The herald., 1897-01-10
THE PUBLIC DECIDES
There Is Only One koci, Medical Institute
in Southern California
WHERE CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED
Plain Statements Of Facts for All Who
Love Fair Play
The Original Founder Presents Dignied Case-s Improved
luberculin Treatment Perfected After Years of
Research and ApplCation-A Certain
Cure for Diseased Lungs

The love of fair play is an inherent
| trait of the American people.
| Handed down as an heirloom of ances-
tral character, it has ever been a marked
feature in the life of this nation, and
| forecasting the future by the record of
the past and deeds of the present. this
characteristic will always remain as the
best evidence of intelligent manhood.
While the mad race for wealth. power
and position, the struggle for commercial
| supremacy and the unseemly effort to
| gain professional prominence will al
| ways bring the lower and baser elements
| of human nature into activity. still, in
| the long run this Unborn love of fair play
| Will ferret out every petty subterfuge,
! Will discover every act of deception
unmask every jealous motive, and, rec
| ognizing true merit, will give the YER
dict of popular approval to the deserving
victor.
In bringing about this often long de-
layed, but certainly positive result it is
| only necessary for the people to know
| the exact facts in any case that may be
submitted to them for final decision.
This presentation of truthful resti-
! mony is exactly what the Koch Medical
Institute, located at 529 South Broad
| way, Los Angeles, proposes to do. This
Institute has been established sufficient
| ly long to enable the public to recognize
its stability and appreciate its power
for doing good. It's original founder, DR..
| Charles H. Whitman, has been a resi-
| dent and regular practcing physician
| in this city for over three years, and his
| high standing in professional, social and
| fraternal circles is too secure to admit of
| conjecture.
AS one of the first physicians in the
United States to use Koch's Tuberculin,
| DR.. Whitman persisted in his investiga-
| tion of and improvement upon that
| method. even after it was entirely aban-
| doned by other physicians, until he sue
| ceeded in perfecting a remedy which he
| called Improved Tubercuin," that has
been the means of saving many lives
| from the most dreaded of diseases known
| TO medical science-conSumpt
| For quite long time he used this rem
| edy in his regular practice, and usually
with the most gratifying results. Real
lzlng the great good to humanity that
could be effected by wider range of
professional service in the universal use
of his discovery, he formed temporary
partnership with DR.. w. II. Ballard,
| whom he had known as a fellow student
and practitioner in Chicago. At the
| personal suggestion of DR.. Whitman, it
was mutually agreed to call the enter
prise THE Koch Medical Institute" in
honor of Prof. Robert Koch of Berlin,
the discoverer of the fact that con-
| sumption was due to the presence and
| development of microscopical germs
called tubercle bacillus.
| After brief period, DR.. Whitman be-
came convinced that the partnership
thus formed was not resulting as salts
! factorily as had been anticipated and
| 1t was dissolved on December 7, 1896 By
| agreement each member of the enter
| prise was to be assigned certain por-
ton of the business already secured, and
| there was to be no interference by either
in the division thus made.
| For his part, DR.. Whitman has honor
ably and faithfully abided by the terms
or the dissolution. How well his former
associate has fulfilled his obligations
| of the contract can easily be ascertained
by referring to the daily papers of this
| city during the past few weeks, in which
| nave appeared numerous evidences of
broken faith. Assertions have been
| published which have no foundation in
fact; testimonials, which We're either pri-
vate or partnership property have been
altered to suit the apparent necessities
of the new, would-be rival to the estab-
| lished Koch Medical Institute; former
patients, and particularly those allotted
| to Or. Whitman, have been urgently
| importuned by specious letters to trans
| fer their course of treatment. and where
| this underhand method has failed to ac-
complish it's purpose, unprincipled hire
| lngs have sought by personal pleadings
to turn the tide of popular favor in a
| new if not unknown direction. These, and
| other methods equally as disreputable,
have been practiced, which, on the face
| of them, SAVIOR more strongly of the
quack pretender than they do of honor
able professional dealing.
These are a few of the bare facts in
this rather remarkable case. They have
been thus presented in a dignified. un-
preJudiced manner at the personal re-
quest of numerous friends. who are ear
nestly desirous of seeing fair play in the
matter. There are many other points
equally as strong as additional backing,
| IL more evidence is necessary to enable
| the fairminded public to decide who is
| in the right, and whether the Koch
Medical Institute al 529 South Broadway
is not entitled to the verdict of having
| won for itself a we'll deserved reputa-
| tion for the treatment and cure of those
are suffering from consumption.
In this progressive western land there
has been coined new adage in direct
| opposition to the trite axiom that all
things come to him who waits, which
tersely says: He who tooteth not his
own horn, his horn shall not be footed"
| While this saying is moreforcible than ell
egant, it contains whole volumes of truth,
truth, and for those who may themselves,
| or who have friends suffering from pull
monary troubles and think of being
treated for the disease thus Indicated
1T is but just to them and the public to
state that the original founder and sole
proprietor Of the Koch Medical Institute,
DR.. Charles H. Whitman, is graduate
of two of the best colleges in this coun-
try, the College of Physicians and Sur
geons of Chicago, and of the Bennett
Medical College of Chicago. and was af-
forwards Professor of Materia Medica
and Therapeutics and in Clinical Medi-
cine in the Bennett Medical College of
Chicago. Later he was physician and
surgeon at the Lakeside Hospital of Chi
cago, also assistant surgeon to the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway,