Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-25
NUMBER %.
CURING CONSUMPTION
THE AMiCK DISCOVERY NOW EN-.
DORSED EVERYWHERE.
Aust ConsumPtives be Isolateds-
State Legislatures and Boards OF
Health Say the Disease is In
fcctious.

hSoANA Suy the OlSeaSe Is In
fcctious.
The press of the entire country are
awakening to the vital Importance Of
the recently discovered cure for con-
sumption. The most influential news
papers, north, south. east and west
unite in editorials calling attention to
the universal success the treatment is
meeting with in crushing out the dead
" disease and N praise of the manli-
ness. shown by the majority of the
medical profession in So promptly
accepting it, regardless of the fact that
DR.. Amick has not as yet disclosed his
formulate Without an exception the
press of the country have nothing but
the severest censure for the few mar
row-minded conservatives in the medi-
cal profession who, while acknowledge
ing themselves utterly unable to bene-
fit, not to say cure, the poor consump-
tive, refuse to prescribe the life-giving
medicines, giving as their only reason
that Amick violates their code of
ethics in not making public his formu-
Lac for fools to tamper with. The
Louisville Commercial says editorially:
The code of ethics among physicians,
like the social code among club men,
may be advantageous, but the law
does not recognize either and cannot
properly be used to enforce either as
such. DR.. Amick, of Cincinnati has
discovered remedy for consumption
He is very free to furnish his miedi-
cines to other physicians, and accord
ing to reports, apparently well authen-
ticated, his remedies have proved very
efficacious. A committee of physicians
went to Cincinnati few days ago to
investigate the matter and were con-
vinced that DIR. Amick had made a
valuable discovery, but one of the
physicians charged that DIR. Amick
was guilty of unprofessional conduct;
in other words, that he had violated
the code of ethics. Dr. Amick is reg
ular physician of good standing in the
community and has been in good
standing with his confreres of medi-
cine, and even if he has violated the
code of ethics the law df Ohio cannot
be used against him."
The Minneapolis Journal says, DR..
Amiclt, who has acquired a great deal
of celebrity of late by his success
full treatment of phthisis. has recently
had his cure investigated by and
at the instigation Of the newspapers 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 been only under
treatment for two months: The phy:
sicians who watched the course of
treatment all expressed themselves as
satisfied with the cure and testi-
fed os to the great value of the
discovery. But a number OF
| doctors who were interviewed &C
cused DR.. Amick of violating the
code" He has made one of the most
| wonderful and valuable discoveries
ever hoped for in medicine, but he re-
| fuses to give the formula to every
Tom, Dick and Harry to monkey with,
and he therefore violates the code. It
| is O noteworthy fact that the majority
| of physicians who have so much to SAY
| about the code never accomplish
| anything of note, but feel satisfied if
only they have kept their senseless
| fetch from rude violation. Forum
| ately the public, which gives the ply
| sician his support, doesn't care a fg
| for the "code," and is always ready
| and willing to give honor and credit to
| the man who discovers anything that
will alleviate the sufferings of human
ity. whether he keeps his formula to
himself or gives it freely away for
quacks to pick up ann ,Je in their busi-
ness.
The Minneapon: fimes, after, refer
ring editorially to the action of the
state board of health of Michigan in
placing consumption on the list of infec-
tious diseases, recommends the Amick
treatment, because thirty or more
physicians in the city are using the
medicines compounded by DIR. Amicl
in their practice and are of the opin-
ion that the medicines accomplish more
than the discoverer claims. 1t may be
that reliable cure has been found but
if not that il seems certain that help
has been introduced which greatly as
sists the fight against this enemy Of
human life.
To Isolate Consumprives.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 4, Oct. 1.-THE ac-