Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
MEDICAL MONOPOLY NOT WANTED.

Boston Daily Globe, February 4 1891
SIN the Legislature of Massachusetts, q
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 regular
physicians. The attempt to pass such a
bill has been made before, but it failed. 1t
is a matter which ought not to pass, be-
cause it invades the personal liberty of the
citizen not the personal liberty of the
irregular physician only, but the patient.
only yesterday DIR. Holt, in a paper
read before the Massachusetts Medco Legal
Society, an organization of regular physi-
clans, complained OF the ignorance of his
professional brethren as shown in the
notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
This crime, said the doctor. 'one of the
greatest in our medical history, would
never have been discovered, but for the sus-
picions aroused outside of the profession
And he called attention 10 the fact that in
five of the poisoning cases the regular
physician certified the cause of death 10 be
pneumonia, typhoid fever, meningitis,
bowel disease and Brights disease, respect
lively.
This shows how far the regular physi-
clans are from being infallible.
ut would seem to be more in accordance
to perfect their own knowledge before they
appeal to law to prevent others from heal
ing.
Not long ago Globe reporter called
upon ten regular physicians OH the same
day. and described his symptoms in exactly
the same language to each. The ten physi-
clans 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
tainty 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 it was found under his right
shoulder blade" We have but a word to
| add, which is that the above is the doctrine
Messrs II. H. Warner & Co proprietors of
| Warmers Safe Cure have fought for and
promulgated for the past ten years We
know OF scores of cases, and so does the
reader, where doctors have treated the
wrong disease. They say advanced kidney
| disease cannot he cured, vet thousands OF
cases have been cured with Warmers Safe
| Cure; yet SO bigoted are the medical pro-
| fession that the majority of them will not
use it, although they know they could
| thereby save macy valuable lives because,
\ forsooth, ii is against their fossilized code.
| Our upon such bigotry. Every method to
prolong life should be utilized, and the
regular medical profession should be the
/ first 10 welcome it instead OF encompassing
themselves in self.conceit and bigotry, doc
toring symptoms instead Of disease, aud
sending their patients to the cemetery,
| poisoned with DRUGS, but on the Death GER
titicate that they died from typhoid fever,
meningitis. pneumonia or some other
! equally foreign cause