Followers of the late "Elijah Dowie" relegated physic to the dogs,
where it properly belongs, and yet enjoyed good health. Mrs. Eddy's
converts take no drugs, not even simple household remedies.
Here is a body of people numbering millions, entirely repudiating
physicians, yet their health is as good, if not better, than those who
continually take drugs. Doctors make war on them. Why? It interferes
with the medical graft.
Don't think for a minute that advertising doctors are the only
grafters in the medical profession. Many of them are bad, very bad,
but there are men right here in Chicago, as well as other big cities,
who never advertise in papers, yet they are as notorious swindlers,
and will as quickly take advantage of the ignorant and credulous, as
the man who flaunts his skill in the daily press. To fall into the
hands of these fellows is to be despoiled in pocket and ruined in
health. Operations that are uncalled for and not needed are performed
almost daily.
Only a short time ago I heard a doctor boast of having removed the
ovaries of two thousand women. How many of these operations were
actually necessary? Probably very few, but each case enriched him to
the extent of several hundred dollars.
Women more frequently than men are the victims of unscrupulous
doctors. People do not often question the skill or the opinion of the
fashionable physician; they take for granted the truth of all he may
say, forgetting for the time that he has a pecuniary interest in the
work that may possibly result in the death of the patient.