Yet this advertising doctor guarantees to cure of hydrocele of any duration with his " specific." In this city there are people with hydroceles in which the tunica vaginalis has become as thick as the sole of a shooting-boot, yet such unfortunates may be gulled into buying and using a remedy to be applied to the skin of the scrotum in the hope and belief that they have at last got necessary. any
an
variety
infallible
cure.
Calcutta, July 1894.
19th
A PROTEST. "
Editor, Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?In to-day's issue of a Calcutta daily paper I To the
find the enclosed advertisement sandwiched in between an advertisement for enamel paints and another for furniture: Dr.'s -Wonderful Discovery.?Specific for Hydrocele, guaranteed to cure any nature and of any standing by using this medicine externally. Price, Its. 2-8. Apply to A Government big officer of Central , Calcutta. Provinces writes:?" Seems to have been now quite absorbed by your medicine, and. I am much pleased at the result, the part being quite reduced to its natural size." Having no desire to advertise this " remedy," I have erased the " doctor's " name and that of the shop at which it is sold. What can be the qualifications of such a man to call himself a doctor ? Why should he degrade the medical profession in such a vile manner 1 If he is a qualified man, why does not the University or licensing body which gave him the qualification interfere? If he is not qualified, is there no Medical Corporation that will come forward to prosecute him ? Any surgeon knows only too well that a very large proportion of hydroceles in India cannot be cured by either external or internal remedies. To effect a cure in such cases incision with drainage or stuffing with lint, or even excision of the tunica vaginalis in whole or in part, is
MEDICAL ETHICS.
an
variety
infallible
cure.
Calcutta, July 1894.
19th
A PROTEST. "
Editor, Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?In to-day's issue of a Calcutta daily paper I To the
find the enclosed advertisement sandwiched in between an advertisement for enamel paints and another for furniture: Dr.'s -Wonderful Discovery.?Specific for Hydrocele, guaranteed to cure any nature and of any standing by using this medicine externally. Price, Its. 2-8. Apply to A Government big officer of Central , Calcutta. Provinces writes:?" Seems to have been now quite absorbed by your medicine, and. I am much pleased at the result, the part being quite reduced to its natural size." Having no desire to advertise this " remedy," I have erased the " doctor's " name and that of the shop at which it is sold. What can be the qualifications of such a man to call himself a doctor ? Why should he degrade the medical profession in such a vile manner 1 If he is a qualified man, why does not the University or licensing body which gave him the qualification interfere? If he is not qualified, is there no Medical Corporation that will come forward to prosecute him ? Any surgeon knows only too well that a very large proportion of hydroceles in India cannot be cured by either external or internal remedies. To effect a cure in such cases incision with drainage or stuffing with lint, or even excision of the tunica vaginalis in whole or in part, is
MEDICAL ETHICS.
