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Show ing remain uncured. To cure one of these is to become a quack In the even of the medical profession. "(Signed) DR. R. J. SCHULTZ. QUACKS AFTER REGULARS j Lditor Standard: The cpare nio. menu of the leading lights of the medical profession are popularly sup-' sup-' posd lo be occupied in a still hunt for tho "speeiilc bacillus" of the new j diseases which crop up in spite of pre ventive medicine. According to tho I daily papers, tho state medical toard I will also go gunning for "quacks." f Who are tho quacks? On authority ; we have tho Latin for the mosquito, , the house fly and germs too numerous I to mention. But no earmarks are given bv which we mav know and guard against the "quack." The In ference is plain. The graduates of a ! particular school of medicine would establish a medical trust. The modi- al board's denunciation of quacks bus done nothing if It has not placed ! all doctors under suspicion before tire, public. . Surgery' is indispensible and medl- ' cine may have its place, although It j Is given out that the cost of medlclno per patient in the Maseeh i:etts gen-1 gen-1 i nil hospital is less than one-third what It was fifteen years ago, al though tho price of most drugs bus j risen in that time. -The most valu- i able thing In all the world Is human I life." Such being the CRse, one should j refuse to dope or be dopol with drug's J or worse, "the rile poisonous dls- j charge from running sores." I lf the "legitimate pnictice of medl- ' cine" filled the bill, there would be f--w, if any, charlatans and quacks. A j sick and disabled auto leaves the ' ; hands of the mechanic In working or- j i der or tbe owner knows tho reason j why. On tho other hand, the doctor f may hang on to a patient May after i day and year after year with some ; curable chronic disease, and flnallv, I when "up agalnt It." recommend "a I change of climate without doing io- i i lerrce to hit? reputation. . j Tb patient who lacks funds or is i I 'o.. skeptical to try "a change of ell- ''I give the qck a chance j sope springs eternal lu I : t." If the medical y?u Wt fay wife quacks. ! lot them j.i -Hong the trail and t restore the countless thousands medl- clno him surrendered to a lingering death. ; I Nowaday there is much spectaou- : lr cutting and poisoning done In the , name, of science, but chronic dlseaj-e tlm make life hardly worth, the llv- Mi : |