The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-17
How About Bland Bill ?
Asks Biggs.
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recognizes Osteopathy and other drugess
methods as distinct from the regular prac-
tice of medicine and surgery. / have
been informed that the decision of the
Alabama Court will be tested in the Su-
preme Court of the United States Will
DR.. Lewis explain why he does not con-
slider healing by faith or prayer. prac-
ticing medicine and surgery" or why its
practice is not calculated to be great
peril to the public in the case Of conta-
gious diseases. Surely had he thought
so, he would not have lent his aid to a
law distinctly declaring that it was not
while my method was How can he con-
sistently berate his own Supreme Court
for leaving Christian Scientists on the
high professional pedestal he placed them,
and then applaud decision of the Ala
bama Court which knocked them out en-
tirely, unless it be that he simply OBJ
jects to those schools of healing which
, seriously interfere with the monopoly
sought to be enjoyed by his school Of
practice. 1t was this principle that his
law violated, and his legal opinion against
that of the Supreme Court. published not
only in his medical journal, but sent out
through a professional channel of news
correspondence to all the daily papers,
doubly proves the absolute accuracy of
the Supreme Courts diagnosis of his case
Now in conclusion, let me seriously sug-
gest a remedy for the horrible state OF
affairs DR.. Lewis would have his profes
sion and the public believe the Supreme
Court has brought them to, although
they have been living to quite comfortable
old age for thousands of years without his
late deceased law:
The American Medical Union, an or
ganization founded by liberal-minded
medical practitioners, with headquarters
IN Chicago, has prepared bill called the
Bland Bill which recognizes all methods.
affords ample protection to the public and
as a law would be constitutional.
This bill does not give doctors of Allo-
pathic faith any special prerogativeS.
but it affords the public full protection,
and that is what DR.. Lewis says is cspe-
cially needed If the doctor is sincere
in his demands and does not really want
legislation to favor his own school of
practice. he should be an advocate of the
Bland Bill, or some similar bill.
DR.. Abbott editor of the Alkaloldal
Clinic. and one of the best known medi-
cal authorities in the United States today,
in recent editorial touching on medical
legislation, advocates views that are in
perfect harmony with my own. This is
how the editorial reads:
''As to our position on the question of
osteopathy and all kindred things. we be-
l'ora III all of them. Our motto: THE
smallest possible quantity of the best OBJ
tainable means to produce a desired thera-
peutic result. Whether it be an alkaloidal
granule. mustard paste, an osteopathic
manipulation, a therapeutic suggestion or
a Christian science seance. we don't care
a zap as long as it comes under the above,
hy which we stand and is really tie best
thing Personally, we have en:oycd AMI
profitted by osteopathic treatment. We
know we have profitted by suggestive
therapeutics. We try to be both Chris
tan and scientific. We are Undergraduates
10 the extent of believing in cold water
internally, externally and eternally, and
we are 'cureopaths' to the extent of be-
leving it right to cure ones patients. or
ptitaps better to help them &c get veil
with our platform can stand with us
in the simplest, shortest way possible. Any
votary of the healing art that is satisfied
with our platform can stand with us
shoulder to shoulder. If he isn't satisfied
that's quite another thing but We have
yet to see the healer who on serious
thought wasn't squarely with us. What's
the use of scrapping'?'
ANDREW C. BIGGS.
Greensboro, n. c., 21S E. Washington st.
January Is. 1904.