The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-23

science. and that they are scientific,
when there is no such thing as medical
science, or anything like II. aud nine
tenths of the doctors are iuere char
latans their medicines do more harm
than good; they are deadly po!sons.
Their patients who get well do IL In
spite OF their medicines. The regular
doctors lose five times as much per
cent. of their patients as those do. they
call quacks (see ab0ve), who can believe
that deadly poisons can heal the sick:
But 1t Is excellent stun to experiment.
with, and cover the doctors ignorance.
DIR. Chase, of Conn, came TO Proyi-
dence once in two weeks. for fifteen
years before the medical law OF 1895 was
passed. lie was very skillful aud
humane; charged one dollar and price
of medicine. for each treatment. Those
not able to pay he treated free OF CHARGE
as we are advised.
A woman having cancer came to
him for treatment and on examination
he told her that IL was SO far advanced,
that it could not be cured, and advised
her not To be to any further expense
upon IT, Two or three days after, a
regular doctor from Fall River. a gradu-
ate from n first-class medical institution.
who had heard OF the case came TO her.
and said he could cure her and would DO
IL for two hundred dollars, one hundred
dollars down. She paid him one hundred
dollars and he left his medicine and
went away. In two or three days after,
he came back and said he had note to
take up aud wanted her to pay him the
other hundred. She paid tito him, and
in three or four days she died. Which
doctor was robbing the people2 Did the
regular doctors say or do anything about
the case? IL DIR. Chase had been guilty
of such crime, the whole Island would
have rung with their anathemas. The
medical law Is great damage to DIR.
Chase's patients aud the people of the
state. It Is glarlngly unconstitutional
and founded on deception. There were
many such cases affected by that law.
THE DIPLOMA QuAcKs.
On the 1lth of May, 1891. a regular
physician OF 20 years practice. was
called to attend young married woman
in Providence, about to have her first
child. Labor commenced about IL o'clock
A. NJ. and continued In the natural way
until y. NJ, when the doctor, doubtless
anxious TO earn his $40 as quickly as pos
sible, took the child with instruments.
and IL died in about thirty minutes from
the effects OF the operation. The woman
did not recover her health, normally, and
he doctored her several months, but ap-
parently did her no good, and finally she
went to the hospital, which cost upwards
her house and was treated by other ply
sicians until last February when she
broke up housekeeping and went to her
home in Germany, brOken-hearted, and
her amiable husband financially ruined.
The doctors who attended her after her
return from the hospital decided that the
womb would have to be removed. On
her arrival In Germany she consulted a
noted physician, who also said that must
be done. She consulted another, who
was not decided. She then consulted an
old physician, who said he could cure
her without that operations; and she Is
now quite well and will soon return
home. The woman was perfect in form
and in good health. and taking the child
under the circumstances with instru-
mentS was outrageous ma1pfactice, and
the doctor ought to pay heavy damages
and have a term at hard labor. Such
cases have become frightfully numerous
(Se( above). There never should be n
man midwife. as 10 is in Germany Sur
geons are called only In extreme cases,
which are very rare.
The Rhode Island medical law Is 70
the protection of the people from quacKs
the authors pretended. How are the pee
pie protected in these cases2 Are not tn
diploma quacks the worst kind?
In 1894 we saw.a child in Auburn, abou
IL 1-2 months old; the child's stomac
was got out Of order by wrong manage
ment, and a diploma doctor was called
and ne doctored ii ii months with drngs
When born 1t weighed 8 pounds. 1t the
weighed about 4 l-2 pounds-a mer
skeeton-no one thought Ii would live
The celebrated John Pickering OF Lon
don, Professor of Hydropathy, was ii
Providence pt the time and saw the chill
dc advised the parents TO leave of a.
medicines, and gave directions for feed
ing and bathing it. They followed hi
directions and the child now weighs 3
pounds. a healthy child. Where wouli
the child have been II that diploma quac
had kept on drugging IL? Was not tn
treatment OF the child the worst kind G
quackery? Should not the doctor hav
paia damages instead OF having a hundre
dollar fee from that poor man? Did tn
Medical Society say or do anything abou
IL? IL the doctor had not had diploms
could there not have been q great CON
motion about 1t?
A woman was i'll In bed seventee
weeks after confinement caused by bloc
poisoning, having been attended by
diploma quack. After that she was unde
med ical treatment at the hospital nv
years, constantly growing worse, whe
Professor Pickering saw her. AT her n
with water, which she followed. She lei
off all med icines and has been improvin
ever since. and her health Is very muc
improved.
In another case: Showing how littl
dependence can be put upon the opinion
OF doctors, and how the medical law prs
teets the poor from diploma quacSs.
woman believing that she had been pres
nant for several months, and not feelin
very we'll, called her physician, who sal
she was not pregnant, but had ovarfu
trou bles, aud must have an operation
| She insisted that she was pregnant. A
expert was called TO settle the question
! who decided with the doctor, and charge
| the poor woman % for telling her III
and causing her great expense, inlui
| and suffering. She was taken TO the no
| pitai, ethsrized, and prepared for Il
I operation, when they discovered thl
/ she was pregnant, and knew more abo,
| II than all OF them. There were min
| doctors present.: five of them wanted
go on with the operation after they ha
! discovered their mistake, but the operate
refused TO. The child was SO much II
| iured by wbat.they did, tbat-it oied.ln
! few weeks, and was still-born. III
woman underwent great suffering an
injury; she is not at all well, and ms
never he again. In justine, should N
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