The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-19
Medical Monopoly Not Wanted.

Boston DAILY Globe. Feb 18th. 50.
.ln the Legislature OF Massachusetts
bin Is now pending whose object Is 70 pro
hiblt, under penalty Of fine and imprison'
ment, the practice Of ''mcdcinc, surgery or
midwifery" by any other than the ''regu.
lar physicians. The attempt TO pass sucn
q bill has been made before, but II failed. y
is Il measure which ought not 10 pass. be-
cause il invades the personal liberty OF the
citizen; not the personal liberty OF thc
irregular physician only. but OF the ratient
"Only yesterday DIR. Holt, IN paper
read before the Massachusetts Medlco- lie
gal Society. an organization Of Irregular
physicians. complained OF the Ignorance Of
his professional brethren as shown III the
notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
This crime,r SAID the doctor, zone OF
the greatest ia our medical history, would
never have been discovered but for the sus-
picions aroused outside the profession" And
lie called attention 10 the fact that IN five Of
the poisoning cases the regular physician
certified the cause OF death 10 be pncu-
mona, TYPHOID fever, meningitis. bowel
disease and Bririt's disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular pnys-
clans are from being nfallible.
At would seem to be more in accordance
with Justice aud common sense were they
10 perfect their own knowledge before they
appeal 10 law TO prohibit others from heal
ing.
Not long nCo Globe reporter called
upon ten Irregular physicians on the same
day. and described his symptoms IN exactly
the same language 70 each. The ten ply
sicans Informed him that he was suffering
! from ten different diseases and gave him
| ten different prescriptions, each utterly IN
| consistent with the others
| 1.-THE implied claim that there Is any Ger
I tainty ia regular medicine as at present
| practiccd. is absur'. All medical practice,
outside Of tho 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 bulle In
the region OF his left hip, and after his death
il was found under his right shoulder
blade" We have but word 20 add. which
il that the above Is the doctrine Mcssrs
II. II. Warner a. Co, proprietors Of War
ncrs Safe Cure, have fought for and pro
mulgated for the past ten years. We know
Of scores Of cases, and 80 does the reader
where doctors have treated the wrong dis
ease. They say advanced Kidney Diseas
can not be cured, yet thousands OF case
have been cured with Warmers Safe Cure
yet 50 bigotcd are the medical professio
that the majority OF them will not use II, q
though they know they could thereby say
many valuable lives. because, forsooth, II
against their fossilizcd code. Out upon sue
bigotry. Every method TO prolong lii
should be utilized, and the regular medcs
profession should be the frs 10 welcome
instead Of encompassIng themselves in sci
conccit and bigotry, doctoring symptomsi il
stead Of disease, and sending their patient
to the cemetery, polsored with drugs, b,
on the deatA certificate that they died frol
typhoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia, {
some other equally foreign cause