Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-21
CFrom the Boston Daily News

1t 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 disclosing the criminal side of
the private practice ought to receive the unqualified
approval of all good citizens if not bring the cuprs to
the bar of justice as il undoubtedly will in some cases
But 1t must not be supposed that these articles are an
attack upon the private practice as a whole Int
rather upon those who by ignorance and crime persist
in dsgracing it, The man 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 or the unfortunate poseor of
the malady would suffer in consequence and perhaps
extend its conagion to the veins of pure and healthy
bodies. Our duty then, in relation to this matter is
two-iod first to single out expose and denbunce all
who seek to drag the profession into crime and dsreput
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 our duty to find if possible
some reliable medical office where the unfortunate can
receive honest treatment by q competent medical man
who sails under 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 swndle 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 instl-
tute' in the city.
AT last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Inst
tute, where he found the DOCTOR Frederick Morrill, viii
ling, indeed DESTROYS, to have his mode of treatment
thoroughly investigated This seemed vastly different
from the other doctors he had called They all pro
tested against any attempt at investigation in many
instances ordered HIM to leave the Office Not So how
ever with DIR. Morrill, He courted the most thorough
scrutiny This our reporter proceeded to make in COM
pany with dsinteresed Citizen and after liking every
possible inquiry and observation he states that there
one place where all casse" of complaints and disease
are treated by an upright and honest physcian that
place is the Morrill, Medical Institute" where Dr. f..
Morrll, 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 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 quac
doctors do. If person should ask him how much he
would charge to cure certain disease he will answer
Ihat depends upon the stage and nature of the com
pant lie has no tabular list of puces 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 to be- We are conf
dent that Dr. Morrill, runs an honest business where
man may trust his without fear of imposition ar
where any lady will receive competent treatment for all