Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-21
EIHE PRIVATE MEDICAL PRO
4 FESSION


is quite desirable that we should define our position
before the public reference what is generally known
as the private medical profession The strides which our
reporter has taken toward disclosing criminal side of
the private practice ought to receive the unqualified
approval OF all good citizens if not bring the eupts TO
the bar of justice, it 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 crime persist
in dsgracng it. The who seeks to treat and cure
any private disorder is necessarily a criminal and
lie is too often regarded by the puritancal such All
diseases must be cured the unfortunate posessor 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 crime and dsrepute
and secondly, TO tell the unfortunate who will regret
TO say exist 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 every contagious disease
Heads Of families naturally feel adverse 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
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 competent medical man
who sails under fictitious name and who is response
bic for his acts. reporter made examination Of
some twenty of the principal offices yesterday morning.
but found with single exception no place that seemed
to guarantee any reliability or medical skill. There was
in almost every instance fraud swnde connected
with the Office Either the doctor only a hotel
porter with some deceased physicians name OF a dry
goods clerk with similar fictitious title. II seemed for
some time that there not a reliable medical insti-
tute' in the city.
AT last our reporter entered the Morrill, Medical Imst-
tute where he found the doctor, Frederick Morrill,. will
ling indeed DESTROYS, 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 at 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 make in COM
pany with disnteresed citizen and after liking every
possible inquiry and observation. lie states that there is
one place where all classes complaints and diseases
are treated by upright and honest physician; that
place is the morrill, Medical Institute" where Dr. f.
Morrill,, an Old and competent doc 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 qnack in the city 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 job as ouack
doctors do If a person should ask him how much he
would charge 10 cure certain disease he will answer
Ihat depends upon the stage and nature of the com
pMhl' lie 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 hut 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 case without fear of mpostlon mr.
where any lady Will receive competent treatment for all
| her complaints for a reasonable compensatiou M