Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-11-16
AUDUBON AUDUBON CO., IOWA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 49,

proposed to Introduce, Other doctors
in considerable numbers, dcrided the
idea that anything more efficient than
old school treatment with cod liver oil,
crcosote and the various hypophos-
phites could be devised, and some of
them entered the newspapers and med
zeal journals To say SO in brusque
English Others, again, who We're not
SO confident that the acme of medical
science had been reached, were dispos-
ed TO await test of Amicl's method
before giving their opinions,
Ii was ut this stage of the proceed
ings that The Post conceived the idea
of selecting test eases of consumption
and also one or two OF asthma for
Amicll 10 treat the doctor having de-
clared that his formula was equally eff
fectlve In asthmatic troubles The
plan for the test. rs laid down by The
Post and accepted finally by Amiek,
was 10 select from persons who were
affected with tuberculosis three whose
eases had passed beyond the initial
stage and would therefore be past the
| assistance of snch treatment as could
be given by the standard methods of
the day.
1t was agreed that il AmiclS succeeded
| In curing the test patients he should be
| given full and free credit for the same
| and that il he failed the treatment
should receive meiitcd condemnation.
| Full reports Of The progress OF the tests
were to be published frequently until
the end of the undertaking and the pa
! tients either died or got we'll.
Acting on this plan The Post advcr-
| tiscd for patients aud secured several,
| including one of chronic asthma of 81
years standing and others Of consump-
ton which had pr crossed into the
! third stage. The treatmc.t of all the
eases were persistently carried on for
over six months. The progress of the
test was duly chronicled and became
familiar TO all the people of the Ohio
! Valley and contiguous states. Marked
| interest was excited and the outcome
was as anXiously awaited by the public
MS by the unfortunate patients them
selves.
After the lapse of rhe time mentioned
! the Post stated that all of the test pa
| tients were alive and well,
! At the present time one Of these test
patients is living in North Bend. O
while another resides ut West Fourth
| street Cincinnati, and is continually
prai,ing the AmiclS cure rs n final re-
lief from long continued trouble, and
the third, who gained 81 pounds In six
weeks, has become giant in strength
and lives now on Main street.
just before the test of the Amicls
cure took place, rs narrated, DIR. Koch,
the celebrated German physician and
| scientist had announced ~ cure foi
tuberculosis, which, when thoroughly
tested, proved to be inefficient, and the
collapse of the general expectation,
which had followed Koch's announce
ment, made il difficult for Amicls's treat
mcnt to find favor.
Nevertheless considerable number
of physicians noting the apparently
favorable progress OF the tests and con
WINGED by the sincerity of DR., Amick,
by the fact that he declared himself
willing TO send out free to all regular
practitioners sample outfits of his medi'
cincs, with directions of treatment OF
test eases, concluded to experiment fol
themselves, and to this end sent foi
medicines and directions.
While their test cases were progress
ing in various parts OF the country,
other physicians, who thought t. get
longer treat with any show OF success,
sent the same to Anick, determined t.
shift all responsibility upon him, and
perchance cause "a failure of system
OF treatment which would make an un
favorable comparison with their own.
Some Of them declared that Amick's
refusal to make publ 6 his formula OF
medicines was a great wrong and OF
itself suggested u moncy-makna
spirit, rather than a broad and human.
itarian character.
Amick replied To these critics that
his reason for keeping the formula
secret was To prevent the tinkering oil
inefficient doctors who, by adding To
on subtracting from the medicines
would achieve varied results, in the
main disastrous, and the whole system
would, in time, be thrown into disrc'
pute. 1t was a new theory OF practice,
which was confronted by the opposition
of old time IDEAS and prejudices and
every safeguard was needed that could
be devised TO keep the medicines and
method of applying them free from in
novations, until such time as the treat
ment should become universally APP
proved and accepted, when the form
ulas might, without further restraint
be freely given To the world
DR. Anick in the early days Of his
experiments, was beset with doubts
ahd fears as to the final outcome, and
he was greatly troubled over some OF
the desperate cases of consumption
sent to him by other physicians 1oi
treatment. He scarcely knew himscli
the virtues of the treatment he had
originated, and trembled lest many
deaths should occur on his hands ano
discrcdit the treatment.
But large percentage of the third
stage cases sent to him improved visibly
under his care, and finally ended in re
coverics. Others died.
The fame of Amick's new treatment
had by this time become generally diff
fused throughout America, ana vast
numbers of letters of inquiry cam,
pouring in upon the Cincinnati physi
clan from the north, south. east anc
west. The doctor finally awoke to thu
fact that he had become famous.
a Cincinnati correspondent of the
New York Recordercalled the attention
of that journal To the AmiclS test eases
which had been conducted by the Gin
cinnaG Post and as the Recorder wa,
in the field with an offer of n 81 ,O0l
prize for the demonstration of IA sue
cessful method of curing tuberculosis
an arrangement was made with DIR
AmicS for public test in New York.
The Recorder selected 10 patients
whom DR.. Amiclf took under his care
with the ultimate result that all bu
one were pronounced cured. and tn,
Recorder, having satisfied itself Of thu
fact of their recovery, paid Amick th'
thousand-dolar prize.
The triumph OF the Cincinnati dis
coverer was not unalloycd with bitter
ness, however. Envious persons, ant
others who practiced medicine under
the old time rules and regulations, see
ing the rise Of AmicS's new treatment
opened fire upon him through the col
umns of certain journals. and endeav
ored to convince the public that some
how or other the doctors discovery
was not what he claimed il TO be. III.
had long practiced medicine in Cincin
natl, however, and had been of excel
lent reputation in the craft So the
innuendos fell fiat, more especially