The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-16

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ing itself in all things to the God OF
knowledge. turning its back to the
worship of the almighty dollar and
the enslavment of an unbecOming per-
sonal vanity, IL ii can not do this ii
should give up its charter and go out
of existence, IL 1t will not it must be
driven to 1t by protest on the part of
all the profession even the protest of
its own alumni. A half a dozen
schools east of the Alleghenies, a like |
number in the Mississippi valley AMI
perhaps two or three on the Pacific
Coast would be ample to guard the
public health n the Monroe Doctrine
should apply to the presumption of
any increase thereof. The health and
happiness of the Nation would lever
suffer at the hands of this type of col
lege, the competency of its graduates
to practice medicine as IL ought to
.'be practiced, to the good of humanity
and honor to the science, must far
surpass the present day protege of
quiz-master N State Board. Then
gentlemen let us strike at the root of
the evil, let us destroy the CONNER
cial medical college and we have de-
stroyed the commercial physician,
the advertising agent of the purely
commercial pharmaceutical house, a
type of physician o ~nauseatilg
than the frank and open quack. If
such be possible, for the quack, 10
he be a knave, is not a fool, while
this indicated Doc. is SO gullible as
TO he ~pursuaded into prescribing all
sorts of proprietaries, synthetical pre-
partitions possibly, more likely simple
colored mixtures, carrying high sound
ing names always accompanied by a
species semi-scientific lot of tomy-rot
TO supplement our defective e1uca-
tions, for-sooth. ! may be mistaken
but | can not hut believe that ii is
the low standard of preliminary edu-
| cation along with its parallel the com
mercial medical college that is re-
| sponsible for the drugstore doctor
and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES doctor of
the present day as we'll as that other
type who has headquarters in the
saddle who would do all he work in
their various spheres of activity at a
prevailing fee that would shame a
second rate mechanic, he has sized
himself up and whatever other quail
ties he may lack he excels in dag
1osis. He has PEE able to diagnose
himself. and it is this: He has con
genital deficiency of gray-matter and
his center of gravity is a little low
down. he does not have time TO write
prescriptions and soon e not have
sufficient intelligence to attempt any
thing better than m-e-norandu-ns call
| llS TOT SCOii EllulSlOH, 6u1t = rep
-tomangan. Listerine, A~ntikamnia, the
various Bromos, etc. etc. This sort
Of physician prepares the soil in
which the seeds of patent medicine
are sown and thereby robs the profes
sion of millions OF dollars which very
properly and justly belong to them,
They have never lone a scintilla OF
good in the communities where they
have flourished, on the other aand
4 They have left a trail nf r1lin a -nnlfi
tude of human wrecks which a kind
public has charged up TO the Almighty
Ibut which DC Science charges di-
rectly to them. oft-times living in the
brown stone house on the corner and
sad TO say sometimes found in the
Amen corners of our churches. / am
happy TO say that only a small per
centage of the intelligent profession
affect this sort anu in many cases il
probably comes about in this way:
That some of US who may be really
sincere and honest at heart through
fear hat a tickle public may think
us just a bit behind the times we
make use of these modern high sound
ing remedies. On the other hand If
we have been guilty though an undue
credulity on our part or a seeming
plausibility on the part of the attach
| ed literature if We only stop TO think
we we'll know that the multiplication
of remedies on the part of the pres
ent pharmaceutical houses is only 10
distract and befog the medical mind.
only TO pay dividends on the stock no.
for truth or human welfare and the
medical profession Is only the butt of
their ridicule. if You put your ear TO
he ground you may hear something
like this: What fools these doctors
be-" Along this line also l wish to re-
fer briefly to the present relation of
he profession toward life insurance
companies. The scheme when hon
estly conducted is not TO be condemn
ed by physicians. on the other hand
perhaps il can be shown to be a phi
l~anthropic institution making for the
good of society and therefore onght
to be encouraged. But in these days
Of conmercialism when mems love
for the almighty dollar has blinded
them to all decency or reverence for
the Golden Rule. a great multitude
of insurance schemes. so-called fratef-
nal. semi-fraternal. benevolent, etc. ad
infinitum. have been created whose on
~ object is by a Specious argument
of false fraternalisn or by special &C.
onomy in management, etc. they are
able to give cheaper insurance and
thereby catch the unwary in their ne
having never a single thought of full
filling their contract but to steal the
first premium looking TO the lapsing
of the policy. or in event of a big pay
day 10 go out of business the day be-
fore. This class of insurance com
panies are the one, two and three
dollar per associations which usually
by letter or by agent advise you thai
YOU have been elected to act as exam
liner for them. Now there can be no
question that a medical examination
ought to be worth i've dollars to any
company which IS in the business
honestly. IL that examination is hon-
estly and intelligeatly made. and fur