The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31
DON SANG UP TO DATE
VERY LATEST FEDERAL INJUNCTION
PRESENTED TO A CHINESE DOCTOR.
This Graduate of a 1907 Oriental Med
zeal College Ties Up the HOOs-
Ter Medical Board.

Don Sang is an ancient Chinese doctor
with some very modern ideas Of law and
the federal injunction fad While other
physicians, whose applications for license
have been held up" by the State Medical
Board under the new law, have been bring
ing suit in the state courts or simply crying
about it, Don Sang has gone to the Federal
Court and obtained an up-to-date blanket
injunction, restraining the medical board,
prosecuting attorneys and everybody else
from in any way interfering with his prac
tice of medicine The order for a tenn
porary injunction was obtained from
Judge Jenkins at Chicago and
entered here at the same time the COM
plant was filed yesterday, and the in
junction was issued from this court. In his
complaint Don Sang tells about his family
and his. experience and declares that the
new medical law is unconstitutional.
The plaintiff says he is a citizen of the
empire of China and a subject of the En-
peror of China He continues: THAT your
orator was born in the city of Canton,
China, and is a descendant Of one Of the
most noted medical families of modern
times in that kingdom; that his family
represents nine generations Of medical
practitioners, embracing during that time
whom perfected their studies under the
most rigid regime of the Sang Hospital,
established in 1907. within six miles of the
Emperor's palace; that his father was one
of the regular physicians appointed to at
tend the Emperor in his illness; that the
Sang Hospital is enc of the most famous
in China, furnishing no less than S17S
specifics. compounded from herbs, plants,
DarkS. berries and roots Chinese
vegetables, unexcelled by any other medi-
cal institution; that according to the GUS
toms OF China, the father Of your orator
chose for him the family profession and
at an early age became his tutor; that
from nine until twenty years of age your
orator was engaged in the continuous and
asslduous study of medicine and subjected
to the most rigid oversight and discipline;
that during this period that your orator
passed under the instruction of his father
he spent those years in the Sang Hospital
in the study and active practical work and
completed the full course of study and eX-
ercises prescribed by the Canton College of
Medicine and Surgery"
He declares that this college is of the
highest grade In 1851 he was granted a
diploma and was appointed by the govern
ment as physician on one of the Pacific
steamers, where he remained five years.
Then he practiced five years in San Fran
cisco and from that time he practiced in
moved to Crown Point, and took out q
county license under the old law
In discussing the new law the bill de-
clares that it violates the federal Constitu-
ton by taking from citizens their property
without due process of law, that it violates
the Indiana Constitution for the same rea-
son, that it contravenes those general prin-
cipleS of paramount authority which shield
vested rights from encroachment by gov
within the police power of the State. Don
Sang declares that If the law should be
held valid, he has complied with all It's
provisions and is unjustly barred from
practice.