Those persons who are attempting to secure legislation against the practice of Christian Science and in favor of the practice of medicine,if they mean to be consistent,should take the ground that the latter is unfailingly efficacious and its results uniformly satisfactory,but we doubt whether any one will go to this extreme in his advocacy of legislation which says in effect that the sick must be healed by medicine or surgery,or not at all. It is noticeable that many prominent physicians have taken radical ground against such an assumption,and not a few have utterly repudiated the belief that drugs have in themselves an inherent power over disease.
One of the latest arraignments of the practice of medicine was contributed to the columns of The Chicago Evening Post by Dr. Sheldon Leavitt,a well-known and respected physician of that city. He says,—
"Medicine is not an exact science. It is built up wholly on experience. From Hippocrates down, empiricism has held sway. Doctors have learned from clinical observation, the poor patient being the subject of much experimentation.
