The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-12
Medical aIonopolr MOI Wanted.


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in the Legislature of Massachusetts, bin
Is now pending whose object is to prohibit,
under penalty Of fine and imprisonment, The
practice OF medicine, surgery or midwifery
oy any other than the regular physicians.
The attempt to pass such bin has been made
before, but itfailed. 1t isa measure which
ought not to pass, because it invades the per-
sonal 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 So
ciety, an organization of regular physicians,
complained of the ignorance Of his profess
aonal brethren as shown in the notorious
Robinson poisoning cases.
This crime said the doctor. 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 cause of death to be pneumonia, typhoid
fever, meningitis bowel disease and Bright's
disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular physi-
clans are from being infalhble.
IT would seem to be more in accordance
with justice and common sense were they to
perfect their own knowledge before they ap-
peal to law TO prohibit others from healing.
mot long ago a Globe reporter called upon
and described 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 inconsistent with
the others.
1.-THE implied claim that there is any Ger
talnty in regular medicine, as at present
practiced, is absurd. Al medical practice
outside of the simplest complaints, 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 probing for the bullet in
the region of his left hip, and after his death
u was found under his right shoulder-blade1
we have but a word to add, which Is that
the above is the doctrine Messrs II. a War
ler q C. proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure
nave fought Tor and promulgated for tie
past ten years. We know of scores of cases,
and so does the reader, where doctors have
treated the wrong disease. They say adj
vanced 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
viii 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 encompass
sing themselves in self-eonceit and bigotry,
dOctoring symptoms instead of disease /
and sending their patients to the cemetery
poisoned with drugs, but on the death GER
tihcate that they died from typhoid fever, |
meningitis, pneumonia, or some other equally |
foreign cause.