Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-25
miscellaneous.
TENHE PRIVATE MEDICAL PRO
d FESSI0N.
[From the Boston Daily News1

1t is quite desirable that should define our position
before the public reference to what generally known
as the private medical profession The strides which our
reporter has taken disclosing the criminal side of
the private practice ought to receive the unqualified
approval of all good citizens if bring the cuprs
the bar of justice, it undoubtedly will some cases.
But 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 man who seeks to cure
any private disorder is necessarily criminal and
he is too often regarded by the puritanical such All
diseases must be cured the unfortunate possesor of
the malady would suffer in consequence, and perhaps
extend its cOnagon to the veins of pure and healthy
bodies. Our duty then. in relation to this matter is
two-fod first to single out, expose and denbunce all
who seek TO drag the profession into crime disrepue
and secondly, to tell the unfortunate, who WILL regret
to exist long sin the earth where their
troubles may receive honest and competent treatment
1t is held in the belief of many that regular family
tors cannot consistently treat every contagious disease
Heads of families naturally adverse having their
family physician do 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, we suppose be held
| responsible.
Holding then that it duty to find if possible
some reliable medical office where the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by competent medical man
who sails under no fictitious name, and who response
Bile for his acts our 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 medical Skill There was
in almost every instance some fraud swndle connected
with the office. Either the doctor was only hotel
porter with some deceased physicians name or a dry
goods clerk with similar fictitious title. 1t seemed for
some time that there was not reliable medical ns-
| tute in the city.
enterpd tho Norritt T,.,i
tute where he found the DOCTOR Frederick Morrill, will
ling, indeed desirous 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 in many
instances ordered hm to leave the office Not So how
ever with DIR. Morrill,. He courled the most thorough
scrutiny This reporter proceeded to make in COM
pany with dsinerested citizen, and after liking every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there Is
one place where all elasses of complaints and diseases
are treated by an 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 Isl singular fact that our reporter has
heard no tangible stories against the doctor, although
every quack in the city 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. II a person should ask him how much he
would charge to cure certain disease, he viii answer
That depends upon the stage and nature Of the com
paint.' lie 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 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 fear of imposition or
where any lady will receive competent treatment for all
| her complaints for a reasonable compensation No
shadow OF legitlmate or unlawful treatment ever cloud
cd ihe Doctors reputation, and desiring such
need not apply to him. Or. Morrill, has had long and
successful experience in his peculiar line of treatment
which includes nearly all complaints to which flesh
heir His remedies are very consistent and his cures are
his best Recommendation. His Objects at No. IS Howard
st. See his Medical Advisers price 81. once, az
howard Ste Boston, Mass. OLE