Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-19
THE DOCTORS TRUST
DOES DR.. WILEY COMPILE Pre-.
JUDGED REPORTS?
sour Foods and Drugs" the Organ of
Patent Medicines, SAYS Cover n.
menf Reports Are Prepared to Mis-
lead the People in the Interest OF
the Doctors Trust.

About two years ago the Doctors
Trust prevailed upon Golfers Week.
ly to publish what purported to be
reports of 80 cases of poisoning by
investigation, proved to be made up
entirely of falsehOOdS and miSrepre-
sentations. OF the entire 80 cases
not one was truthfully reported and
21 were absolutely without founda-
tion in fact. This was proven by
the Editor and Publisher of the Medi-
cal and Surgical Journal, who, in
an article entitled, "COllier's Meth
DDS Exposed" exploded every charge
contained in the Collier articles and
showed Samuel Hopkins Adams, their
author, to be wholly unreliable and
absolutely unprincipled. AS soon as
the American Medical Association
(the Doctors Trust) discovered that
they had among them journal edit
ed by man with the courage Of his
convictions, they were quick to re-
alize that this journal would be Of
great harm to their cause and
promptly deciding that the course of
the journal must be turned to their
good, they at once set about to ac-
complish the purchase Of said jour-
nal. This they succeeded in doing
and Immediately combined it with
one of the Association organs, since
which time the American Medical
Association has attempted to make
a mystery of the discontinuance of
the publication of The Medical and
Surgical Journal.
However, the article in The Medi-
cal and Surgical Journal effectually
stopped Golfers further assaults on
these reliable headache remedies and,
as no reputable publication could be
found yellow" enough to issue fur
ther assaults of this character, DR..
H. w. Wiley, the great Pooh Bah of
the Department of Agriculture was
persuaded to use his power as gov
ernment officer to issue false and
misleading Bulletin along the same
lines, at government expense. Feeling
safe from damage suits because OF
his position, he issued his report
along general lines. claiming to have
compiled his data from a series of
letters received from 400 doctors. He
does not say who these doctors are
and he does not say that he investi-
gated their reports or responsibility
in a single instance. He simply states
that he sent a circular letter to 925
physicians containing certain Ques-
tions and that he received 400 re-
plies, With his wide acquaintance
among doctors and his powerful in
fluence among the leaders of the
Doctors Trust, it is easy to conceive
that he could readily pick out 400
Doctors in the Trust whose prejudices
are we'll known and who would glad
ly make any reply to the questions
that they thought would please.
Wiley.
A demand has been made on the
Department of Agriculture for per-
mission to examine the said 400 re-
ports in order to verify DR.. Wiley S
conclusions from them, but this de-
mand was peremptorily refused. The
reasons for this refusal would be self
evident, even though Wiley's history
in other cases We're not known. For
instance, DR.. Wiley was overruled by
a superior power in the corn syrup
case. and in the benZoate case, yet
he travels about the country at gov
ernment expense making speeches at
tacking the products which the gov
ernment held to be properly manu-
featured In the same way, i. e., at
government expense, he sent out 90
600 copies of the late Bulletin" tC
the newspapers of the United States
with letter containing garbled alb
stracts from it, we'll knowing that
few editors would wade through sc
nages of "Bulletin' when DR.. Vile!
himself had so very kindly furnished
in succinct form the substance of the
report. Few editors suspected him o
misusing his power to draw unjust
conclusions from "Bulletin' ISSUED
bv the government, and probably nt
editor. who published Wiley's alb
stract, suspected that he was being
ICnntinuod On Para EOur.