Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-02
HEALTH LAWS GEL
SCORING FROM
DR.. PETERS
Alleged Medical Trust" Wig
OrOusly Defended BY Silver
City Man in Annual Address
Delivered Today.

That New Mexico. os regards sane
and modern medical and health laws.
H. far behind all other states and IL
thus made dumping ground" for
quachs and incompetent doctors who
cannot practice elsewhere, was the
strong statement made this morning
before the New Mexico Medical So
ciety By President Leroy 3. Peters,
NJ. D.. OF silver City, In his annual
address. DR.. Peters denounced the
failure OF the last legislature to pass
medical legislation; vigorously de-
Tended the so-cRlled medical trust
In what Zee termed its endcavor 10
drive out the quacks and protect the
public health. and pictured the pass
ing OF the old-tlme country doctor
with his saddlebags and pills before
the advent Of the modern scientific
investigator who seeks 20 teach mon
how 60 I've free from disease.
According 10 Dr. Peters the health
and medical regulation laws OF New
Mexico arc disgrace To any civ
llized community" His address fol-
! lows.
! Not long ago I had the pleasure
/ OF listening TO the long haired e.-
/ centric genius Of East Aurora, Etbert
1 Hubbard. Some ten years past I
ceased TO read his magazines and his
} various other literary feasts. not so
much because / had tired OF them,
but because the man had. ngurativoiy
4 speaking, reached the end OF his rome
and had nothing new TO impart. /
was surprised. therefore. To find that
Ia ala
had changed. At the time I mention
he was wholly antagonistic; now only
partially SO. His knocks were con-
fined to the old time practitioner. who
To great extent has passed away.
and be Il said In MIR. Hubbard's fav-
or. he spoke la an almost human way
Of the medical profession OF today
and their stand along the line OF
preventative medicine.
I mention this merely to show the
general trend OF public opinion. The
laity feel far more kindly disposed
toward progressive medicine today
than they did ten years ago. aand the
reason lies In the passing or the old
physician ana the coming OF the
scientific investigator.
Yet. for my part. | have great rev
erencc for the old country doctc-. and
7 think there is not one among you
who does not feel a deep sorrow IN
his passing. He came as close Co yot
as the clergy. shared your sorrows
and joys; brought you into the world
watched you grow; cared for YOU
children and ministered unto you II
your last illness. guiding you IN wayl
he deemed best from iifc's heglnhinf
until lifes end.
Seldom now II he seen Progress
IN all lines Of endoAvor has beer
equaled by progress In medicine anC
today the doctor with his saddle bag
and pill box. hurrying 10 the sick be6
, Is supPlanted 10y the physician wh'
tells YOU how To live that you ma!
never know the pangs of disease
think YOU will'agroc with me tina
tho medical profession is misunder
stood. As evidence Of this | cite yol
To the yearly night In every state legis
lasuro regarding "a medical practic
act, The men you send to YOU
lawmuking bodies, the influential pa
pors OF your stgte; the farmer VIA
sits around the wood stove In TIA
country store. everybody tells you tina
tho laity--your freedom. As "a mat
tor of fact. the, medical trust. as yoi
would call Il, N trying heart and so';
10 protect you from the quack tn
lchHrlatan and the devil incarnat
who would rob YOU of your last pen
my TO make profit FOR himself Tn
laws regulating the practice of medi
cine In the states today try To kee
from your door the man, he he from
the regular school, the homeopathic
the eclectic, the osteopathic, or VIVA
not who II not qualified To prsctlc
the art of healing.
Aud here let me digress Ion
enough To- mako rather broad state
ment, one which may provoke criti
cism. For my part | do not care VIVA
cult may practice medicine or wha
Z form Of treatment he or she may us
; provided they have had the same pro
e lllminary education and SCUM
r grounding In an branches of medl
, cine except their particular mctho
1 OF treatment 1, matters not Co m
Z whether doctor gives YOU pills 1
, get you well. whether an ostoopat
/, rubs your spine 10 effect a cure, q
I, whether Christian Scientist pray
Almighty God to rid YOU Of dlscas
!, lust So long as they are on a commo
r. ting. or In other words, have ha
: the same general training.
. II Is this question Of training whic
o makes a physician and rocognizin
= this fact the American Medical ass'
citation has waged war on the cheaps
schools so that today the number Z
medical colleges In the United state
h reduced nearly half that of the pas
The state boards of registration ai
: raising the education requirement
= before they will grant "a license
i practice medicine. better mcdic
y schools are requiring a higher pr'
+ ilminary education before they wi
!. admit a student to the study of med
a cine: in fact. the entire trend Of med
y cine and the medical profession Of q
: day is for better schools better heail
!" laws and better doctors.
= But the Utopia In medicine viii
reached when the physician h paid
N the state; when the doctor need "a
practice medicine for q living, but Z
n the sake of science. Let me Vi
= that when the almighty dollar do
y not stand hNtWecn MUSICIAN and ID