Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-06-24

Mn. EDIroR.-It Is seldom We ask for space /
In your valuable columns, but in this instance |
IL seems 10 deyOlve upon me 10 vindieate the |
medical profession Of this town and country, |
and properly so from the fact that have prae-
ticed the profession for years In this vicinity, |
and now being practically retired from its
ranks and duties, I can be heard without my
motives being called into question.
This public has known me a sufficiently long
! time TO know that venality Is not the ruling
/ eien,e7t In my composition. For years this
Isolated community has been imposed upon by
strolling quaeks and pretenders who went
prowling through the shady by-ways and dark
corners OF the country devouring and destoying
all who listened 20 their story. Heretofore II
has been their mode Of work 70 keep away
/ from the centers and lines Of public travel,
but we now. for the first time, Ind one Of these
mountebanks boldly bidding for victims
through the columns OF your paper. and on our
streets with circulars and printed posters,
much the same as Forephugh's circus company
displays.
The man who uses q column OF the CniEFrAIS
besides large space OF your local columns,
may not be amountebank or quaek and may be
fair surgeon; In fact, may be superior onei
but we undertake to say his modes and usages
are that Of quAck and humbug, and entirely
unprofessionai. His circular relates to you
about the smputatiOn OF Black Hoyts arm at
Fort Gibson, as a most wonderful exploit Of
modern surgery. We have ut least four doc
tors In vinlta, making but little pretension
30 the practice Of surgery, capable Of perform
ing such an operation for reasonable fee, and
for nothing ~ the patient Is unable TO pay. who
have la their ofices surgical cssss and modern
appll anees for any operation hat may be ro-
quired by the unfortunate, and we have one
who claims 20 be a surgeon In its fullest sense;
who has given ample evidence OF being skill
ful. lie has performed traeheotomy and ope-
rated for strablsmus, for stone, for hernis--in
fact, there Ia scarcely surgical operation that
would be novel 20 him In capital or minor sur
gerry. During the past six months Doctori
Fortner, Bsgby, Haynes and Foreman OF thi'
town, have performed several operations OF I
more serious and momentous character ant
with satisfactory results, as the one performed
upon Black Hoyt. Besides the operations fol
pterygium and strablsmus and like minor op
erations on the eye and Its sppendhges are th,
occurrences Of every month in the year. suci
work belong to their profession and pretensior
as surgeons and physicians and In accord with
what they propose to do in their professional
cards in your paper. Aud this man Is imPos.
ing on you aud on the public when he publishc,
to the world such AmpntAtions and operations
as being the most serious and unusual In sur
! gerry. No man has the right 90 publish his card
, or announce himself as a doctor who Is not
qualified 20 perform the operations he clans "a
have done, and n you see David MeCrary on
the streets armless, and dishgured mVIth and
face, I. Il. knights's little boy without leg
J Killer COody on q peg, do not think that
these operations were done by foreign
surgeons but by men who are located In YOU
town and equal 10 the emergencies Of thell
noble profession. They have their names on
your subscription list; their cards In your coll
, umns, their interests and welfare is yours
) their country your countryi and they should
, be patroniEed aud protected instead OF being
4 denounced maligned and traduced by som'
travelling pretender. Every line In your col
umns IL an InsInuAtion, lie says by these ad
. vertisements that we have no surgeons capa
I Bile OF AmputAting an arm or leg or removing
a apterygium.
Our merchants and society are proseete,
from peddlers by law and properly. While thu
local profession asks no such thing for Itself
l desIre to resen. any such imputationa Of In
capacity as are clearly implied In the genera
tenor Of their advertisement. do not believ
that the leading men OF this town have invite
1
9 intelligence OF this place from a charge 90 ser
r iously rejecting on their common sense. ! se
=, no reason why the laws In regard to tae prac
tlce Of medicine should not be enforced In TIL
case. We have respectable and intelligen
i physicians 10 our midst who are equal 10 thel
II duties and FULLY qualified TO practice medicine
: responsible 10 taeir patrons for mistakesi VIII
10 will not charge a hundred dollar fee for an Oh
GRAFTON worth but i've dollars; who work II
, the good OF their patrons and take chance
J. with them, and allow their work TO speak IL
L itself without blowing and pAradng the ampu
v tation Of leg or an arm as something remark
!. Ablei andi You are suffering from a caurabl
disease consult your home physicians. The
. will give you unselnah and reasonable AdviS
i without endangering yourlife or depicting VOC
Il pocket book TO such an extent that Il mlgl
l. have been better for you. your families an
, your creditors that you should have died, 9,
broke man and poor man are OF no use
this world. DO not monkey with n
'r business end Of hornet, and give quAoks n
n q. n. ifyou wish to be rich and happy.
m Respectfully, &e..
4. NJ FnAEHK