Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-02-13
MEDICAL INTOLERANCE.

Inc controversy between tne regular
physicians and the osteopaths which
has now come before the legislators Of
Utah for settlement is Of vital impor-
lance to every citizen Of this state. The
question to be settled IS whether the
physicians Of the three leading drug
schools Shall hav a monopoly Of the
medical practice in Utah. The physi-
cans Of all schools recognize the elli-
cheney Of massage. hydrothearpy, and
various other non-drug treatments, but
most Of them continue in the old drug
practice because it is more convenient.
Medical books are full Of statements
condemning drug medication.
osteopathy has made remarkable
progress during the past 10 years. 1t is
considered scientific by some of the
most successful physicians Of the coun-
try Eminent medical professors have
stated that the osteopaths are among
the most expert ANTAGONISTS that have
come into their classes, The practice
OF osteopathy has been legalized by
legislative enactment In Vermont,
Missouri, North Dakota, Michigan,
Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Teunes-
see Indiana, California, Kansas Wis
consin, Texas, Montana, Nebraska, Con-
necticut and Ohio No harm will come
to the people of Utah ii the practice Of
osteopath Is legalized IN this state Az
ter one has spent four years in a medi-
cal college, devoting a large portion Of
his time to the study Of mgteria medica
or drug medication, he may be pardon
ed for defending his own interests, but
he has no right To compel people 10
patronize him by keeping out all COM
petitors.
Surgery Is a science but drug medi-
cation Is largely experimentation. In
an addrss before the British Medical
association in 1901. DR.. Goodheart
stated Coming then to drugs, why
do we give them? To cure disease
you answer at once, and think the
question unnecessary, But wait a min
ute drugs are given for several other
reasons. some Of which are far less free
from criticism, sometimes because the
patient viii not be happy till he gets
them; sometimes 10 hide our ignorance
or to mark time while we watch AVID
wait; and then we often give drugs as
an experiment In the hope that they
may do good All treatment by drugs
Is more or less Of an experiment."
In 1855 Dr. S. Wler Mitchell wrote IN
his book, Doctor and Patient" "There
are those Of my profession who have
a credulity about the action OF drugs,
a belief IN their supreme control and
eXactness OF effect, which amounts 10
superstition, and nils many Of MS with
Amusement. This form Of dolatry U.s.
az times the dull-witted child Of lazl-
ness, or II Is queer form Of self
esteem, which sets the idol OF self-made
opinion on too firm o base 90 be easily
shaken by the rudeness Of facts"
John Mason Good, L. r. S., the emil
nent English physician, said. "The
science of medicine Is a barbarous Jar
| gon, and the effects OF our medicines
on the human system are, in the high
| est degree uncertain. except, indeed
that they have destroyed more lives
than war; pestiance, and famine COM
| bined."
Or. Holmes, who taught anatomy
and physiology at Harvard university
for 40 years, wrote on page 200 NJ his
Medical ESSAYS "The disgrace Of
medicine has been that colossal system
| Of self-deception. In obedience 20 which
| mines have been emptied Of their cam
| kering minerals the vegetable kingdom
robbed Of all It's noXlous growths the
entralls Of animals taxed for their i'm
| purities. the poison bags Of reptiles
drained Of their venom and all the ln-
conceivable abominatlons thus obtained
thrust down the Threats Of human be-
lngs suffering from some fault OF OF
Rangation. nourishment, or vital stimu-
| lation." In the same work DR. Holmes
declares: "With the exception OF
anesthetlcs and a few specifics which
our art did not discover I firmly be-
lieve that II the whole materia medica,
as now used. could be sunk 10 the bot
tom OF the sea. u would be All the bet
ter for mankind-and all the worse for
The fishes"
a few years ago. Dr. Hartford, an
osteopath cured a case IN ogden. Utah.
| without knife or drug. that had been
| declared incurable without an opera
| ton by the leading physicians and sur
| geons OF that city. As soon az the case
was successfully cured the regular
physicians began 20 prosecute the os-
teopath and continued until they drove
him 10 a state where medical lntoler-
ance had no power ove> him
II All those physicians who desire n
| n onnpOly Of medical practice had full
| confidence In theie practice they might