The herald., 1896-01-26


man in happy-go-lucky. devil-may-care
fashion without the slightest attempt at
investigation or regard for the truth.
We believe, however. that the intorma-
ton, or misinformation. en- bodied in the
above came from Coroner Campbell's s
office and that the officials of the latter
are therefore responsible for them. Thus
the quotation becomes also an example
of the way in which public officers abuse
their position in order TO cater to the
preiudices of the class to whom they are
supposed to owe their positions and
whose professional prejudices they share.
doctor coroner in this case undoubt-
edly voiced the sentiments OF all the doc
tors OF os Angeles and clutched at the
tieetirg hope of downing an opposition
with which they cannot compete in a
legitimate way, by distoring facts and
supplying wholesale falsehoods to take
the place of facts when facts failed them.
The truth OF the matter is that Mr..
Platt never called upon Curtis Barney
in the County Hospital and never saw
him until urgently requested TO visit
him at Mrs. Bowlby's residence. as an act
of humanity to desperately sick man
who had been given up to die by all his
physicians. He never promised to cure
him for any certain sum OF money, or in
any given time, or promised him any
cure whatever. but simply permitted him
to use those of the Chinese herbal rene.
dies which were adapted to the case and
which undoubtedly would have cured
him had he received the benefit OF them
a few months earlier. The alleged ''in.
human treatment" consisted in attend
ance upon a man whom nearly every body
else had abandoned and in doing what
ever was possible to alleviate his suffer-
ings. The statement about the Cow ma
nure" poultices is supposed to have ema-
mated from Dr.. Clark and is in line
with the famous, or infamous, arguments
OF DR.. P. c. Remondino. late president Of
the Southern California Medical Associ-
alton, which arguments have been so
thoroughly canvassed for the past few
months in the public press that we pre-
sumo the physicians of Los Angeles and
others are now fully posted upon them.
OF course it is a falsehood. There was
no evidence whatever at tho inquest 10
justify any one of these malicious asser-
tions and they simply show that educa-
tion and the possession of a diploma from
medical college are not necessarily CO.
incident with charity, philanthropy and
a high norai regard for the truth.
For some months past we have been
endeavoring to educate the public Of Los
Angeles ana Of Southern California in
the use of simple, non-poisonous reme-
dies in the treatment of dis ass. Strange
as it may seem to the man who lives in
N nj fr,r 10
able. as only lew men are, to disabuse
his mind OF the effects OF custom and
prejudice, this most desirable consum-
nation can be brought about only by
adopting the tenets OF a so.called barbar.
Gus race For the highly civilized lauca-
sian clings to the curious and illogical
belief that natura IN a state of disease
can assimilate and profit by elements
which, in a state Of health, are deadly
poisons. The men who have made q
trade or business OF impressing th.s mon
strous argument upon the minds Of their
fellows are naturally those who resist
most strenuously any attempt to over.
throw the iallacy which they constantly
maintain as truth. Hence the opposi-
tion which we have encountered.
1t has been onr further misfortune to
be most bitterly opposed by the less capa-
ole and merirorious mem bers OF the msdi-
cal profession. First. there was the mar.
row-minded and bigoted Remondino,
with his vulgar fairy tales abou. the
materials Of which the Chinese materia
medica was alleged to be composed,
Next there was the conceited and bonn.
bastic tenderfoot Stoddard of San Ber.
nardino, who lifted his futile and transit
tory protest against the march of pro-
gress, like the old woman who attem pted
to sweep back the waves Of the sea with
her broom. Now comes Campbell, and
his abi, lieutenant is the doughty
Hinkie, who is not a Health Officer,
but is simply an underling of the
sanitary department. These ars the
men whose tender ssnsibilities are
shocked because we permitted few doses
of herb teas to be given to dying man,
in the hope of aEeviating bis intense sui-
ferings and as a substitute for the hypo-
dermic needle and the morphine and
strychnine of the regular" practitioner.
We are willing to compare our records
with the records Of these men, our
methods and successes with the meth ods
and successes of those who are behind
them and are urging them on IN their
attempts at persecution, and the prin-
ciples upon which the preparation and
use OF our remedies are based with the
principles of the ''regulsr" school, and to
let the public be the judge between us.
Nevertheless for the purposes of tn
particular discussion, we desire to present
herewith the affidavit of Mrs. NJ. J.
Bowlby, the kind-hesrted woman who
cared for Curtis Barney in the sickness
which resulted in his death and who is
fully onversant with all the particulars
in the case. 1t is as follows:
State OF California, County Of Los An
gelss, IS.
Mrs. M. J. Bowlby. being duly sworn,
depoIss and says that she has been resi-
dent of Los Angeles for thirteen years,
and now resides at No. 727 Buena Vista
street; that she was acquainted with Cur
tis Barney in his last illness and attend.
ed him in that illness, and that the facts
in reference to 1t are as follows:
heard that Mr.. Barney was in the
County Hospital, through friends who are
connected with the church that l attend.
My husband went to see him there
through our sympathy for him IN his