Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-13
Mt0ittnal.
TElHE PRIVATE MEDICAL PROS
T. FESSI0N.
from the Boston Daily News.l


It'll quite desirable that should define our position
before the public in reference to what Is generally known
as the private medical profession Tie strides which our
reporter has taken toward disclosing the criminal side OF
the private practice ought to receive the unqualified
approval Of all good citizens if NOT bring the cups to
the bar of justice, il undoubtedly will in some cases
But it must not be supposed that 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 seeks to treat ana cure
any private disorder is not necessarily Il criminal and
he is too often regarded by the puritanica as such All
diseases must he cured the unfortunate possessor Of
the malady would suffer in consequence and perlaps
extend its conagon the veins of pure and healthy
bodies. Our duty then, in relation to this matter, is
two-iud; first to single out expose and denDUnce all
who seek TO drag the profession into crime and dreputc
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 many that regular family doc
tors cannot consistently every contagious disease
Heads of families naturally feel adverse 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 held
responsible.
Holding then, that it was duty TO find, if possible
some reliable medical office where the unfortunate can
who sails under no fictitious name, and who is respons
bic for his acts reporter made an 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 fraud or swinde connected
with the office. Either the doctor was only hotel
porter with deceased physicians name OF a dry
goods clerk with Il similar fictitious title 1t seemed for
some time that there was not reliable medical ins-
tute' in the city.
At last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Insti-
tute, where he found the DOCTOR Frederick Morrill, viii
ling, indeed desrous to have his mode of treatment
thoroughly Investigated. This seemed vastly different
from the other doctors lie had called on. They all pro
tested against any attempt investigation and in many
instances ordered Inn to leave the Office Not So how
ever, with DIR. Morrill, He courted the most thorough
scrutiny. This reporter proceeded to make in COM
Dany with dsnterested citizen and Alternating every
possible inquiry and observation, states that there is
one place where all classe' Of complaints and diseases
are treated by upright and honest physicians that
place is the "MoT Medical Institute" where Dir. f.
Morrill,, an Old and competent doc or graduate Of the
Medical University at Philadelphia, is constantly in at.
tendance. 1t is singular fact that our reporter has
heard tangible stories against the doctor although
every quack in the city bitterly opposed him. prob
ably on account of his Unprecedented success in all s
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
Ihat depends upon the stage and nature of the com
plant" He has no tabular list of prices with ten or
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 case without far of imposition, or
where any lady Will receive competent treatment for all
her complaints for a reasonable compcnsation No
shadow OF Legitimate unlawful treatment ever cloud
ed the Doctors reputation and persons desiring such
need not apply to him, Or. Morrill, has had long and
successful experience in his peculiar line of treatnen
which includes nearly all complaints to which flesh
heir His remedies very consistent and his cures are
his best recommendation His otceis at No lS Howard
St. See his Medical Adviser; price 81. Omce, -
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