Editorial April 11, 1908 Issue

ADVERSE LEGISLATION DEFEATED

Archibald McLellan

Our readers will be glad to know that the several bills antagonistic to Christian Science introduced at the present session of the Massachusetts Legislature have been reported adversely by the Committee on Public Health, and that both houses of the Legislature have concurred in these adverse reports. The reports of the committe were unanimous in every instance.

It is a pleasure to say that these bills were not introduced by physicians nor at the instance of physicians, and that at the public hearing before the committee, two members of the medical profession, in high standing, voluntarily appeared and spoke against them. No one knows so well as does the conscientious doctor that medical practice is largely experimental, and that to debar the sick from receiving what benefit they may from the ministrations of other than regular physicians would be, in many instances,

to sacrifice usefulness and even life on the altar of prejudice and selfishness.

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