The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
A SERIOUS MATTER
DR.. Richardson, of st, Elizabeth,
Practicing Medicine in District
IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
The Attention of the Board of Health is
Called to the Matter-He is Not Regis
tered in The Published Report of That
Department-Mr. McKinIey's Ohio lmpor-
tatons Of Horse and Bug Doctors,

Doctors Richardson, Clarke and
Logic, of the st. Elizabeth Insane Asy.
lum, are not on the registered list OF
physicians permitted to practice in
this District issued by the Board OF
Healthl
Here is a nice state Of affairs an
other exhibition of the goodness Of
heart" of our President, Neither as
governor of Ohio nor as President OF
the United States has Mr.. Mckinley
observed any Of the usual and custom
airy rules or safeguards in making ap-
pointments. So that the individual is
his worshipper and is of sound mind
or partially so, like Consul Frank Cess
ner, the red necktie imbecile, Mr. Nc
Kinley forthwith appoints him to the
office: even if he is a horse doctor, the
President will accept the applicants
assertion that there is no difference
between a horse with he bolts and a
man with appendicitis 1t is only a
small variation of switch or no switch,
DR.. Richardson is flom Ohio. The
Globe knows him. So is DR.. Clarke,
Richardson's other self In Ohio, Doc
tor Richardson, who is a very respect
able gentleman land so is DR.. Clarke) &,
ran the Massillion Insane Asylum
His knowledge of insanity was acquir-
ed there. His knowledge is, no doubt
extensive, but among the faculty in
Ohio he is not regarded as an expert
Neither, Of course, is DR.. Clarke. But
both Richardson and Clarke, as well
as Logic, can administer purgative
medicine to the patients at st. Eliza
beths, and that is really all an insane
patient requires. The Chinese recog-
nize this fact, and as their civilization
and experience dates away back be-
fore Europe was discovered, we are
bound to accept the Importance which
they attach to these functions. For
whereas our Caucasian greeting is a
shake of the and and an inquiry OF
chow are you?" the Chinaman gently
greets his fellow Celestial with the
more practical and direct interroga-
tory of chow are your bOwels?'
This is about all tie duty the head
of a modern insane asylum is called
upon to perform, Nature does the rest
If the purgative is administered. Now,
strange to state, tha. in the District
of Columbia the President of the Unit
ed States failed to find in the extensive
list of its practising physicians a gen
tleman whom he deemed sufficiently
qualified to administer dose of castor
oil, Rochelle salts, or a laxative patent
medicine pill. At least, we are bound
to take this view Of the case, inasmuch
as His Excellency imported DR., Rich
ardson, like he did, the horse doctor
early in the Spanish War and Dr..
Richardson is now n full charge, prac-
tising in violation Of the District law
upon the bugs" Of st. Elizabeth,
The Globe hasn't a thing in the
world against DR.. Richardson, neither
does its editor feel chagrined because
he was omitted in the list Of invita-
tions to that swell wedding which so
many Of our fellow Buckeyes attended
and lived off our Uncle Sam over at
hospitable St. Elizabeth's for several
weeks or days. But we do rise in our
seat to a question Of privilege to in
auire OF His EXcellency what encour'
agement, recognition or Endorsement
does he call the thing when he imports
from Ohio physicians for st. Eliza
beth's and ignores the faithful, accom-
plished and qualified corps of physic-
ians i'm the District Of Columbia?
We do not know, of course, how the
medical fraternity Of the District feels
about the matter, but having in our
time been associated for years with
the "profesh' as a member and officer
of the Board OF Health in Cincinnati,
we realize to some extent the howl
which the Lancet Of that city and
medical societies Of Hamilton County,
would raise II a physician from Wash
ington City was imported and placed
i'm charge of Longyiew Asylum.
But. ceming back to the serious mat.
ter of the head physician of st. Eliza
beth's practising in violation of Dis.
trict law, we respectfully ask the
Board of Health what It is going to do
about Il?
Is Mr. McKinIey's superintendent Of
St Elizabeths, like the military sat
raps I'm the Philippines, above the law?
And can Dr. Richardson practice in
this city as an unregistered physician?
And there we leave the subjest for
the present.