Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-16
TEIHE PRIVATE MEDICAL PRO
4 FESSI0N.


1t is quite desirable that we should define cur position
before the public in 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 citizsLs if bring the cuprts to
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 q WHOLE but
rather upon those who by ignorance and crime persist
IN disgracng it, The man who seeks to treat ami
any private disorder is necessarily criminal and
he is too often regarded by the purtanical such All
diseases must be cured the unfortunate possessor
the malady would suffer in consequence and perhaps
extend its cOntagion to the veins of pure and healthy
bodies Our duty, then, in relation this matter is
two-fod; first. to single out expose and dentuncc all
who seek to drag the profession crime and dsrepute
and secondly to tell the unfortunate who viii 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 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 hen that it duty to find if possible.
some reliable medical Office here the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by a competent medical man
who sails under fictitious name and who is responsf
bic 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 swnde 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 reliable 'medcal fnsti-
tue' in the city.
AT last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical sti
tue, 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 caIed on. They all pro
tested against any attempt investigation and in many
instances ordered Inn to leave the office Not So how
ever with DR. Morrill, He courted the most thorough
scrutiny This our reporter proceeded to make in com
pany with disinerested citizen, after m King every
possible INJURY and observation he that there
one place where all classe' of complaints and dseae s
are treated by upright and honest physician; that
placeis the morrill, Medical Institute where Dr. F.
Morrill,, an old and competent 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 is bitterly opposed to him. prob
ably on account Of his Unprecedented success in all his
medical undertakings
DE- Morrill, does not treat by the Job as "Quac
doctors do. If person should ask him how mucb ne
would charge to cure certain disease he will answer
depends upon the stage and nature of the COM
plant lie has no tabular list of prices, with ten or
twenty dollars set opposite certain private diseases
much after the style 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 compensation. No
sadow OF iiegtmate Or 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 treatment
which includes nearly all complaints to which flesh is
heir His remedies very consistent and his cures arc
his best recommendation. His ofces at No As Howard
st. See his Medical Adviser; price So Office, As
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