Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

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prize for the demonstration of n sue-
cessfal method of curing tuberculosiS
an arrangement was made with DIR.
Amick for public test in New York.
The Recorder selected 10 patients,
whom DIR. Amick took under his care,
with the ultimate result that all buk
one were pronounced cured, and tho
Recorder, having satisfied itself IF the
fact of their recovery, paid Amick the
thousand-dollar prize.
This triumph of the Cincinnati dis
coverer was not unalloyed with BUSH
ness, however Envious persons, and
others who pracUiced medicine under
the old time rules and regulations, see
ing the rise of Amick'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 all it seemed to be. He had
long practiced medicine in Cincinnati,
however, and had been of excellent
reputation in the craft. So innuendos
fell fiat, more especially when his
brother, the well-known Prof. nj. l..
Amick, also of the Cincinnati College
of Medicine and Surgery. came out and
associated himself in the new treat
ment, bringing with him the ripe re-
suits of many years medical labors.
DR.. w. Il. Amick did not at the time
declare, nor does he do so now, that his
treatment is an infallible one. He in
sists that no extravaganza claims shall
be made for it, and asserts that not
more than 20 per cent of third stage
cases can receive any lasting benefit
from his medicines. He does, however,
declare that the treatment is almost a
specific in the earlier stages of con-
sumption where the directions given
by him are carefully observed and no
complication of other diseases is pres
ent.
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 Amick
cure, says: Thirty or more physicians
in the city have taken the medicines
compounded by DIR. 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 if
not that, a help has been introduced
which will greatly assist in the un-
equal 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 in
stigation of the press of Cleveland. OF
ten almost hopeless cases which were
selected only one died, two were pro.
nounced 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.
1.-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..
Amiclx 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 thi
| formula to every Tom, Dick and Harry
to monkey with, and re therefore
violates the code "
The success of Amiclx'> Soatment
has brought into the Creates promi-
hence his theory that the disease pro-
duced the microbe, as against tho
theory 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 "tuber--
culim" 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 vii, be seen that DIR. AmiclS's
theory is in direct conflict with the
ideas of those who, through lack of n.
better term. may be called the BAG.
teriologrsts Of the profession, and who
ascribe all 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 regular
| physicians in all states of the union
and every day, in response to calls,
over 200 free outfits are sent out to APP
| plicants.
The criticism continues to be made
| by physicians of the unchanging and
nonprogressive school that DIR. Amick,
in allowing the newspapers to exploit
his cure, has outraged his profession
and should be reprimanded.
The reply is made TO this charge that
DIR. Amiclx had no control of the secu-
lar press, and he very frankly says
that if he had he would not have dis
couraged any honorable effort TO bring
his treatment at once thoroughly be,
fore the public Had the usual slow
channels of the medical journals been
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