Baltimore Evening Sun (4 December 1911): 6.

Boil your drinking water! * * * And don’t forget to insure your life!

More carnivals! Less chemical purity! More business! Less boomery!

Space is offered to the Hon. Henry A. McMains to print his list of undoubted physicians who belong to the Maryland Branch of the League for Medical Freedom:

From the Hon. the Sunpaper of October 6, 1911: PEOPLE IN ACCORD.

Business Men For New And Better Form Of City Government.

A REMEDY FOR BOSS RULE.

Commission Plan Strikes A Popular Chord. —— PRESENT THE TIME FOR ACTION.

Oh, la, la! From The Sun of the next day, October 7:

PEOPLE DEMAND IT.

Oh, la, la, la! From The Sun of the next day, October 8:

STRONGER FOR IT.

Oh, la, la, la, la! From The Sun of the next day, October 9:

DEMAND GROWS.

Oh, la, la, la, la, la! From The Sun of the next day, October 10:

A CALL TO ACTION.

Oh, la, la, la, la, la, la! Oh, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Oh, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!

The following amendment to Article 43, of the Public General Laws of Maryland, has been prepared by learned counsel and will be introduced in the House of Delegates during the first week of the coming session:

AN ACT to repeal Section 101, of Article 43, of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled Health, subtitled Practitioners of Medicine, and to re-enact the same with amendments. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section 101, of Article 43, of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled Health, subtitle Practitioners of Medicine, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so to read as follows: 101. Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine within the meaning of this subtitle who shall prefix or append to his or her name the words or letters “Dr.,” “Doctor,” “Professor,” “M. D.,” “D. O.,” “M.-T. D.,” “M. B.”, “C. D. S.,” or any other words, letters or combination of words and letters in the English, American or any other language, with the intent thereby to imply that he or she is engaged in the art or science of healing, preventing or ameliorating diseases to human beings, whether by the admistratration of drugs or other agents; the performance, with or without instruments, of operations of any sort, the laying on of hands, whether with or without force; the pronunciation of charms or curses; the recitation or intonation of formulæ, or the practice of any other form of treatment or sorcery; or who shall operate on, profess to heal or relieve, prescribe for, or otherwise treat or profess to treat, by any earthly or unearthly means, any physical or mental ailment or supposed ailment of another, whether gratuitously or for a fee or other reward, or who shall sell, give or lend to any person whatsoever any pill, elixir, extract, capsule, plaster, ointment, salve, suppository or other medicine or medicinal article designed to cure, relieve or prevent, or alleged to cure, relieve or prevent any disease in human beings; or any appliance designed to accomplish or alleged to accomplish the same end; or any book, tract, charm or talisman designed or alleged to accomplish the same end, either wholly or in part.

101a. Provided that nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to apply to services rendered, either by manual manipulation or by the sale, gift, reading or intonation of books, tracts or charms, or by the sale or gift of medical agents or appliances, under the supervision of and with the written consent of a duly qualfied physician in good standing, holding a license from one of the Boards of Medical Examiners of the State of Maryland, as described in Section 88, of this Article, the said written consent to specify exactly the nature of the malady from which each person so treated is suffering, the exact nature and extent of the treatment to be administered, the full name and address of the person to be treated, the full name and address of the person to administer the treatment, the date of issue of the said written consent and the names and addresses of two witnesses not bearing the relation to the person to be treated of either parents or children; and provided, further, that no such written consent shall be effective for a period of more than one month and that no such treatment as aforesaid shall be continued more than seven days after the said consenting physician in good standing has examined the person treated.

101b. Provided, further, that nothing in Section 101 or in Section 101a shall be construed as applying to resident physicians or surgeons, internes or medial students attached regularly to the staff of any lawfully maintained hospital or dispensary while in the actual discharge of their duty as such, nor to any physician or surgeon lawfully licensed to practice medicine in any other State, district, territory or foreign country when in actual consultation with any duly licensed physician or surgeon of this State, nor to commissioned surgeons of the United States army, or navy, or public health and marine hospital service, nor to chiropodists, manicures, midwives duly licensed, dentists duly licensed or trained nurses duly registered as by law provided; nor shall the provisions of this subtitle apply to physicians or surgeons residing within five statute miles of the borders of a neighboring State or district and duly authorized under the laws thereof to practice medicine or surgery therein, whose practice extends into the limits of this State; provided, that such practitioners shall not open an office or appoint places to meet their patients or receive calls within the limits of this State. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

On the one hand the chaplain of the Greater Baltimore Committee issues a proclamation giving thanks to God for “our factory smoke”; on the other hand Dr. A. R. L. Dohme and his bravos announce a holy war upon that smoke. Meanwhile, many a Baltimorean, scanning our depressingly smokeless sky, wonders what it is all about.

Tips for the Maryland Branch of The League for Medical “Freedom”:

Dr. J. Howard Iglehart, of the Health Department, reports that 5.9 per cent. of the school children he examined last year were suffering from pediculosis and advocates the enforced treatment of these little innocents by the barbarous methods of allopathy! Liberty, whre are thou?

Two first-class books of short stories:

“The Man Who Understood Women,” by Leonard Merrick. “Abe and Mawruss,” by Montague Glass.

An item of news from the esteemed Sunpaper of Saturday:

The membership committee of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association met yesterday and voted to nominate 35 new members to the committee.

A noticeable improvement, it must be admitted, upon the old plan of appointing 35 new committees.