People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-17


ton of that journal to the Amick test
cases which had been conducted by the
Cincinnati Post. and as the Recorder
was in the field with an offer of a
$1,000 prize for the demonstration of a
successful method of curing tubercu-
losis, an arrangement was made with
DR.. Amick for a public test in New
York.
The Recorder selected 10 patients,
whom DR.. Amick took under his care.
with the ultimate result that all but
one were pronounced cured. and the
Recorder, having satisfied itself of the
fact of their recovery, paid Amick the
thousand-dollar prize.
This triumph Of the Cincinnati dis
coverer was not unalloyed with bitter
ness, however. Envious persons, and
others who practiced medicine under
the old time rules and regulations.
seeing the rise of Amick's new treat
ment, opened fire upon him through
the columns of certain journals, and
endeavored to convince the public that
somehow or other the doctors discov-
cry was not all it seemed to be. He
had long practiced medicine in Cincin-
natl, however, and had been Of excel
lent reputation in the craft. So innu-
endos fell fiat, more especially when
his brother, the well known Prof. NJ.
l.. Anick also of the Cincinnati Col
lege of Medicine and Surgery, came
out and associated himself in the new
treatment, bringing with him the ripe
results of twenty-five years medical
laborS.
DR.. w. K. Amick did not at the time
declare, nor does he do so now. that
his treatment is an infallible one. He
insists that no extravagant claims
shall be made for it, and asserts that
not more than 20 per cent. of third
stage cases can receive any lasting BEN
eft from his medicines. lie does. how
ever, declare that the treatment is al
most specific in the earlier stages of
consumption where the directions
given by him are carefully observed
and no complication of other diseases
is present.
Since the close of the tests made by
The Post and the Recorder. many
other newspapers throughout the
United States have conducted similar
tests, and so have numerous hospitals
and sanitariums.
The Minneapolis Times, speaking
editorially of the spread of the Amicll
cure, says:
Thirty or more physicians in the
city have taken the medicines COM
pounded by DR.. Amick and are testing
them in their practice. One of the
doctors gives it as his opinion that the
medicines, in the test cases. accom-
plished more than the discoverer
claimed for them. 1t may be that a
reliable cure has been found, but il
not that, a help has been introduced
which will greatly assist in the une.
quail battle that must be fought against
this enemy of human life"
Another editorial article published
by the Minneapolis Journal says:
"Dr. Amick, who has acquired a
great deal of celebrity of late by his
successful treatment of phthisis, has
recently had his cure investigated by
and at the instigation of the press OF
Cleveland. OF ten almost hopeless
cases which were selected only one
died, two were pronounced cured, four
showed marked improvement, and
three were much improved. In all
cases there was an increase in weight,
and the subjects had only been under
treatment two months.
The physicians who watched the
course of treatment expressed them
selves as satisfied with the cure and
testified as to the great value of. the
discovery. But a number of doctors
who were interviewed, accused DR..
Amick of violating the code He has
made one of the most wonderful and
valuable discoveries ever hoped for in
medicine, but he refuses TO give the
formula to every Tom, Dick and Harry
to monkey with. and he therefore VIC
lates the code"
The success of Amicks treatment
has brought into the greatest promi-
hence his theory that the disease pro-
duced the microbe, as against the the
DRY of Koch and many physicians that
the bacillus microbe was the cause OF
consumption. Koch had directed his
efforts towards the destruction of this
microbe, while avoiding killing the
patient. In this he admits that he
failed. As a result his medicine
"tuberculim" is not now used.
1t is believed that something like
one-half of the medical profession now
adopt Amick's theory, although he has
by no means a unanimous support in
his beliefs.
1t will be seen that DR.. Amicks
theory is in direct conflict with the
ideas of those who, through lack of a
better term, may be called the bacteri.
ologists of the profession, and who as
cribe. AL lung troubles to bacteria or
bacilli.
These psychologists demand as will
be noted in some of the interviews
given above, that all consumptives be
isolated and treated as though they
have smallpox or yellow fever. They
insist that wife shall be separated
from her sick husband and a husband
from his dying wife, in order to avoid
contagion.
The opportunity to freely test the
Amick cure is still given TO regularphy.
sicians in all States of the Union and
every day, in response to calls, over
200 free outfits are sent out to appli-
cants.
The criticism continues to be made
by physicians of the unchanging and
nonprogressive school that Dr. Amick,
in allowing the newspapers to exploit
his cure, has outraged his profession
and should be severely reprimanded.
The reply is made to this charge that
DR.. Amick had no control of the secu'
lar press, and he very frankly say:
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