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The Ophthalmologist

1904; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Prof. C. F. Boger, Reinhold Starcke, E. O. Olds, J. H. Richard, Charles McCormick, H. McConalogue, J. N. Lee, G. B. Newcom,

Cover: The Ophthalmologist. Display ads: Bay State Optical Co., McCormick Neurological College, Multiple Display Advertisements, Eales' and Tabers', Eales' & Tabers', Geneva Optical Company. Essay: Last Month I Mentioned a Case, on Page 140, and Pointed a Moral Giving Some Advice, Which, I Said, If Followed, Would Yield Good Results, Unless My Opinion Was Mistaken, Centuries Have Passed While the Old School Doctors Have Sought "Cures" for Alleged Diseases and Fought Strenuously Every Suggestion That Causes Must Be Found First, Indigestion Is Often Brought on in an Acute Form by Those Who Are Everlastingly Doctoring Themselves for Every Little Pain, Real or Imaginary, Having Had More Requests for Advertising Suggestions, Particularly Applicable to Localities Where Old School Doctors Are Disposed to Use All Sorts of Disreputable Tactics to Prevent the Public from Patronizing Neurologists the Following Is Submitted as an Eye-Opener for All Concerned, Neurology Is a Science Which Has Been Known, Hitherto, Only in Name, The Illinois State Board of Health (Politics Would Be More Appropriate) Has Issued a Twenty-Eight Page Circular Setting Forth the Terrors of Consumption and It Suggests Comment, To the Public of Summit County, Akron, Ohio, We Pay the Special Compliment of an Ideal Picture of the Summit County Medical Society and Append a Letter Which Speaks for Itself, Above Zero, David M. Stevenson, M. D., Oculist of Richmond, Indiana, in a Recent Article Says, The Nerve of Some People Is Killing, The Idea Extant among the Laity That Eye Troubles Are as Distinct from Other Ills as One's Hat and Shoes Is the Fruit of Pure Ignorance on the Part of Physicians and Oculists, Aided and Abetted by the "Dispensing" Opticians Who Proclaim Loudly That the "Refracting" Optician Has No Place on Earth and Ought to Get Off, Dr. Minnick, an Alleged Oculist, of Palmer, Nebraska, Knows so Little of Anatomy and Physiology That He Asserted to One of My Boys, Not Long Ago, That Accommodation Is Accomplished Partly by the Cornea, Some Time Ago, in Exposing the Methods of Alleged Ophthalmologists in This Paper, the Name of Dr. George Stevens, of New York, Was Mentioned and the Magazine Had Hardly Time to Reach Its Readers When a Letter Came from G. B. Newcom, of Rhode Island, Saying He Had Been a Victim of the Doctor and His Methods, and Promising to Send a Report Later, Letters Which Give an Idea of the Far-Reaching Possibilities of Neurology Should Be of Interest to the Readers of This Journal, and Some Will Be Printed Occasionally, Examination of Patients Is at Once Entertainment and Instruction, Not Only to the Patients, but to the Doctor, If He Cultivates the Laudable but Uncommon Habit of Thinking Aloud and Encouraging the Education of His Patrons, Constitution of the United States Says, in Article VI of Its Amendments, "In All Criminal Prosecutions the Accused Shall Enjoy the Right to a Speedy and Public Trail, by an Impartial Jury of the State and District Wherein the Crime Shall Have Been Committed, Which District Shall Have Been Previously Ascertained by Law and to Be Informed of the Nature and Cause of the Accusation; to Be Confronted with the Witnses against Him; to Have Compulsory Process for Obtaining Witnesses against Him; to Have Assistance of Counsel for His Defense, Notice to the Public, "Subjective Sensations of Light and Sound, " by Sir William Gowers, M. D., F. R. C. P., F. R. S., Etc., Is Just from the Press of P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Duality in Ability Is Professional and Business, Questions Propounded by State Boards of Medical Examiners Are Sometimes Amusing, Sometimes Idiotic, Rarely Instructive and Never Indicate Whether the Person Who Can Answer Them Is Qualified to Practice Medicine or Not, The Laws Sought by Opticians Are Pernicious Because They Would Restrain Progress by Dragging Ophthalmologists Who Are Not Graduates in Medicine down to the Professional Level of Opticians, Which, with All Due Respect to the Latter as Men and Women, Is Very Low, Some People Have Very Small Ideas of Common Decency, The Farce of the Marriage Code Is Only Equalled by the Divorce Code, Nature's Laws Are Supreme and If Understood Are so Absolutely Simple That They Apply Themselves If Given Opportunity, Colorado's State Board of Medical Examiners, Another Gang of Cheap-John Politicians, Undertook to Squelch the Competition of Dr. Bass, an Osteopath, of Denver, and Harrassed Him by Persistent Prosecution, Which Became Persecution, and He Fought Back, The "Higher Law", Vaccination Killed, One Dr. Norman, of Eureka, Kansas, Evidently a Cheap Bluffer, Called on Dr. G. E. Deisher, Neurologist, Who Recently Located There, and Impudently Ordered Him out of Town, Threatening to Prosecute Him under the Kansas Medical Laws, If Young People, Especially Young Women, Would Pay Some Attention to Developing Themselves in Their Youth, They Would Not Become Invalids and Charges upon Their Husbands Later, There Is Nothing Artificial That Does Not Imitate Something Natural, "Secretary Root Has Unselfishly Given His Services to the Country for Nearly Four and a Half Years", The Outrages Constantly Being Perpetrated by Oculists Who Pretend to Know Something about Eyes, While They Do Not Know Anything, and against Whose Practices This Paper Has Waged War from Its Birth, the Justice of Which War Has Been Established Repeatedly by Facts, Are All the Apology Needed for Introducing the Following Letter and Report of Treatment in the Case of Fred L. Foster, Now of San Jose, Calif., by Dr. Geo. T. Stevens, a Very Pretentious Oculist Located at 33 W. 33rd St., New York City, Assisted by Dr. A. A. Boyer, "The Growing Popularity of the Osteopathic Practitioner, " and "The Persistency and Impudence with Which They Push Their Claims, " Are Specimens of a Tantrum Indulged in by Dr. H. S. Zimmerman, of Cameron, Ill., against Osteopathy, "The Surgical Treatment of Bright's Disease, " by Dr. George M. Edebohls, of New York, from the Press of Frank F. Lisiecki, Is an Exhaustive Treatise on Decapsulation of the Organs for Bright's Disease and Puerperal Eclampsia, Weights and Measure Constitute the Duality by Which All Heights and Depths Are Measured, Whether It Be Celestial or Terrestrial, Metaphysical or Physical; the Grocer Weghs His Goods While He Measures His Customers; the Juryman Weighs the Evidence and Measures the Guilt or Innocence of the Accused; the Medical Practitioner, in the Accepted Sense of the Word Neither Weighs nor Measures, There Is a Lamentable Amount of Ignorance, among Those Who Practice Ophthalmology, of the Physiological Lessons Taught by Physics, The Ophthalmologist, Year after Year Sees Increasing Numbers of Idols Shattered as Truth Goes Marching On, The Daily Press Has Been Loaded to the Guards with Advertisements of a Mexican Plantation, the Promoters of Which Declare They Are Not Anxious to Sell Stock, but the Whole Page Advertisements They Run Indicate They Are Liars, My Friend A. J. Cross, of New York, Is Such a Delightful Gentleman That It Would Be a Pleasure to Endorse His Theory of Dynamic Skiametry as Set Forth by Him in a Book from the Press of the Frederick Boger Publishing Company, Were It Possible for Me to See Things as He Does, Here Is a Set of Subjects Which May Put Some One to Thinking, or It May Help Some Who Are Already Thinking, Carelessness Is Something to Be Avoided in Professional Work above All Else, Phthalmology Is the Most Important of All the Subdivisions of Neurology, Because, If Understood Thoroughly, It Enables the Practitioner to Measure the Supply of Nervous Energy and Make a Complete Analysis of Each Case before Proceeding to Instruct the Patient How to Treat It, Fighting Pays When One Is Backed by the Conviction That He Is Right, and If More Fights Were Made upon Unjust and Foolish Laws, Which Are Clearly Contrary to the Letter and Spirit of the Constitution of the States and of the United States, There Would Be Fewer of Them Enacted Because Even Legislators Have Some Pride and Dislike to Be Declared Fools by the Courts, Toric Lenses Are Widely Advertised These Days and Their Merits Exploited by People Who Do Not Know What a Toric Shape Is, Dr. J. N. McCormack, of Bowling Green, Ky., Secretary of the State Board of Health, of That Commonwealth, by Virtue of the Fact That He Is the Only Man in the State Mean Enough to Attempt the Dog-In-The-Manager Act, Herbert Spencer Has Been Lauded Alike by All Nations and All Classes, as the Greatest Philosopher of This or Any Other Age, I Constantly Receive Letters Asking "Will Glasses Cure This?", Probably the Fool-Killer Is Engaged in Some Other Part of the World at Present, or He Would Turn His Attention to Some Chicago Idiots, Philosophy Is the Application of Common Sense and Reason, "The Great White Death" Is the Term Used by the Medical Trust to Frighten People about Consumption; and the Daily Press Takes up the Cry and Spreads It Will There Is No Doubt It Has Become a Source of Terror to Thousands When They Get a Slight Cold, Brother Still, of Kirksville, in the Last Number of the Journal of Osteopathy, Voices Himself in a Way That Might Lead to Some Interesting Complications, Dr. Roby, Secretary of the State Board of Medical Examiners of Kansas, Is a Pitiable Liar, To the Public, Dr. Fred B. Rebman, Neurologist, of Youngstown, Ohio, Has Just Moved into One of the Finest Suites of Offices in the State, Talk about Faith Cures!, High Livers' Livers Are Nearly Always out of Order, Because Their Stomachs Are Constantly Full of Stuff That Not Only Overtaxes the Capacity of the Chief Nerve Center to Supply That Organ, but Also Involves Every Other Department of Digestion, Dr. A. L. Ranney, of New York, Writing in Medical Times, Says, Xerophthalmia Is a Dry, Itchy Condition of the Eyes, Due to Closing of the Openings of the Lachrymal Glands in Sympathetic Spasm of Their Nerves with Those of the Ciliary Muscles in Tonic Spasm, Snap Shots, George Meredith, English Novelist and Thinker-Out-Of-The-Rut, Says the Remedy for the Marriage Evil Is to Have People Marry for Five or Ten Years and If They like It, Continue; If They Are Not Satisfied, Quit, Associated Functions of the Body Are Limitless in Their Variety and Constitute a Subject for Tireless Investigation, Enthusiasm Is an Essential to Success, The Iowa Health Bulletin, Published at the Expense of the People of the State for the Sole Purpose of Maintaining the Medical Trust, Is about the Rankest Piece of Journalism I Have Seen, Puzzle Department, The Presbyterians, Many of Whom Are Divorced, Had a Shock the Other Day in Buffalo When Moderator Coyle, of the General Assembly, Said, "As between a System That Allows a Man to Have Three or Four Ex-Wives or a Woman to Have Three or Four Exhusbands and a System That Allows Him to Have His Plural Wives All at Once, There Is Little to Choose, Common Law Is Natural Law; It Is so Infinitely Superior to the Statutes That the Latter Sink into Insignificance, upon Occasion, I Have a Little Pamphlet from J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pa., Entitled "Nauheim Methods in Chronic Heart Disease, with American Adaptations, " Which, While It Will Give the Osteopaths a Chance to Crow, If They Want to, Also Affords a Loophole by Which the General Medical Profession Can Enter the Field without Humiliation to Their, Pride, First, Because It Comes from Abroad; Second, Thorough False, They Can Claim It Antedates Osteopathy, The Following from Dr. George K. Meschter, of Worcester, Pa., Is a Fair Illustration of How the Practice of Medicine Is Begun, There Is No Class of People so Well Paid as Stenographers, Taking Them as a Class, for What They Give in Return, Fool Friends Are the Greatest Curse of One's Life, Tuberculosis, "The Great White Plague, " as the Newspapers Call It, at the Behest of the Medical Trust, Is Certainly Deserving of Special Consideration by Medical Men and the Laity as Well; but the Proposal to Establish Hospitals at Public Expense Is Simply Another Scheme to Get a Fist in the Public Pocketbook, and It Should Be Sat upon Hard as Possible, Collaboration Is Good for the Readers of Any Journal, and I Am Glad to Encourage It, Always Reserving the Right to Correct Phraseology, Etc., so Long as I Do Not Change the Meaning, Lora C. Little, of Minneapolis, Says in Her Paper, "Liberator", Asthenopia Is a Favorite Word among Oculists and Opticians; the General Practitioner and the Public Stand in Awe of "Retinal Asthenopia, " "Muscular Asthenopia, " Etc., but to the Neurologist and Ophthalmologist the Ignorance of All Who Use the Expressions, or Do Homage to Them, Is a Matter Which Would Be Amusing Were It Not Fraught with Dangerous, Carelessness Is a Besetting Sin of the American People, Simplicity in Investigation Is Wisest Because It Takes up the Integral Parts of a Subject, One at a Time, Studies Them Separately and in Combination, so That Finally the Whole Becomes Comprehensive; and If Repeated Analyses Give the Same Results We Are Sure of the Ground We Stand On, Having Been Importuned for the Story of "Johnny and His Ma, " Here It Is, Bound Copies, According to Sterling Helig, in the Chicago Recordherald, Drs. Hezekiel and De Slavick, German and Australian Savants, Have Perfected a Sensitive Paper, by the Use of Which All Paris Is Photographing in Colors, Everyone, Whether in Practice or Not, Should Know the Important Facts with Reference to Physiological Actions, and the Following Paragraphs, Which Are Intended for Ready Reference, Will Doubtless Be Appreciated by Readers of the Ophthalmologist, Legislatures Should Go Exceedingly Slow in Granting Special Privileges to Any Class, and Should Move Correspondingly Fast in Curtailing Some of Those Which Have Been Granted by Their Predecessors, From the Press of D. Appleton & Co., New York, Comes a New Book on "Diseases of the Eye" by L. Webster Fox, Professor of Ophthalmology in the Medico-Chirurgical College, of Philadelphia, Cross-Eyes Bother Some of My Correspondents, and One Has Written Asking Me to Devote Some Space This Month to That Feature of Practice, Our Young Friend Has Passed the Final Ordeals, Is Graduated and Licensed, and His Office Is Open for Business, Letters, If Read between the Lines, as One Can If He Knows the Writer, Often Tell a Different Tale than Is Shown on Their Face, Responding to My Request for Reports on Cross-Eyed Cases, Dr. F. A. Lanctot, of Crookston, Minn., Send the Three Cuts Presented Herewith; Also Several Cases of a Miscellaneous Nature, Why Wholesale Houses Will Retain in Their Employ Men Who Drive Away Patronage Is a Conundrum to Me, Rules of Practice Are Good Things, Provided the Operator Understands the Laws upon Which the Rules Are Based, Eales & Taber's Chart, Speaking Generally, the Public Is a Set of Tools That Does Not Present Any Imposition Short of Number, The American Association, Dear Friend and Teacher, Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Clarence Darrow, Anarchist, in a Long Criticism of the Present Crusade against Crime by Outraged Citizens, Quotes Law Principles as Follows, Next Month One of the Principal Articles in This Paper Will Be on Astigmatism, Its Causes, Effects and Treatment, Dorothy Dix, Replying to a Correspondent Who Asked If an Able-Bodied, Normal Woman Would Be Willing to Spend Her Life in a Hotel or Boarding-House, Says, The Gambling Craze Which Envelops This This Country Is Not Only a Discredit to Public Intelligence, but Threatens the Foundations of the Government, When the Old-Time Methodists Used to Hold "Experience Meetings" the Converts Were Not Ashamed to Tell What They Had Believed and How They Had Changed, Astigmatism, According to L. Webster Fox, Combined with George M. Gould, Is "An Invisible and Elusive Imp of Mischief, Requiring Much Keenness and Patience to Hunt Him Down, The New Electric Ophthalmoscope Advertised on the Last Page of Cover Was Devised by Me to Show the Machine Cranks They Were Doing Things the Hardest Way, Dr. W. H. Fitch Performed a Very Delicate Operation Yesterday Afternoon at the Rockford Hospital, When He Operated on Miss Gertrude Cannell of Chadron, Neb., Who Came to This City Especially to Have One of Her Eyes, a Strabismus, Turned, Evolution Is the Wonderful, the Most Wonderful Department of the Plan of Creation Because It Is That Part Which Goes on Forever without Ceasing for Even a Moment, President James, of the University of Illinois, Late President of the Northwestern University, Has Issued a Letter to the People of the State, Setting Forth His Ambitions, and Asks Editors to Print It, "Optical Truths" Is out of Print, Fads; Idiotic Fads Are All the Go in This Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Four, In This Lovely Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, This Christian Land, We Have the Spectacle, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nineteen Hundred and Four, of a Republican State's Attorney, Candidate for Governor, Etc., Seeking to Disbar a Lawyer Because He Was Convicted of a Felony Away Back in 1881, Here Is the Process of Manufacturing and Proving the Efficacy of Antitoxin as Given by One of Its Advocates, Russell Sage Says the Vacation Habit Is an Outgrowth of Distorted Business Methods, The Nerve of Some People Is Appalling, The Warrant under Which John Bunyan Was Arrested in England, during the Reign of Charles II, for "Preaching and Teaching Otherwise than According to the Liturgie or Practice of the Church of England, " Was Sold at Auction, in London, April 23, for $1, 525, The John Crerar Library, Chicago, The Civil Service Medical Commission's Medical Department Will Hold Examinations January 27-28 for Applicants for Positions as Physicians in the Philippine Service, at Salaries of $1,200 to $1,800 Per Annum, A Writer in the London, England, Daily Mail Has Attracted Lots of Attention by His Articles on Insanity, Because of His Evident Determination to Get at the Bottom of the Subject If Possible, Supporting My Contention That Practice Acts Are Frauds on the Public and the Practitioner Alike, the Following Proclamation from Albert J. Schohay, Chairman of the Committee on Membership of the California State Association of Optometrists, Is Given out after the Law Has Been in Force One Year, Elements in the Composition of the Body Are, Oxygen, 72 Percent; Hydrogen, 9. 10; Nitrogen, 2. 5; Carbon, 13. 5; Phosphorus, 1. 15; Calcium, 1. 30; Sulphur, 0. 147; Sodium, 0. 10; Potassium, 0. 026; Chlorine, 0. 085; Fluorine, Iron, Silicon and Magnesium in Small Amounts, Students Discover Things and the Reasons for Them, and Were It Not for the Disgusting Ignorance Displayed, It Would Be Amusing to Have Popin-Jays, Young or Old, Say, The Chicago Daily Papers Make Themselves the Laughing Stock of the Whole Country by Devoting Column after Column Daily to Assertions That Dowie and Bryan Are Not Men of Intelligence and Are Unworthy of Notice, Freaks Are Not Uncommon but Those with Souls so Small That They Cannot Conceive the Value of Their Own Health, or, If They Do, Put a Ridiculous Price on It, Are Rather Rare, Rest Is Nature's Own Restorer, The Calibre of the Prominent Men Who Are Such Only Because They Have Money, Was Illustrated the Other Day When Some One Pretending to Be the Cartoonist of the Tribune, Called over the Telephone Messrs, Here Is a Little Story of How One of My Boys Untilized the Duality of Things to Cure a Sick Automobile, Many Friends Write for Advertising Suggestions, from Time to Time, and in Responding I Get New Ideas or Make over Old Ones, Seven Bound Volumes, No One but an Office-Seeking Craze Could Make a Man Say Such Fool Things as Are Credited to Frank O. Lowden after His Second Defeat for the Republican Nomination for Governor, Law Is a Product of Nature, Statutes Are Man-Made, P. St. George Grinan, a Whipper-Snapper, Foaled in 1901 by the Medical Department of the U. of V., Hence Not Dry behind His Ears yet, Has Gravely Pronounced Me a Fakir, and Says I Am Worse than Charles Lincoln Smith, Epigrammatic, As to the Rights of Neurologists to Practice in Any State in the Union, Cases of Interest to the Profession Are of Two Classes, We Have Recently Had the Pretty Spectacle in Chicago of a Coroner's Jury Holding to the Grand Jury Certain Individuals Who Were Alleged to Be Indirectly Responsible for the Big Theatre Fire, Why Guess When You Can Learn to Analyze Your Cases?, Just Read the Following Report on the Results of Vaccination, Not Only to the Life of the Victim but to the Reason of a Mother and to the Employment of a Father Who Sued a City, Honest People Love Men Who Speak Out, A Declaration of Principles Is the Shortest and Most Effective Way to Let the Public Understand What Neurology Is, and How It Compares with the Old Schools of Practice in the Treatment of Human Ills, Virtue Is the Quality of Being Strong, Mentally and Physically, Organically and Inorganically, Out of Sight, People Generally Are Prone to Make Themselves Ridiculous by Presuming That Those Whose Opinions Differ from Theirs Are Either Dishonest or Insincere, Multiple Essay Items, Notice, Protection Is the Biggest Humbug the American People Have to Endure, Vaccination Is a Crime and Those Who Promote It Are Criminals Who Would Sacrifice Human Health, Which Is Dearer than Life, for the Money There Is in It, Despite the Decision of Judge Richard, of Clarion, Iowa, That the Practice of Neurology and Ophthalmology as Taught by Me, and Practiced by Hundreds the Country over, with Good Results to Humanity Both Physically and Financially, Is in No Sense the Practice of Medicine and Surgery as It Is Commonly Understood, and While an Appeal to the Supreme Court Is Pending, That Pusillanimous Puppy, Dr. J. F. Kennedy, Secretary of the State Board of Medical Examiners, Has Addressed a Letter to Dr. C. J. White, of Rolfe, Charging Him with "Publicly Professing to Cure and Heal" and Threatening Him with Arrest, The Chief Dualities of Life Open the Way for Interesting and Instructive Study, Evidence That the Press Is Not All Subservient to the Medical Trust Comes to the Front Every Little While, and the Followlowing Editorial from the Richmond, Va., News-Leader, June 23, Is Particularly Interesting Reading, Because It Takes up the Subject upon an Occasion Usually Passed by Southern Papers, Under the Title of "A Mystery, " a Writer in the Nebraska State Journal Once Gave the World a Poem, Which Probably Fell Flat Because It First Appeared in a Comparatively Obscure Paper, but It Was Good and in View of Current Events I Reprint Part of It Because I Believe I Have Found a Solution of the Mystery, This Is an Era of Books, Good, Bad and Indifferent, Between the Rowdyism of Strikers and the Insolence of Capitalists Who Employ Labor in Producing Food Stuffs and Other Necessaries, the Public Is Ground to Metaphorical Powder, Dr. T. J. Williams, Ophthalmologist, Writes from Ft. Worth, Texas, That the Medical Trust Proposes to Ask the Legislature to Repeal That Part of the Medical Practice Act Which Exempts from Examination Those Who Practice without Drugs, Independence of Thought Is One Thing Which Commends Itself to All Right-Minded Persons, When I Read the Paper of Dr. Edward Jackson, of Denver, to the Colorado Ophthalmological Society It Makes Me Laugh, Classification of Cases Is an Important Feature in Practice, Business Rules, Dissipation Is of Two Kinds, Mental and Physical, Those Who Practice Neurology and Ophthalmology Only, Not Being Graduates in Medicine of the Old Schools, Are Often Asked by the Products of the Old Schools, or the Foetuses in the Colleges, "What Can You Fellows Treat, Anyhow?", Following Is the Gist of the Democratic National Platform, Psychology Is the Science of Mental Influences, Which, Strange to Relate, Has Never Been Accorded the Notice It Deserves; for Many Years the Medical Fraternity Sneered at It When the Subject Was Mentioned, The Offer of McCormick Neurological College Granting Reduced Rates to Graduates of Of the Old McCormick Optical College Expires December 31, This Month, Neurology Is the Science of the Nervous System from Both Chemical and Mechanical Standpoints, Solomon Said, Dr. C. A. Abernathy, of Pulaski, Tenn., Is One of Those Poor Devils Who Is Frightened at the Inroads Ophthalmologists Are Making into Their Business, and Who Resort to Anything Low and Mean to Defeat the Public in Its Efforts to Find Relief; They Assume Everyone Is as Rascally as They Are, and Proceed to Do Things That Would Be a Disgrace to a Brigand, That Old Philosopher "Poor Richard, " of Almanac Fame, Gave the Following "Rules of Health and Long Life, and to Preserve from Malignant Fevers and Sickness in General and to Find out a Fit Measure of Meat and Drink, " Which Are Just as Good Today as They Were in 1742, Physics, or Natural Philosophy, as the Old Teachers Called It, Is the One Key to All Questions Where Analysis Is Wanted; If Only Diagnosis Is Desired, Such Guess-Work as Is Common among Practitioners of Ever Profession and Trade, Will Do, The Editor of Medical World Complains in His March Issue of Having Been Worked by One "H. John Stewart, M. D. ", The Old School Medical Journals Teem with Denunciations of Patent Medicines, and Their Advertising Pages Teem with Display Advertisements of Proprietary Medicines, Free Advertisement in All Papers at Suggestion of the "Health" Department, Following Is a Letter from Dr. E. O. Olds, Neurologist and Ophthalmologist, of Dunkirk, New York, and Is Printed, Not to Blow My Horn, but at His Request to Show What a Rational System of Therapeutics Will Do without Drugs or Operation, to Encourage Those in Practice to Apply Themselves Assiduously to the Principles They Were Taught, Thus Affording Relief to Suffering Humanity, and Also to Give Opportunity to Say That While Dr. Olds Was Recovering He Qualified Himself to Do for Others What Has Been Done for Him and Is Already Getting a Nice Start in Practice Right among Old Acquaintance, Viewing with Alarm the Inroads Neurologists and Opthalmologists Are Making on Their Practice by Aiding Nature to Cure the Medical Trust's "Incurables" as Fast as They Can Be Induced to Come to Them, the Members of That Body in Indiana Met Last Spring, Appointed Committees and Have Been Securing Pledges from Candidates for the Legislature That If Elected They Will Vote for a Medical Practice Act Giving the Trust Exclusive Rights in the State, The Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association Has Never before Been Printed, Snap-Shots, Professor Chittenden, of Yale, Was Given Opportunity to Experiment upon Some United States Soldiers in the Matter of Diet, Uterine Troubles Are the Most Prolific Source of Income to the General Practitioner, and They Are the Most Unsatisfactory of All His Cases, John A. Welch, M. D., Third Vice-President of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Will Make Himself Unpopular with the Medical Trust If He Gives Utterance to Many Such Honest and True Expressions as the Following Which the Contributed to the October Medical Brief, but He May Console Himself with the Thought That He Has Told the Truth and Will Grow in Popularity with the People, Here Is a Progressive Doctor Who Administers His Drugs on the outside of His Patients, To Observers Whose Minds Are Not Clouded with Fear of the Damnation They Merit for Their Hypocrisy, and Who Have Not the Love of Popularity That Makes Men Cater to Maudlin Christian Notions, the Bandit Niedemeier Was at Least Consistent to the Very Last, All True Neurologists and Ophthalmologists Will Make It a Point, in Advertising, to Call Public Attention to the Fact That They Represent a System of Analysis of the Causes of Human Ills and How to Abolish Them without the Use of Drugs or Operations, Corsets and Their Effect on the Health and Intellect of Wearers Has Been Long a Matter of Contention among Doctors and Faddists, yet the Corset Is Still on Top, or All around, Just as the Reader Chooses, Advertising Is an Art with Some People, Kinematics Is the Science of Motion, without Reference to Its Origin or Effects, A Certain Class of People Are Making Great Ado about the Dangers of Mormonism to This Country, The Edmunds Case at Clarion, Iowa, Has Been Continued till February 22, Turn the Rascals out Is the War-Cry during Political Campaigns, Specific Is a Word I Use Quite Often in Criticizing the Other Side of the Much-Mooted Question of Treating Human Ills Naturally as I Do or Artificially as They Do, A Seed Is a Contemptible Little Thing Compared with the Tree It Produces, Neurology Treats of Not Only the Nerves but of "Nerve", Cheap Politicians and Others of the Same Calibre Have Made Themselves Ridiculous and the Country Appear the Same in the Eyes of Foreigners, by Prating about "The Presidents's Private Yacht" until the Secretary of the Navy Felt Called upon to Explain That When the President and His Family Used the Mayflower He Always Paid All the Expenses Incurred, Frenzied Finance" Is the Title of an Expose of the Methods of Trusts, by the Bravest Man in the United States, Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, Colon Chokers, A Texas Correspondent Says He Seldom Finds a Patient Who Can See as Well through the Slot as without It, and Wants to Know Why It Would Not Be Better to Use the Cylinder Directly, Good Work Is the Result of Eternal Vigilance and the Reward Is Success, Zymolysis Is What Is the Matter with You When You Have a Sour Stomach, The Duality in the Cause of the Iroquois Theater Fire Is Avarice and Politics, May and June Numbers of This Journal Contained Exposes of the Jew Harraes, Who, Operating under the Name "Golden Cross Eye, Ear, Nose and Thoat College and Clinic, "Conducted an Alleged Course in Optics, Chicago Is Disgraced by a Mayor Who Would Rather Stand in with the Foreign Voters than Preserve the Peace and Reputation of the City and Be Respected by Decent People, But and If Are the Two Meanest Words in the English Language, Criminal Malpractice Is When a Doctor Violates the Statutes or Common Laws of the Land, Quackery, "The Pretense of Medical Knowledge, Skill, or Success by One without Either, " Says That Antique Compiler George M. Gould in His Dictionary, Doctor Sawyer, of Marion, Ohio, Was One of the Principal Speakers at the Meeting of Michigan Homeopaths, in Detroit, May 17, and He Said, The Ophthalmologist Asks the Co-Operation of All Friends of Justice in … It so Hot for the Medical Trust during the Coming Year That It Will Commit Harikari. Frontmatter: Published by the Ophthalmologist Company, The Ophthalmologist. Poem, verse: The Parson. Classified ads: Advertisement, Multiple Classified Advertisements.