Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-09-05
THE MEDICAL SPEClAl.iST"-pR. HuHIER9 Me-
DUN OF HuMBUGGlSG THE PEOPLE!
They reign, they rule with g'rtlo s"ay'
Tncy livu 10 triumph, yet iIcay.

To he Editors IF the Enqn"cf:
RIcHMOSD, September | 1906.
NV Intention WAS attracted by an Article headed
"Thr Medical Specialist" which appeared To-Day III
ynur locnl column, under the caption ot 'CHy ""a
!Stqk' .NcrS."
am not in the habit Of noticing YR0rf dd'cF1'Sc'
ncnts which appear through our secular ani rrI'-
rious papers; but when such notices rs the foregoing
appear in the eiitori0l column %! our most i"hIentit,i
uap.rs, | think their faIseh00ds should be c"rrec'c"'
and the public should be warned against such ms
guided statements. There is probably no one iiiui'
vidual who is doing 80 much mischief at this illIlc. 10
distruy tn. health and lives of our people ~ ms
same DR.. Robert Hunter. And, | AIN sure, 10 one Is
mure unscrupulousi in his efforts to deceive the pup
liz.
the following extract iron; al editorial IN the New
York Mcdical. Gazette for September, lH'h Inns u
The poiut from which all these quack tHh1iq'oA IN
positions eInannte. Hence DR.. Reese. the editor 'l
the Gazette, has the best opportunity OF knowing 'hc
truth of what he atiirms. After publishing an ex'
tract similar to the extract which appeared III your
Enquirer of to-day, DIR. Reese, then adds:
1--WE pronounce the above paragraph 10 DC uas.'y
and UNANIMOUSLY false, and defy n contradiction. ar
Clayton, of the Commercial Advertiser, has been our
own patient for nauy years, md has never hai my
pulmonary disease, nor was he ever treated ny nun
ter at all and yet his name Is thus thrust before 'he
public as one of the remarkable cures by inhalation
And this USDLusHISG LIE IS repub!isled MI over '"'
land for money, by the presses when Iluu'ei "'
bribed, not merely as an Advertisement, but win ed''
torial endorsements!
W say thus much from personal knowledge OF
| Mr.. Clayton, the first naned, who Is moreover inc
printer of this Journal. As 10 Mr.. Jones, at he lim,s
whose asthma may have been 'brnetiit,i' ana 'r'
Bennett, OF the Herald. also 'bem' fitted Tor l'rn'cii'-
tia, neither OF whom ever had any disease Hs7,hI!a
ting to consumption, although n":h are pu''l'-hr"
among remarkable cures by Hunter, and nam re-
maiH silent, It does not become IA tn say more '"hu
that everybody who knows either OF IN" s"i,'Ie'he"
before and since thcy have been cured by liuhtcF'
! only laugh al the transparent hunbuS.
W have already published y number ni MS ruFts
by inhalniiOn,' in recording their deaths' anu We
might publish mamy more, whose disease mas peen
rendered fatal by inhalation. Dr.. Hall, oi HE Jour
nal of Health, calls upon Hunter TO punI's!' Tue
names of some of the remarkable cures OF con
sumption he il ever claiming. When he answer. th's
call, u bill of Hunters mortality will appear: Zap,
PLY. the irnposture is nearly ertinGulshed III New
York, and when his lying is fully exposed, there WIN
be an end Of his form of q~unckery. For when MS
S25 fees come few and fnr between. be will cense 10
bleed freely ~ the press, and they will MI become
dumb dogs. His money freely poured out at "a d'i
lar a line has given the only impulse which iniiain
ton has received through that channel But ,ih''
goose has ceased to lay golden eggs u