St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-02
Advertising Methods Excite
the Ire Of the Regular
Practitioners,
And Drs. Mccoy and Blair Are
Cited Before the Medical
Board.
The Kennedy and PETER Cases
Attract Crowds at the Po-
lice Court.
A Heavy Damage Suit and a
Singular Supreme Court
Case.

The code of professional ethics that
always carries great weight with prac-
ticing physicians and surgeons, abso-
lutely prohibits newspaper advertising
of every nature. A doctor who places
a card in the columns of the press. or
does more, in fact, in the line of adver-
Using than to hang up modest shingle
at his office. invariably calls down upon
him the bitter anathemas of his fellow
practitioners. Now and then the code
is ignored by doctors. j. Cresap Nc
Coy's career in Minneapolis is an eX-
ample in point. He located there
in 1886 and built up a lucrative
practice through advertising methods.
illustrating the potency of the news
paper columns. Two years ago he went
to other cities and opened offices, leav-
ing his Minneapolis practice in the
hands of his partner, DR.. w. F. Blair, a
regularly licensed physician and sur
geon. j. Cresap McCOy's fame re-
manned, it tranSpires, although he was
engaged i'll reaping shekels in other
cities. The punctlllious followers of
the professional code are inordinately
dlspleased with the methods of the firm
of Mccoy & Blair, and have taken steps
to have DR.. Blair's license revoked.
Nor is that all. The 1st of
August last branch office
was opened in the Germania
bank building in this city, and has since
been conducted under the style of Nc
Coy & Blair. This Office, 1t see ms, has
been in the charge of DR.. Terry j. Hut
ton, of st. Paul.
Yesterday proceedings before the
state board of medical examiners were
instituted by DR.. Asa +. Goodrich, of
this city, against both Dr.. Blair and DR..
Hutton for the revocation of their
licenses, respectively. The complaints
hands of DR.. Arthur Sweeny. the secre-
tary of the board. The summons cites
the defendants to appear before the
board at the capitol, at 10 o'clock next
Saturday, to answer to the charges pre-
ferred.
1t is related in the charges that the
doctors against whom the proceedings
have been brought are guilty of I'M
professional, dishonorable and dishonest
conduct as physicians and surgeons"
and the specifications recite the
methods that these doctors have en-
plOyed in detail. The complaints are
volumnous documents, charging that
j. Cresap Mccoy built up remuner-
oOlNO ~ QSllCC ny CAlClloifC
as san expert in the disease known as
catarrh, and many other diseases" 1t
is alleged that Dr.. Mccoy has no license
for the practice OF medicine i'll Mime
sofa, and that he has not been in this
state for two years, but that both de-
PENDANTS are guilty of deceit by hiding
their own identity in that each repre-
sents to be Dr.. j. Cresay Mccoy, DR..
Blair in Minneapolis and DR.. Hutton in
st. Paul.
1t is also narrated in drastic language
that the defendants in the proceeding,
''for the purpose of wrongfully deriving
to themselves, and for said Mccoy, who
could not himself practice in this state,
benefit from the said representation
of said M Coy, and for the purpose of
imposing upon the ignorant and credu-
lous and of deceivlng and imposing
upon the public in general" the de-
PENDANTS continue to widely advertise
in their practice under the firm name of
Mccoy q Blair in both cities, etc. The
case will doubtless create great deal
of contention and excitement in the
profession.