Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-18
TVHE PRIVATE MED TCAL PRO
n FESSION.
From the Boston Daily News. ]


II is quite desirable that should define our position
before the public reference to what is generally known
as the private medical profession The strides which our
reporter has taken toward disclosing the criminal side of
the private practice ought 10 receive the unqualified
approval Of all good citizens if bring the culprits TO
the bar of justice as it undoubtedly will in some cases
But it must not be supposed hat these articles are an
attack upon the private practice as a whole but
rather upon those who by ignorance and crime persist
in disgracing it. The who treat ami cure
any private disorder is not necessarily criminal and
he is too often regarded by the purtancal as such All
diseases must be cured the unfortunate pOssessor Of
the malady would suffer in consequence and perhaps
extend its conagion to The veins Of pure and healthy
bodies. Our duty then. in relation to this NATTER is
two-fod first to single out, expose and denbunce all
who seek TO drag the profession into crime and disrepute
and secondly to tell the unfortunate who will we regret
to say exist as long sin the earth where their
troubles may receive honest and competent treatment
1t is held in the belief OF many that regular family doc
tors cannot consistently treat every contagious disease
Heads of families naturally feel adverse to having their
family physician do so, and consequence the medical
profession has become divided. However wrong or in
consistent this may be with scientific opinion the fact
exists and public sentiment may suppose he held
responsible.
Holding then, that 1t duty to find if possible
some reliable medical office where the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by a competent medical man
who sails under no fictitious name, and who response
BILE for his acts our reporter made examination Of
some twenty Of the principal offices yesterday morning.
but found with single exception place that seemed
to guarantee any reliability medical skill. There was
In almost every instance fraud swndlc connected
with the office. Either the doctor" was only hotel
porter with deceased physicians name or a dry
goods clerk with similar fictitious title. 1t seemed for
some time that there not a reliable medlcal insti-
tute In the city.
At last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Ins
tutc, where he found the doctor, Frederick Morrill, will
ling indeed DESTROYS. TO have his mode of treatment
thoroughly investigated. This seemed vastly different
from the other doctors he had called on They all pro-
tested against any attempt investigation and I'm many
instances ordered hun leave the Office Not So how
ever with Or, Morrill, lie courted the most thorough
scrutiny This our reporter proceeded make in COM
pany with dsinteested citizen and after m king every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there
one place where all case' Of complaints and diseases
are treated by an upright and honest physician; that
place Is the 'MOrrlll Medical Institute" where Dr. F.
Morrill, an old and competent doctor, graduate of the
Medical University at philadelphia Is constantly in nj
tendance. II lisa singular fact that our reporter has
heard no tangible stories against the Doctor although
every quack IN the city bitterly opposed to him. prob
any on account OF MS Unprecedented success In ali his
medical undertakings
Dr. Morrill, does not eases by the ob IA uopoot,
doctors do. II person should ask him how much he
would charge TO cure certain disease he will answer
THAT depends upon the stage and nature of tho COM
plant' lie has no tabular list Of prices with Ten or
twenty dollars set opposite certain private diseases
much after the style Of hotel bin Of fare but treats all
complaints on the same principle of regular family
physician which he Justly claims to be- We are eonG
dent that Dr. Morrill, runs an honest business where any
man may trust his case without far Of imposition, or
"here any ady VIII receive competent treatment for all
her complaints for reasonable compensation No
shadow OF ileptimate or unlawful treatment ever cloud
ca the Docors reputation, and persons desiring such
need not apply to him. Dr. Morrill, has had long and
successful experience in his pecuqr line of treatment
which lnclu'es nearly all complaints to which flesh is
heir His remedies very consistent and his cures are
his best Recommendation. His ofceis at No. As Howard
So Bee his Medical Advisers price So. ONCE. as
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