"If the courts listen to the devotees of any given school...

Portland (Me.) Express

"If the courts listen to the devotees of any given school of physicians, nothing short of the services of such a physician will answer the requirements of the law. The homœopath, the eclectic, the electric, the magnetic, and possibly even the allopathist himself, may all be guilty of manslaughter, if the prejudices of the community are to be allowed to determine what is and what is not proper medical treatment.

"If, therefore, any person believes that prayer will be efficacious in his case, and that drugs will not do him any good, will not the legislature deprive him of the proper means to secure his recovery, should it provide that his friends be find or sent to jail, in the event of his death, because they did not provide what some one else thinks is proper medical treatment, during his sickness?"

Excerpts from Editorial Portland (Me.) Express.

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