The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-05-18
Medical Monopoly Not Wanted.
Boston Daily Globe, Feb. I. 50.

Boston Daily Globe, Feb. Z. 81.
I'm the Legislature of Massachu
sets bill is now pending whose
object is to prohibit, under penalty
Of fine and Imprisonment, the prac-
tice OF medicine, surgery or mid
wifery" by any other than the "regu-
lar" physicians. The attempt to
pass such bill has been made be
fore but it failed. 1t is a measure
which ought not to pass, because it
invades personal liberty not of the
'ir.regular' physician only, but of
the patient.
"Only yesterday Dir. Holt, in u
aepdr read before the Massachusetts
Medico-Legal Society. an organiza
tion of regular" physicians, com
planned of the ignorance of his pro
fessional brethren as shown in the
notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
This crime said the doctor,
zone of the greatest in our medical
history, would never have been dis
covered but for the suspicious arous
ed outside the profession. And he
called attention to the fact that in
five of the poisoning eases the regu
lar physicians certified the cause of
death to be pneumonia, typhoid fever
meningitis, bowel disease and
Bright's disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular
physicians are from being infalliblc.
at would seem TO be more in ac-
cordance with justice and common
sense were they to perfect their own
knowledge before they appeal TO law
to prohibit others from healing.
Not long ago a Globe reporter
called upon ten regular physicians
on the same day, and described his
symptoms in exactly the same Ian
guage to each. The ten physicians
informed him that he was suffering
from ten different prescriptions, each
utterly inconsistent with the others,
The implied claim that there is
any certainty in regular medicine
as at present praetieed, is absurd.
All medical practice, outside Of the
simplest complaints, is more or less
guess work and experiment, whether
regular or Irregular.
hen 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 n word to add,
which is that the above is the doc
trine Messrs. II. H. Warner u Co.,
proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure
have fought for and promulgated for
the past ten years. We know Of
scores of cases and so does the read
or, where 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 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 such
bigotry. Every method to prolong
life should be utilized, and the regu-
lar medical profession should be the
first to welcome it instead of encom-
passing themselves in selfeonceit
and bigotry, doetoring symptoms in
stead Of disease, and sending their
patients to the cemetery, poisoned
with drugs, but on the death ccrtili-
cate that they died from typhoid
fever, meningitis, pneumonia, or
some other equally foreign cause.