Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-27
Meoit1nal.
THE PRIVATE MEDICAL PRO
FESSION.
From the Boston Daily News. J

from the Boston Daily News.l
1t is quite desirable that should define our position
before tile 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 to receive the unqualified
approval OF all good cizeLs if not bring the cuprits 10
the bar of justice, it undoubtedly will in cases.
But 1t must not be supposed that these articles are an
attack upon the "prvate'' practice as a whole but
rather upon those who BY ignorance and crime persist
in dsgraeng it. The who seeks to treat and cure
any private disorder is not necessarily criminal and
he is too often regarded by the puranical as such All
diseases must be cured the unfortunate poseor of
the malady 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
two-tod; first, to single out expose and denbunce all
who seek to drag the profession into crime and dsrepue
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 we suppose be held
responsible.
Holding then, that it duty to find if possible
receive honest treatment by a competent medical man
who sails under no fictitious name and who is RESPONSE
BILE for his acts reporter made an examination of
some twenty Of the principal offices yesterday morning
but found with single exception no place that seemed
to guarantee any reliability medical skill There was
in almost every instance fraud or swindle 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
a
tute'' in the city.
AT last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Insti-
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 HIM leave the Office Not So how
ever, with DR.. Morrill,. He coured the most thorough
scrutiny. This our reporter proceeded to make in COM
pany with dsnteresed Citizen and after liking every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there
one place where all classes 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 doc or 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 b4y opposed to him, prob.
ably on account Of ms unprecedented success in all his
medical undertakings
Dr. Morrill, does not treat cases by the job as "quack
doctors do If a person should ask MIN how much lie
would charge TO cure certain disease he will answer
That depends upon the stage and nature of the com
paint. 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 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 ileg1tmate unlawful treatment ever cloud
ed the Doctors reputation, and persons desiring such
need not apply to him. Dr. Morrill, has had long and
successful experience in his peculiar line of reatmen
which includes nearly all complaints to which flesh
heir His remedies very and his cures are
his best recommendation His ofceis No. As Howard
ST. See his Medical Adviser; price 81 Office, IS
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