Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-24
ALLEGED MEDICAL EXCLUSIVE.
NESS.

A friend bands In, with the request
that It DO published, a statement 10 the
effect that the Supreme court Of the
United States has rendered decision
throwing open all professions to all
comere,an declariag unconstitutional
any restriction imposed by legislation
which ieprivosa man from earning q
living In any honest manner. This
decision Of course, strikes at the
"medloal tyrants" who IN nearly
every state In the Union shave sue
cecded In bulldozing the legislatures
int, the belief that the PEG lie demand
that the doctors who kill them OIL shall
have a monopoly Of the business"
a statement maize be- an Nj. ID. In
the 81. Louis Giobe- Democrat, Of the
9Th inst, says that "the medical pro-
fession has been accused OF aelhshness
because OF It's efforts TO secure state
legislation calling for examining b3ards
for both physicians aud druggists, but
the thinking public generally COM
mend their action In this respect.
Public opinion has been NO well ecu
GATED In this matter that there 10 only
ono state In this Union In which n
man who has Jailed In every calling
he has attempted eau commence busi.
ness as a physician or a druggist with.
out an examination"
The practice Of medicine Ia the most
permeatlng and cons, quential Of all the
professions, and to permit the novice,
the dabbler or the imperiectly equipped
to engage In It without restraint
IN ut once TO foster and promote a
serious menace. IL IL enough that the
alex aro considered ut the mercy OF the
man Of medicine without tho slightest
knowledge OF what he does or why he
does u; but TO throw down the bars
altogether and let Tom, Dick aud
Harry fall upon the helpless ID more
than any well.regllated community
can stand. Yet II should be remem-
bered all the while that doctor, how
ever skillful and accomplished, IL not
OF necessity healer; be observes a
certain formula after having diagnosed
the case, anu the discipline is gener.
ally pretty etrlot-if II results favor.
ably, well and good; II not, he has
complied with the ethics Of his calling
and II not responsible, but Of couTse
the object Il and all efforts are de-
signed toward recovery II possible, II
not, then to mitigate the situation as
much as may be.
II II 10 true that all doctors are not
hoalers, 1t is also true that all
heRlers are moi doctors. Those who
apply mild remedies from vegetable
sources and which II not efleolual are
at least not harmful, otttimes score vic
tories over pain aud prostration when
the more learned anu skilled utterly
fail. To rule out those who adopt
natures remedies, therefore, simply
because they are strangers to technical
terms and know nothing whatever Of
degrees aud diplomas, would SAVIOR
strongly Of disposition to uphold ex-
cluslveness with tyRny; anu the at
tempt to enforce 4, by statute would
lind but few supporters among the
thinking and dislnterested. There are
provisions In our doctrine for the use
OF mild herbs along with the
ministratlons OF the Church where
the latter aro insufficient through
the sutleref's want OF faith,
anu those who want to adhere to THU
practice must not be denied. Neither
must those who prefer more elaborate
and scientific treatment nor those who
will have nothing to do with doctors.
Each individual should be left
to his own choice 80 long IS no lie cspa.
bic OF choosing.
In all this no reflection is designed
upon the medical fraternity or any
part thereof most % not ali OF Them
within our acquaintance are capabl
reliable, upright men. la tue domain
OF surgery, nothing that Is previously
sAid has any bearing. The surgeon
cannot DO too Well educated or be In
possession OF too much OF that capacity
which comes OF experience largely ana
Of that indcsoribahle quality which
enables him to know what 10 do al q
glance and how to proceed to ao il