Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-05-09
Medical Monopoly not Wanted.

M0QlCAl MOIlOpOly nOt w dAIOOs
Boston Daily Globe, Feb 7tb. 30
''In the Legislature OF Massachusetts,
bill is now pending whose object is
to prohibit, under penalty OF fine and
imprisonment, the practice OF .'medi-
cine, surgery or midwifery" by Bny
other than the Irregular" physician.
The attempt to pass such a bill has
been made before, but 1t 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 a paper
read before the Massachusetts Medico
Legal Society, an organization OF greg
ular" physicians, complained Of the
ignorance OF his professional brethren
as shown in the notorious Robinson
poisoning cases.
This crime,n said the doctor, t'one
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 causo of death to be pneumonia,
typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel dis
ease and Bright's disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular
physicians are from being infallible.
cit would seem TO be more in accor-
dance with justice and common sense
were they 10 perfect their own knowl-
edge before they appeal to law to pro-
hibit others from healing;
sNot long ago a Globe reporter call
ed upon ten Irregular" physicians on
the Same day, and described his symp-
toms in exactly the same language to
each. The ten physicians informed
him that he was suffering from ten
different diseases and gave him ten
different prescriptions, each utterly
inconsistent with the others.
Tho implied claim that there is any
certainty in Irregular" medicine as at
present practiced, is absurd. All med
ical practice, outside of the simplest
complaints, is more or less guess-wor
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. IL.
II. Warmer & Co., proprietors Of War
ner's Safe Cure, have fought for and
promulgated for the past ten years.
We know of scores of cases, and so
does the reader, whore 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 pro-
fession 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
| bigotry. 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 GENE
terry, poisoned with drugs, but on the
death certificate that they died from
typhoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia,
or some other equally foreign cause.