The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-09-20
HE HAS FAILED TO REGISTER
Butchers Name Not Found at the City
Health Office
Dr.. Steddom Says He Is Adver Using to Do
The Impossible
For This. If He Has Certificate From
the State Board Of Medical Exam
liners, He Is Liable to Have
It Revoked.

The fact that the climate Of this sec.
ton attracts hundreds of persons suffer
ing with pulmonary troubles here Is
we'll known. and 1t is equally true that in
their train there follows horde of med
icine fakirs who hang out a single and
shout loudly to the world that they will
absolutely cure consumption.
The despairing invalid who has come
to Los Angeles to prolong his or her life,
is oftentimes wheedled into taking vari-
Gus alleged treatments" for this dread
aff1iction, only to find that they have
wasted time and money in dealing with
human harpies who profess to do what
every regular doctor in this city will GER
tify is an impossibility-curec onsump-
ton.
There are more of these worthless in
the city this fall than have been here in
any previous year, and it is time for the
authorities, both state, county and
city, to make an investigation of the
methods pursued by pseudo. medical
vultures and enforce the laws for the
protection of the sick and rid this COM
munity of the worst class of pretenders
who ever preyed upon invalids.
When man processes to cure con-
sumption he claims to do something
which the the entire regular medical
profession agree in emphatically saying
is an impossibility Any family physi-
clan will tell you that consumption is
an incurable disease. and that while
life may be greatly prolonged by favor
able climatic environments, still con-
sumption cannot be cured and the fell
low who processes to do so is either ig-
norant of a universally recognized phys
biological truiSm or is an arrant imposter
who ought to be jailed. Honest special
lists will tell you that they cannot cure
consumption: that it is incurable.
A proposition that has been extens-
lively advertised in the city is known as
Butchers direct contact method, a cure
of consumption and other pulmonary
troubles"
may be, when the person who admin
listers it advertises cure he is putting
forth something that the medical pro-
fession unite in saying he cannot do.
u. D. Butcher, NJ. D., r. NJ. c. S. is
advertised as the discoverer of this new
system and he purports to be a practi-
toner in this city.
DR." butcher is not legal practition-
er of medicine In Los Angeles, for he has
not registered at the city health office,
as he is required by ordinance to do.
DR." Butcher, for this neglect. is liable
TO arrest ana prosecution, and If he is
adjudged guilty, he is liable to fine of
500 or fifty days in jail or both.
City Health Officer Steddom states
that for advertising to cure con-
sumption, Or" Butcher, if he possesses
certificate from the state board Of
medical examiners. is liable to have it
revoked. He is advertising something he
cannot do, and for this the state board
would, upon a showing of facts, revoke
any certificate he might have.
The city health Office will proceed at
once to make thorough investigation
of DR." Butcher and his cure. Evidence
will be secured upon which to base 4
prosecution of the party.
The party who has fathered this latest
scheme to cure the incurable is B. C.
Platt. In the past Platt has been con-
nected with Chinese fakirs, who have
deluded hundreds of the unwary by adj
vertising to cure by various systems of
medicines as practiced in the Orient,
Platt was arrested on the complaint Of
the city health office for practicing med
icine without license, but escaped by a
technicality.
The city health office is thoroughly III
on Platt's methods, and as Or. ButcI
ers Direct Contact Method" is the latest
scheme of this willy person, it will re-
ceive thorough investigation. and
DIR" Butcher may be brought up with
a round turn