Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-03-16
Medical MONOPOLY not Wanted.

Boston Daily Globe. Feb. z, 1880.
I'm the legislature If Massachusetts, a
bill is now pending whose object is to
prohibit, under penalty OF fine and Im>
prisonment, the practice of medicine,
surgery and midwifery by any other than
the regular physicians. The attempt to
pass such bill has been made before,
but it failed. it is measure which ought
not to pass, because it invades the per-
sonal liberty of the citizen; not the per-
sonal liberty Of the irregular physician
only, but of the patient.
"Only yesterday DR.. Holt, in paper
read before the Massachusetts Medico
Legal 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, lone of
the greatest in our medicsl history, would
never have been discovered but for the
suspicion aroused outside the profcs.
sion.' 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 Brights
disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular
physicians sre from being infallible.
1T would seem TO be more in accord
ance with justice and common sense were
they to perfect their own knowledge be
fore they appeal TO law to prohibit Others
from healing.
Not long ago Globe reporter called
upon ten regular physicians on the same
day. and described his symptoms in exact
ly 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.
The implied claim that there is any
certainty in regular medicine as al
present practiced, is absurd. All medi,
cal practice. outside of the simplest COM
plants, 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 prob.
ing for the bullet in the region OF his
left hip, and after his death it wa.
found under his right shoulder blade.
| We have but a word to add, which is that
the above is the doctrine Messrs. II. II.
Warner & Co.. proprietors of Warner:
Safe Cure, have fought for and promul-
gated for the past ten years. We know
OF scores of cases, and so does the read
er, where doctors have treated the wrong
disease. They say advanced kidney dis,
ease cannot be cured, yet thousands OF
cases have been cured with Warmers
Safe Cure; yet so bigoted are the medical
profession that the ms ority of them will
not use it. although they know they
could thereby save many valuable lives
because. forsooth, it is against their fos.
SLICED code. Out upon such bigotry
Every method to prolong life should be
utilized, and the regular medical profes
sion should be the first to welcome it in.
stead of encompassing themselves in
self-conceit and bigotry, doctoring symp,
toms instead of disease. and sending
their patients 10 the cemetery. poisoned
with drugs, but on the death certificate
that they died from typhoid fever. men
nights, pneumonia or some other equally
foreign cause.