Article April 27, 1899 Issue

Veto the Medical Bill

Denver Sunday Post

Governor Thomas should veto the proposed law limiting the practice of medicine to those who have obtained a diploma from "some reputable medical college." The measure seeks to establish a monopoly for a comparatively limited class of men, and in nowise adds to the safety of the community from the effects of disease.

It is not so very long ago that the members of the two schools of medicine whom this law would benefit to the exclusion of all others, were active competitors for medical control of the county hospital. The leading men in both schools appeared before the county commissioners and, with a mass of statistics and quotations from learned medical authorities, each side actually proved that the other murdered at least half the patients treated. The fundamental principles of the one school were shown to be diametrically opposite to those of the other. The drugs that cured in the hands of one physician killed in the hands of the other. Nevertheless the two schools now combine in a plan that promises to financially benefit them. They raise the same hue and cry against all other practitioners that they have so recently hurled at each other.

The intelligent people of this community are by no means unanimous that medicine as it is practised is a proven science. The physicians themselves are notorious for their fads. Just at present there is a wave of surgery sweeping over the country; in a year from now electrical treatment may be the only plausible method of cure for certain cases.

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