The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-24

W ...diction that this high NOR
i7' - &c due to the fact that drug
'Si" ao, not only fails to assist
n''' - her efforts to throw off
na'''> .soosed condition. but that it
U-' -, irterferes with and prevents
''' 'ooor,plishment by adding to the
10 =, condition of the blood; thus
P ,,s to fatal termination cases
''"' ,,.o,d otherwise have recovered.
-rove this assertion Il cite the
/ r,edical authority. by quoting
NO ,,o second edition of Dr.. Osler's
~ .,i,a of Medicine. work found.
,ook of reference. in the library
Early all up-to-date- physicians;
text book in most medical
schools.
80, some may not know of the
ers,tness of DR.. Osler l will quote
The Journal. a medical publica-
-. ubich has the honor of being the
oficsl organ of the American Medi-
cal Association.
!, IFS issue of March 80. 1907. I
s,3 ;be following words of praise for
~ osler which clearly shows the
,;,A rosltjon he occupies in the medi-
al sorld.
The profound learning and world
.,s fame Of DR.. Osler would bring to
If, today. as to Bouhaave centuries
,m letter bearing no other address
s,u. To the worlds greatest physi-
.,o' With these the pre-eminent med
Qualifications he unites the widest
taary knowledge and acquaintance
9Th the thinkers and writer's Of the
mSnt day He has taught and prac-
6el in all the great English spe aking
enntries. He is obviously and log
TALLY the one man to draw from the
leaders, of the profession an EXPOSE
ton Of the worlds most advanced
MEDICAL knowledge
The above quotation will enable the
RAIDER 10 see that an opinion EXPIRE ssed
r Dr.. Osler, on medical subject
0ald have as much influence. if not
more, than the opinion of any other
aelical man in the world.
| therefore quote from the work
bOve referred to. pages 563-4, under
ra;ment for Pneumonia. He says:
Pneumonia is seif-iimtted disease.
Ind runs its course uninfluc need in any
~ BY medicine. 1t can neither be
aborted nor cut short by any known
reanS at our command. We have
then. no specific treatment for pneu-
1onia. The young practitioner may
bear in mind that patients are moro
a,cn damaged than helped by the
Foniscuous drugging which is still
only TO prevalent"
It will be noted that DR.. OSler as
@Tts without qualification. that. so far
w '"- uAoV"SN plSNCSS III pilCulHOllid ~
Concerned, there is nothing known to
Tie medical profession that can in
luence it. either to break it up, or to
make the attack less severe.
More than that he says that the
Nomiscuous drussing which is still
''S prevalent does damage TO the pa
'%lt rather than good. which is another
Say Of saying that the morality rate
Is increased by drug treatment"
II Is possibly true that some drug
Fdctltioners whose mental precep-
u0nS are little obtuse. may yet Ia
J" under the Jelusion that such pa
"'NS can te benefited by the admin
N"ation of drugs but it must be that
|e more Intelligent class have by this
''1e discovered that the only one who
''fiVes any benefit from it is the one
Na0 receives the fee. rather than the
VIC VINO takes the poison.
Is confirmation of this We quote
: @atemeat made by Dr.. Frank Bill.
'lsS hen president of the American
Ne1'cs' Association. who. in his annual
'O0'eSs to that body, said: when l
"" Vd1ed in TO attend case OF pneu-
,+'d's nowadays. I get ready to. sign
'N 9arai certificate"
"aat better evidence could he have
s'''h that he knew there was no vir-
~ III the means he employed. for
-. ''F Of hope is expressed that the pa
a w VII! be likely to recover because
= us administration.
" course, this statement was made
"na closed doors. to the medical
''SSion. and was not intended for
ears of the common people
We ask in all candor and sober
3 Why he continues to accept the
-, V'USlDillty of ministering to this
N>S OF PATIENTS. when he knows he
W them no good? Is there not a
'u' Indictment to lodge against the
-, w "ho will accept for fee. and that
~ n.y. eases that he admits his remedies
" 20 nothing for?
wei justified in taking this strong
u IN this case. for il viii be re-
''.Oered that this same DIR. Billings
few days attendance on the
49,. .4arSAau Field. While he was suf7
from pneumonia. merely for
49, VI relief which ans intelligent os-
1000. e'i ''''' S
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