Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-14
HOMEOPATHY

The following is taken from an ar
ticle by DR.. E. o. Richberg Of Chica-
go. entitled, do or Should Doctors
Advertise"
when the ethics of a profession
degenerate into a spurious courtesy
which works an injustice to large
groups Of honorable and efficient men
and women n deceives to their last
ing injury a majority of the people.
it is time to ignore the so-called ethics.
This applies to the misnamed pres
ent day ethics of the medical profess
sion.
For many generations medical eth
les have manifested only as policy in
the garb Of Observation-Disclosures and
courtesy. During more recent years,
with advancement In, theEart or sci
ence Of healing among other classes
Of investigators and students, and the
assumed Indifference by the majority
of the allopathic physicians to uc-
cess and accomplishments along these
various diverging lines the ethics of
their courtesy have still further de-
generated into deception and misrep-
resentation. A superficial loyalty to
the deeds and misdeeds Of their own
%allopathic brotherhood have for years
served to screen from the undiscrimi-
mating public all accurate understand
ing of the aims, claims and work Of
other schools by %picturing the mem
bers thereof as mental and moral in
competents; and, until now, the more
advanced and victimized classes
among the healing professions have
not retaliated, because of the tradi-
tional fear Of a loss Of prestige
through any public announcement Of
the success attending their superior
methods of treating the sick and suf-
fering.
"a reputable physician does not ad-
vertise," announces the dominant
school potential political factors OF
this school, however, as represented
by the inner circle of the American
Medical Association, ave no difficulty
in securing recognition by the press
which constitutes advertising, more or
less gratuitous, for not only their real
advancement in surgical mechanics,
but also for the questionable, though
much heralded subcutaneous applica-
ton of various poisons known as sera
and antitoxins. These latter include
almost the only generally applied
modern methods of healing as recog-
nized by that school of practice. Long
has the Homeopathic school been OPP
emily and secretly derfded for it's en-
dorsement Of the well-proved law
that like is cured by like" or to put
it more clearly. that abnormal body
conditions are corrected by a rational
application of the anne elements or
similar elements to those that caused
the abnormality; but while the anti
toxin treatment can claim no virtue
ave under the Law of homeopathy, on
the principle that the toxic elements
Of typhoid or %diphtheria for instance,
when injected into an individual, pre-
vent or cure these diseases, the home
opathic school ISL no credit for the
ma nv sins committed IN fhfo py0r1r t.
has, on the contrary, experienced soli-
citude rather than envy for this dis
aster-breeding application of its law
For over a century Homeopathy has
met with gratifying success In the
treatment Of all possible disease con-
ditions through the use Of only such
subtle elements as call forth a heal
thy. vital reaction without entailing
any Of the dire effects induced by the
Introduction Of crude poisons into the
tissues of the body.
Had homeopathic physicians re-
pudiated the .so-called ethics OF the
allopathic school. with it's Anticipated
and crude curative methods. many
years ago, and given to the public by
every adequate means detailed ac-
counts of their methods in dealing
with disease and their success, an in
~calculable amount Of suffering might
have been avoided and many valuable
lives saved. 1T Is a shocking thought
to realize that lives have been sacri-
feed SO long to a spurious courtesy
BY Homeopathy acute diseases are
absorbed and such chronic diseases
as gall-etones, Bright's d~isease, hem
orrhoids, tuberculosis and cancer are
cured and without resort to surgery
and local applications. Is not healing
above surgery?
1t is important that the public
should know Of the possibilities OF
homeopathic treatment at the pres
ent time. for the healing methods
which he allopaths are trying to en-
force are, II possible, more dangerous
than the drugs formerly employed
and now almost discarded which IL
the usual history OF all their methods
of treatment. used for a time az a
sure cure and then discarded as Of no
We know that there are many peo-
pie looking for curative treatment
and will therefore continue our arti-
cleseon Homeopathic every week.
Dire. Arthur and r.. Margaret Peake.
20s Widlynd Building. Grand Forks,
IN. D.-Adv.