The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
Medical Monopoly not Wanted.

Boston Daily Globe, Feb. Z, 49,
SIN the Legislature of Massachusetts a
bill is now pending whose object is to
prohibit, under penaty of fine and i'm
prisonment, the practice of medicine,
surgery or midwifery by any other than
the regular physicians. The attempt to
pass such bill has been made before, but
it failed. 1t is a measure which ought
not to pass, because it invade5 the per-
sonal liberty of the citizen; not the per-
sonal liberty OF the irregular physician
only, but of the patient.
"Only yesterday DR.. Holt, in paper
read before the Massachusetts, Medico-
Legal society," an organization of regular
physicians, complained of the ignorance
of his professional brethren as shown in
the notorious Robinson poisoning case.
"This crime," said the doctor, zone 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 Brights disease, re-
spectively.
"Itis shows how far the regular physi-
CLANS are from being infallible.
1T would seem TO be more in accord
anoe with Justice and common sense were
they to perfect their own knowledge be-
fore they appeal to law to prohibit Others
from healing.
"Not long ago Globe reporter called
upon ten REGULAR physicians on the
same day, 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.
"The implied claim that there is any
certainty in Irregular" medicine as at pres
ent praoticed is absurd. All medical prac-
tice, outside of the simplest omplailts,
is more or less guesswork 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 shout
der-blade." We have but word to add,
which is that the above is the doctrine
Messrs. Ii. Ii. Warner d Co., Proprietors of
Warmers Safe Cure, have fought for and
promulgated for the past ten years. We
know OF scores of cases, and 80 does the |
reader, where doctors have treated the |
wrong disease. They say advanced Kid |
ney disease cannot be cured, yet thou
sands 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 thew know
they could thereby save many valuable
lives, because, forsooth, it is against their
fCssilized code. Out upon such bigotry.
Every method to prUlong life should be
and the regular medical profession
should be the first to welcome it instead of
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 certificate that they died
from typhoid fever, meningitis, pneumo-
mia, or some other equally foreign cause.