The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-02
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TN the Legislature Of Massachusetts bill
is now pending whose object Is 10 prohibit,
under penalty Of fine and imprisonment the
practice Of "medicine, surgery or midwifery"
by any other than the regular" ply sicians,
The attempt TO pass such bill has been made
before, hut il failed, II isa measure which
ought not to pass, because II invades the per-
sonal liberty Of the citizen; not the personal
liberty of the ''irrogular' physician only, but
Of tho patient,
''Onfy yesterday Dr. Holt in q paper read
before tho Massachusetts, Medco- Legal So
ciety, an organization of regular physicians,
complained of the ignorance OF his profess
sional brethren rs shown In the notorious
Robinson poisoning cases
"This crime said the doctor 'one Of tho
greatest in our medical history, would never
havc 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
foyer, meningitis, bowel disease and Brights
disease respectively.
''This shows how far tho regular physi-
clans are from being infallible,
1T would seem TO be moro in accordance
with Justice and common sense were they to
perfect their own knowledge before they up
peal to law to prohibit others from healing.
mot long ago a Globe reporter called upon
ten regular physicians ON tho same day,
and described his symptoms in exactly tho
same language to each. Tho ten physicians
informed him that be was suffering from ten
differ---.. diseases and gave him ten different
Prescriptions, each utterly inconsistent with
the Others
1.-THE implied claim that there is any GER
tainty In regular medicine, as ut present
practiced, Is absurd. All medical practice
outside of the simplest complaints, is more or
less guessaworl; 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
1t was found under his right shoulder-bl y
We have but word to add, which is that
the above Is the doctrine Messrs. Ii. ii. War
ner & Co, proprietors Of Warmers Safe Cure,
have, fought for and promulgated for the
past ten years. We know of scores of cases,
cnd 30 does the reader, where doctors have
treated the wrong disease, They say ad
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 ma ority of them
will not use it, although they know they
could thereby save many valuable lives
because, forsooth, it is against their fossilizet
code. Out upon such bigotry. Every
method to prolong life should be utilized
and the regular medical profession should b.
the first to welcome it instead of encompass
sing themselves in self-conceit and bigotry
doctoring symptoms instead Of disease
and sending their patients to- the cemetery
poisoned with drugs, but on the death Ger
tiflcate that they died from typhoid fever
meningitis, pneumonia, or some other equally
foreign cause.