Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-02-25
ONION. MO-. THURSDAY. FEBRU.

years old, and have not lost sim
gle case. | have made the blind
to see, the deaf to hear and the
lame to walk. 1t may be that the
Doctor will claim these good re-
suits have been obtained through
"hypnotism," or that the patients
were "duped" into health. If so,
we'll were it for suffering human
| ity did the tregulars" resort to
such or similar means. AS to my
patients being defrauded and
separated from their hard earned
cash." i leave them to deal with
DR.. Martins estimate of their in
telligence and brain development.
Concerning the elements of
"fraud" and "humbug" in the
curing professions, permit to quote
from some eminent authorities
all intelligent, old-school physi-
cia1s-relative to the Irregular"
practice, past and present:
"The science of medicine is
founded upon conjecture and i'm
proved by murder" declares one
of the greatest physicians in the
world, Sir Ashley Cooper, M. D.,
physician to the Queen of Eng
land.
"Drug medicines do but cure one
disease by producing another"
asserts DR.. Martin Payne, professor
in the New York University Med
ical College.
ga mild mercurial course and
mildly cutting a mans throat are
synonymous terms" says Profess
sor Gilman of the New York Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons.
DR.. A. B. Stockman quotes the
statement of physician at meet
ing of physicians in Boston. This
doctor has performed more opera
tions for appendicitis than any
other American doctor. He de-
clared at the Boston meeting of
doctors that 80 per cent of the
cases in which he operated for ap-
pendicitis proved not to be that
disease at all. "We always tell a
patient and his friends that the
operation was successful" he said.
DR.. G. E. Page, Boston, Mass:
"From the time in which the father
of his country, affected by SIM
pie and readily curable malady,
pharyngitis, was killed by bleed
ing up to. the recent catastrophe
(Feb. 8, 1907 of a needless opera
tion for appendicitis, which killed
a distinguished New York states
man, such operations have killed
no end of good men and women"
Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
who was for many years one of
the medical faculty Of Harvard
Medical School, said before his
class:
"The disgrace of medicine is
that colossal system of self -decep-
ton in obedience to which mines
have been emptied of their cank-
ering minerals, the vegetable king
dom robbed of all it's growth, the
entrails of animals taxed for their
impurities, the poison bags Of rep
tiles drained for their venom, and
all the conceivable denominations
thus obtained thrust down the
throats of individuals suffering
from some fault of organization,
nourishment or vital stimulation"
Prof. Valentine Mott, the great
surgeon says: "Of all sciences,
medicine is the most uncertain"
DR.. Abercromble, fellow of the
Royal College Of Physicians of
Edinburgh, says: medicine has
been called by philosophers the
art of conjecturing; the science of
guessing"
Prof. Gregory Of the Edinburgh
Medical College, said to his medi-
cal class: "Gentlemen, w out OF
every 100 medical facts are medi-
cal lies, and medical doctrines are,
for the most part, stark, staring
nonsense"
The list could be prolonged, but
is this not enough to prove that
"fraud" and "duping" cannot be
said by even DR.. Martin to per-
tain solely to physicians of the
Osteopathic school I?
w, j.. SMITH. d. o,