Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-19
DOCTORS vs.. OUACKs.


Tho Medical s'''''y S;ss,.. as.,n'' DR. Greene and
When we went to press yesterday after
noon, DIR. Henry Carpenter was on the wit
ness stand at Alderman Spurrier's office.
undergoing cross-examination, conducted
by W. S. Amweg, esq.,, counsel for Mrs.
Harriet Sweeney, one Of the alleged
quacks. The witness positively refused to
name any one of those who had called upon
him for treatment after having undergone
treatment from Mrs. Sweeney but reit-
Grated that there were dozens of them. and
that they were highly respectable people.
The witness was then subjected to cross
examination conducted by B. F. Davis,
counsel for John Campbell, the worm
doctor. Witness said he was not person.
ally acquainted with DR.. Campbell he held
no intercourse with people of his class
lie mad seen him OH market dressed
up like mOuntebank, and vending his
nostrums don't know whether he has a
diploma Or not, but don't believe he has
one he looks like quack have exam
med some of his preparations ami found
them to contain poisonous ingredients. To
the question, 8 Do not the Prescriptions of
regular physicians sometimes fail to DO
duce the result expected and do not pa
tlents sometimes die after being prescribed
for ~ the witness answered atiirmatiyely.
Witness was next crOss-examined by DR..
Greene, who conducted his own case. lie
said he did not know DR.. Greene had
never been in his office, though he had
seen it as he had passed it the window
was filled with curiOsities, put there for
the purpose of attracting attention he
had also seen DIR. Greene's advertisements
OF wonderful cures the respectable por-
tion OF the medical profession regarded
those who advertised as Greene does, as
being charlatans and quacks. In answer
to question by DR.. Greene, DR.. Carpen-
ter said that some regular physicians ad-
vertlsed and that q member of the Lancas.
ter county medical society had been ex-
PEELED for so doing.
DIR. NJ. L. Herr was sworn and testified
that he had seen the advertisements and
signs of the accused, and that they pro-
fessed to cure diseases did not know
whether any of them had diplomas; was
not personally acquainted with them had
never been in DR.. Greene's office had seen
persons who said they We're treated by
him one was John Chilles, who came to
witness suffering terribly with a pain in
the head, and said it was caused by DIR.
Greene's treatment of him for deafness
another case was that of Mrs. IIauck, of
Water street, who died Of commissions
shortly after leaving DR.. Grcene's office
witness did not know in what condition
Mrs. Hauck was when she went to DIR.
Greene's office.
DIR. VIM. Compton was sworn and testi-
tied that he had seen Campbell's and
Greene's advertisements and Mrs. Swee-
ney's sign, by which means all of them an
nounce that they are physicians. Never
heard OF such college as Pittsiield col
lege never heard of DR.. Alonzo Clark as
professor of 4 college if there was such
man he was probably connected witt,
some three-ccnt college had heard OF Dr.
Gilman Kimball, who was probably man
of the same sort
DIR. Roland was the next witness lie
merely testsfied that he seen the signs and
advertisements of the accused, but knew
nothing about them personally.
During the examination of the above
named witnesses DR.. Greene produced his
diploma purportins to have been grantcdby
the Pittsfield medical college, Mass, in 1913,
and asked the witnes whether it was not
a genuine diploma. DR.. Carpenter said
it looked like genuine diploma, but there
were many bogus diplomas in circulation
granted by bogus institutions like that of
Buchanan's in Philadelphia. DR.. Comp
ton answered that he had never heard of
such a medical college and he believed he
would have heard of it if it had every ex-
listed.
DR.. Greene retorted that DR.. Compton's
ignorance was satisfactory excuse for his
answer. He then asked DR.. Carpenter
what kind of professional reputation DR..
Gilman Kimball had, and Dr. Carpenter
answered that he stood high in the medi-
cal profession. DR.. Greene then asked
DR.. Carpenter to state that if Dr. Kim
balls signature to his CDR. Greene's) di-
ploma was genuine whether he would re-
gard it as an honest and genuine diploma.
DR.. Carpenter answered that if DIR. KIM
ball had signed DR.. Greene's diploma in
1S4S, he would not do 50 to-day, but would
blush to see it hanging in. DR.. Greene's
Office. DR.. Greene insisted on an answer
to his question, whether the diploma was
genuine if it should appear that Drs. Kim
ball and Clark had signed it. District At
torney Eshleman objected to the question
and DR.. Carpenter declined to answer it.
DR.. VIM. Blackwood was next called and
testified that he knew the accused through
their popular advertisements; had met
patients of DR.. Greene, and had seen
Campbell selling his worm medicine. In
answer to a question from DR.. Greene. DR..
Blackwood explained the manner of ad
mtting members to the Lancaster county
medical society. In brief, applicants must
be of good moral character, must have
had good preliminary education and
thorough medical education, and have
been graduated by some reputable medical
college. The applicant must be proposed