Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-19


amnzIng touay to hear q hoaTy. heal et
"sc oniifo regular physician" d.
ncunciug venCssciion Hnd salivAti en-
when twenty-five years ago this SAINT
good, honest doctor WAS c0mtellcd by
! the cthicsof his society 10 laud bleed.
ing and salvation 10 the skies lu ofdcl
10 be regular and scientific, although
MS long ~ II il to his advantage t. be-
sclentihc and regular he Will stay with
II N he IL compelled 10 consolt 10 an
ephemeral wafping Of his Judgment.
II IL, In the opinion Of the writer oi
this article, dangerous TO place tho
| practice OF medicine IN tho hands Of
! any particular school OF sect. nav
| talked with scores II physicians that
were bowling Tor medical legislation
/ 20 protect the dear people ngninet
quacks. Just speak 10 one OF those
gentlemen about tho enactment Of n
good substantial law In regafi 90 MAJ
| practice and they will turn 20 black "a
in the face that one would suspect
heart failure.
Medical colleges are convenient ami
useful TO the student OF medicine, tut
they nfe not altogether Indispensable.
Nothing IL TAUGHT In m adicai school
that may not be- taught eIsewnere, -.
pecinlly In this age Of text books anu
Journals. With the creased facility
Tor recording scientific discoveries am
SLIME Al observations, tho diiigcnt stu-
dent may become familiar with nli that
Ia taught by medical professors, with.
out ever entering the lecture room.
Private diaseoling rooms aud n gOOi
prccrptor's Office, coupled with the
d. al
medical college, will afford the oirnest
aud Industrious student ~ much IN.
iOfnn ion NJ may be had IN medical
college Of the metropolis. Experle e.
under good pfcosptnr In actual ser.
vice Ia worth more thsn all the theories
that were ever pfOp0unued by any
faculty Of professors. Medical colleges
cannot guarantee proper understand.
iug OF medicine aud surgery 10 all
that receive diplomas.
Tho casual observer will. note the
diiierenC. ~ young men coming iWm
college. One IL modest aud fusptctiul,
while another h blatant VI medical
phrases anu tiitnsiveiy obtrusive.
Ono utlentlvely listsns 10 the OLD
neighOOrhOod physician TO whom no
college bad opened It, frlendly dOlrs,
ami gathers In the iruila Of his lony
experience, while the other scouts The
wisdom Of the sage who was, per
chance, his own good grandmotho''
medical adviser, warmly protesting IN
au Indignant manner, that all such are
quacks, deserving imme late banlsh
ment from the field VI practice. one
~ perhaps tho friend of temperance,
tho say OF the aged An1 tho thought.
ul guide Of tue young, while the
other iuny be- 4 hauchoc anu moral
ieper, scattering the ser1e Of ruin IN
families where he Il trusted. Roth Oi
these young Dfs. have Iiplumss from
n "fegulnr tciontinop medical college
and sanctioned by their political
board az qualified to 20 before the
public % NJ. De. Were / now writing
Tor medical men alone, would not
II necessary % say that ali
the qualifications necessary for a
skilful physician and surgeon, are not
Impaired In the curriculum OF any Que
school ON earth. Ling, the
swedish ccoluslastic, discovered anu
developed the wonderful fepafa.
i've influences Of passive auu
yymnastic movements IA the ma.
chinery OF he human body. Ho
) ystematized aud applied those move.
menta Tor tue cure OF incutable malnd.
lea by other means. Pritbsnitz, the
German peasaui, led, ms was Ling. by
personal suffering aud failure OF cure
by the practice OF the day, discovered
the wonderful Influence Ofwater yRri.
ously applied far the cure OF certain
arrangements. Ani AtiIl
there In not college faculty Or tx
amining board 10 the United States
that II qualified 10 examine an nppli.
cant la fega.. TO the swedish move
neut or the water cure.
| speak OF these thsugs not g. de. |
tract from our many excellent medi. |
lil colleges, but simply to show how |
MANTLE and narrow are the minds or |
iOmo Ui our wOIld.be madicl lega |
ADVISERS. When | see flOfonce Night. |
ugalu leading ali the well.liuiusu /
surgeons OF Europe az camp |
iygient, anu John Howard tho gro. |
iery boy teaching sanitary reform anu |
,0gd hospital management 10 thp /
medical world, | am compelled u |
ecugniZe tho possibility Of gHsat dis.
'0vufies, good suggestions anu eminent /
XIII outtido this RANKS OF medical gltu |
u high Places, Wneu | remember
.larvey's demonstration OF the cifcuA.
ION Of the blood aud Jenn0r's auvo.
ucy Ui vaccination, say, Iut
10 legal barriers 10 human pre-
.ress, aud tue advance Of medicine.
There ATE ~ yOt no nXod sauuafds
n medicine with which state lUslsla.
ion may enforce conformity.
| could cover many columns here
WITH Acknowledgements from eminent
medical writers, ancient auu modern,
nowing the want OF substantial pro.
reese, anu the sad slate OF uncertainty
II our generally accepted therapeutics.
natOmy IN the only branch taught IN
medical schools about which medical
oiohcts do not diller more or less.
IOyk iuto the medical journals late
rom the prose, n you please, aud see
he variations and contradictions ~ to
nc csuse OF disease anu means OF r.
iu ! Then think Of u candidate tor a
lcrnse 10 practice presenting himself
o a board iUr examination upon tech
localities aud absurditirs that the
OF the board themselves are
OnsIatly disputing about.
l yield 10 no one In appreciation Of
he highest medical education, but
most earnestly object to the assumption
nat there uuIg ana uuFtuNv t.afH f.. !