The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-21

The regular weekly meeting of
the Waco Medical Society at the
CITY hall last night was we'll attend.
ed all but two members being
present.
The resignation of Drs. Allison
and Riley was read and accepted
and letter was read notifying the
association of the annual meeting of
the Pan American Medical Congress
and informing the members of it's
Importance, after which DR.. Wal
lace made some informal remarks
en- the subject of "Quackery in the
Cure of Drunkenness and the Opt.
UNI Habit"
While acknowledging the present
advancement of the human race he
said that it's progress had been re.
sarded by the st fling of opinion
and the repression of pubic senti-
mtnt. In some matters if we were
not driven like the royal psslmist
10 exclaim in our wrath that all
men are liars, we must at least
agree with the greatest of English
essayists that oman is terrible
fool"
Speaking directly to the point,
how quacks tourished and the gull.
bility of the public and did not
even make a piece of living by
,r,ot;n, h,c nrof
Physicians, said DR.. Wallace,
we're supposed to be the custodians
of public health; the public sup.
ported them and had a right to ex.
pect help a, the critical periods of
life. and they naturally had right
to ask the question: "Quis
Custodes Custodietp"
Ii the alleged whisky and opium
cures are nostrums they ought to
tell the public go. He spoke for
himself and didn't believe that DR..
Kelley or DR.. Houston, or doctor
anybody else knew any more about
the potency of drugs than the
balance of the medical profession,
and not near as much az a great
many Of them.
A rich man in this city bad ap-
preached him and asked him to start
Kelley cure place in Waco. A
DR.. Houston had been to see this
gentleman and told him what
wonderful cures could be made with
the Houston treatment. Houston
became encouraged aud sent for his
partner to come down here. DR..
Wallace said that he asked Houston
If he didn't consider himself quack
and Houston said that he did, when
he told Houston that all the money
In the world could not make him
stake his reputation on any such
business. He had not seen DR..
Houston since.
DR.. Wallace read extensively
from pamphlet on the subject in
band written by DR.. Evarts, of
Cincinnati, who was an authority
on such matters, the extract read
denouncing the indiscriminate use
OF the whiskey and morphine nos
trums TO all sorts and conditions of
people, without knowing the poten-
ccy or qualities of the drugs given.
These medicines were manufactured
and sent to these insti utes and were
not pre'cribed directly by the men
who gave them.
He believed any reputable physi-
clan could treat whiskey and NOR
phne as successfully, if not better
than these people, if the physicians
mad the confidence of the public.
Much had been told already of the
Physiological effects of these drugs
When Unfortunately administered
TO all corners. If these men
knew anything for the good of hui
manly then lei them make it pub
TIC, not make merchandise out of
me lnfrmities and Ignorance of their
A great part of these cures, the
aoctor thought, were brought about
W the workings of the Imagination
" the results Of high expectations.
The doctor then gave brief his
1Iofy of quacks and quackery for the
.lst hundred years. He told of
sae loyal touch for scrofula in
england over two centuries ago;
uVw Charles the Second was be-
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