The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-17
DOCTORS ATTACK
ME TH0DS OF THE
LAW BROTHERS
Dudley TAFT and Philip Mills
Jones Denounce Their
Remedies
MILLIONAIRES REPLY
Declare That Trouble Is
the Result of
Jealousy
BITTER FEUD BREAKS
Owners of the Fairrnont
Make Sensational
Counter Charges
BITTER FEUD BREAKS

That 1t probably makes no diff
ference In the financial, social or
religious standing of any man in
San Francisco how he acquired
his money, provided he has plenty
of it, is the rather pessimistic con-
clusion drawn by the California
State Journal of Medicine in a
long article in its current issue
devoted to a review of the wealthy
Law brothers and the operations of
their Viavi company.
The Journal makes the charge that
the Law brothers. one of whom is a
director of the Young Mems Christian
association, have amassed the wealth
by which they have been able to ac-
quire the Fairmont hotel. the Monad-
mock building and other valued realty
holdings in San Francisco by praying
on the credulity of sick women.
In replying to the Journals attack,
which is the subject of discussion In
the medical and business community
of San Francisco. DR.. Hartland Law
declared yesterday that 1t was inspired
by business Jealousy
DR.. Dudley TAFT of the state board
of medical examiners and DR.. Philip
Mills Jones are associated in the edi-
torship of the Journal. Both are now
at Del Monte attending the annual
meeting of the state medical society.
We will stand by everything we
have said in the Journal about the
Laws declared DR.. Jones last night.
JURY CALLS 1T A FAKE
The Journal quotes from the London
Lancet the verdict rendered by a coro-
ner's jury that investigated the death
Of a woman who had used the Law
brothers remedies. The Lancet says
the jury declared that from the evil
dence brought before US we consider
the Viavi company fraud
The Journal discusses the remedies of
the Laws with the frankness of the
clinic. 1t says:
I'm closing we must apologize to our
readers for printing in the Journal the
excerpts we have made from the publ
cations of the Messrs- Laws, for they
seem to US salacious in the extreme"
The Journal explains that it called
upon "a prominent gynecologist and
a distinguished surgeon to aid it in
the work of investigating the remedies
of the Law brothers, and points out
that its deductions care drawn after
months of study devoted to the Laws
Health Book for Mothers and Daugh-
ters" and viavi Hygiene
DIR. LAWS TART REPLY
Il do not see how either Dr. Dudley
Tait or Jones could do anything more
about me or my brother Herbert" said
DR.. Hartland Law, when seen at the
Fairmont. 'T have read the article in
the Journal carefully, and / cannot see
how 1T could be made more malignant
by anything they may wish to add
to 1T. I believe it was written by DR..
Jones, who has interviewed me several
times regarding viavi methods and
remedies. / have nothing against DR..
Jones. don't like fights and I gem
orally try to avoid them. AS long as
this arraignment has been made pub
lie, however, I think it is only right
for me to give warning that when I
once begin to fight 1 neither ask nor
give quarter.
"If you resolve this attack to princi-
pie, what does 1t amount to? It's really
nothing else but very unprofessional
course taken by set of gentlemen try
ing to uphold professionalism. There
are more. If not as many, quacks
among the members OF the accredited
profession OF medicine than there are
out Of it. Everything they don't ap
prove of is dangerous and vicious.
Every doctor who sticks to the ethics
and fanaticism OF his own particular
school thinks every other medical man
is an impostor. The number of physt-
clans in San Francisco who consent to
irregularities In their treatment of wo-
men is greatly in excess of the popular
conception. No one realizes this better
than the great body of accredited prac-
titioners. The real earnest, candid and
morally upright doctor is rare.
The physicians who attack the viayi