Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
NOW ANSWER THIS.
A Move That Forever Settles the
Charge That the S. Offer
Concealed a Scheme.

| A Physicians Circular Letter and How Drs.
Copeland, Hall and Byers Reply to It
Action More Forcible Than Words-A
Bit of History.
The fve-dollar rate which Drs Copeland.
Hall and Byers introduced for stated
period created genuine surprise, not only
among doctors and druggists, but among
newspaper readers generally. 1t was such
a radical departure from the big fees usually
charged by persons claiming to be special
lists that at first it could hardly be under
stood by the public. OF course the rate was
not exceedingly profitable to the physicians
themselves, and in some cases, especially
those of patients out of the city, needing
special preparations or apparatus to supply
the place of Office treatment, it entailed a
positive loss. In spite Of this, however,
Drs. Copeland, Hall and Byers lived up to
the terms of their Offer and in no case was a
patient charged more than s. month for
medicines and treatment during the period
the offer covered.
Envious and less successful doctors looked
on ut first with incredulity.
There is some trick about it. they said.
"They are going to get more money some
way. They cannot treat patients and fur
nish medicines ut s. month";
But in spite of this warning, intelligent
newspaper readers who had carefully
watched the career OF DR.. Copeland and his
associates during the many years that they
have practiced medicine in Pittsburg know
that there was no trick aboutit. They knew
that Drs. Copeland, Hall and Byers re-
hgiously kept their promises to the public,
and the offer met with u cordial and almost
overwhelming response. Drs- Copeland,
Hall and Byers did what their enemies said
could not be done. They did it, not only for
one month, but for three consecutive
months. Then incredulity gave place to
anger. Envious doctors realized that 4 tell
ing blow had been struck at the unreason-
able system OF heavy fees and expensive
prescriptions. After that a remark fire.
quently made by discounted physicians
was:
'Oh, true, they are simply doing that to
get crowd of people. After they get all
the patients they want they will raise their
rates and make a lot of money"
One physician in another city, envious OF
the success of DR.. Copeland and his associ-
in circular letter written on a photography
which he mailed to all the names he could
get.
Well, we are prepared to show the weak
ness of this method of attack just as clearly
as we have shown the weakness of other at
to renew that offer to all patients who can
come to the Office for treatment and medi-
cines-in fact for all cases wherein the rate
does not entail q positive loss tOus. Out-of-
town patients will be charged only, in addi-
tiOn to this rate, the actual wholesale cost OF
whatever special preparations or appliances
they may need. To local patients we will
maintain the rate of s. month
for all medicines and treatment for the
diseases for the remainder of the winter
months, January and February We believe
this thoroughly demonstrates what we have
been attempting to show, that patients can
be skillfully, thoroughly and successfully
treated at one-fourth, yes, one-tenth the
cost charged by many who claim to be
specialists.