The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-06

,llar treatment, the death rate was shown
20 be twenty and One.half per cent. OF ~!
the eases treated In England, France, ana
Germany; those that had no medical
treatment, whatever. only seven ana
half per cent. died, and that under nome
opathic treatment. only six per cent diea.
The writer has known OF many caIes ,hs
friends OF the patient, after the regular
doctor had given them up and LETT, ana
evidently they could have been cured
much more easily II the doctors had NOT
been called.
The distinguished Magendle, Of Paris,
says Some three or four thousand
patients passed through my hands every
with one 1 followed the dispensatory and
gave them the usual medicines; IT, an.
other 1 gave bread pills and colored
water. to the other gave nothing nc nii.
all OF this class got well, and the greatest
mortality was among those who were
carefully drugged."
In the month OF January, 1889. there
were specified In the Boston directory.
4S9 regular and 4S2 irregular physicians.
The regulars lost Sis.13-i per cent. of
their patients, the irregnlars lost 1877 $40
per cent. The unconstitutional and ty-
rannical medical law that was dictated
by the Board OF Health rs usual. and
passed by the II. /. (Medcan General
Assembly, was to prevent the rre0utdrs
from prdcticing.
One of the latest medical delusions Is
the "germ theory" which proposes 10
prevent the progress OF corruption by
inoculating with corruption those who
are healthy and clean. The very latest
delusion, probably, Is the anti-toxinc
scheme, and TO understand the utter
worthlessness and evils of which read
~. A. Ill h.a( form.
the New York Academy OF Medicine,
April 4th, giving the result of his expe-
rience In l5i cases in the Willard Parker
"The universal, but criminal use Of
instruments In midwifery cases at the
present day Is destroying the health
and lives of thousands Of women. II Is
n well-known fact in the profession that
there are fifty torn and liberated women
to-day where there was not one thirty
years ago. Every diploma medical whip
per snapper has his satchel of murderoiIs
Obstetrcal instruments ready for use III
every case In which he Is unfortunately
called" The late Prof. Gross. who had
assisted ut 1900 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. says:
a. have only found 1t necessary tn ilsc
instruments IN few, eases, ,'.1terdnder
The fond hopes and financial prospects
On thousands of Intelligent ana indus
trious young married people are being
blasted by Tho outrageous mal-practlce
of doctors attending In childbirth, result
ing In blood poisoning, physical injury
and financial ruin.
Such cases are frightfully numerous,
showing, the utter lack OF ne quallhca-
tions indispensable In the physicians.
An intelligent and industrious young
German woman in Providence has just
broken up housekeeping and gone io her
friends In Germany, heart-br0keH and all
her hopes ia this life blasted. la her
first accouchemcnt one Of these whipner-
snapper diploma quacks was called,
which proved her ruin. Her niflable
and bereaved husband can be seen at o!
Wpyb0sset street.
'rhB prevalent custom of advising q
specuhm examination for every trlfilng
backache, headache, parachc. iigrnwlns
toenall or buni0n, Is an unnecessary out
rage on the niodpsty uf women aud u dts
grace to the profession. The prevalent
custom Of ascribingall the ills dningnqry
or .rraD that atiict womeh. t1 uterine
tr ibles, weakness, ulcerations or dis
placement, II false Ia theory and fact,
and il nothing hut 4 cloak IT, cover igno-
rance. immortality or cupldity.
ExrRAcrsF sFRoM ruE Tmnp EprIoS OF THE
ESGIsm WORK. +" rnE MEDICAL PEoFEe-
SION ASDIrs MoEALiff.'
"a much more serious matter, however,
Is the question How far do medical
men generally really and honestly strive
y cure their well-paying patient,
How far do they deceive them about
their ailments. and give them advice
which instead of restoring them to
health and vigor, Is calculated to keep
them on the sick list, Medicine can. at
best, not do much; some of us think IL
can do very llttlc, and the great new
sect of Natural Doctors Ia Germany
are beginning Ia show cause for trusting
nature To herfef alone, without drugs or
blisters or phlplotony. merely securing
for her the best conditions of quiet and
air. warmth or GOODNESS. Mt our disposal.
But assuming that medicines can really
cure disease, how painful Is the duuDt
whether the doctor whom We employ 10
use them for orr benefit may turn them
to our hurt! To be robbed by the police
man, or To have Que premises burntdown
by the watchman, L. small vrxaiion
compared Ia being kept Ill by the man
we pay 10 make us well.
"When we see n peeyish oil man always
In the govt, or n iine lady always stretched
on her sofa smelling edu de. Cologne, we
may safely look ont of window Tor the
carriage of the unctuolls doctor, whose
yearly income wonld he considerably
lessened by the restoration OF the gentle
man to the moOrs nu,l III the lady to the
duties of her household and nursety. IL
weask one of these poor medical pieces de
resistance why lie or she does not ut le;nst
try fresh air. or riding exercise. or Turk
isli baths, it Is singular how Invariably
theyeAave been told by dear Dr. lush
aby that any sllcl, eff,,rts would involve
deadly danger tO their hearts
"a medical treatise. intended only for
tho profession. contains these significant
words: 'If cure hc an object In the ease,
then sa-and-so II ~ hn done. Appa-
rently there are cases where cure Is not
an object.
"These terrible charges have not only
been made by outsiders and satirists from
Moliere downwardS. but have been ro'
peatcd with fitting grief and Indignation
quite recently by honest and hunourahle
members of the profession itself, proving
that they by no means concern only
past order Of things. Here Is what Dr.
Russell Reynolds, Il. II. y, said in 1881,
In an address to the Medical Society ~
University College (to The Hospital nf
which College ho is Consulting physi.
cian). and which address was pnhi>hed
at tho time in the British Acdicat
Jourat.
"There Is meddling aud muddlng OF
most disreputable sort, aud the pa
tients" (he i speaking at womeill grow
sick OF 1t aud giveit up and get well; or
they 90 from bad To WUr,p.' d.