The Washington times., 1894-10-28
FOR CONSUMPTION INvESTIGA.
TION CONTINUED.
DR.. Amick's Chemical Consumption
Cure Said to Be Similar to DR..
Shades Mineral Treatment
for Consumption.
Valuable Scientific Reasons Why the Two
Treatments DifFer-Ths One IS Called
Specific the Other Scientific
system Of Treatment

THE TrrEs reporter noticed some time ago.
in the Times and Register. weekly medical
journal published IN Philadelphia, containing
the hefolloWing, which consists OF a letter written
TO the journal by DIR. Wilson, which explains
itself. DR.. Wilson writes as follows:
what is your opinion OF Amick's chemical
treatment for consumption! / see it adyer-
tised in The Medical World.
J. J. WILSON, VI. D.,
''Littleton, Col"
To which the editor replied:
81 think Amiek simply adopted SHADES
mineral treatment, which has been fully de-
scribed in our columns. Shslde came out ike
an honest professional gentleman and gave
his brethren the benefit OF his discovery. az
he deems 1t. Anick took up the idea and
operated it upon a basis Of quackery for
which he was deservedly expelled from his
college and societies."
The TINES man called upon DR.. Shade at
his Office 1892 Fourteenth street 1 was
compelled to wait in the doctors parIors-
that seem to be always filed with patients
for my turn / at once called the doctors at
tentiOn to the medical journal. Afterreadiug
it carefully DIR. Shade said that A1niek's treat
ment, medicines, ETC., were not similar to his
mineral treatment for consumption. ''Whfle
Dr. Amlck may have followed nv articles,
which have been appearing in six different
medical journals during the past three years.
giving the scientific causes and pathological
conditions in consumption. and the only seien-
Gfic treatment that can possibly arrest the dis
ease. 1 say he may have followed my out
lines Of treatment and phraseOIO9y in giving
his plan Of treatment to the public. which was
done six months after wrote lengthy article
for the Medical Brief CT st. Louis, which has
the largest circulation of any Journal In the
West. 1 suppose the editor Of the medical
Times and Register noticed the similarity OF
language used by Amick in presenting the
rot bof md uo{a
in describing his treatment. While this may
be true, am perfectly satisfied that Amick
does not give the same medicines l use in nv
plan of curing consumption. because I have
examined several trial outfits received from
the Amick Company.
The outlines Of treatment are similar but
the medieatiOns cannot possibly be the same,
because Anick's treatment is called a specific
as 1t is the same for one and all. whether IN
the first. second. or third stages OF the
disease. My treatment Is purely scientific IN
every particular. No two cases require the
same outline, depending on the temperament.
diasthesis, herediry. and susceptibility to the
different outlines OF treatment Some parts
Of my treatment depend entirely upon the
physiological effect Of the medicine admins
tered, so that every patient is a law unto IL
self. My patients are 10 me a library which
I must carefully dy-separately-to fully
com preheDd and understand their peculiar
I idiosyncrasies. diasthesis. temperaments. pre-
dispositions. &c., in which We ali differ as
much as we do IN individuality. God has not
made any duplicates in the vegetable or ami
! nal kingdom. and az a result we cannot treat
i a chronic functional or organic disease in
I telligeutly or successfully, without recogniz-
I ing all the particulars in regard to the
I patients environment now. where born and
/ reared. history OF ancestors. predisposition,
/ whether inherited or acquired. childhood
/ diseases, the kind of food reared on, kind
/ Of water drank, whether soft, limestone, slate
/ or sandstone, spring or mountain water. Any
treatment put up, dispensed and prescribed
as the Amiek treatment can be considered
nothing more than proprietary medicine,
patent medicine. or 'cure-all' inasmuch
as same preparations, tablets, ETC., are in
tended TO cure consumption in its many
varied forms, and all stages of the disease,
cavities or no cavities, hemOrrhages or no
! hemorrhages. i'll temperaments. and daisthe-
sis. Ny discovery is based-a5 have already
said-on scientific principles, which are ap-
propriated and applied according 10 the
physiological effect desired and the stage OF
disease. If DR.. Amick has stolen his thunder
from meas you say-he is welcome TO it. as
l am not az all selfish as some local III. DIS are
who opposed Introducing nv discovery
through the local profession on the ground
that il would give me nOtOriety and advertise
me as specialist As much as 70 say, let
the cOnsumptiTe 20 10 his Premature grave
rather than DR.. Shade should be given free
advertisement. That is the way DR.. Koch
was treated in Berlin. However, the IN
preJudieed and intelligent public have made
up their mind by this time whether Dr. Shade
has been doing good work or not. and
whether his discovery is worthy Of the pubic
confidence"
The ten cases Of consumption reported
cured-among whom are several physicians
bear the inspection OF the Eight Of Open day"
Surely DIR. Shade has made a wonderful i'm
proyement in the treatment of lung diseases
to have cured so many hopeless cases here in
our midst We are inclined to call it more
than an Improvement on the old way OF
treating consumption We most emphati-
calIy decide ana declare with DR.. Morgan,
professor of lung diseases in San Francisco,
Cal. who says: DIR. Shade has made the
greatest discovery of the century"