The Washington times., 1895-02-10
Why SOME PHYSICIANS
Should Advertise and Why Others
Should Not.
Some Eminent Physicians Advertise

Physicians should let the public know
through the press If they have made dis
covrry OF value TO suffering humanity. No
one can test the value OF a new remedy or
discovery in medicine so well as the people.
and how can thew have the opportunity ex-
cept it be published IN the Dapers which con-
vey news OF every kind to every family Ply
sicians are too jealous OF each other to enable
them to read of a discovery made by a
brother physician without allowing their nc
tioDs and words t5 show their inner feelings
OF selhshness.
Some physicians should advertise because
their aggressiyeness has opened up new fields
in the pathology of disease thar has brought
blessings TO humanity In curing diseases in
an Irregular manner" some would style it.
because the old and well-beaien path OF the
forefathers has Teen forsaken or strained
little
There was time in the history OF every
great physician who has made a discovery.
that he was called a quack or a crank. be-
cause the ranE and file could not grasp truths
so freshly ushered from the brain OF a phil
osOpher.
An old physician who fills chair in an
American faculty of medicine at this time
wrote 10 the writer a few DAYS ago: For
while there are thousands of selfish. Bar-
rowminded and bigoted men finding their
way into the medical profession, who feel IN
duty bound to taboo every thing new under
the sun, unless 1t comes across the ocean,
At the same time the profession mas its quota
OF men who are meme the less largeminded
and true. because they are physicians, and
such men Will not fail sooner or later TO ae-
knowledg and prize the merits of every in
trinsicaliy valuable advance made in the
healing art"
Some physicians should not advertise or be
allowed 10 do so. because they deceive the
people Dy publishing in the newspapers that
which IS deceptive and in some cases untrue.
The truth should have free course, whether
I 1t Is given TO the public through the papers or
I from mouth to mouth. Truth and facts
should be accepted wherever found and that
/ which deeeiyes the people should be con-
I demned without fear or favor.
/ Dr. Koch's discovery OF bacilh in tuber-
eulosis deserves great praise and honor. But
/ IL will be remembered how the medical pro-
/ iession OF Berlin were SO ineensed through
/ jealousy and envy that he was compelled to
/ res gn his chair OF professorship aid other
I important positions in Berlin, his own home.
/ "a prophet is not without honor sayefn his
own country" What really made his brother
/ physicians mad was because OF the adveTtis-
/ ing he received on account OF his discovery.
I DR.. Harvey who discovered the circulation
/ of the blood, and DR.. JeLner, who discovered
/ prOteciion-thrOuGh yaccination-irom small
I pOx, were trea;sd in like manner as was DR..
/ Koch and others who have made discoveries
/ in the science of medieine-
/ And last, but not least, should be allowed
/ TO omit Dr.. y. BOslar shade. one OF our own
/ citizsns, who has made the discovery Of the
/ ehloridum treatment forconsumption, " hieh,
/ according to the investigation of TUE VASE
ISGToS TINES, which was published in It's
columns. the largest percentage Of cures Of
I consumption ever reported in this OF any
\ other country. Then there are other physi-
I clans who should not advertise, because they
4 have nothing to advertise. They are routine
practitioners Of medicine and as such are
( indispensable. and should be honored for
I their noble and heroic work OF relieving the
( suffering and dying. j. W. 3