North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-07-14
COrresuOn deDce.

Editors Times AT tho meeting of the
North Iowa Medical Society, held in Mo-
mona in the month Of June, one j. Hicks
was expelled for gross ..violation of the
Code Of Medical Ethics. This j. Hicks,
in an article published in the McGregor
papers, complains because the minutes of
the Society do not show in what that gross
violation consisted. Hicks tells the public
that he was expelled for advertising. But
as member of the Medical Society, /
wish to remove the false impression which
Hicks article was intended to leave on the
public mind. Hicks had perfect right
to inform the public that he had returned
to resume his practice, and that he solici>
ted the patronage of his former patrons,
and consideration by the public gener-
ally. The Code of Ethics could find no
fault with this. 1t was Hicks undoubted
right. He was not expelled for doing
this. now propose to crafty him by
letting the public know why he was ex-
PEELED. He had got up and distributed
hand bills containing statements which
the Medical Society believed to be grossly
false. BY his hand bills, he has tried to
perpetrate an enormous fraud and by
this fraud, he W ishes to secure larger
practice. Here is detachable morsel
from one of his bills.
IN. B. DR.. Hicks proficiency in class
ical, general and professional SUBJECTS is
surpassed by only few who have obtain
ed their education on this continent
Had the above statement been true
even then he, a a member of the profes
sion, has no right to make it. But the
statement is false. The very hand bill
itself gives the lie to it.. Several errors O
construction occur in the hand bill which
an ordinary English scholar would no
make. Does he seem to know the mean
ing of 'Dispensatory?'
''Dr. Hicks has an appropriate selection
| of over 200 Medicines, some of which are
| Of recent discoveries, and are found tc
supercede in efficiency and mildness o.
operation and powerful medicines, which
from time past have been used.'
Here again see the quack. The syntax
too, is a marvel for man boasting of hi.
classical attainments.
In Hicks article to your paper, he
states that ill-usags prevented him from
attending the meeting of the Medical So
ciety. but the excuse won't work. IL,
made no such excuse when notified to APP
pear before the board of Censors. Thel
he plead he was "indisposed." But h
had been riding out that day, looking a
fresh as any classical man in the world
The Society could do no less than expe
him. When urged to come before tn
; board of Medical Censors and retraot o
apologize, he would do neither, but just
fed his position by telling the Secretar
that the best Physicians of Toronto di
the same thing.
Hicks is the only classically educate
man l know of, who when in writing
prescription, will write Noun in Lati
) and qualify it BY an Adjective in English
In most of all his written prescription
sent to the Drugstore to be filled, whe
sugar is an ingredient, he spells it S HUI
ar, and sometimes S-hu-ger. Buchu b
sometimes spells B-u-k-u, and sometime
, B-u-c-u.
He is the only learned man know o
i. who does this. How foolish for so learne
5 a man to spend four months at the I'm
$ versity of Iowa. think however a Iii
e tie more attention to Orthodoxy, Synta
and English Grammar might do him goo'
The other members of the Medical Soc
ETY. make no pretentons to scholarship
don't even pretend to understand ii
rules of Grammar, but | can spell .Sugl
and Buchu, and when see such displa,
Z. of quackery, l note them, too. l ha,
not said enough to show how false al
J. Hicks statements in regard to his lear
y ing, and would like we'll to follow hi
further, but will close by telling him tn
if such hand bills as his are tolerated
= and about Toronto, and if the poop
where he has lived are green enough
: believe in such silly statements, he won
3 do well to 20 back there and spread sue
g bills among the Canadians; for stu id
1 they may be in Canada, people are not 6
fools in the United States.
One of the Members of the Medic
q cal Society. S.