Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1915 — The Medical Attitude Toward Chiropractors. [ARTICLE]

The Medical Attitude Toward Chiropractors.

Usually when a sect or individual appeals to the public on account of supposed oppression it is wise to ignore it even though there are some statements not according to facts. The writer was a member of the Houes of Delegates at the state meeting this year and knows well the attitude of the delegates as also the attitude of the members of this district and of this city. Being iif such a position he feels it a duty to the community to state, the exact attitude in answer to the articles in Monday’s' Republican. The 4nedical profession does not care to dictate or to suggest to whom one should appeal in case of sickness. Neither does the profession care to say that only a medicine graduate should be licensed. But both as individuals and as an organization they are maintaining that an uneducated person of any creed has no right to diagnose and treat diseases. They maintain that a person without a good general education and more than 6 months or even 2 years should not be granted a right to care for the sick. When the requirements are equal to the medical requirements then no doubt this particular line of practice will be granted a license. This is the attitude and it is an attitude taken for the protection of the people themselves. It is not aimed at any paricular line of practice but the general ground upon which we all must stand.—A Medical Practitioner.