Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-20
Meoittnal.
E!HE PRIVATE MEDICAL PRO
T. FESSION.


From the Boston Daily Newsl
II Is quite desirable that should define our position
before the public IN reference to what generally known
as the private medical profession The strides which our
reporter has taken toward disclosing the criminal side of
the private practice ought receive the UNQUALIFIED
approval Of all good citizens if bring the cuprt TO
the bar of justice as it undoubtedly will in some cases
But it must not he supposed that these articles are an
attack upon the private" practice as whole, but
rather upon those who by ignorance and crime persist
IN disgraetng it, The man who seeks to treat and cure
any private disorder is necessarily a criminal and
he Is too often regarded by the purtanca such All
diseases he or the unfortunate possessor of
the malady would suffer in consequence and perhaps
extend its contagiOn TO the veins pure and healthy
bodies Our duty them in relation to this matter is
two-iod; first to single out expose and denDunce all
who seek drag e profession into crime and disrepute
and secondly to tell the unfortunate, who will we regret
10 say exist long sin curses 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 feel adverse to 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 hen, that it duty to find if possible
some reliable medical Office whore the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by competent medical man
who sails under fictitious name and who is response
Die 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 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 OF a dry
goods clerk with similar fictitious title. 1t seemed for
some time that there was not reliable medical nsti
tute in the city.
AT last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Inst
tute, where he found the doctor, Frederick Morrill, will
ling, indeed desirou 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 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 disntercste citizen after liking every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there
one place where all classe~ of complaints and diseases
treated by upright and honest physician; that
place is the morrill, Medical Institute where DR.. F.
Morrill,, an old and competent doc OF, graduate of the
Medical University at Philadelphia is constantly in at
tendance. II 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 treat cases by the lob 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 hist 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 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 without far of imposition or
where lady will receive all