The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-31
PHYSICIANS WRANGLE
OVER NATUROPATHlC
LICENSING MEASURE
State Affairs Committee Is Kept
in Ferment by vigor Of
Denunciations

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The family quarrel OF the doctors
was aired before the senate state az
fairs committee, this forenoon, when
senate bill No. IS, to license naturo-
pathists came up for consideration.
Appearing for the bill were DR.. ].
H. Miller, who practices naturopathy
here, and DR.. T. 8. Mclaughlin, who
is not q naturopath but q pronounced
skeptic on the old school practice. DR..
v. ]. La Rose, DR.. Jungmann and
other physicians were present, includ-
ing Senator Porter, who Is on the
committee, but DR.. La Rose was the
only one who spoke in any way in OPP
position to the proposed licensing.
Senator Martin, OF Morton. also took
a hand by appearing to denounce the
old schools Of medicine.
DR.. Mclaughlin denounced the old
schools Of medicine with fervor that
kept the committee in ferment Of
laughter. Senator Martin was scarce
~ less earnest.
La Rose Opposes Bill
DR.. La Rose appeared for the State
Medical association. He termed the
bill q short cut to the practice of med
icine. It opened. he said, the prac-
tice Of medicine to those not quail
fled under existing medical laws. The
bill. he said, speaking Of the training
required, sets four years Of six months
each as the period Of schooling on top
Of high school course. No amount
of hours are specified. It would even
admit q correspondence course stu
dent, he said. The old schools of med
icine require two classical and scien-
tific college years and six years In
combination with the medical college
training, followed by two years in q
hospital for licensing q physician to
practice.
He also charged that the bill opens
up the use of narcotics through the
herbal treatment OF the naturopathic
school; also that in allowing minor
surgery 1t opens the way to major
surgery, as minor operation may
develop into one or more major Oper-
ations before completed.
Objection also was made to the re-
peal Of all medical law provisions II
conflict with the bill. It would sc
riddle these laws that they could be
tossed over entirely. DR.. La Rose said
Miller Denies Intentions
DIR. Miller, in reply, said the I1atur.
opaths especially are pledged not tx
practice material medica or major
surgery, and as for X-ray treatments
they are absolutely opposed to those
as the most dangerous practice II
medicine. AS to herbs, they simpl,
want to prescribe what counties!
mothers already do for the ills o.
their children. He said there was NJ
design in this phytotherapy to masl
narcotic treatment. as naturopathil
theory and teaching are opposed tx
narcotics and they advise against sucl
drugs. The whole idea is to cure b!
getting as close to nature as possible
on the theory that the body natural
~ is healthy and will regulate itsel
back out Of illness II given chance.
In reply to Senator Fowler, Dr.
Miller said his school has educationa
institutions In Florida, New York
Chicago, Seattle and California
There are SO teachers in the New
York school and $3.50 hours is the to
tai Of study required of students dur
ing their course.
He said naturopaths require Law
like the one asked because they ar,
liable to be hectored by the old schoo
physicians. He himself has been ar
rested three times. he said, once TO
telling a lot Of people how and VIII.
to take baths-perhaps among then
such as had never taken q bath.
He said a big Fargo sanitarium i
q naturopathic institution, and Sen
ator Fowler commented he had neve
heard of any complaint against 1t.
Martin Gives Experiences
Senator Martin made heavy at
tack on the medical profession in de
Tending the pending measure. ii
cited a yellow fever case in q party o
which he was one, in Texas, year
ago. Calomel was given the patien
ftill his teeth dropped out he said, AM
now it is known that the fever is du
to the bite of a mosquito. He salt
there is no bigger humbug than tn
medical profession.
DR.. Mclaughlin took up the attacl
where Senator Martin had left oil
He cited his scholastic qualification
to speak, saying he was q forme
Harvard man and trained physician
of the old school. He has picked VI
knowledge Of medicine in Mexico
Germany and Vienna, he said, but h
does not believe In the old practices
he said. There was, he added, n
greater curse in the United State
than the practice Of medicine. It
theory is all wrong, he said. Diseas
cause Is outside the body and curativ
power and health inside. The doc
tors turn that around, he asserted
and get the cart before the horse. ]
surgeon can cut, but nature heal,
The king of England has recovered
not because Of his physicians, he sale
but in spite Of them.
The doctor said he can practice i
this state, but II he goes over q
imaginary line into South Dakota. h
cannot because Of medical licensin
law. That law was, therefore, nc
made to protect the public, but to pro
tect the physicians from competition
This he held was reason for enact
ing the proposed bill.
Then the doctor brought out
burst Of laughter.
"They say disease is caused b
bugs" he shouted. Bugs, me neck
tie!n
| The committee found It was l2:2
land the doctor said he could talk
years In this strain, 30 tho commit
tee arose for the time being, Chair