The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-15

roverursnf q our cwp counuy.~ IN = sus
poespr. yoQr srhsSa has beeo I'D = thus recrg-
nlzed ana dur1ng IL eays ~ fhe greaf rehesitou
No s.frsogwlnx~ pas allowed In he army
ne ioafAsoms pleasure md Kuntse reSsSofisn
u ~ poor colder vss - de ssrs.ds. arfenI
Thin exeIust7n 81 I'll oeher systems Of Medicine
from the srny sad navy vas bsOnght ahoat,
though nof because IL 80 ffxhk bus through
the innsence II ycar school Bat pcoscripttaa
for opsutoa,a sake. In thfs eOgnf-y. II wholly
wishons Isw sren when sanctioned b she sscye-
tasy Of ua. These boards of nedissi examiners
who = you ~. .aro recognized IN ~ oldcsal
espae5fy-- viii not give rsSoxmsr - 'irrexuiars
- yor are pseased 70 call him. the pristlexe Of
showing hsnsen % b. . man Of education In his
profession Is matters not h0u proficient he
nay - In sEstOmy. surxsrT. prnctfeai rzedt
cine. rnaseSta raedsea- hygiene and therapeutics.
The exsnsueu know nothing Of these facss snd
care nothing f0r them Talenfs, experience and
edscxtien. al are ~ bubbles II be ID not grad
ussc Of m asiopeshic college. He b NOT re-
;eeted Ga account Of insufficient knowledge.
for hia knowledxe has NOS been tried The ex-
clrsion IL made II the outset the test b applied
before any investigation oS hts ability viii be a.
lowed II not THE deprfving . man Of his rights
- IN American. solely on the ground Of his hold
ing opinions cpntfary 70 thsse held by bis ACCT
dental tudeesy Our government allows Method
ixss- Presbyferians. Bsp'istS, Catholics and
u
fair-minded American cttixeas applaud this oct
OF justice. why shoald the government be less
Just in matters Of medicine. when the soldiers
life II ~ stake II Is simply "a oct Of tyranny.
kept up solely By the influence ani for the ag
grandIzemens OF ths regular" phystcsanA
Now. Doctor. Ii, - you say. ''rhe Standard OF
your scaool 10 high. it ought TO be manifest in
iis acts snd history We fear. Doctor. that you
were little .-rnsty" in ailopathic history.
1 k@sss-< <4f<~y
journals To show that homeopathy hso no piace
in some Of the grcsf universities In Germany,
and that there ase no homeopathic physicians
in the Italian disfrietsk''
The reader who has followed M thus fas can
readily understand Why homeopathy 10 not
taught In scme Of the crest universities In Ger
many which are aliopafhfc stronghoida And
iu the s'Itslisn disigicfs,' wish 20 infoR0 the
doctor that the cultured. refued and in1nagsnt
are generally the patrons OF homeopathy and
that the ignorant and nnicarned usually employ
the ..old school" OF cour.e the Italian dis
fyicts'' world naturally fall to them. In Europe
such men - DisrscIi and In cur own country
such men - Benjamin Harrison. James @.
blaine. James A. Garfield. X. b. Hayes. Horace
Greeley. William Cullen Bryant. President
white OF Cornell University. Porter OF Yale. and
hundreds Of Thousands like them are numbered
among the patrons Of homeopathy. II home
oTafhy IS decreasing. al you say IL ID, pray tell
lne Doctor. how II happens that half OF the
general practice Ia the leading cities of the
United States II already out OF ailopathic hands
and done BY The h6meopaths aud the ''irreg-
ulars." A little further along In his arti-
Gle Or. Weed makes the following most re-
markable statement Like the regular school.
. majority Of them are eclectic in practice-on
the broad ground Of the use OF any and all
remedies OF approved vaiue.r
Why. Doctor. what's the natter Why not
giso them an EQUAL show upon the medical
board II this asement OF yours be true why
not let the lion and the lamb lie down together.
This remarkable paragraph, however. reminds
me OF = toast once heart.
s.Htrs's 70 you. as good ~ you are.
And hers's TO me. ~ bad - am.
But a. good a. you ere. and as bad - am.
am - good as you are. as bad as am"
Ascending To Dr. Weed then after Gil the only
differ nee between the majority Of regulars
and the majority Of homeopaths would be- the
difference between twecdiedee and tweedledum
Bat dear Doctor. II waat you say is fact the
majority of regular physicians have been
doing just what yon accuse the majority Of
Homeopathic physicians OF doing, drinking At
9th Or fountains Of medical lore than those OF
their own school,. Surely no regular would
be so Irregular" - 10 do that.
know some OF our regular" doctors In Sc
Attic make egregious ana outlandish blunden,
some Of which have recently como under my
own observation. little more than year ago
enc OF your would-he leaders Of the regular"
profession in seatle Was called In
70 sec lady who had been aiiiug
for several months. and upon making On ex.
animation he pronounced her about to give
birth to child. The lady assured this s'regu-
lar" doctor that abe was not In that condition
and that that could not be the cause Of her
presens Illness This learned disciple Of Kscu-
.apius. however. reanrmea that she IVES en-
cien'e. that he could feel the sbaby's" head aud
that She would be confined before morning
This was IN the evening. aud he left soon after.
giving poaitive instructions for them 10 send
for him ~ O'Clock Z. m AZ IL o'clock he came
bsek-withcut icing sent Tornado smother
examination and confirmed his former diagno-
sis. except - to the time when the event would
take place, which he now said right not occur
for several weeks A few weeks later this lady,
IN company with another lady. called upon me
to see II could tell what her ailmcnt was. and
whether could promise any relief
] examined her aud found that she had
cancer OF the uterus, and that the disease had
reached stage where even An operation would
avail nothing. 20 stated 10 her husband who
soon after took her to California where she died
last August. learned from this lady and her
husband that this doctor during one OF his ex-
amnations compelled her 90 allow him 10 force
his hand and forearm up the rectum--nos even
Offering 70 give her an ancsthetic. which was Q
barbaroGs operation and wholly uncalIed for in
this case During this brutal performance this
doctor rupturci the sphiucter ami muscle, thus
causing her great and unnecessary annoyance
long as she lived. Yet this doctor stands
high with the regulars in Seattle. In fact. he
recently stood ct the head of the regular profess
sion in King county for one year. OF course,
his skin would not be called in question
In February, isse, examined q boy for whom
one OF the leading regular" physicians OF Seat
tie after counseling with two other regular
physicians. had told the father nothing could
be done and that the child could not live
over three monshS" ioand that the boy was
subject 10 attacks OF indigestion, had him going
10 school in four weeks aud he has continued in
good health ever since.
Within the last few weeks learned that one
81 eur regular physicians lost Q case OF scariet
fever in which the rash was well developed.
fever very high, threat symptoms decidedly we'll
marked. snd yet he treated the case Tor
typhoid lever.
ON toe fourth day OF the present month re.
moved from the uterus Of = patient sponge
tent. which had been placed there for criminal
purposes the last week IN February hy another
of our seattle regular" This lady is positive
that the sponge had the desired effect asd tha,
she Passed setus and the secandlncs notvith.
standing the fact that the spoEea rematne,
S&~Aa1s %~N ~se 4AAsS SrftS4A tAkAk .ltf HcAffh
and her condition since that time had been
such as 10 MAKE her llle wFe:chei
This regular docgog. nevertheless rock etesa
has ili-soisea Tee. and IKE the Others whom
have referred 20, has continued 10 be loud ard
iong in bis boasting Of the dignity and noble
ness ami high standing aud honor and .xkilI''
Of the regular profession And he has besn
equally energetic In casting his susshemas A.
Governor Ferry and the public press, for the
manner in which the standard OF medical eau.
cation has been lowered in wsshin g,on-
We weala ne, have mentioned those occur.