Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-03-20
Medicine Us Humbvg.

IToN COURIER under this caption
1.-The Devices of Chsrlatans or the
Black Arts ia Medicine" Read he
fore the Charlton County Medical
Society, January, 1890 From
sources Of good authority learn the
day on which DIR. ID. claims to have
read his article before the society
that himself and one other fellow
constituted the whole society, in
cluding the laymen the DR.. had in
.vited to hear him read his wonder
ful aggregation of SANDER, vltupera-
ton and abuse upon the medical
profession. OF course, two not be-
ing quorum, the society did not
convene, therefore the DIR. could not
and did not read his essay before
the Charlton County Medical society.
1t is well known fact that the DR..
has never produced an essay upon
a purely medical subject, everything
hS NOS SNCA "lltISh OCihS POltuICu
with SANDER and abuse of the noble
profession, to which he clings as
medical parasite. The Charlton
County Medical society seems about
all to have disappeared except
its caudal appendage which still
wags at the old stand. From the
wild and unwarranted assertions the
DIR. Is in the habit of making, I am
not surprised that he accuses me of
keeping huckster shop in Moberly,
when 1 resided in that town / defy
him to find any one among the citi
zens of Moberly who will go before
a notary public and make affidavit to
the effect that kept huckster shop
or any other kind of a shop except
a first-class drug store, where drugs
we're kept and sold.
As to special course taken at Kan
sas City will say that when l went
to Kansas City 1 found my preceptor
in his office and when l came away |
[ left him in his office and that dur |
ing the entire time was. in K. G.
[ was under the immediate instruc- |
ion of my preceptor or his learned
assistants. 1 will kindly refer the
DR.. to the penalty inflicted on Anna
mas aLd his unfortunate spouse for
he same kind of misdemeanor Of
which he is guilty. The doctors
morals seem to have been sadly neg
ected and have so far retrograded
hat he Is almost beyond redemp-
ion. The DIR. says he has very
amt idea of having seen me on
farm near town. Perhaps he did.
was raised on a farm, Some of
he most learned and intelligent
nea the world ever produced were
ocked IN a cradle on a farm. Yet,
Thile there, my opinions were just
5 firm In the efficacy of medicine as
|
fool, believes in making an apothe
airy shop of his patients stomach
ut when any organ Of the body be-
ONES obstructed by disease to such
n extent that nature by her unaided
fforts cannot overcome 1t, the in
elligent physician comes in and ap-
lies the proper remedy to assist ma
IRE to overcome the disease, and is
instrumental in saving
fe, or in soothing the aches and
ans of the suffering humanity
'r. d., on the contrary, calls this a
umbug and a delusIon- Ihave fre (
uently heard the doctor say that
doctors kill more patients than
hey cure" l have no doubt DIR.
rs graveyard experience fully at
ests his assertion, and that mother
arth has kindly covered a great
lany of his blunders. The doctor
ays he interviewed a negro boy,
ired by me to work on farm, after
e had left me. Indeed! he was a
cry small negro boy and employed
y me principally to drop corn and
,lay with the children, being only
bout 8 or 10 years old at that time.
The DIR. has for long time been in
he habit of amalgamating with and
the colored population,
specially the female portion of the
ace. Meddlesomeness and an in
late desire to scribble seems to be
ome OF the characteristics of the
Or. The slang prose and the vul-
,ar rhymes he is in the habit of In
lIctIug upon the public through the
Medium Of the newspapers are but
he evanescent effusions of morbid
,rain and are intenoed for notoriety
md advertisement, principally the
after. The code of Ethics prohIb-
Is doctors from advertising, there
ore he takes this method of abusing
he medical profession through the
,ress as a hint to the laity OF his
greatness and Importance and the
innate "cussedness" of the balance of
loctors, but 1t wont work. The lay
nan, though he may be ignor ant,
will not be deceived by such cheap
)ait and the world will still go
around as usual.
j. L. AInRInGE. Nj. ID.