Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-02
TIE MEDICAL LAW.
DR.. DOgge Discusses 1t From His Own
Standpoint

Having botlced in the issue of your
most valuable paper OF February a.
an article headed "The medical bill"
l beg OF you TO allow space to the fol-
lowing Communication.
For the firal, 1t Ia lnol that no con.
cesslous were made between two forces
on account Of tho formulation Of the
melical law IN 1892, heuce the medi-
cal atstute was not a compromise and
never was "geuerally contested to be
fair to both sides.n You admit that
"thBre may have been oases OF injus-
tice under -" stating, according 10 an
Information you have Obtaiued that
suon "instsnces arc very fsv." For
this mIsslAtement refer 10 bath
memorials presented TO tn houses Of
legIslstiOn In which some imporia ut
cases Of injustice are reported. Be-
eides these, / have quite large mum.
Der OF similar casea on record with
which L may serve the public.
Further, you mention that "pOsitlve
declarations" have been maze "by
persons In position to juuge OF the
lacts," that the present law is "keep.
ing the State almost Ont rely freB from
quacks." THIS never was and never
viii be possible, for tho medical mon
opOly ring only pretends TO keep out
quacks. Such decls ratiops are simply
ridiculous because the STATE has never
before been more flooded with quacks
than at present; aud as the records
show there Is mJre quackery done by
the members OF the medical monopoly
ring than by any other practitioner.
Besides, the board OF medical I X amin.
ers lie entitled, according to sRiI law,
to furnish more physicians for the
State OF Utah th6a all medical colleges
OF the United S!ateH together L refer
herewith TO cases like Dfs. Olst0n,
Hensel, Mccoy, n certain magnetic
healer, and Others VINO passed an ex-
| animation before the Utah Medical
Board of Examiner, cases which
b sutfitted them, but not the people
(See the memorial y
There are seemingly only few
physicians Rntagonizlug the present
law, which IL 1t remained as 1t IL,
| would suit them just as well and bet
ter than any change; but in honor Of
our respectable physicians 1t may bit
stated mat great majority would
gladly sign their names Tor the sske OIL
aoolishment OF the law, were 1t not iol
| fear OF being thrown out Of tho medicA
soc ETY. of the monopoly ring and o.
| their licenses being revoked.
No well educated physlcian will
| ever DO afraid to be examined, but al
| loug as the examiners are not able Il
| answer their own questions, anu 81
| their prejuliceH against candidate
| prevail, tue Board will never let hin
| pass, even II he was professor OF mos
| prominent medical faculty OF this OF
| any other country; because he NIGH
| be q specialist ON any branch of NEIL
| cal science anu liable to bs given
questions which are of neither pTaUtl.
| cal nur theoretical use. and ~ which
he, unlike the unskilled student com.
| Ing Just from the college, during many
yesrs OF practice lost sight OF, is not
able to give the exactly proper answer.
On account OF this fear, competent
men will rather stay away from Utah
Fifteen years ago there was no med.
icai monopoly whatever throughout
the United States, not 90 many hos
pitfalls, and not 90 many victims Of
these modern nesculapiars filling GU I
graveyerds AMI silently accusing those
quacks for having regardlessly de-.
priJed trusting husbands Of their
hHluNtu WifGtt hhh thhO-bhL
OF their dear mothere, thus carrying
ineiiable distress into the homes o
happy families. No wonder that Sir
Ashley Cooper (a surgeon Of world
wide fancy exclaimed: "rhe science
OF medicine is founded on conjecture
and improved by murder"
The members OF this ring, most y
medical practitioners OF the so-callea
"allopathic" or Irregular" school,
claim protection by law for their prac-
tice. What is this object they aim al?
Nothing but arbitrary power which
they always have abused since thew
have been vested with by lave (sse
the momoriaAJ TO the incalcula.
ble deIrimont OF the sick aud
10 the damaging OF their fellow.
practitioners belonging to other
| tchOois. This arbitrary power ~ sufli.
| ciently manifested by several cates
where physicians whose licenses have
| been revoked, regaihed the same by n
| detective for S25, and on the other
hand, practitioners have received
| licenses where the law contradicts,
| while physicians could not obtain
| license, though entitled to by law.
Z Tho cause OF the people Ia based on
humanity and charity, exercised upon
suffering mankind, virtues which
seem 10 nave beon entirely abandoned
| for tue cake Of enc special class, the
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