Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-01-21
sTIFIERS

Several times each year We give
series Of optical articles as our ads.
We try TO make them understands
Bile. They are not manufactured
theories of my own, but standard
principles from our highest authOTi-
ties that ! have proved correct. Our
methods Of working out eye errors
are the method of our best opera
tors. Medical doctors know that to
accomplish results strengthening up
hard cases ii is absolutely necessary
for the patient TO have faith in me
and my method or they will not suf-
ficiently try 10 do their part Of the
work. Certain OF them have never
lost an opportunity to try to lessen
your faith and belief in US. You are
told that we give glasses and fog
vision for patients who need medical
treatment. You bet we do, except
certain diseases, and have high au-
thority for it. Next week / will give
extracts from lecture by dean of
ophthalmology in one Of our medi-
cal schools. 1t will fully substanti-
ate my methods.
We have told you before that We
had not been coming TO McConnels-
vile over a month until our patients
began to tell us that their doctor
told them not to wear the glasses we
gave them. This has increasingly
been kept up. A rush was later made
to tell it to school children, regard
less of the fact that there were court
orders against such conduct by
health officers, school nurses and
teachers.
Just last week Miss Edith Giles
pie came in for eye examination. |
found her having two diopters of
astigmatism with some spherical
error ALSO She brought a pair of
glasses with her that she said she
had not worn for two years mea-
sured the old glasses and found one
eye very near the same as my find-
ing; the other was a half diopter
weak on the cylinder. When I
found her with SO bad an error and
with glasses that come as near cor
rctfng l asked her why she quit
wearing them. She replied that
she quit wearing them two years
ago because the health officer told
her not to wear them. | asked her
no more questions; knew for my
self that the health officer had TAX
en- 1t for granted that / had furnish
ed them instead of a well known oc-
nfist, was why she got the order.
also knew that this was probably
near the one-hundredth who had re-
ceived the same order from the NJ.
Dts without any intelligent knowl-
edge of the facts or any other
grounds for the orders except prop
aganda cussedness.
A few years ago the chiropractor
was jailed. You all know the local
talent behind it. His complete ru-
ination was thought by some to be
assured when an osteopath just hap
pened to drop in while he was lock-
ed up. Especially so when a propa-
ganda regiment started up and down
street telling folks that the osteo-
path was swamped with patients.
heard one high school student tell
this in the crowded city restaurant
three times in the short time the os-
teopath was here. l knew it was eX-
tremely false and / knew the young
man to be most honorable and
truthful. Why and where was the
source of inspiration for such mis-
, information?
| The most of you know that the
same folks have been searching hard
for my patients, to send them for a
change of glasses. We know that
their tool will get their mud batter
les turned on him as soon as his USE
fulness to them is over, just as sure
ly as it woald have been turned On
the osteopath had they succeeded in
wrecking the chiro. The chiro's
friends did not even nibble at the
bait, SO the osteopath fizzled in