Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-25
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VVHE PRIVATE MEDICAL PRO.
Il FESSION.
CFrom the Boston Daily News.

quite desirable that should define our position
before the public reference to what is generally known
as the private medical profession The strides which
reporter has taken toward disclosing the criminal side
the private" practice ought to receive the unqualified
approval of all good citizens if not bring the cuprt to
the bar of justice as it undoubtedly will in
But must not be supposed that these articles are
attack upon the private" practice as a whole but
rather upon those who by ignorance and crime persist
in disgracing it. The who seeks to treat and
any private disorder is not necessarily criminal and
he too often regarded by the puritanca such All
diseases must be cured the unfortunate posssor OF
the maady would suffer in consequence and perhaps
extend its cOntagon to the veins of pure and healthy
bodies Our duty, then, in relation to this matter is
twofold; first, to single out, expose and denbunce all
who seek to drag the profession into crime and drepue
and secondly to tell the unfortunate who will we regret
to say exist long sin the earh where their
troubles may receive honest and competent treatment
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 he with scientific opinion the fact
exists, and public sentiment may, suppose, he held
responsible.
Holding then that it was duty to find, if possible
some reliable medical Office where the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by a competent medical man
who sails under fictitious name, and who is response
bic for his acts, reporter made examination of
some twenty Of the principal offices yesterday morning.
but found with single exception place that seemed
TO guarantee any reliability or medical skill There was
In almost every instance some fraud or
with the Office Either the "doctor" only hotel
porter with some deceased physicians name OF a dry
goods clerk with similar fictitious title 1t seemed for
some time that there not reliable medical nsti-
tute in the city
Atlast our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Insti-
tute where he found the DOCTOR Frederick Morrill, vii!
ling, indeed DESTROYS, to have his mode of treatment
thoroughly investigated. This seemed vastly different
from the other doctors he had called They all pro-
tested against attempt at investigations and in many
instances ordered Inn to leave the office Not So how
ever with DR.. Morrill, lie courted the most thorough
scrutiny This reporter proceeded to make in com
pany with disnterested citizen, and Alternating every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there
place where all classes of complaints and diseases
treated by upright and honest physician; that
place is the Morrill, Medical Institute" where Dr.
Morrill,, an old and competent doctor graduate of the
Medical University at Philadelphia is constantly in at
tendance 1t is singular fact that our reporter has
heard no tangible stories against the doctor although
every quack in the city is bitterly opposed to him. prob
ably account of his Unprecedented success in all his
medical undertakings.
Dr. Morrill, does not treat by the job as "quack
doctors do If person should ask him how much he
would charge to cure certain disease he will answer
THAT depends upon the stage and nature of the com
plant" He has tabular list of prices with ten OF
twenty dollars set opposite certain private diseases
much after the style OF hotel bill of fare but treats all
complaints on the same principle of a regular family
physician. which he justly claims to be- We are conf
dent that Dr. Morrill, runs honest business where any
man may trust his without fear of imposition or
where any lady will receive competent treatment for all
her complaints for reasonable compensation. No
shadow OF illegtimate unlawful treatment ever cloud
ed the Doctors reputation and persons desiring such
need not apply to him. DIR. Morrill, has had long and
successful experience in his peculiar line of treatment
which includes nearly all complaints to which flesh is
heir His remedies very consistent and his cures arc
his best recommendation. His oices at No As Howard
st. See his Medical Adviser; price 81. ONCE, IA
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