The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-04-04
MEDICAL MONOPOLY NOT WANT
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,BosTox DAILY GLOBE, FEB. Z, 1889 ]

| BOSTON DAILY GLOBE, FEB. Z, 1889
I'm the Legislature of Massachusetts
a bill is now pending whose object is tc
prohibit, under penalty of fine and i'm
prisonment, rhe practice of medicine
surgery or midwifery by any other than
The Irregular" physicians. The attempt
to pass such bill has been made before
but it failed. 1t is measure which
ought not to pass, because it invades the
personal liberty of the citizen not the
personal liberty of the irregular ply.
sieian only, but of the patient.
"Only Yesterday DR.. Holt. in paper
read before the Massachusetts Medico'
Legal Society, an organization of ''regu'
lar physicians, complained of the ignor.
ance of his professional brethren as
shown in the notorious Robinson pois'
oning cases.
"'This crime, said the doctor, 'one oi
the greatest in our medical history
would never have been discovered but
for the suspicious aroused outside the
profession And he called attention tC
the fact that in five of the poisoning
cases the regular physician certified the
cause of death to be pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, bowel disease and
Bright's disease respectively.
"This shows how far the regular
physicians are from being infa lible.
at would seem to be more in accord.
ance with justice and common sense
were they to perfect their own knowl-
edge before they appeal 70 law to pro-
hlbit others from healing.
mot long ago a Globe reporter called
upon ten regular physicians on the
same day, and described his symptoms
in exactly the same language to each.
The ten physicians informed him that
he was suffering from ten different dis
eases and gave him ten different pre-
scriptions, each utterly inconsistent
with the others.
"The implied claim that there is any
certainty in regular medicine as at
present practiced, is absurd. All medi-
cal practice, outside of the simplest
complaints, is more or less guess work
and experiment, whether regular or ir-
regular.
"When Garfield was shot five of the
most famous regular physicians in the
country spent three months probing for
the bullet in the region of his left hip,
and after his death it was found under
MS IlSuJ SlOulucI-D -DlduC' W Y hoNO
but a word to add, which is that the
above is the doc rIne Messrs. H, II.
Warner & Co., proprietors of Warmers
Safe Cure, have fought for and promul-
gated for the past ten years. We know
Of scores of cases, and so does the read
er, where doctors have treated the
wrong disease. They say advanced
Kidney Disease cannot be cured, yet
thousands OF cases have been cured with
Warmers Safe Cure yet so bigoted are
the medical profession that the majority
of them will not use it, although they
know they could thereby save many
valuable lives, because, forsooth, it is
against their fossilized code. Out upon
such bigo'ry. Every method to prolong
life should be utilized and the regular
medical profession should be the first to
welcome it instead of encompassing
themselves in self conceit and bigotry,
doctoring symptoms instead of disease,
and sending their patients to the ceme-
terry, poisoned with drugs, but on the
death certificate that they died from ty-
phoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia, or
some other equally foreign cause.