The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
Stick to the Doctors:

Medical Talk. a monthly publica-
tion Of Columbus, Chic, is making a
hot fight on the doctors We do not
know what the. circulation Of the
journal is but Is has every appearance
Of enjoying .: large patronage and in
tiuence. Its object, as Stated in an
editorial i.,a recent iSSUe is to give
the peop.e. instruction in hygiene aud
medicine and keep them from allow
ing th2 doctors to make victims OF
thc1a: il experimental ways. 1tseems
that the object is also to encourage
tae use of patent medicines and dis
courage the employment Of physlcl-
ans.
Here is an extract from one of it's
editorials: There are many urgent
reasons why the people ought to
know what the doctors are doing.
They ought to know all about it. Un-
like the lawyers and artists and chem
lists, the doctors are asking for legIs-
lation that vitally affects the home.
The day is past when the people can
afford to ignore what the doctors are
talking about and trying to do. The
doctors are asking for laws which Will
give them authority to enter the home
and compel the people to submit to
surgical operations to take medicine
that they are unwilling to use. Ehe
doctors are asking for laws which
would refuse burial to people who died
under the treatmentiof certain schools
or physicians until the services Of the
coroner have been called upon- The
doctors are asking for laws which
make it difficult, il not impossible for
people to obtain proprietary remedies
in which they have learned to have
confidence. In fact the doctor has
entered the home forcibly and is un-
dertaking to do by legislative enact
ment what he has found himself un-
able to accomplish by winning the
cou1idence Of the people. The regular
college made doctor has failed to con-
vince the people that he is any better
able to combat diseases than many
peoble who have not been to college. y
The Florence Tines says: there
can be nothing in the world more Vi
cious or dangerous than people trying
to doctor themselves and their fami-
lies with drugs the composition OF
which they know nothing and the af-
feet OF which is the riskiest expert
| ,nent that could be tried We do not
condemn patent or proprietary medi-
cines. but we DO think that they
should be used with caution and only
when somebody else in whom one can
have confidence has experimental
with them and learned their effects.
Tue country is flooded with proprie-
tory medicines of al sorts. Those
which establish themselves and win
the confidence of the people have doz-
ems OF limitations which are often
pa!ned off on the unEary. It would
surprise the average citizen to know
bow many patent medicine hendS
there were through the country, peo-
PIE who ruin their health by pouring
all kinds Of new drugs into their sys-
; tenn. There is but one safe way tu
iuse drugs and that is under the d.
rection Of somebody who knows. !" II
! YOU are sick stle surest and only safe
F.! way is to stick to the doctors. They
have been aith us for 10 these many
| years, and while, like the balance OF
us, they CO not know everything, they
are mighty handy to have about
when our loved ones are sick.