The San Francisco call., 1908-10-25

In medicine and surgery as in all arts and
sciences methods become general, they lapse into
disuse. TO be revived possibly at later period and
then to achieve popularity which attaches to
supposed thing"
Some of the eminent physicians
asked recently to give their opinions of medicine
and medical doctors. A few of the replies here
given:
DR.. C. E. Page Boston. Mass
From the time in which the Father of His Coun-
try, affected by simple and readily durable mall
ady. pharyngtis. was killed by bleeding, up to the
most recent catastrophe February 8, 1902 OF
needless operation for appendicitis. which killed
distinguished New York statesman such operations
have killed no end of good men and women"
Prof oliver Wendell Holmes, who was for many
years of the medical faculty of Harvard Medf-
cal School, said before his class:
The disgrace of medicine is that colossal sys-
TEN of self deception in obedience to which mines
have been emptied of their cankering minerals
the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growth
the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities
the poison bags of reptiles drained of their
all the conceivable denominations thus obtained
thrust down the throats of individuals suffering
from fault of organization, nourishment
Prof Valentine Mott. the great surgeon. says:
DR.. Abercrombte: Fellow Of the Royal College OF
called by philosophers the art of coniecturing; the
DT. jacob. Bigelow. formerly president of the
Massaehusetts Medical Society, says: The prema-
initiating conclusion that medicine is still an
Prof Gregory of the Edinburgh Medical College
said TO his medical class Gentlemen, SO ont of
every 100 medical facts medical lies and medi-
cal doctrines are, for the most part stark staring
nonsense"
DR.. Albert Lefhngwell of the American Humane
Association says: i DO not believe that the
age length of human life would be diminished by
an hour if all the drugs of Christendom
dumped into the sea-barring perhaps. half a
SAYS DRUGS MUST GO
Dr. Samuel Hall of san Francisco the man who
proved that he five years ahead of Prof. Loeb
in discovering that electricity is life says that
the present system of drugging must be abolished
DIR. Hall is the inventor of the most successful
device for electrfyng the human body. His ex
perience has been broad covering period of %
DIR. Hall is recognized as one of the leading
authorities electrical treatment and thousands
Of cured patients attest the success Of his remedy
Talking to reporter yesterday, DR.. Hall said:
methods belong to the mystery and superstition of
the dark ages.
The physicians of today are doing just what
the doctors of a thousand years ago did--dosing
sick and suffering humanity with poisons.
Any thinks himself that
temporary relief by stupefying the nerves, but
they don't remove the cause OF disease AS long
as the cause remains cure be effected
If you had a real fine watch and some part of
hlling ii with oil? No you would take to- the
best watch maker you knew and have him find the
of the trouble and repair it.
Your body is far more delicate mechanism
chine earth. yet when vital part breaks
down or fails to work properly, you try to make
II go by doping yourself with poisonous drugs.
All of your vital organs. including the heart.
stomach, liver and kidneys, run by power
called nerve force. Any doctor will admit that.