The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-29
ABBO READY 10 Fight.
Declares He is Ready for the
Investigation Promised
by Savannah PhySi-
clans.

Inc Usually lAdCA4 AdkcEs OF savannah llcul-
cal life seem to be on the verge Of a genuine
hurricane An afternoon paper announces
that committed Of p hysicians are about to
institute proceedings against Abbo. the newly
arrived physician who seems 10 have become
quite prominent.
Commenting on the article in question, Abbo
said to News reporter last night:
1t is the old story Of the wounded bird-the
only one that fiutters.
II had quietly entered Savannah, hung
out one OF the orthodox shingles and waiting
for some OF the regular doctors TO die before
gave the people the benefit of a worldwide
experience, you would have heard nothing OF
this.
1t is because have. in the space of three
months, treated successfully more than seven
hundred patients, many OF them pronounced
'incurable by the very men who row seek to
traduce me. that am signaled out for attack.
these self-appOinted guardians of the pub
lie health came very near putting their necks
in a legal moose when they tried for my indict-
ment before investigating as to my legal stand
ing, and unless they come right out with their
demands for an investigation and officially in
form themselves and the public as to my
standing and ability they will have something
else than useless threats TO deal with
while 1 scarcely need any vindication,
might say in passing that any one who desires
to examine my certificates or to get the names
of more than a hundred prominent Savannah
people who have been treated at my institute
would say that my hours are from o in the
morning till at night. II the crowd is too
great (for somehow or other we do get crowds
up our way right alongl make a special ap-
pointment"
Speaking Of the Legitimacy of advertising in
the medical profession Abbo said:
1t is the old fight between the new and the
old, Who would have thought Of X rays ten
years ago? And yet this discovery is now the
wonder OF the time. Who are the greatest
advertisers within our own memories: Sir
Morren Mackenzie of England advertised
criticised and Photographed to the most
extravagant degree. Pasteur, pictured, car
TONED ana appauded after being duly con
demned by the regular profession; Koch,
the immortal German, whose lymph most Of
the regulars have condemned; VIM A. Ham
mond of New York, whose widely-read articles
are nothing but cleverly devised advertise
ments for DR.. Hammond. Others 1 might
mention are the great Sims and the celebrated
Grady. both of New York city.
For the life Of me do not understand why
a sign hung over sidewalk, designed to be
read by the passer-by, is any the less an ad-
vertisement than an article in such paper as
the News that tells only the truth. Nor can 1
understand how Savannah doctors, who are
notorious for the prescriptions of patent and
proprietary medicines should point the finger
of defiance at man who uses nothing but
standard drugs, as your most prominent house.
| Solomons s. Co., can testify.
NO" he concluded with considerable feel
ing, "it is another case of jealousy. 1
have simply succeeded, and 1 am paying
the penalty of success. You know it is the
largest, reddest apples in the orchard that will
always be selected as the target for the young
sters stones. But 1 really have no cause for
uneasiness. am here to stay. The Abbo In
stitute has it's rent paid, and only want an OPP
portunity to get "a larger place, where We will
gladly pay more rent from the money received
from grateful people,