THESE CULTS (An Indictment Of Medical Practice ) - 1926

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" THESE CULTS "

 

 

 

An Analysis of the Foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbein's " Medical

Follies " and an Indictment of Medical Practice in General,

with a Non-Partisan Presentation of the Case for the

Drugless Schools of Healing, Comprising Essays

on Homeopathy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic,

The Abrams Method, Vivisection, Physical

Culture, Christian Science, Medical

Publicity, The Cost of Hospital-

ization and State Medicine.

 

 

 

BY

 

 

ANNIE RILEY HALE

 

 

AUTHOR OF " ROOSEVELTEAN FACT AND FABLE, " " THE NATURAL WAY TO HEALTH, "

ETC.

 

 

 

Reproduced 1964

by Photolithography

ROYAL LEE Box 267 - Elm Grove, Wis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK|

National Health Foundation

FORTY-SEVENTH FLOOR, WOOLWORTH BUILDING

1926

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY

NATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

 

 

 

DEDICATED

TO THE

FRIENDS OF MEDICAL FREEDOM EVERYWHERE

INCLUDING CERTAIN MEMBERS OF

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOREWORD

 

" THESE CULTS " is not primarily a defense of drugless therapies

except insofar as a true statement of facts—correcting misstatements—

may constitute a defense. Its author is not aligned with any school

of healing, and writes only as an independent research worker in

every field.

 

The phenomenal growth of some of these Cults in recent years has

brought them prominently to the fore, while the " investigations "

directed against them by the " Regulars " have still further stimulated

popular curiosity concerning them. The Frothing-ham " investigating "

committee of Boston in 1922, and the more recently published " Medical

Follies " by Dr. Morris Fishbein, of Chicago, if they did not

altogether achieve their double purpose of discrediting the Cults and

glorifying Orthodox Medicine, at least served to focus public

attention on the newer therapies.

 

And seeing that the public's information about these had all come

from interested sources—either from the Cults themselves or from

their professional adversaries—the time seemed ripe for a non-

partisan presentation of the case for the drugless schools. To meet

such need this volume is tentatively put forward by the author, in

the hope that the facts presented may stimulate further investigation

and arouse further interest in a subject vitally bound up not only

with the drugless schools, but with the health and well-being of the

whole community—the subject of medical freedom.

 

Incidentally, " These Cults " is a reply to " The Medical Follies, "

in that it essays to check up some of the Fishbein inaccuracies—not

all of them.

 

To the extent that a comparison of statistical records proves the

superiority of drugless methods over medical procedure in the care of

the sick, the book may be called an indictment of medical practice.

Such indictment is predicated on medical records and medical

authorities, the author calling to her support the testimony of many

eminent physicians of the " regular " school. She feels there is much

to be said for the private practitioner, whether " regular "

or " irregular. " For those who want him he serves a real need. But the

choice of him should be entirely a matter of individual discretion.

Each individual should be free to apply to any school or to none of

them, in his search for health. The custom of backing any therapeutic

system with the government and arming it with police power to force

its nostrums on an unwilling public, such as is now permitted in the

medical domination of public health service, is absolutely vicious

and indefensible from any standpoint.

 

" These Cults " is an emphatic protest against State Medicine and

if it shall serve no other purpose than to arouse in its readers the

average person's love of fair play, it will not have been written in

vain.

 

THE AUTHOR.

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

CHAPTER

 

FOREWORD

 

I. " UP AND AT 'EM, REGULARS! "

 

II. THE FISHBEIN " FOLLIES "

 

III. THE CREED OF HAHNEMANN

 

IV. THE MANIPULATIVE CULTS: OSTEOPATHY

 

V. WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC?

 

VI. ABRAMS EXPLAINS. THE ERA

 

VII. THE ANTI-CULTS: THE GUINEA PIG

 

VIII. PHYSICAL CULTURE: " CAPITALIZING THE EROTIC "

 

IX. COUÉ AND MRS. EDDY

 

X. THE MEDICAL PUBLICITY MACHINE

 

XI. THE COST OF HOSPITALIZATION IN AMERICA. WHY HENRY FORD'S

IDEA WAS NOT

PRACTICABLE

 

XII. WHY STATE MEDICINE?

 

 

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