The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-28
BUTTE News.
IS AFTER THE QUAKERS
The County Attorney Concluded
They Were Fakirs.
HE HAS A CERTIFICATE
DR.. Birry Can Practice During the Re-
cess - Local Medical Men VIII
Be Obliged to File Their
Certificates.
HE HAS A CERTIFICATE

The county attorneys office took occa-
sion yesterday to go after Dr. Birry, who
has been giving a free show on the lot in
the rear of the library building and in
cidentally selling alleged Quaker remedies,
guaranteed to cure all the ills to which
frail humanity is heir, from an ingrowng
toenail to desire to go to the circus. The
doctor and his partner wear Quaker hats
and long-tailed coats and practice what
they assume to be the Quaker vernacular.
They have apparently succeeded in con-
vincing a considera BILE portion of the pub
lie that they are sure-enough descend
ants of William Penn, and that their rem
edies possess all the virtues attributed to
them, since they have, it is said, been do
ing land office business. .--
The facts coming to the attention of
the county attorneys office, Mr.. Connolly
came to the conclusion that the Quakers
were fakirs and decided to ''Veno'' them,
a system of coming up with quacks who
impose on the public, of which Mr.. Con-
molly gave Butte one shining example.
Accordingly. a complaint was lodged in
Justice Nichols court charging DR.. Birry
with violating that section of the statute
regulating the practice of medicine which
requires medical men to file their certiti-
cate from the board of medical examiners
with the county clerk and recorder, this
being the only techncality upon which
to base the ''Veno' process.
As matters stand, however. it looks
now very much though DR.. Birry would
get a Change of Veno' and beat the au-
thorities out altogether, as he IS doing
business under permit from the state
board of examiners, which allows him to
practice during the recess of the board
without a certificate, and it is held that
the permit is not required to be filed. 1t
is doubtful if case can be made to
stick.
While the public prosecutor had his hand
in DR.. Birry it was decided to look into
the affairs of some of the local medical
men. 1t is said a number of local ply
sicians have neglected to comply with
the same section of the statute DR.. Birry
was charged with violating and have not
filed their certificates 1t was decided they
should be required to obey the law as
well as anyone este, and accordingly COM
plants were filed in Justice Smiths court
against six prominent physicians. They
are Drs. Freund, Leggat, Schwartz, Bern
helm, Dogge and Weyerhorst. 1t is sus-
pected the cases will not be very rigdly
pushed. provided the doctors file their
certificates
With reference to the cases filed against
the regular physicians Drs. ,Freund and
Bernheim sent the following communica-
tor to the Standard last evening:
"Attention being called to an article in
the evening paper which enumerates the
names of certain medical gentlemen of
the regular profession who are summoned
to appear in a criminal court to answer a
criminal charge, and as this article is
calculated to place these gentlemen in
an unfavorable light before the public,
inquiry has evolved the plain facts in the
case. The medical men in question had
fulfilled, as they thought, every require
ment imposed by these dictators of legis-
lation. are regular graduates of reputable
colleges, have passed q strict and severe
examination before the state board and
were granted a certificate They are nat
urally indignant at being classed among
the irreguars because they violated, igno-
rantly, a clause in the same act which
requires the holder to file with the county
clerk their certificate for record
st also evolves the fact that
tho procedure was conceived by the
prosecutors as a cover for a concerted at
tack upon certain quacks who are irregu-
darly competing for share of the public
iucre They again object to being held
as scapegoats for a crime that at least q
OF the regular medical men of Butte are
guilty of. This certainly cannot be the
only way of reaching the violators of the
law governing medical practice for this
is an act of omission rather than of com
mission.
IF such men cannot be ruled by means
that concern the direct violation of the
medical law, then the entire fabric of the