The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-20
Medical Monopoly Not Wanted.
Boston Daily Globe, Feb. eth, 80.


lin the Legislature of Massachusetts a
blli ls'new pending whose object is to pro-
nloit, under penalty of fine and imprison-
ment, the practice of medicine, surgery or
midwifery by any other than the "regu-
lar'' physicians. The attempt to pass such
a bill has been made before, but it failed. 1t
is a measure which ought not to pass, be-
cause 1t invades the personal liberty of the
citizen; moi the personal liberty of the
irregular physician only, but Of the patient.
"Only yesterday DR.. Holt, in a paper
read before the Massachusetts Medico-Le-
gal Society, an organization of 'regular''
physicians, complained of the ignorance of
his professional brethren as shown in the
notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
This crime" said the doctor, tone of
the greatest in our medical history, would
meyer have been discovered but for the sus-
PHI aarpused outside the profession" And
K, n64 sn, opup the fast that in FIVE of
fLEplng a.. the regular physician
certified ihe cause of death to be pneu-
L'oula, typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel
disease and Bright's disease respectively.
''ThIs shows how far the regular physi-
clans are from being infallible.
sit 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 heal
ing.
mot long ago Globe reporter called
upon ten. irregular" physicians on the same
day, and described his symptoms in exactly
the same language to each. The ten ply
sicians informed him that he was suffering
from ten different diseases and gave him
ten different prescriptions, each utterly in
consistent with the others.
"The implied claim that there is any GER
talnty in regular medicine as at present
practiced, is absurd All medical practice,
outside Of the 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
1t was found under his right shoulder
blade" We have but word to add which
Is that the above is the doctrine Messrs.
II. d. Warner d Co., proprietors of War
ner's Safe Cure, have fought for and pro-
mulgated for the past ten years. We know
Of scores of cases, and so does the reader,
where doctors have treated the wrong dis
ease. They say advanced Kidney Disease
can not 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, al
though they know they could thereby save
many valuable lives, because, forsooth, it is
against their fossilized code. Out upon such
bigotry Every method to prolong life
should be utilized, and the regular medical
profession should be the first to welcome it
instead of encompasslng themselves in self
conceit AID bigotry, doctoring symptoms in
stead of disease, and sending their patients
to the cemetery poisoned with drugs, but
ON -ths.sle%2h certificate that they died from
typhld lever, meningitis, pneumonia, or
some other equally foreign cause.