Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
THE CLAIMS ARE JUST.
DIR. COPELAND AND HIS ASSOCIATES
HAVE A RIGHT TO MAKE THEM.


Taught Them How to euro Certain
Diseases, Their Experience Has
Shown Them That They Can Cure
Them, the Testimony of Thou
sands OF Patients Proves They
Can Cure Them, and They
Have an Unficn:ablc Right
t, CIaim to Cure Them.
1t was an honest physician-a physician in
regular practice, and frank, sincere kind
of a man, who, during a visit TO DR.. Cope
land recently, made use of a remark which
was something like this:
Doctor Won will pardon me if say that
there is only one criticism that L can pass
upon your way of doing business. There IS
only one thing that / cannot understand
As take it, you make clear and dlst'nct
claims; you state that you cure certain DIS
eases. Now, ! cannot understand how Won
can do this. To tell Won the honest truth,
do not feel sure that can cnre anything.
The speaker in this case WAS entirely non
est. He was well-educated physician, IN
fact was classmatc of DR.. Copeland years
ago, and has devoted many years of his-life
to general practice, and stands eminently
well in the community in which he practices
In spite of his assertion o. his own lack or
confidence in himself he is successful as
practitioner. He was entirely honest i'll the
remark above quoted, and he was just as
honest when a few minutes later during the
conyersat ton he said:
Doctor. the fact about it is that man
cannot be q general practitioner any longer.
Developments in medicine and surgery in
the last ten years have come upon us SO
thick and fast that IL man cannot cover the
field: he cannot keep up with all that isnew
and use nj and wonderful and effective in
relieving suffering. He has got to be a spe-
cialist, IN order to know what he is doing,
and to be effective in his own work, he has
fine colf tair aI
OF practice"
There had our friend hit the truth,
hit it squarely and fairly, and in that re-
mark had our friend explained his first re-
mark, and his lack of confidence i'll him
self.
The man whose work must cover the
whole range of disease to which the flesh is
heir, and the whole compass Of the theory
and practice of medicine to-day can well shy
that he does not feel as If he could cure any
thing.
The man who confines his work to certain
special lines of practice to which he devotes
his time and his efforts, his training and his
intelligence for all his life,
Has a Right to Say,
Speaking from his experience, speaking
. from his knowledge of diseases, and speak
ing from the results to which he can point
with pardonable pride:
IL can cure these diseases; know whereof
1 speak; have given my life to the treat
ment of these diseases: 1 understand them;
l know how to cure them: let the results of
my work speak for themselves in this COM
mrnity."
In1s is the position oil thoroughly trained,
experienced and successful specialists,
tbera Ia NJ, ,,,,,.,,.,, r,,,ros, ,ho,,.t q. yha,,
Wy 70 n" nei".iilu aoout H. hen
Dr. copeland ana MS associates say:
I'VE cure catarrh and kindred troubles;
we do cure it every day, and we have been
curino IL for vears in onr nroctice ~ the,- ara
.oyina vh.+ tha,, l,o- =. -. r.. a.
sa,.,"s.s, "nas .ues Ano" - sluo. VIVA: n..: Sno
testimony OF hundreds OF reputable cit1zeus
in the community in which they practice
saw is true
The, do c,,ra Tho ,.orr,,a =, ,bo;,. ,,,o,;.I
Ao 'iouo'o IN 'i'oii 81. .o"tf
'ieS' anu 'he reason that tney are aple 10
cure them ana are able to speak with such
confidence is, that they devote their lives to
them. and bv ssudv nra racticeand exnerience
understand nov to he s,ccassf,I l., tb.r,
- 80. .o" w 20 eo7ui III 'He'n'
we peaeNe .Ia' cIi1lclslIis ~ are oiIen passed
npoa p. .no 80 esai,rs na speclaalsts .s "nlcn are
nonese ones. we peueve that the criticism
with which this article opens is an honest
anu lalI-1nlnueo one put we DeieVe that 1t
Is oased upon an erroneous conception OF
tne Morh ana tne skill ana the success OF
genuine specialists
NOW, just word IN conclusion OF an en-
tirely p.rsohdI hature- Inere are doctors
ana doctors. There are specialists and spe-
cln1sts.
In the nrst place, two-third' of the men
nave no lesi.iliinIe eiaiIl F., TO tne tltle.
iaiI PToportioi oi .nen haFe n0S le@lt-
luate uuPlouu on any kIhu- sun larger
proportion Ire oi !. Grass that Is aptlv de-
scriDeo 5y me Ioliowln@ language from re-
cent medlcal puolleation:
ooy gets tireu OF larm or workshop,
packs Els trunk ana mes away TO some
cheap meolcai coiie2e LOT Ten months comes
PACK anu rs o reauy 70 Practice medicine.
Eacn year w sn-ealea doctors are turned
iooSe 10 practlce thelr ignorance ON the pub
nc
There are doctors md dcctors. tbe-a ,ra