The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-04-22
But the Medical Men Failt
to Keep their Appoint.
with the Public. Article
from Charlotte Paper Ex-
plains their Strange Con.
duct.

for the Cleveland (Ohio) Institute
of Medicine and Surgery. The
advertisement stated that on April
18th specialists from this institute
would be at the Price Court Inn
for the purposes of making exam
nations of persons suffering from
diseases. No charge
would be made for the examina.
ton. April 18th came but the
specialists didn't. Quite a num-
bcr of people from the country and
nelghboring towns came to see the
specialists and as is quite natural
they we're disappointed when it
was found that the doctors had
failed to keep their appointment.
This is one of the few times The
Herald has been imposed on
through its advertising columns.
When the advertisement was se..t
to us it WIS accompanied bv d
check; otherwise it would not have
been published as the Cleveland
Institute OF Medicine and Surgery
was unknown to us. However,
last week the Bank of Dillon nta.
fed us that the check had bill,
returned from the Cincinnati bs 10
stamped Payment Refuset;u
This aroused our suspicious, ite
it was 100 late to make any
rcctions in the paper as the last nv
sue before the 18th had alres
been sentout. The specialists Aa>
appointments at other towns wi
for some reason they failed to IN
We clip the following from Ral,0 co.
News and Observer: 'N'-
Horkville, S. c., March 2tp;o,
An advertisement, occupyinark-
bout three-fourths of col,and
space, announcing that speciaSool
representing the Cleveland II
tute of Medicine and Surgery, oun-
gally chartered and incorpora last
at Cleveland, o., would Iher-
Torkville and be at the Shant
hotel to-day, and for one day onl
appeared in the Yorkville Enquhy hy
er of March % and 26. 1t invite,ir
sufferers from diseases of the n6lJ
vous system, heart, lungs, kidr,r
stomach and kindred troubles, old.
not under the care of a regulat-
practicing physician, to call anu
have free diagnosis made of their
ailments. From 9 a. m. to 7:3Op.
M, were mentioned as office hours.
AT an early hour men and women
commenced to arrive and by 9 o.
clock not less than fifty persons
who had come for the sole purpose
of consulting the representatives
of the institute were in town.
In order to comply with the |. e", =,
made and provided, one of TIE
physicians, DR.. William B. Smit l.
of Dillon, S. c., visited the Office
of the clerk of court, presented
what he considered ample evidence
that he was DR.. William B. Smith.
OF Dillon, s. c., rendered rs cents, ,
the prescribed fee, and asked to +
registered as regularly license tn
physician of this state and entitle. a
to practice in York county. The
clerk stated that it would be neces-
sary for the applicant to be identi-
he'd by physician of the town.
DR.. Smith suggested DR.. r. A.
Bratton, and was advised that DR..
Bratton's Identification would be
satisfactory. DR.. Bratton was sent
for and on arrival identified DR..
Smith as the genuine article, but
advised him that he had been gull
ty of unethical conduct in that his
coming had been announced in a
newspaper advertisement, contra
ry to the usages of the profession,
and that if he undertook to carry
out the plans set forth in the ad.
vertisement his license to practice
in the State would undoubtedly be
revoked by the state medical board.
DR.. Smith surrendered without
hring gun, and in view of the
fact that the physician who accom-
panied him here was not licensed
by this but by New York State, he
would do nothing except in con-
nection with DR.. Smith.