Article August 9, 1913 Issue

My attention has been called to a remarkable letter recently...

B. O. Flower,

Concord (N. H.) Monitor

My attention has been called to a remarkable letter recently sent by the New Hampshire Medical Society to each member of the Legislature of New Hampshire and given wide publicity in the press. The character of this communication, no less than the avowed intent to secure restrictions that would rob a large number of highly intelligent citizens of the legal right to employ the practitioners of their choice, the practitioners who in past experiences have cured them after the doctors had failed, leads me to ask for some space in your valued publication for the following consideration of the facts involved.

The position taken by the New Hampshire Medical Society in the letter referred to above, while it might mislead the shallow and unthinking, will not appeal to any thoroughly intelligent and unprejudiced person, for the following reasons:

The material and the metaphysical systems of cure are mutually exclusive, yet each system claims hundreds of thousands of highly intelligent citizens who believe they owe their health and life to their favorite system. The metaphysical system, though as old as Christianity, has only recently gained a strong hold in western civilization; yet there are today tens and hundreds of thousands of highly intelligent people, embracing men who as governors of great commonwealths, as United States senators, as publicists of national repute, leading business men, editors, authors, artists, and, indeed, persons prominent in almost every walk of life and thoroughly representative of our best citizenship, who believe they have been cured by the metaphysical system after the material treatment had signally failed.

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