The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-10-20

of the convention.
On motion, the convention ad-
jouyned. GEO. HALLAS,
Secretary.
TUE DOCTORS.
It is said that the case and the treat
ment of President Garfield is in fair
way to be investigated. We doubt it.
The report Of the doctors upon the
treatment and the autopsy is published
and there will end the investigation.
But that report is Il wonderful confess
ion Of the ignorance and helplessncss
Of the irregular" profession. Tie Gin
cinn;lti Commercial says:
1T is CHASTITY thing to think Of the
solemn committee Of physicians filling
the Presidents room while his wound
was dressed and he flexible tUhr' was
pOkcd into The yit.lhi;:. flesh of the sick
man, three inches ut first, and finally
fourteen inches. in direction opposite
from that taken hy The ball.''
We believe the physicians in charge
did tic best they knew. All the re-
sources Of their "svstem'' were ut COM
manA and calle, into action and the
result is Il miserable failure. Several
magnetic physicians came Il long dis
lance to lend their aid, but it was. of
course, spurned as the "regulars" had
no faith in such ''cl,arIHtanism. -
Their profession is too bigoted and too
ignorant to recognize magnetic help as
professional. n go. i clairvoyant
doctor would soon have told the loca-
ton Of the ball, would have pointed ont
that the helpless and blind doctors
were probing pus channel instead of
the track Of the bullet, and would have
seen the blood clot and the danger Of
the rupturing of the mescntcric artery.
Then, with Agnew's surgical skill,
something might have been done.
1t is fact we'll known that Wash
ington was bl'd to death by the ''rcgu-
lars" Baconstield died while the
''regnlars' were quarreling over his
sick body, and Garfield died while the
''regulars'' were CROPPING bliHdly in the
dark, III issing the location and the very
track Of the ball; m iS>ng the real dan
ger and the cause Of the death. ard
finally admitting, in helpless and hope
less grief, that they were all mistaken
and had been bafiled 1T every point.
Well, the point we wish to make is
this: These ''regulars' are asking
every State in the Union to pass laws
giving them the exclusive right to prac-
tice medicine and excluding all but the
''regulars' from practice as qnacks.
Now, hereafter, henceforth and forever
whenever they appear, let us smite
them right and left, hip and thigh, and
brand any fool of Il legislator, who
votes for their bills. as unfit to make
laws for a free people. 49,.
The Rock County Herald calls on
some of the Swans to account for the
ten miles by six feet tract of nearly
solid angle worms' which recently ap-
pe;red in that county. We are not
''savan" and can't do it. But we
bate,' ETC., are like misfortunes in
never coming singIy. Last summer
there was an ocean of frc.tlies in this
vicinity at one time. A year or SO ago
there was an inundation Of butterflies,
last Summer there was an invasion of
dragon-tlies east Of us. Several years
ago there was ''hinsect" called grass
hopper that came in clouds, and kept
coming year after year. and brought
the old folks along, together with the
cousins and the aunts and all his wife's
relatives. Instead of being ten miles
by six feet, the swarm on one day was
! 800 miles long, by 10 miles wide, and
10000 feet deep.