Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-06
The Man Who Knocks Out the SOldi-
erS Claims
BY ORDER OF EVANS.
His Record as a Physician Taken from tho MedI-
OaI Science MOnthly-PresIdent ROOseVeIi
VIII Read This Chapter Of Pension Bureau
Literature With Profit 10 Old Soldiers Who
Have Been Robbed Of Their Pensions.

ment at Cleveland, OHIO, The Globe re-
ceived the accompanying article in
leahet form, taken from The Medical
! Science Monthly. The Post selected
extracts from the copies it received
and sugar-coated them with the state
ments Of DR.. Jacob +. Raub. These an
swers were very indefinite, unsatisfac-
! tory, and insufficient. They did not
cover the matter in The Medical
Science Monthly. Now that President
Roosevelt is at the helm, The Sunday
Morning Globe respectfully directs his
eXcellency's attention to the following
article and begs that he will require
an answer from or the scalp Of this
Jacob f. Raub, who is the obedient
tool Of Commissioner Evans, the en-
emy Of all old soldiers who dare to
ask for the pensions and the money
due them and allowed by the Congress
of the United States.
Here is the article, Mr.. President:
"One Of the most remarkable medical
reports that we have ever read now
lies upon our table. II is the last re-
port Of the chief Of the Medical Divis-
ion Of the Pension Office at Washing
ton d. c., to his superior officer, the
Commissioner Of Pensions. 1t is evil
dent that the Commissioner Of Pen.
sions must have infinite faith in his
chief medical officer and his profession
al attainments, else he would not have
permitted this part OF his otherwise
valuable report to go before the public.
In brief, this report is in effect as fol-
lows
"'I find that the best medical exam
liners l have are those who never had
any practice in their profession but
have a thorough training in medical
schools, and although without any eX-
perience i'm practice have kept them
selves fully posted in medicine. l have
had these men promoted and assigned
to places in my division to supervise
the work OF those who have had eXpe-
rience in the practice Of their profes-
sion.'"
Now, we had supposed, in common
with the medical fraternity Of the
United States, that the medical board
of pension examiners at Washington
was composed wholly of men Of skill,
education and experience in their pro-
fession, while the chief Of all, or the
medical referee was one who had at
! tanned distinction in his profession,
and had signally displayed in some
manner a degree Of superiority over
! his fellows. In the settlement Of dis
puted questions, as to the degree OF
| disability and the equitable money rate
| due the soldier for the wounds and di-
seases incurred in the service Of bis
country, the man Of experience is bet
ter qualified for casting judgment
than the novitiate. To state otherwise
is medical heterodoIy. But who is
this great medical chief that makes
medical paradox Of his report? It is
an old saying that birds Of a feather
flock together" and we are sorry to
say, upon examination Of the history
! and antecedents Of Jacob r. Raub, the
chief in question. that although he has
! the title Of NJ d. after his name, he
was not professionally entitled to it
| when he received II, as the following
history will show
AS a boy, in 1862, Jacob F. Raub
| enlisted in a nine-months' regiment OF
! Pennsylvania Volunteers. In the win
| ter of 1904 we find him matriculated
at the Jefferson Medical College, Phil
| adelphia. He was at Jefferson College,
| therefore, only a few months, hardly
| enough time to learn even the rudi-
ments of medicine. In the summer Of
1854 we find him graduated at the
| Long Island College Hospital, Brook
| lyn, N. Y, a medical school then about
| established, which gave a summer
! course Of lectures, and on the books of
| that summer college we ind It stated
/ that said Raub received his medical
education at the Jefferson Medical Col
| lege. Philadelphia" This was, no
| doubt. Raub's statement His whole
curriculum Of study was only a few
months at best, whereas Il was the pro-
| fessional law in 1884 that no one
| should receive the title OF NJ. d. with
out three years OF preliminary study.
/ for the sake OF suffering humanity, the
! professional time OF study is now fixed
at four years in every respectable
school Of medical learning
To-day, and Il was the same 30 and
/ so years ago, the man who by sharp
/ practice obtained the title NJ. d. was
! classified as an imposter in medicine.
/ This Is founded on the fact that unless
a young man between the ages Of 20
and 25 is grounded In all the protean
studies that pertain to medicine; in
the schools, in the dissecting room, in
/ the laboratory and at the clinic, he
never learns them in practice. No ed
/ ucated physician could sign his name
to report like this one before us. He
would know better. Il would seem that
man should pick up some additional
/ medical knowledge since he obtained
his sharp-practice diploma in 1864, but
/ this report of Jacob f. Raub shows
/ that he has not
with this diploma In hand in 1854,
/ Jacob f. Raub managed to get himself
appointed assistant surgeon in a Penn
| sylvania regiment VIII anyone be-
| lieYe that Mr.. Raub az this time, by
practical knowledge, knew by sight the
! difference between an artery and
nerve? And could he separate them in
the legation OF an artery, which was
his duty when his chief amputated a
limb2 Hundreds Of stumps, on living
heroes OF our wars, giving the owners
thereof inexpressible agony through
life, attest the malpractice OF the sur
geOns.
after the war we md Jacob F.
Raub ac an eve school learning to be