The
Bell Bill aimed at the Christian Scientists is not only assailable on the ground of unconstitutional interference with religious liberty, but with personal liberty as well, for the right of people to employ whatever kind of healers they choose cannot be taken away by statute.
Christian Scientists claim that a measure introduced at Albany, pursuant to the recommendations of the so-called regular practitioners, is a blow at personal liberty and permits the Board of Health of the State of New York to exercise autocratic powers in dealing with people who may have offended it.
In
regard to legislation to regulate the practice of medicine, it may be well to observe that the choice of medical attendants and advisers is a matter which each man has a right to make for himself.
Another
Christian Science healer—this time in Cincinnati—has been acquitted of practising medicine illegally, and this closes the old year with an unbroken series of victories for the "irregulars" over the forces of the recognized schools of medicine.
