Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-04-20
MEDICAL MONOPOLY NOT
WANTED.

Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 7th, 'S9.
"In the Legislature of Massachu.
sets a bill is now pending whose
object is to prohibit, under penalty of
fine and imprisonment, the practice
of "medicine, surgery or midwifery"
by any other than the Irregular"
physicians. The attempt to pass
such bill has been made before, but
it failed. 1t is a measure which
ought not to pass, because il invades
the personal liberty of the citizen;
not the personal liberty of the
irregular physician only, but of the
patient.
"Only yesterday DIR. Holt, in a
paper read before the Massachusetts
Medico-Legal Society, an organiza-
ton Of regular" physicians, COM
planned of the ignorance of his pro-
fessional brethren as shown in the
notorious Robinson poisoning cases.
"This crime" said the doctor, tone
of the greatest in our medical his.
tory, would never have been dis
covered 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
physicians are from being infallible.
at 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 healing.
"Not long ago "A 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, chea
utterly inconsistent with the others.
'The implied claim that there is
any certainty in Irregular" 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 a
word to add, which is that the
above is the doctrine Messrs. H. H..
Warner d Co., proprietors of War
ner's. Safe Cure, have fought for and
promulgated for the past ten years.
We know of scores of cases, and so
does the reader, where doctors have
treated the wrong disease. They say
advanced 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
will 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 encompassing themselves
in self-conceit and bigotry, doctoring
. symptoms instead of disease, and
, sending their patients to the ceme-
terry, poisoned with drugs, but on the
r death certificate that they died from
/ typhoid fever, meningitis, pneu-
} monia, or some other equally foreign
> cause.