Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-21
SMe0itlnal.
HlHE PRIVATE MEDICAL Pro.
Il FESSION
from the Boston Dai.y News

from the Boston Daily Newsl
II is quite desirable that we should define our position
before the public in reference to what generally known
as the private medical profession The strides which onr
reporter mas taken toward disclosing the criminal side of
Tue private practice ought 10 receive the unqualified
approval OF all good citizens if bring tile culprits to
tine par OF justice, as 1t undoubtedly will in some cases
But 1t must not he 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 dsgracng it, The man who seeks to treat and cure
any private disorder is NOT necessarily a criminal and
he is too often regarded by the puritanca as such An
diseases must be cured the unfortunate possessor of
the malady would suffer in consequence and perhaps
extend its contagon to the veins of pure and healthy
bodies Our duty, them in relation to this matter is
two-tod first, to single out expose and denbrnce all
who seek to drag the profession into crime and dsrepute
and secondly, to tell the unfortunate who will we regret
TO say exist AS long as sin the earth where their
troubles may receive honest and competent treatment
1t is held in the belief of many that regular family doe
tors cannot consistently treat every contagious disease
Heads oil families naturally feel adverse having their
family physician do So and as 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 he held
responsible.
Holding then, that it was our duty to find if possible
some reable medical Office where the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by competent medical man
who sails under no fictitious name and who is re,pous
Die for his acts, our reporter made an examinations OF
some twenty of the principal Offices yesterday morning
put found with single exception 10 place that seemed
to guarantee any reliability or medical skill There va
in almost every instance fraud or swnde connected
with The Office. Either the doctor" was only a hotel
porter with some deceased physicians name OF dry
goods clerk with similar fictitious title 1t seemed for
some ime that there was not reliable "medca inst-
tute'' in the city.
At last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Isti
tute, where he found the DOCTOR Frederick Morrill, will
ling, indeed DESTROYS. to have his mode of treatnant
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 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 dsnterested Citizen and after m liking every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there is
one place where all classes of complaints and diseases
are 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 on account of his unprecedented success in all his
medical undertakings.
Dr.. Morrill, does not cases by the job as "ouack
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 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 principle of a regular family
physician. which he justly claims be- We are conf
dent that Dr. Morrill, runs honest business where any
man may trust his without far Of imposition or
where any lady viii receive competent treatment for all
her complaints for a reasonable compensation. No
shadow OF illegtimate 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 treatment
which includes nearly all complaints to which flesh
heir His remedies very consistent and his cures are
his best recommendation, His oniceis ut No As aoward
ST. See his Medical Adviser; price 81. Once, As
Howard St, Boston. Mass. OLE