The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-04
Medical Monopoly Not Wanted.

"In the Legislature Of Massachu-
sets bill is now pending whose
object 10 to prohibit, under penally
of fine and imprisonment, tho
practice of medicine, surgery
or midwifery" by any other than
the regular" physicians. The at.
tempt to pass such bill has been
made before, but 1t failed. II 10 a
measure which ought not 10 pass,
because IL invades the personal.
liberty OF the citizen; not the per-
sonal liberty OF the irregular, ply
sician only, but OF the patient.
"Only yesterday DIR. Holt, in
paper read before the Massachu-
salts Medico-L Legal Society. an or
ganization of Irregular" physicians,
complained Of the ignorance Of his
professional bretheren as shown
In the notorious Robinson poison
ing cases.
This crime," said the doctor,
one OF the greatest in our medi.
cal history, would never have been
discovered but fhe suspicious out
side the professiony' And he called
attention to the fact that in Eve OF
the poisoning csses the regular
physician certified the cause OF
death to be pneumoni, typhoid
Iever, men Dgitis, bowel disease
and Bright's disease respectively.
"This shows how far the regular,
ply sicians are from being iufalli-
| bic. W
at would scerl 10 be more In nc.
cordance with justice and commoa
sense we're they to perfect their
own knowledge before they appeal
to law to prohibit others from heal
ing.
"Not long ago q Globe reporter
called upon ten "regular" pbysi :
clans on the same day, and des-
cribsd his symptoms 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 incon-
sistent with the others.
"The implied claim that there IL
any certainty in "regular" medi-
cine as at present practiccd, is ab-
surd. All medical practice, out
side Of the simplest complaints, Ia
more or less guess work and ex-
pertinent, whether regular or ire +
ular.
"When Garfield wau shot ave os
the most famous regular physicians
Ia the country spent three months
probing Tor the bullet in the region
OF his left hip, and after his death
I was found under his right sLoul.
der blade" We have but word
10 add, which 10 that the above Is
the doctrine Messrs. II. II. Warner
& Co, proprietors Of Warmers Safe
Cure, have fought for and promul.
gated for the past ten years. We
know OF scores Of cases, and so docs s
The reader, whore doctors have
| tfehteu tut WfonE uirthsts hey
say advanced Kidney Disease can
not be cured with Warmers Safe
Cure; yet so bigoted are the med
zeal profession that the majority
Them will not use II, although they
know they could thereby save
nany valuable lives, because, for
soo.h, IL 10 against their fossilize |
code. Out upon such bigotry.
Every method TO prolong fsshoold
be utilized, and the regular medical
profession should DO the 1rst 10
Welcome IL instead OF epcom psssi,g <
themselves In self conceit and bigo.
| try. doctoriDg symptoms instead ol
disease, and see rdipg their Iatients
I, the cemetery, poisoned with
| d ugs, but on the death certificate
that they died from typhoid fever,
meningitis, Pneumonia. or seme
other equally foreign cause.