The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-04-24
Medical Monopoly Not Wanted.
Boston Daily Globe, Feb. nth, 80.

Boston Daily Globe, Feb nth, 49,
"ln the Legislature of Massachusetts +;
bill is now pending whose object is to pro
hibit, under penalty of fine and imprison
ment, the practice of medicine, surgery Of
midwifery" by any other than the "regu
| lar" physicians. The attempt to pass sucl
a bill has been made before, but it failed.
is measure which ought not to pass, be
| cause it invades the personal liberty Of the
citizen; not the personal liberty of thu
irregular physician only, but of the patient
"Only yesterday DR.. Holt, in paper
read before the Massachusetts Medico-Le
gal Society, an organization of Irregular
| physicians, complained of the ignorance O.
his professional brethren as shown in thu
| notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
'This crime," said the doctor, tone o.
| the greatest in our medical history, would
never have been discovered but for the sus
picions aroused outside the profession" AND
| he called attention to the fact that in five o.
the poisoning cases the regular physician
| certified the cause of death to be pneu
| MONA, typhoid fever, meningitis, bowe
disease and Bright's disease respectively.
This shows how far the regular physi-
clans are from being infallible.
cit would seem to be more in accordance
with justice and common sense were they
to perfect their own knowledge before they
appeal to law to prohibit others from heal.
ing.
''Not long ago a Globe reporter called
upon ten Irregular" physicians on the same
day, and described his symptoms in exactly
the same language to each. The ten ply
sicians informed him that he was suffering
from ten different diseases and gave him
ten different prescriptions, each utterly in
consistent with the others.
'The implied claim that there is any GER
tainty in regular medicine as at present
practiced, is absurd All 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
it was found under his right shoulder
blade" We have but word TO add, which
is that the above is the doctrine Messrs
H. h. Warner e. Co., proprietors of War
ner's Safe Cure, have fought for and pro-
mulgated for the past ten years. We know
of scores of cases, and so does the reader
where doctors have treated the wrong dis
ease. They say advanced Kidney Disease
can not 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, al
though 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 encompassng themselves in self
conceit and bigotry, doctoring symptomsin-
stead of disease, and sending their patients
to the cemetery, poisoned with drugs, but
on the death certificate that they died from
typhoid fever, meningitis, pneumonia, Or
some other equally foreign cause.