The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-18
THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST
THE PENDING BILL AZ
FECTING PHYSICIANS
(By DR.. Hanna.)

If YOU will excuse my Egyptian
English. I'll try to lift the torch OF
truth and explain some facts the
public should know.
Within the last century a remarA-
able revolution has taken place III
methods of treating the sick IL was
the leading medical men who point
ed out the road which the medicai
progress took and refunded the
physiologic methods of which Osteo-
pathy, Chiropractic, physical tram
ing hydrotherapy, electra, pnoto'
thermo. mechanic, suggestive ana
dieto therapeutics are branches
Like every thing new, the meth
DDS found those who welcomed ana
nut them to the test, and those VINO
opposed them, some for sclentlnc
reasons and others for prejudice
pure and simple, but that would
never give us an excuse TO curse the
whole bunch and their valuable
methods nor even cali them med
les and try to depreciate their no
BILE stand.
All of the modern methods to-
gether with medicine and surgery
are needed and should all be operat-
ed in cooperative harmony. one
agency may be more important than
another, but each has its own mer-
it's, which should be appreciated
and turned to use.
While in their struggle to win
their way and prove their efficiency
at the disposal of the modern physi-
clan, some of the drugless methods
| fell into the hands of emperics and
charlatans whose advertisements we
often read with the broad claims
that theirs lis the only scientific
method that cures everything and
that "they can cure after everybody
else fails" etc, etc Those are the
commercial doctors who claim too
much and do too little.
| am frank and believe in telling
the truth that helps the people be-
| fore everything-th cause of the
suffering must come ahead of mine
and yours. There are today in this
country scores of schools that make
doctors through few pamphlets
sent to them by mail or few weeks
course at school. Could YOU claim
that graduates of such schools, un-
less they carry their own research
for years at the expense of the sick,
would be competent to diagnose and
treat disease in it's subtle ways and
various forms which often puzzle
the most skilled? Could you tell me
that it is safe to turn such a prac.
titioner lose to do more harm than
good.
There is no law for the examina
ton of some forms of drugless prac
titioners, but there ought to be fol
the welfare of the people and thu
protection of the nation. This mus
come first and should be the ideal O
every physician.
If understood the bill right, ant
that it is for the purpose of found
ing a commission board for examin
ing all practitioners, every one il
his own line of practice, do not Sc,
why any doctor should resent tn,
idea, as I am sure that every com
petent physician of every line shout,
welcome it unless he does not objec
to being put in the wrong light o
being afraid of the examination
in the meantime, | do not believ,
THAT such law should be retroactiv,
especially in the case of physician
who have been in practice for year
as the memory of such physician
would fail them 10 answer the tech
meal points and theories, while tn
lcEg period of their practice woul,
have given them sufficient experience
to carry on their work without do