The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-06
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boAgs DaNV u0of, Feb, Il w.
sin the Legislature OF Massachusetts
Q blu y now pending whose object Is TO
prohibit, under penalty Of fine and i'm.
prisonment, the practice Of medicine,
surgery or midwifery by any other
than the regular physicians. The at
tempt to pass such q bill has been made
before, but II failed. II is a measure
which ought not to pass, because It in.
Yades the personal lIbSrty Of the citi-
zen; not the personal liberty OF the "ir-
regular physician only, but Of the
patient.
"only yesterday DR., Holt, in q paper
read before the Massachusetts Medico.
Legal Society, az organization OF 'regu.
lar physicians, complained Of the igno-
rance Of his professional brethren as
shown In the notorious Robinson poi.
soning cases,
"'This crime said the doctor, lone 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 tho
cause oil death TO DO pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis, bowel disease aud
Bright's disease respectively,
This shows how far the regular
physicians are from being iniallible.
ut would seem TO be more in accord.
ance with justice and common sense
were they to perfect their own know.
ledge before they appeal TO law to pro.
hiblt Others from healing,
mot long ago a Globe reporter called
upon ten regular physicians on the
same day, aud 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.
1.-THE implied claim that there is any
certainty In regular medicine as at
present praCtiCed, is absurd. All med
iCal practice, outside Of the simplest
complaints, is more or less guess-work
and experiment, whether regular or
irregular.
"When Garfield was shot Ave OF the
most famous regular physicians in the
country spent three months probing fol
the bullet in the region Of his left hip,
and after his death It was found under
bis right shoulder. blade" We have but
q word to add, which is that the above Il
the doctrine Messrs. II. II. Warner &
Co., proprletors Of Warmers Safe Cure,
have fought for and promulgated for the
past ten years. We know OF scores oil
cases, and so does the reader, where doc,
tors have treated the wrong disease,
They say advanced Kidney Disease can,
not be cured, yet thousands Of cases
have been cured with Warner
Safe Cure; yet so bigoted are the
medical profession that the majority O
them will not use it, although they
know they could thereby save many
valuable lives, because, forsooth, 1t il
against their iossilized code. Out upoE
such blEotry, Every method to prolon.
life should be utillged, and the regular
medical profession should be- the iiFst Il
welcome 1t instead Of encompassinI
themselves in self.conceit and bigotry
doGLorlng symptoms instead OF disease
and sending their patients to the GENE
Try, poisoned with drugs, but on th,
death certificate that they died frou
typhoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia
or some other equally foreign cause.