| Show ALLEGED MEDICAL exclusiveness A friend bands IDS in with the request that it be published a statement to the effect that the supreme court of the united states has rendered a decision throwing open all professions to all co declaring unconstitutional any restriction imposed by legislation which deprives a man from earning a living in any honest manner this decision of course strikes at the medical tyrants 9 1 who in nearly every state in the union have succeeded in bulldozing the legislatures lutt into the belief that the peo le ie demand that the doctors who kill thera them off ob shall all have a monopoly of the bu business P A sta statement made by so an MD M D in the st louis globe of the ath last says that the medical profession has baa been accused ol of selfishness because of its efforts to secure state calling for examining boards for both physicians and druggists but the thinking public generally commend their action in this respect t public opinion has bas been so well edu gated in this matter that there is ie only one state in the union in which a man who has failed in every calling he be has attempted can commence business busino no as a physician or a druggist without an examination examina tiola ap the practice of medicine Is the most permeating and consequential of all the professions and to permit the novice the dabbler or the imperfectly imperfect ily equip pen peu to engage in it without restraint is at once to foster and promote a serious menace it is enough that the sica are considered at the mercy ot of the man of medicine without the slightest knowledge of what he does or why he does it but to throw down the bars altogether and let tom diek dick and harry fall upon the helpless is more than any well regulated community can stand yet it should be remembered all the while that a doctor however skillful and is not dot of necessity nece DeCe spity a healer he be observes a certain formula formal after h favl I 1 g diagnosed the case and the discipline is generally pretty strict if it results favor ab ably ay well a and d good if not b be e has bag complied with the ethics of his calling and Js is riot not responsible but of course the object is and all efforts are aie de evened toward a reco recovery vot if pote poste it if not apt then to M mitigate it the situation ai aft much as artl may y be it if it la is true that all doctors doctora are not healers he alere it is also true that all healers healer eart are not doctors those who apply mild remedies from vegetable sources and which if not effectual are at least not harmful score victories over pain and prostration when the more learned and skilled utterly fall fail to rule out those who adopt natures remedies therefore simply because they are strangers to technical terms and know nothing whatever of cle decrees grees and diplomas would savor strongly of a disposition to uphold exclusiveness with and the attempt to enforce it by statute would woula find but few supporters among the thinking and disinterested therease there Ther eare are provisions in our doctrine for the use of mild herbs along with the ministrations of the church where the latter ate are through the sufferer puffer ers Is want of faith and those who want to adhere to this practice must not be denied neither P nuat those who prefer more elaborate and scientific treatment nor those who will have nothing to do with doctors each individual should be left to his bis own choice so long lon as he is capable of choosing in all this no BO reflection is designed upon the medical fraternity or arty any rt the thereal th ereo most if not all of them curt athin our acquaintance are capable 9 reliable upright men in the domain of surgery nothing that is previously said has any bear bearing bag the surgeon cannot be too well educated or be in possession of too much of that cap capacity solly which comes of experience largely and of that indescribable quality which enables him to know what to do at a glance and how bow to proceed to do it without wasting words or time it is i a grand calling and should contain none but coin eclet eions high minded men med |
