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Show PASS THE ORDINANCE. At the last meeting of the city council coun-cil a bill to rtgulate the practice, of medicine was tabled In order, it is claimed, to give its friends a chance to bo present and assure its passage. We hooe there will not be any unnecessary delay about it and that the bill will become be-come an ordiiianeo at the next coming meeting. Of all tho measures for the preservance of health this, is the most urgeut and important, and it should pass without change, as it has been carefully prepared, and any tinkering with it is liable to open loopholes through whioh the wary quacks may crawl. Few people havo a conception of the harm done by medical pretenders in this city. If the dead could speak they might divulge a tale of horror that would shame tho imagination of Dante in his description of the inferno. We know of a child that had been treated for three weeks for Worms by one of theso empirics, when in fact the little patient was suffering from an advanced stage of typhoid fever. Gentlemen of tho council, it is your duty and your privilege privi-lege to save that child and hundreds of victims like it from a fate worse than murder. We expect you to do it and not hesitate about it either. Theso impostors ply their foul vocation voca-tion upon the poor and credulous, that is to say upon those who most need the protection of the law. Some, like the proverbial poor relations, are always with us while others stay just long enough to get away with all the cash in sight. In the east tho different states have long since disposed of the dangerous gentry and lately tho western states have driven them out until this territory has becomo almost their last stamping ground in which they can thrive and fatten without molestation from anyone It was oxpectod that the last legislature would move in this matter but as in many other things it proved remiss and there is nothing to be hoped for from that quarter. Meantime what is the use of advertising tho salubrity of our climate if at tho same time we invito nn army of quacks to increase our death rate? A largo proportion of our funerals funer-als are caused by them. Reduce the scoundrels to their proper sphere nnd let them earn an honest living with shovel and pick or else join the chain gang as they deserve. No reputable physician can object to a bill which recognizes tho diploma of any established school, or permits those who have not tho proper credentials to qualify themselves for practice before a board of examiners. The quacks must go. |