The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-15
DR.. I. H. L0NGD0k
MEDICAL QUACKERY !
Facts with which the Sick Should
be Well Acquainted.

In these times Of so much medical Specuta-
tim and Judckery, it is but right that the in
valid public should be wei Iortlned
against all attempts at imposition ana
fraud. The sick should be care
fully guarded against every ITO
plan theory and deceptive system OF
medical practice which transcend the
bounds of reason. When they see in the
newspapers or elsewhere, pretensiOns to
wOndcrOuS learning and skill in the treat
mcnt OF disease, by men having no abiding
hOntr or permanent hdbitdtiOn, itinerating
from city to city, il may safely be set down
10 the account of medical brokerage and
speculation. such cunningly devised publ
cations under the plausible head Of Let
trrS, but paid for aS advertisements, are
well calculated To deceive; but these pre-
tensions seldom have any foundation IN
truth or Just claim TO confidence, no mat
ter with how much parade OF learning or
poSitivuncSS OF assertion they are made. II
this be so, II prudent man Will consider
well before venturing his health-nay,
| more, his lite-in such hands. FdLSuS w
mo fdlSIS in Onlni6US-falSe in one hin0,
| false in ererything-is a safe maxim, and
| those who disregard il may be cruelty de-
| crived. For years our country has witness
! ed the boldcSt, most impudent and mon
! StrouS impositlons in the way OF travelling
! Self-Styled physicians. The fhophet OF
! "Mrdicated Inhalation" claims that TINS
! treatment. IN has hands, cures all diseases Oh
| the lungs, Notwithstanding It's utter fall-
| urr to do so has been fully demonstrated
| nv the whole medical profession, both OF
! thiS country and Europe. Yet his dcX-
| trouS and rhetorical Letters and "tards
! are well calculated to miSlead the pulmO-
! nary Invalid, and the speculation for "A
| time and only far Il time, succeeds. Money
! flows i'm, but, alas, not one OF all the thou
| sand victims OF the iHlLSiue practice is erer
| CURED: while not II few sink more rapidly
/ and certainly TO the grave. Who does not
remember the career of O'Leary, Fuller,
! LYONS. StraruS, and numerous others oil
| this class, and their fearful impoSitionS on
| the Wheeling public? Nine-tenthS oil
! these men are as ignorant of the anatomy
! of the human body and It's organs, the
| mature of disease and its treatment, as
monkey is of fiuXiOnS and the dliterentlal
! calculus; vet they have the hardihood and
! lnbh,Sytin1 t,RytidcI!ce to pirate OF skill ana
! experience, superior to regular and well
| educated physicians, and deal out the most
! reckless abuse to the best men III the pro-
| frSSiOn. TO give themselves caste and q
ShDIC of medical learning, they talk OF theiI
| connection with institutes Hospitals
| and "InfirmarieS" that never had an eNis-
| tencc The Howard Association, ""Balti.
more Lock Hospital" "Girard Medical
| DiSpensary." "PITTSBURGH THROAT
! AND Lung INSTITUTE" each compos-
! ed of one man, are all myths, existing only
| in name. We will pay on" thousand dollars
! for the prOgC of any one OF these bogus IN
! situations TO the prcteHSiONS OF their self
| constituted authors; and we dcfV any one
! Of the travelling doctors In the United
! States to SHOW northumberland Diplo-
| ma from any respectable Medical College
! i'm this country or elsewhere.