Evening star., 1896-01-21
DOCTORS DtsAG REE
Some Of the Arguments Before the Senate
Subcommittee.
Objections to the Bill to Regulate the
Practice of Medicine fin
the District.

The doctors disagreed yesterday when
they appeared before subcommittee of the
Senate to give their opinion on a bill to
regulate the practice of medicine in the Dis
trict of Columbia 1t is likely that Senator
Gallinger, had he been a patient instead of
chairman of the subcommittee holding the
hearing, would have died while two dozen
physicians were contending with one anoth-
er on the relative merits of their systems.
The hearing became quite exciting as IL
progressed. and when Dr. Nelson Calvin
Page spoke, he made a decided impression.
DR.. Page said that in 1882 he determined to
study medicine, and being a follower OF
Jesus Christ, he despised all shams and de-
ceptions. He went into the fields and the
woods, and for two years studied the herbs
and plants with a view to learning medical
wisdom. Then he went into the medical
museum, and for five years studied and
read there
Il have cured men that you have failed
to cure" said DR.. Page, turning to face the
regular practitioners. Men whom you
have given up to die I have brought back
to health"
DIR. Page was enthusiastic in his denun-
ciation Of the bill, and his voice rang
doris on the Senate side OF the Capitol in de-
nunciation of any effort to prevent him
from practfcing medicine.
Il will go to jail before will submit to
learned quacks."
DR.. w. w. Hubbell said he represented the
Vlviopathic White Cross University of
Science. and that he had compound that
would remove all Inflammation, all disease
and all corruption. AS he announced his
deep-set belief in his medicine, which he
called Curon, he gesticulated energetically,
and an onlocker not knowing what his
n ission before the committee was would
have believed that he was engaged in SELL
Ing his compound on the street corner Dr.
Hubbell announced that he was seventy
five years of age, and said that he depended
on Curon to keep him in health.
Where is your university" DR.. Busey
| asked the speaker.
MY Office is on 14th street." said DIR.
HubbeI.
But where is your university? That is
what asked" said DR.. Busey.
I'VE don't have a brick and mortar uni
versity. replied DR.: Hubbell; I'VE have a
| university of brains"
DR.. M. r. Leverson, who announced that
he was Of Port Richmond, Staten Island,
and talked with a slight lisp, but very
energetically, said that he would argue TO
show physicians were not qualified to he
intrusted to pass upon the fitness OF medi-
cal men. With this very slight reference
| that might be considered as relevant to the
| subject, DIR. Leverson launched upon a dis
| course on vaccination, and went on to show
that that method a cure for smallpox
and cowpox was much worse than useless.
He said that cowpoX and greatpox were
| the same things. and that immense injury
was being done to human beings by these
| vaccinator murderers." He was well forti-
| hed with diagrams, which he presented TO
the committee, showing these diseases in
various stages, and If Senator Gallinger
| had not been physician it is likely that
| he would have suffered a loss of appetite
| when his dinner hour arrived, as DR.. Lever
son insisted upon his personal inspection Of
these highly colored representations of dis
| ease in its most revolving form. DIR. Lever
] son also had diagrams showing that yacci-
| nation Is not a cure for the smallpox, and
| he presented these to Senator Gallinger
| with the assurance of a man who has ell
| the trumps in his own hand, and is not
| afraid Of anybody.
After the meeting was over a few of the
regulars addressed the committee, and Dr.
| Busey said he thought that the speeches
| of those who had appeared in opposition
| to the bill hal really been in the interest Of
| its passage, and that there was very little
| left for him to say.