner at the bar the court of healing righteousness lias has found you guilty of healing mortals contra to our law you have destroyed tho the legal mam mamikonian mamino nian emoluments of ou our legal 0 profess profession iou by your gratuitous healing INOW for these enormous crimes the court sentences you the pr prisoner louer at the bar to b be e to tortured atu r d by ba our conventi conventional daiv la until you are arc dead and may our learned greatness have physical mercy on your bour mundane soul this case is now appealed to the hermetic supreme court of idu idumea med ANTii terra inco incognita nita sept 12 1893 |