The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-15
THIS DOCTOR WAS MKANSAS
A QUACK COMES TO GRIEF UPON
THE WITNESS STAND.
laid the Heart Beat 100 Times . Minute.
Yet Vas Making More Money Than
All the Doctors I'm tho County
t~raordinary Answers Given In q Suit.

All the DOCTORS In ule county IN.
traordinary Answers Given In q Suit.
Most Of the States have protected their
citizens by stringent laws regulating medical
practice. Here and there. however, In the
West particularly, isolated communities
continue to suffer from quacks, but the
number Of such localities Is growing smaller
| year by year.
As an example OF the wisdom Of passing
the recent law regulating medical practice
In Kansas the following extract from the
court records Is furnished.
The doctor whose testimony Is quoted
had posed as a specialist in the various
small towns In Kansas for several years,
and had enjoyed no little reputation and a
most lucrative practice. In fact, in Mont
gomery county alone. IL is stated, he had
collected in cash In less than six weeks
more money than all the other medical
practitioners combined -four In number)
for the whole year.
Through the newspapers and handbills
he had extensively advertised himself as
odd DR.. - on his p~ilgrimage-a special
ist in all lines" To such an extent had his
influence prevailed that he had treated
patients for the county and finally had
been called upon as an expert witness at
the trial Of a law suit. This latter proved
his undoing.
The suit was one for damages for in
juries. The plaintiff vas returning home
one night when he unwittingly walked into
an accumulation OF natural gas that was
escaping from a leak in one OF the defend
ants gas pipes. The result was a violent
explosion, whereby his whiskers and eye
lashes were singed and he was said TO have
suffered q severe nervous shock.
He was attended by the doctor referred
TO, who pronounced his injuries Of the most
serious character, and was called upon
to testify, both to fact and opinion as an
expert witness. After preliminary ques-
tons had called out his previous history
and professional qualifications, the xani-
nation continued as follows:
Q ] will ask you " YOU discovered any
evidence of any nervous trouble? A. Yes.
sir, | found him. what | considered. as a
P niybt eons sna IN geTy Nervous S4 a .ins sro %teFf N
and engenderment OF the brain, caused from
sasphyxi9, fer hi simple reason that | noticed
Q That one word' A. 1t is caused from
q just that word that You used thcre'
A. "Engenderment" Of the brain.
@ How. do yoa spell III, 4 You got me
you. | can explain II 10 YOU, tell YOU what
g D%Gctq, what S%oSad did yog sGy yog5 di,-
,hing' 4, / found the pupil Of Tho eye d,
luted a nervous twittiling, found that 1t
FOLLOWED him cls9ar up, in az examination
TO the spine. and traced IL as low down as
his waist. IL ! r%ecollcct right SO ! told him
tho devices 1t would take TO bring him up
that ! didn't have there, and | didn't want
and % pc os az o Jmf i iy pragnse % " hine rnns 'annnad' dtittpp.t
The Court Is this what you told him?
pense attached 70 1t 10 bring u up, and |
didn't think IL was possible to make him IA
on that ground i advised him to 20 20 a
hospital, and 10 a good one, where they un-
~derstood curbing and sweating the mineral
poisons out Of the system told him it would
probably take n surgical operation at the
base Of the skull here. the first thing. and
that didn't do no surgical operations only
cS g; whfss we're y yIIi i SefoI rsf1 yog ,bs cn sa",, TO-
San Francisco. Cal and north 10 tho north
line OF Nebraska. and south to the south
line OF TEXAS. under that old firm Their" OF
9 Then L ! understand YOU; YOU are a
as a kind OF tramp and horse doctor
Q You sdyertise %yogTsoif A. a tramp
yes thought IL | be able 10 look into any
poor old cows eyes and tell her what j. a." |
matter with her, and help hcr II would b"
a fIlfh ~ II ''Alllil'AlNNN AZ ia ~ /
q DO YOU doctor horses 4 No, sir. |
retired from that AZ soop as one old man
and wanted me To see his hor-". and 1 retired
from practising on horses aud told ti'm
now ! had gone over 20 th" human family
y Now, when YOU were called 90 -n" the
plaintiff. you looked him over did YOU feel
his pulSsp \ Not thoroughly. ! didn't |
thoroughly look the man over iu-t looked
over far enough a. touyl nee my-'lt tah, n
was tho other man that needed 10 he called
IN. IN place OF me- sr
felt rs pulse and tested lis heart
q How was his heart \ considered
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