The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-07
DRAWING THE LINE
The Distinction and Difference
Between Advertising Doctors
and Doctors Who Adj
vertise.
A Plain Statement of Facts for Public Road
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A lady who recently placed herself under
treatment with Drs. Mansfield and De Monco
said
II never would think OF going to advertising
doctors; never did such thing in my life. I
have brother who is doctor in the country.
and who knew DIR. Mansfield at the Ohio medi-
cal college at Cincinnati years agr; he advised
me 10 consult him. and followed his ADVICE
TO speak with entire frankness the lady was
right IN her opinion OF Advertising Doctors"
so-calied, and the sentiment which she holds
by no means alone has good cause
We have no fault to find with the sentiment.
The term advertising Doctors as she uses 1t,
and as 1t is used by intelligent and sensible
people, includes the whole wide range of un-
scrupulous, unprtncipled and disreputable
quackery.
The phrase advertising doctors has been for
years and is still, to great extent synonym
Tor quackery IN its worst phrases, and we do
not blame sensible, thinking and intelligent
people for steering clear Of it.
Drs. Mansfield and De MOnco WISE however.
10 make one point very clear and very distinct
There are advertising doctorsi' and doctors
who advertise, and there is wide difference.
Advertising doctors" in the first place. are
as rule, no doctors at all. The large majority
OF them have never seen the inside OF q medical
college.
Under the head of advertising Doctors are
included that class of unprincpled and unscru-
pulous men-usually uneducated and ignorant
men-who prey upon the sick and unfortunate.
Their ways are only too well known 60 need
description, They are often transient, travel
ing from place to place irresponsible and IN
prineipled AS q rule they promise miracles,
and by their cunning and plausibility, extort
large sums of money from tine poorer classes
and those who can least afford 10 be robbed.
There are advertising doctors, and adver
Using doctors as the term is used. means fakirs
There are doctors VINO advertise, and in this
class are those genuine physicians and special
lists who have fulfilled all tue regular require
menls of medical study and practice who have
passed through the usual course of medical
college and hospital study, and who have de-
voted their lives to certain lines of practice
conhn1ng themselves to these special lines.
Their experience aud their study has given
then special and pre-em inent skill in them.
and they choose the daily papers as means Of
letting the public know their specialties and
their success. AS conscienous physicians. and
as honorable men, they believe in advertising.
First in this class or doctors who advertise
their specialties are Drs. Mansfield and De
Monco They state to the public some OF the
results OF their work-their location = their
Specialties. The credentials which challenge
denial are before the public.
They say to the public from the basis OF
printed columns, containing many testim onlals
from well-known men and women in this COM
munity This IS the work we do. These are
the results we accomplish. We ask to be
judged by them