Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-12
MEDICAL MONOPOLY NOT WANTED
PostoE TlasIv C,fol,e Fahry,arv 1850

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'.In the legislature of Massachusetts, a
bill is now pending whose object is to pro-
hibit, under penalty of fine and imprison-
ment, the practice of medicine, surgery or
midwifery by any other than the 'regu-
lar physicians. The attemptto pass such
a bill has been made before, but it failed.
| 1t is a measure which ought not to pass,
because it invades the personal liberty of
! the citizen; not the personal liberty of
the irregular physician only, but of the
patient.
'Only yesterday Dr. Holt in paper
read before the Massachusetts, Medieo-
Legal society, an organization of 'regu-
| lar physicians, complained Of the ignor-
ance of his professional brethren as shown
in the notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
This crime" said the doctor. zone of
the greatest in our medical history, would
never have been discovered but for the
suspicious aroused outside the profession. :"
( And he called attention TO 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 respect
lively
This shows how far the regular physi-
clans are from being infallible.
1T would seem to be more in accordance
with justice and common sense were they
to perfect their own knowledge before
they appeal to law to prohibit Others from
healing.
"Not 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 SUI
fering from ten different diseases and gave
n Ton ~s-ts
~ INCONSISTENT with the Others
The implied claim that there is any
certainty in regular" medicine as at pres
ent practiced, is absurd. All medical prac-
tice outside OF che simplest complaints. is
more or less guess-work and experiment,
whether regular or irregular.
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 the
right shoulder blade" We have but a
word to add, which is that the above is
the doctrine Messrs. H. II. Warner & Co.,
proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure. have
fought for and promulgated for the past
ten years. Weknow of scores of cases,
and SO does'the reader, where doctors have
treated the wrong disease. They say ad-
,yanced kidney disease cannot be cured, yet
thousands Of cases have been cured
with Warmers Safe Cure; yet so
bigoted are the medical profess
sion 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 fossil
liked code. Out upon such bi0otry Every
method to prolong life should be utilized.
and the regular MEDICAL professian should
the first to welcome 1t instead of encom-
passing themselves in self-conceit and big
otry, doctoring symptoms instead of dis
ease, and sending their patients to the
cemetery, poisoned with drugs. but on the
death certificate that they died from ty-
phoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia, or
some other equally foreign cause.