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Show SIT DOWN ON .THE QUACKS. A bill is now pending in the Legisla-I Legisla-I - ture which has for its object the regula- j tion of the sale and practice of medicine. ( . Some such measure has been sadly j needed in Utah for a score of years past, j. This bill makes it a misdemeanor for any i person to practice the profession of phy sician without first obtaining a license j: from the county court and, when re- ! quired, exhibiting his diploma and testi- fying under oath that he is the party named therein. So far so good. But the bill also contains a provision that a per- - . son desirous of taking out license to prac- f tice medicine, and having no diploma frora an accredited medical college, shall j be examined by a board of medical ad- 1 visers appointed by the court for the' pur- pose, and shall be granted or refused a license according as the report of the ex- amining board shall be favorable or un- favorable. This provision should be j stricken out, the reasons therefor being manifest to all. j One of the phenomenal manifestations t of human nature which is the most dif- l ficult to reconcile with human intelli- l gence, is the readiness with which men and women of good judgment in matters of general interest, will place their lives in the hands of men of whose ability or qualifications as physicians they have not the slightest assurance except the arrogant ar-rogant assumptions of the individuals themselves. No man of average sense would think of trusting his property in so reckless a manner. Before reposing trust in an individual he would ascertain with the greatest care all about his integrity and financial standing; and even then he would require ample security against possible loss. But when life and health are at stake, interests of infinitely greater value than any monetary consideration, men who are in all other matters shrewd and cautious, show the most reckless in- 1 difference to all precautionary considerations. considera-tions. The prevalence of this lack of caution on the part of the people of Utah is, and has been, a great source of revenue- to quacks .and charlatans. The3e self-styled self-styled "doctors" are as ignorant of the mysteries of the human system, as they are of the subtleties of the deferential calculus, and as unscrupulous as they are ignorant. They have no reputation , to lose, and care only to enrich their j pockets. j Again we say, the man who cannot exhibit ex-hibit a diploma from an accredited medical medi-cal college. bis no business to practice the proff of a physician, in Utah or elsewher, . ..ad under severe penalty the law shouli prevent him from so doing. Salt Lake lias, for years past, been a sort of city of rof age for unscrupulous quacks, who sc.. -e'y know the relative proportion propor-tion w 4 ' -h the drawing power of a mustard mus-tard plarr bears to that of a. locomotive engine. They should be relegated to" their prcpsr sphere without further delay. de-lay. - |
