The Irish standard., 1889-03-30
Medical Monopoly Not Wanted.

Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 7th, '8e.
"In the Legislature of Massachusetts a
bill is now pending whose object is to
prohibit under penalty of fine and i'm
prisonment, Che 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 it failed. 1t is a measure
which ought not to pass, because it in
vades the personal liberty Of thecitizen;
not the personal liberty Of the regular
physician only, but of the patient.
Only yesterday DR.. Holt in a papel
read before the Massachusetts, Medico-
Legal Society, an organization Of 'tregu-
lar" physicians, complained Of the ig-
norance of his professional brethren as
shown in the notorious Robinson cases,
This crime" said the doctor, lone
of the greatest in QUIZ medical history,
would never have been discovered but
for the suspicious aroused outside the
profession" And be called attention
to the fact that in five of the poisoning
cases the regular physician certified the
cause Of death to be- pneumonia, ty-
phoid fever meningitis, bowel disease
and Bright's disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular
physicians are from being infallible.
ut would seem to be more in accord
ance with justice and common sense
were they to perfect their own knowl-
edge before they appeal to law to pro-
hibit others from healing.
mot long ago q Globe reporter called
upon ten regular physicians on the
same day, and described his symptoms
in exactly the same language 20 each.
The ten physicians informed him that
he was suffer ing from ten different
diseases and gave him ten different
prescriptions, each utterly inconsistent
with the other.
The implied claim that there ls any
certainty IN regular medicine as at
present practiced, is absurd. All medi-
cal practice, outside Of the simplest
complaints, is more or less guess work
and experiment, whether regular or IT.
regular.
"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
word to add, which is chat the above
is the doctrine Messrs. ri. Ell. Warner
4 Co., proprletors OF Warmers Safe
Cure, have fought for and promulgated
for the past ten years. We know scores
Of cases, and SO does the reader, where
doctors nave treated the wrong disease.
They say advanced Kidney Disease can
not be cured, yet thousands of cases
have been culed with Warmers Safe
Cure; yet so bigoted axe the medical
profession 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 sucl,
bigotry. Every method to prolong life
should be utilized, and the regular
medical profession should be the first to
welcome it instead of encompassipg
themselves in self-conceit and bigotry,
doctorlng symptoms instead of disease,
and sending their patients to the ceme-
terry, poisoned with drugs, but on the
death certificate that they died of ty-
phoid fever. meningitis, pneumonia, or
some other equally foreign cause.