New-York tribune., 1919-08-27

of treatment which had come into the
world because suffering humanity was
calling for it and which had become
the greatest modern remedial agent ex
listing in the world. OF these physi-
clans the answer alleges:
"ln truth and in fact, neither the
plaintiff nor any of his associates or
employees who were physicians author
lied to practise medicine in the state
Of New York, or we're represented to
be such, was or was recognized by the
ethical medical profession to be such
scientist or skilled specialist. On the
contrary, some of them were quacks.
Others had been practitioners of peri
patetic professional habits who had
failed to achieve success in ethical pro-
fessional pursuits. Some were not even
authorized to practise medicine in the
State Of New York. X-ray examina-
tions, so-called, were given by men who,
IN the presence of patients, were called
DOCTORS, but who, in fact, were not doc
tors and had not been trained and edu-
Gated as medical men,"
One of these physicians, Edward B.
Herrlck, was, according to the answer
the subject of no less than three
fraud orders" issued by the Post
master General on evidence found to
constitute proof that his concerns were
schemes for obtaining money by false
and fraudulent pretences in violation
OF Federal statutes. In April, the an
swer says, he was under Indictment on
charges Of practising medicine under
an assumed name and of falsely i'm
personatng Ward.
One Concern Convicted
Another, Marcelus Orlando Arnold,
was, the answer alleges, a trafficker in
lnd 60 bo
habit. His concern was sentenced by
the Federal Court on it's plea of guilty
to the charge of misbranding it's prod
uct in violation Of the pure food and
drug act" The pleading sets forth
that another of Wards staff, La Verne
A: Barber, had, for considerable part
OF his career, been a vaudeville actor
and that neither he nor Gilbert White,
another of the Scientists" was author
lied to practise medicine in the State
Of New York.
Another, George Everett Coutant,
the pleading sets forth, found himself
unable to make a living in ethical
professional pursuits and entered the
employ of the Force of Life Chemical
Company, which went out of bust
ness when the public press in New
York denounced it as "grotesquely
obvious swindle." Later he ran a
AuoNh Sulc 1OI OtalUeSS LOT which,,
according to the pleading, he was
indicted by the Federal Court, the in
dictment being dismissed on his
promise never again to engage in mail
order medical business.
The answer closes with detailed al
legations about what it terms the
fakery and uselessness Of X-ray ex-
aminations made in Wards Man
haitian and Brooklyn establishments.
The A-ray, it says, in the hands of
reputable physicians experienced in
its highly scientific use is valuable
within limits recognized by ethical
psychologists.
But the pleading continues, "rep-
reservations regarding the value, es-
pecially in diagnostic work, of X-ray
examinations as given in Wards Offices
were eXtravagant, misleading or de-
ceptive. Neither such X-ray apparatus.
or appliances, nor any others known
to the ethical medical profession have
or had such powers or virtues as were
represented in the plaintiffs adver-
tisements, and in said Offices of the
plaintiff such apparatus or appliances
were, in fact, carelessly and un-
scientifically and inexpertly used
"X-ray examinations, so called, were
made of patients who were fully
clothed and with personal belongings
such as metallic objects in their
pockets, which was a careless and un-
scientific practice and one condemned
as unsafe and unreliable and not used
by reputable ethical physicians"