The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-09-24
He Cannot Be FOUND
cdr" Butcher Has Left
the City
Statement OF A HEALTH INSPECTOR
A Search for the Consumption
Curer"
PROVES TO BE FRUITLESS
Opinions Of Local Doctors as TO the
Proposition
They Are Unanimous In Saying Consumption
Is lncurable.
City Health Officer Steddom Will Make
Warfare On the Fakirs Advertis-
ing to Do the Impossible In the
PROVES TO BE FRUITLESS
Opinions Of Local Doctors as TO the
Proposition
They Are Unanimous In Saying Consumption
Is lncurable
City Health Officer Steddom Will Make
Warfare On the Fakirs Advertis-
ing to Do the Impossible In the
Way Of Cures

City Health Inspector Hinkle has been
looking for DR.. Butcher of Butchers
Consumption Cure" fame The Doc
tor" failed to register at the city health
department as every practitioner of
medicine in the city is by ordinance
required to do.
Inspector Hinkle did not find DR."
Butcher and yesterday the information
was given out at the city health depart
ment in the city hall that the doctor
had left the city.
The notorious B. c. Plat, however,
continues to advertise Butchers Cure
for an incurable disease, and is still
doing business along the lines for which
he has made reputation in this COM
munity second to no other fakir in
Southern California.
WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY
A Herald reporter has put in several
days this week visiting the regular
physicians Of this city, and interview
ing them as to whether in their opinion,
the dread disease Of consumption can
be cured. AS q result of his investiga-
lions he Is prepared to state that they
are unanimous in expressing themselves
that consumption cannot be cured, and
any fakir, whether he is graduate Of
a school Of medicine or not, who claims
that he can cure this disease, Is either
ignorant, or he is seeking to fleece the
sick and suffering. .!i4a(,rsl,, r.
The local physicians are unanimous
in expressing their hearty commenda-
ton Of the course of The Herald in ex-
posing these frauds, in order that the
community may be rid of most unde-
sirable class of frauds-those who prey
on the sick.
There are several more of these worth
les still in the city, and it Is likely that
more will arrive here when the tourist
season opens up. The proper protection
of the public demands that these impost-
ers be turned out Of town or made to
decorate cells at the county jail.
HEALTH OFFICER WILL ACT
It is the plain duty of the city health
officer to act in the premises, and Health
Officer Steddom has signified his inten-
ton to run them all to earth, as speedily
as possible.
He will also ask the assistance Of the
County Medical society in bringing the
matter to the attention of the state
medical board, in order that the Often
ders may be cited to appear before that
body and show cause why. their licenses
should not be revoked.
The regulations of the board are very
clear in this matter, and it will be a
great boon to the sick to protect them
from the worst class Of imposters who
under the guise of administering medi-
cine, take their hard earned dollars,
and by deceiving them into false hopes
of recovery by the use of stimulants.
fatten on the unfortunates until their
dupes sink into their graves.
STRONG AUTHORITY
The Herald has back of 1t for author
ity, not only the whole regular medi-
cal profession of this city. but the most
eminent medical men of the world in
making the statement that the disease
known as consumption is an incurable
affliction, and all the pretended cures
are simply makeshifts to enable design
ing schemers to fleece the unwary.
When any man advertises in the press
that he can completely cure consumpt-
ion, or cure 1t at all, the sick want to be-
ware of him just as they would flee from
a mad dog or a highway robber, for he
is worse than both combined.
Some Of these Consumption cure"
quacks boldly charge in their advertise
ments that the regular physicians do
not know how to cure consumption, and
that they alone are gifted with this
extraordinary knowledge. The sick,
however, have enough common sense
to know that when all the regular ply
sicians unite in expressing their con-
viction it Is entitled to credibility. AS
against the blatant claims Of these
consumption fakirs.