Life, 1910-11-10 · page 42 of 44
Life — November 10, 1910 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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The main article attacks the proposed Owens bill, which would create a government "Department of Medicine." The author argues this grants dangerous, unchecked power to "allopathic" doctors (conventional medicine practitioners) to monopolize medical treatment and eliminate competing approaches like Christian Science and osteopathy. The piece frames this as a liberty issue: citizens should choose their own medical treatment rather than have the government impose one approved system. The author notes that even allopathic doctors' own leaders admitted such a department would eliminate medical "graft"—suggesting they want monopolistic control. The satire targets what the author sees as medical authoritarianism disguised as progress. The article criticizes these doctors as "therapeutic nihilists" unfit for power, referencing a famous quip that the best medical outcome is when "the autopsy confirms the diagnosis." The page is otherwise filled with hotel advertisements and product ads (Fatoff weight reducer, Evans' Ale, Philip Morris cigarettes), typical of early 20th-century Life magazine layout.
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a Ea: | Hotel la Satte Chicago’ s Finest Hotel H. Gerley. Manager Madison t, Chicago Hotel La Salle is already one of the famous hotels of the world and excels all Chicago hotels in the elegance of its furnishings, the excellence of its cuisine and the thoroughness of its service. RATES One Person: Room with detached bath - - - Room with private bath - - - Two Persons: Y OKING ASIDE—ver teary SALTO- NUTS— ITALIAN nus “HATCH AN Petite: =e | Wala Fed iets |= por quently are unfitted to have charge of sick humanity. The seekers for this power are therapeutic nihilists who have said that the best case is where “the autopsy confirms the diagnosis”; that it would be well for humanity if all medicine were thrown into the sea; that about all a doctor can do is to “observe” the case, and much else of a like char. acter. If the Government has the right to $2.00 to $3.00 per day $3.00 to $5.00 per day Room with detached bath - - - $3.00 to $5.00 per day Room with private bath - - - $5.00 to $8.00 per day Two Connecting Recms with Bath: Two persons, - - + _ $8.00 to $8.00 per day Four persons, = : Suites: $10.00 to $35.00 per day $8.00 to $15.00 per day All rooms at $5.00 or more are same price for one or two persons. Center of Chicago’s Activities confer power over the ills of the body to any set of men it has also the right to confer a similar power over the spiritual ills of men on a correspond- ing body of doctors of divinity. Finally, no one but the allopathic political doctors are asking for a De partment of Medicine. —Homaop.thic Envoy. ‘Yer “Farewell to Corpulency” Alter a few of the simple, invigorating treatments of | FATOFF THE UNFAILING FLESH REDUCER | FOR MEN and WOMEN No Otte, Political Medicine The real thing in the fight over the Owens bill is to determine whether shall continue The Retort Discourteous Mrs. Poorteicn: And what would you be now if it wasn’t for my money? Mr. Pooatricu: A bachelor, my dear —Lippincott's the “ Sovereign People” to have the right of choosing their medical treatment when ill. If this liberty of choice is taken Tue stranger laid down four aces and scooped in the pot. “This game ain't on the level,” pro tested Sagebrush Sam, at the same producing a gun to lend force to his cusation. “ That ain't the hand I dealt ye! —Everybody’s. No Grease, No Odor, No Dieting. No Exercise. No Medicine. ||| A pleasant! EXTERNAL ‘obesity treatment for men and women, re- Set NCREDIBLY store Cae? buoyancy ia an ttime— on an wepainnis, bis tock TRIED peer that’s given new life to world over. Jaret bame: you MAY from the people by the House of Rep- resentatives and the Senate it involves conferring uncontrolled power on the doctors appointed to run the proposed Department of Medicine. These Government doctors must be what are popularly known as “allo- paths,” for no others are recognized by the Government. One of their leaders wrote that if given such a department it would soon put an end to such “graft” as Chris- tian Science, osteopathy, etc, thus in- cluding everything medical but what the allopathic doctors recognize. uuse it in hot bath FOR MEN; , FATOFE | Fond the waistline Appointments for expert treatment at your home may be made by ‘phone or letter. FATOFF for Double Chin—a chin reducing wonder. Special Se Jar, Sie" FULL SIZE JAR, $2.50. FATOFF is sold at all Riker's and all Hegeman’s drug stores and leading druggists everywhere, or 69 WARREN ST. | M. S. BORDEN CO. nee*von (For Years at 52 East Sah Se So much has been said about the health and strength making qualities of EVans’ Ale that its delights as a beverage are frequently overlooked. IT’S A JOLLY GOOD DRINK. | Restaurants, Chabs, Cafes, Hotels, Oyster and Chop Houres and Dealers: = 2 Crit. EVANS & SONS. Hudson. Ne ¥. | Brown i CAMBRIDGE 25¢ in Loxes of ten, ah BASSADOR 35c _ the after-dinner size i Philip Morris | ™*Cigareties| Have the entree tothe | most exclusive circles. In Cork and Plain Tip A Medical Department could be made into a political machine more autocratic than any heretofore known. 3 The present power was illustrated a few days ago when the mighty steam- ship Lusitania was turned back from her dock to quarantine again because one medical officer ordered it. He was “uncertain” about one case aboard. The men who seek this political power are, and always have been, in a state of therapeutic chaos, conse- comicbooks.com