New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-20

Q.-What was the reason you sew
cred your connection with them? A.
Because the newspapers rode them;
they wrote them up in the newspapers
about their medical advertisements.
Odd they drive you out of bust
ness? Al just left; | had a part
ner who stayed; l left; doctor can
not stand criticism.
Q.-When did you start in New
York? A.-About a year and half
ago
Q.-Whcre? Alt 1874 East Thirty
sixth Street
In the "World," "Brooklyn Eagle"
STANDARD Union" "Staats- Zeitung"
and German Hcrold."
Q.-How much do you spend? A.
Last month $4,000; I have got q place
in New York and have got a place in
brooklyn; | have a large practice, and
it is growing rapidly.
Employees and Fees
On Brooklyn how many employees?
A-Iwenty-on people; nurses, order
lies; two physicians
Q.-What are your instructions to
your subordinates who actually do the
work, as far as fees are concerned?
Any average fee is 81 treatment;
IN New York a little bit more, $2.40 a
treatment; that is the average; some
times if the patients are rich, my fees
are high; among industrial people the
fees average $3.50, depending upon the
nature of the disease.
Q.-What is the average number OF
patients a day in New York? Alone
hundred and twenty-five day is the
average; sometimes seventytive a day.
Q-What do you pay for the ads?
A.-That ad. Indicating the ad. in
"The New York World" of May 26,
1879 cost about $500.
Q.-How often do you advertise?
A.-Once a week; | spend about $4,000
month; next year I viii spend $4o,-
600 if you let me do business.
Q.-Are you q member of the Acad-
envy of Medicine? A.-They won't let
me.
Ignorant of Protests
Q-Was it ever brought to your
attention that the New York County
Medical Society and the Academy of
Medicine have protested against the
nature of your doing business! A.
No.
Q.-Do you do any surgical work?
Avery little, practically none.
Q.-Any major surgery? A.-No.
Q.-Do you refer them to anyone?
Ayes.
Q.-To whom? A--Post- Graduate
do not want them around the office;
l do not accept any chronic cases like
tuberculosis, heart disease or cancer.
Q.-Do you regard yourself as an
expert diagnostician? Al think |
do; | would not say so; there is a
wide difference as to what is an expert;
no, | would not want to put myself
down as an expert.
Q.-Do you claim that you have in
your Brooklyn or New York Office any
one that is special diagnostician
A.-No, | do not think SO.
Q.-The treatments you use, are they
used generally by the profession, and
do you have any special treatment or
apparatus that is not generally used
A. Electro therapeutics is my special
ty; great many physicians would like
to practice it, but they have not got
the money; | have spent over 100000
to equip my office; they cannot afford
to have assistants, to have twentyone
people working for them.
Q.-Tell me some of the machines
that are not ordinarily used. A.-Thc
auto condensation current machine for
reducing high blood pressure.
Q.-ls that an invention of your own
A.-No. it is not.
Q.-Whose invention is it? Al
cannot tell you. 1t is simply high
pressure current, like the wireless.
Believes in Treatment
Q.-You believe in this particular
treatment with this auto condensation
current, that it has a certain medical
efficacy? Ayes.
Q.-Do you use the water machine
plSO2 A-Ga1vanic7 Yes
Q.-What claims do you make to any
of the patients in regard to advising
them to use this machine? Al do
not claim that I can cure anything.
Q.-How about this statement:
electro medical science not only re
lieves, but checks, and cures diseases"
A.-So it does; we get cures; when
people have stomach trouble we make
them all right; l simply give them
proper diet
Q.-Have you ever been under
charges by any medical association out
West? A.-No, the newspapers wrote
them advertisements up and destroyed
my business and left town
Same Business in Chicago
Q.-Was the nature of your business
in Chicago the same as in New York
Ayes mostly genito-urinary work.
| was interested in electro-t herapeu-
tics. That is, the treatment there was
the same apparatus as used here now,
l had the largest practice in Chicago
at the time.
Q.-Have you secured any legal ad-
vice as to the form Of advice you give
patients? Ayes, l have tried to
keep within the law, because l know
| am criticised. This Office is going
to be troubled all the time because
patients are not friends of mine they
are perfect strangers to me and very
unreasonable. They 90 to their physi-
clan, tell him they do not get along,
and the physician says: "Faker,
CRATER, etc go down and see you On
dicating Assistant District Attorney;
| wish you would give me thorough
| Investigation and let me continue or
/ say stop" and | will stop.