New-York tribune., 1901-02-28
m,RK TWAIN AT ALBANY.
.ns FOR THE RIGHT TO TRY OS-
rroPATHY AGAINST DOCTORS.
oF A SWEDISH ARMY CAPTAIN IN
LONDON WHO COULD CURE HIM
OF ANY ILL

n
'TO.-o~ncernent that Mr.. Clemens was to appear
gaI-1ort gaI Of this measure brought crowds OF doc
.Fl legislators politicians and residents Of this
S's Sa tbe Assembly chamber. A large number Of
90 - Nued the gallery and the seats Of the As
s0.,- s,-,sn On the floor. The committee seated
s..-,crcIe in the well Of the House, with Mark
So o,5 the other supporters Of the measure on
l,b- and the physicians, headed by DR..
e, es- Van Fleet for the opposition, on the left.
fI-lA ,,o.ors were heard first. The audience had
1n sovyn into passive inattenton al the recital
f'-.o,,s long and wearisome medical terms by
70 Fleet when sudden direct attack on
y" r--sir put everybody on the qui vive.
Al,. AAiA hsrzveen the doctor and the humorist ap
- irninent Mark Twain ran his fingers
- his long white hair, and then pulled vigor-
- st his gray mustache. he was about 10
o oIss an cudgels with the chairman Of the State
.Sls,,ei Society by q counter statement, when
go. shake Of the chairmans head bade him keep
nsnt until ne might be heard.
,,or TAKEN SERIOUSLY. DOCTOR SAYS.
~ Van Fleet was watched with particular keen
..ss bv NJ Clemens when he said;
-hsre has been q great deal said in the papers
-S eseWhere about This bill because Mark Twain
Ss,merist : ~ People VINO read his books are known
sve rolled around on the floor in convulsions OF
w--5rer Bur Mark Twain is not 10 be taken
s-sSsi s.-aasy People DO not ever take him seriously
When he back from ms TIP abroaa ne taiAS1
: q { NE haG. some OF Us might have mobhed him
tnd rightly, too And so when ne spe2ks pi ~ IafOE T
~ osleopethy cannot take MN seriously, IN. IN.
go bslieVe he treats the whole business as one
Il his latest ana most tremendous 5okes.
Nr. Clemens made no reply.
Nv Robert T Morris, Of New-York, produced four
,ooks written by authors who professed TO De
oseopaths and asked il any OF these writers Were
considered authority by the osteopatHs presear;
no" was the answer Of the leader OF the Mark
Twain contingent. --,-- -. ~
Then You have 10 authorities" again asked Dr.
None" was the answer.
,cr what a deld for free and independent
iS6 iSaught s--'
MARK TWAIN MAKES A SPEECH
Mr. Clemens spoke as follows in part:
hnq myself in very embSrTaSsipg arr rs pos position @
S os Ss35e Elm p speech Dur now that i have been
dragged into II. I VIII have to show that / really
have some purpose Of making speech.
Pointing 10 Dr. Van Fleet OF the New-York
County Medical Society, who had said Mr.. Clemens
could never be taken seriously, the humorist con-
rnued: Here is the gentleman who tried TO give
ne a character I can tell him il was discovered
long before he was born-discoyered by men COM
peient show all the iniquties OF il. He only cov
fsed one-half Of them. Indeed I find il very hard
q coming ii is hard for me 10 know what that
purpose was have been listening to medical terms
that doubtless were very full of knowledge-at any
raie. never heard them before. I was very much
Impressed when they spoke Of the names Of all the
diseases ana what names they were 1t made
enyious OF the man who had had all OF them. But
4 did touch and distress me very much when they
brought in that Vertebra OF a child (alluding TO
ought TO have brought that piece Of child in here
But the doctors were right; you can't take a child
apart that way.
The reason I support this bill is that want the
lbeig Of experimenting on my body ! please.
Liberty IS the supreme motto Of this country. Lib
osIeopahy inreIligeutiy as these men To- nav left
because they know more about il than I do ! can
eve his mental and physical system whatever
treatment he pleases.
PoULTNEY BIGELow ALSO CURED.
Some one spoke Of what is being done in Sweden
more re a6ogT fbai t6aB 81 o n1 by assage KNOW
tNo are not greatly different, ! understand
ment in London under Mr.. Keldrin. he wasn't
d qoctor, because he never got a degree. He
couldn't produce a certificate If anybody died on
MS hands. but that wasn't necessary for none
oI Lls patients did die. Mr.. keldrin was for
merly captain in the Swedish military system
he spent Two years at Stockholm and applied his
treatment TO soldiers. He then went TO London
twenty-seven years ago and established a great
Practice One Of my friends, Poultney Bigeow
his Gs oylng OF dysenteIy He was TOO feeble 10
he!oFln and recovered from his illness in a short
!lme ~ When Blgelow told me about Keldrin / said.
want 70 Try everything that comes along" and
then took the treatment of Keldrin There
wasn't an aiment that he couldn't cure me Of
horn Of an experimentai family Ny mother was
an an eApeTlrnsnter- She wanted TO try every dis
Tase sho every remedy that came along. And yet
hoc my mother in the highest honor. When
~ M1lner could not experiment on herself she
Hps1ttinelteo t on ne began 10 be experimental
On Rhen was seven years old. ] didn't enjoy il
% much then, but have often thought Of # with
b.Saslre since Ny mother was a wise expert
Eenter She didn't pick out any child in the flock.
sAe cnose one she could spare, If her experiments
s-S 'Gn ~ prove successful she first tried hydrop-
Ssay Any on me That was in 1872. when DR.. Kneipp
discovered that cold hot and 1epid water could
s.i ca ytnlne. Accordingly, every morning, she
slppee ~ ne and poured a couple Of buckets Of
es water over me She then laid me down and
81 Souea me win hot flannel until came TO. Then
oui me 70 bed. How ] did sweat She had TO put
nent oHly had a spl-itual effect on me When
he o r9oA ne sheets of: they were yellow with
,nT S oGVluI ot my Conscience. the exudations Of
iigs sln That publication has lasted me all my
NE NE. AS result OF these different experiments
W. pulled down much on three different occa-
'N lhai they had 10 call in the family doctor.
STRONG DISLIKE FOR MEDICINE.
didn't worry about these osteopatbs until I
~ & q the Bel biz. which would drive them out
them sST. S,l1 Ihen began 10 think might need
ben beiosn o. Eden. you know. That's the way II has
0sea S ever since Adams time You never want a
lis .s.iSS uao LntI you can't have IL Adam didn I
nat apple until he knew he copldn'f have r. Now
he Clemens family oniv 5iffer frdm Adsno in tbis
eaye taken whole cro3 somebosx ssiS thar YER
mont IS the dumping ground OF medical practtior
h. eng o mounte5anks So Il the Bell bill passes
Te-rooihiy ohiy place can will be to the dump in
m T. want them 10 leave the State
ne rsssrnat 9 Is gooa Il one respect II exempts
~. - parts The regular doctors and the grand
eiOthsrs The grandmothers Will always give medi-
sso So Ior that matter, whatever bills are passed
fvg fveeIo IKE 70 see the state that could stand
n5,s an hot partial TO any pathy: have tried allo-
bby, bsS ~ homeopathy and. last of all, osteopathy
o Ilst as soon take nay chance with one pathy as
;snotasr The chief thing ] ike about osteopathy
tsl .'at there is no medicine in it. l never like 10
medicine either material spiritual
,h. eIese physicians moved me a great deal when
health wgy Iaey Mere trying to protect the public
"s Trying 70 lock out for their own preserve but