Californisn "Doctors."

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 263, 13 October 1874, Page 7

Californisn "Doctors."

v H ’.f 7/ ! ;j *i <1 11 -. * . . *" ‘ (‘Ddily Times.} ’/■ 1 v - '«> ’ ■-'•‘a-c • ! In the State of Oaliforni* f iAwould seem, < the law does not require-that every person i practising #%» pfcysdoian or «urgeon should t be the holder of a diploma. The result ii > that the roan whp |tt London as a last re- I sort would take-ito w or. H wine ” in < San Francisco at once joins the rank& of • the medical profession, ‘‘ From this gib* 1 rions array of doctors, defend ns,” is the j very proper ejaculation of the News Letter , a rather outspoken jonrnal, published in i San Francisco. It has riot contented itself, 1 however, with lamenting over the evil which must result from cases of sickness being dealt with by unskilled practitioners. It boldly addresses itself to the task of 1 weeding out the incapable from the medi- < cal ranks. Under the heading of “Our Quacks," accompanied by a design of a i death’s head and cross-bones, does the News Letter every week devote a portion of a column to this subject. In th* number before us,'the News Letter says that, in view of the facts that have come to its knowledge regarding doctors in San Francisco-, “we feel assured that we shall be .equally serving the profession and our citizens generally when we publicly ask certain men: ‘Have you a diploma!’ If they have, we will give them an advertisement gratis. If they cannot answer the query, the conclusion is obvious, and the duty of the patients plain. We append a list of practising medical men, to whom we now put that question. We shall add to it from time." Then follows a list containing the names and addresses of eightyfive persons practising as medical men in Ban Francisco. In some cases it would seem as if the practitioners had added doctoring to their other calling, just as a hairdresser would take to selling cigars and tobacco. Thus, we have—“ F. G. Rappiu • (tinsmith), 1517, Stockton ; K. Fabor (cobbler), 131, Third ; 0. 0. Hand (tailor), S. Kearney.; andFrankenberg (shoemaker) Sutter near Jones.” An ex-policemau, Mr . Close, 822, Mission, it is to be presumed, , however, devotes his whole time to his new ! profession. A bar-tender, J. B. Pinchard, 16, Second, must have excellent opportu- > liities of adding to his list of patients, i which, we, suppose, will not always be ne- : glected. 1 “—Cohen (old do'),-' 405, , Kearney,” has no doubt a very limited > practice ; while “W. J. 0. Bryant (cot loured), 825, Pacific," it is to be hoped, ad- - ministers his fetish drugs to other darkies 5 in cases of great emergency. A postscript : to the list, by the editor of the News Letter , > conveys the information that Dr C. T. t Deane, Professor of Diseases of Women . and Children, and Clinical Obstetrics, in 1 the Medical Department of California, has . called at the News Letter office, and claimed tto have : a diploma from Giessen, in Gert many. The Professor, however, is disko--1 lieved, as he cannot speak German, and ? the News Letter has ascertained that with- . out a knowledge of that language he could 3 not have obtained a diploma properly. It - curtly adds, that “ they sell diplomas in > Giessen for coin.” , In another postscript b we are tokl that another Professor had called upon the editor, to say that his 1 diploma had been accidentally burnt. The . Professor’s claims to skill, however, are . doubted, and several specimens of his “ ter- > ribly. .original orthography” are given for . the purpose of casting discredit upon his y Statements.