Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04
FOR PRACTICAL TESTS
The Five-Dollaf Rate Is Once More
Extended to All.
Another Month to Afford an Opportunity
to All to Test the Skill and Superior
Methods of Drs. Copeland and Hall.

Another Month to Afford an Opportunity
to All to Test the Skill and Superior
Methods of Drs. Copeland and Hall.
During the month of September Drs.
Copeland and Hall placed under treatment
larger number of new patients. than was Vas
ever recorded in PHYSICIANS Office in the
same length of time in Pittsburg. One OF
the incidents of that month, and resulting
from the fight that Drs. Copeland and Han
have made upon unlicensed and unQuanHeu
preienders to medical skill, was an attack
on methods of treatment in which, wlthon1
directly attacking Drs. Copeland and Hall,
it was sought to injure their practice by con,
fusing their methods with old-fash1oned
ones ones: OF ofGourse. with public who nellehe tHe
attack reacted with crushing effect upon
its authors and the practice of DTS.
Copeland It Hall was doubled INSIDE
Of 80 days. But they will not let the
matter rest here. They propose to give to
all in this city who suffer from catarrhal
troubles an abundant opportunity to test
their skill and the superiority of their meth
ods. They propose to teach their enemies
land if they are proud of anything it IS OF
| the class of enemies they have made) that
they cannot juggle with truth or maintain
false position before the public. They will
therefore, for another 30 DAYS continue their
| rate of SIS q month for medicines and treat
ment. All patients applying for treatment
before November l will be treated for $5 =
month and all medicines furnished free,
each months treatment including medicine,
to cost So UNTIL CURED.
A Distinction and a Difference.
A lady who recently placed herself under
treatment with Drs. Copeland 4 Hall said:
81 never would think of going to advertis-
ing doctors; never did such thing in my
life. have brother who is n doctor in the
country, and who knew Dr.. Copeland at
Bellevue Hospital years ago. He advised
me to consult him and l followed his ad-
vice."
We have no fault to find with the senti-
ment this lady expressed. The term "Ad-
vertising Doctors as she uses it. and as it
is often used by intelligent and sensible peo-
pie includes the whole wide range of I'M
scrupulous, unprinciDled and Gisreputable
quackery. The phrase advertising Doc
tors" has been for years, and is still to
great extent, synonym for quackery in its
worst phases, and we do not blame sensible,
thinking and intelligent people for steering
however, to make one point very clear and
very distinct. There are advertising Doc
tors" and Doctors who Advertise, and there
is q wide difference. advertising Doc
tors, ;" in the first place are, as n rule, no
doctors at all. The large ajority of them
have never seen the inside of a medical col
lege.
Under the head of Advertising Doctors
are included all that class of unprincipled
and unscrupulous men-usually nneducated
and ignorant men--who prey upon the sick
known to need description. As a rule they
promise miracles, and by their cunning and
pausibility extort large sums of money
from the poorer classes and those who can
le;tst afford to be robbed.
There are advertising Doctors" ." and ad-
vertising doctors as the term is used means
falSirs. There are Doctors who advertise
and i'll this class are those genuine physi-
clans and specialists who have fulfilled all
the regular requirements of medical study
and practice, who have passed through the
usual course of medical college and
hospital study and who have devoted their
lives to certain lines of practice-confning
themselves to these special lines. Their ex-
perience and their study has given them
special and pre-eminent skill in them and
they choose the daily papers as a means of
letting the public know their specialties and
their success. As conscientious physicians
and as honorable men, they believe in ad-
vertising.
First in this class of Doctors who adver-
tise their specialties are Drs. Copeland and
Hall. They state to the public some of
the results of their work-their location
their special7ies. They say to the public:
"This is the work we do. These are the re-
suits we accomplish. We ask to be judged
by them"