TRICKS AND FRAUDS 
PRACTISED BV TH^ 
State Boards of Health 
...AND... 
State Boards of Medical Examiners. 
ARMSTRONG. 
PRICE, 10 CENTS. Members of the Michigan Medical Legislation League laying 
their Schemes. Tricks and Frauds of State Boards. 
The public have but little conception of how they 
are being imposed upon by State Boards of Health 
and State Boards of Medical Examiners. Said Boards 
are part of a gigantic medical monopoly ring that are 
perpetrating the most stupendous outrages upon the 
public, and the impositions practiced are so shrewdly 
managed that said Boards are looked upon by the 
people as the conservators of the public health; but 
when a careful examination is made of their means 
and methods it will be readily seen that under cover 
of the name, "State Board of Health", or the high 
sounding title of "State Board of Medical Examiners," 
the people are imposed upon to an extent that is 
-almost incredible in this enlightened age. In another 
lecture we will discuss their ignorant and ridiculous 
attempts to eradicate and suppress contagious and 
infectious diseases, and how dreadful suffering is in- 
flicted upon helpless citizens who fall into the tyranni- 
cal hands of such ignorant monsters; but our present 
topic is to show the frauds practiced in another direc- 
tion. 
The State Board of Health of Indiana can be used 
as a sample to illustrate their tricks. It is well to 
understand that such Boards are usually composed of 
Allopathic Doctors who make a continual practice of 
pulling the wires to get appointed to said positions in 
order to get an advantage over the other Schools of 
Medicine. The people two or three centuries ago 
became disgusted with the poisons and the horrible 
mixtures used by the Allopathic School, and many of 
such poisons the ywere forced to abandon. BLEEDING 
AND OTHER POISONS were substituted, and thousands 
upon thousands fell victims to such barbarity. 
Again the people rebelled against such murderous 
practice; and again the Allopaths resorted to 2 
another list of poisons, and surgical operations in- 
stead of natural and common sense treatment and 
non-poisonous remedies. In the meantime other 
schools of medicine opposing the old poisonous and 
murderous allopathic system having come to the front 
struck terror to the hearts of the poison givers, 
so they saw that unless some well managed plan was 
adopted the people would almost entirely withdraw 
their patronage. 
Their plan was to call those who did not subscribe 
to their poisonous practice "Quacks," and get unjust 
and tyrannical laws smuggled through the legislature 
of every state possible, giving a State Board of Health 
or a State Board of Medical Examiners the power to 
say who shall and who shall not practice. They 
saw that they could not compete with other 
schools, unless they could get unjust laws passed 
to enable them to drive from the state practition- 
ers who could cure where they were too incompe- 
tent to do anything but injure or kill the patient. 
They knew that such men as Doctor Samuel Thom- 
son could cure in a few days or weeks cases that 
they had given up to die; and if such men were 
allowed to practice who had never attended a medical 
college they would lose their power over the people; 
consequently the plan was to get laws passed, making it 
a misdemeanor to practice medicine unless a certificate 
had been secured from a State Board of Health, either 
by presenting to them a diploma that had been issued 
by a college in sympathy with such unjust laws, or by 
passing an examination before them. By getting such 
laws passed, using all possible means to fix the im- 
pression on the people that any doctor that would not 
obey such unconstitutional laws was a "quack," they 
have succeeded in prejudicing many people that do not 
fully understand the underhanded schemes they resort 3 
to. In some states however, such as Indiana, Michigan, 
and some twelve or fifteen others, they have failed to 
get such tyrannical laws passed, and the "State Board 
of Health" has no power whatever under the law to say 
who shall and who shall not practice. The scheme 
adopted to deceive the people is about as follows, and 
the frauds perpetrated in Indiana show up their methods 
conclusively. An attempt was made at the legislature 
of that State in 1893, to lobby a bill through, that would 
give the Allopathic Doctors seven members on an ex- 
amining Board of nine, two only were to be Homeo- 
paths, and this Board when appointed was to have 
the power to say who should and who should not prac- 
tice. The Electic, Physio-Medical, and other schools 
were not to be represented on this board; and they 
wanted enough Allopaths on it, so they could have 
everything their own way. They failed however to 
get this tyrannical bill through. What was their next 
move? Not getting an unjust law lobbied through to 
suit them, the secretary of the Board continued to in- 
struct the county clerks over the state not to issue 
State Licenses to candidates presenting diplomas from 
Medical Institutions, unless said colleges were named 
in the list sent them. Said Board had made it a practice 
for years past of sending out such lists, assuming that 
they possessed the power to dictate to the clerks on 
what Diplomas only they should issue licenses, when 
in fact they had no power whatever under the law to 
interfere in this matter at all. The Indiana State 
Board of Health is not considered of enough impor- 
tance to be even mentioned in the law regulating the 
practice of medicine in Indiana, and yet for years they 
have deceived the people by sending out said lists. 
Some of the County clerks in that state have been 
hood-winked into believing that the State Board act- 
ually possessed the power, and are surprised on ex- 4 
amining the law to find they have been the victims of 
such a fraud, and in one case where a clerk refused to 
issue a license, because the diploma of the applicant 
was not from a college, that the Medical Monopoly 
ring had listed as O. K. The candidate began proceed- 
ings at once to compel the clerk to do his duty as the 
law pointed out, instead of unlawfully obeying the 
dictates of a set of ignorant medical tyrants that had 
no authority in the matter whatever. When the clerk 
fully realized the situation, he saw it was folly to let 
this tricky and disreputable Board continue to get him 
into such trouble; and now when the law is complied 
with, he issues the necessary license, paying about as 
much attention to the Indiana State Board of Health 
as ho doos to the Egyptian mummies. 
Another of the tricks of this Board, is to inform 
parties writing them for information and ^asking if a 
diploma from a certain Medical College will entitle the 
holder to practice in the state of Indiana. (This Board 
informs said parties that if they do not recognize a 
Medical College or University>) that a diploma from 
such an Institution does not entitle the holder to 
practice in said state. This is another downright fraud, 
for they have no law to back them up in it, and yet 
they have so successfully deceived the people that if a 
letter is received from the secretary of the Indiana 
State Board of Health to the effect that they do not rec- 
ognize a certain Medical Institution, hundreds of people 
take it for granted that that settles the question, when 
a careful reading of the law shows that the recognition 
or non-recognition of this Board cuts no figure what- 
ever. The fact that people can be so easily imposed 
on, and will not rely on their own judgment in such 
an easily understood matter, has not escaped the notice 
of the perpetrators of this fraud, and this is one reason 
they have grown so bold. Not only is the Indiana 5 
State Board guilty of such false pretences, but 
similar Boards in other states have for years deceived 
the people in much, the same way. The State Board 
of Health in the state of Kansas has been and still is 
perpetrating the same fraud, and why this fraud is so 
successfully worked deserves further explanation. 
Many years ago when the poison giving Allopath- 
ic School saw that the people were disgusted with 
their murderous practice, and that the Homeopathic, 
Physio-Medical, Eclectic and other Schools were being 
patronized, and said Allopaths were loosing their grip, 
they succeeded in getting laws smuggled through the 
legislatures of several states, putting the power into 
the hands of a State Board controlled by Allopathic 
Doctors, to say what colleges they would or would not 
recognize, and any Colleges that they did not recog- 
nize, the Board in certain states could prevent the 
holder from practicing. Take for instance the State 
of Illinois. If the Illinois State Board does not re- 
cognize a Medical College, its graduates are not 
allowed to practice in said state, but because this is 
true in Illinois it by no means follows that it is true in 
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and many other 
states that we could mention. It is surprising how 
little even practitioners or those just entering on the 
practice know, regarding the laws regulating the 
practice of medicine in their own state; and taking 
advantage of this ignorance, the State Boards in most 
of the states where medical monopoly laws were de- 
feated, have quietly circulated falsehoods to the effect 
that if they did not recognize a diploma it was no 
good. And they have become so desperate in some 
states that they have roped in the Attorney Generals 
and the Secretaries of State to assist them in a quiet 
way, and they too in answering letters often mislead 
the public. We are prepared to furnish a type-written 6 
copy of the law of any state in the Union for fifty cents, 
with comments on same, showing the unconstitutional 
features if any exist. Parties can then fully examine 
the law for themselves, and they will see that while it 
is true that in some states the State Board of Health 
has the power to prevent a physician from practicing if 
he has not got a diploma from a college in the Medical 
Monopoly Ring, there are many states where the 
frauds we have referred to, are being perpetrated on 
the people by a Board who do not possess this power 
that would have been more appropriately named, had 
they been called the State Board of Death. We are 
willing to admit that there are in some towns and 
counties in some of the States, health officers that are 
good fair minded and honorable men, but we have 
found the State Boards of Health as a rule, usually 
controlled by men that make a regular business of 
laying and executing plans to use the power and in- 
fluence derived from operating under cover of the 
"name," "State Board of Health," to place their rivals 
in the profession at a disadvantage. The case men- 
tioned in our Annual Announcement of an Allopathic 
Health Officer in a Michigan town, illustrates this 
matter fully. Said Health Officer having lost five 
children in one family, one of our graduates was called 
in and he was dismissed, and our graduate succeeded 
in saving the remaining two children. He was also 
called where another Allopath had lost four in another 
family, and the remaining children saved. Steps were 
at once taken by this so called Health Officer, (that 
had succeeded in getting the appointment, and was 
parading before the people as a guardian of the public 
Health) to injure the practice and reputation of the 
physician who had succeeded in saving life, where said 
Allopathic Health Officer had been administering 
poison, and the patients were dying rapidly. Now 7 
said Health Officer, had he examined the Michigan 
law, could have seen at a glance that our graduate was 
acting in strict compliance with the law of the State, 
but this made no difference; having received a defi- 
cient medical education in an Allopathic College, and 
being like thousands of the graduates of said colleges, 
too ignorant to treat a simple case of diphtheria suc- 
cessfully, he adopted the same plan that so many of 
them resort to and undertook by slander to prejudice 
the people against his more competent and successful 
rival, so he wrote to the Secretary of the Michigan 
State Board of Health, who it would certainly be sup- 
posed would know just what the law regulating the 
practice of medicine was in said State. To suppose 
that said Secretary did not know what the law was on 
this point, is too ridiculous to be entertained for a 
moment; and yet he proceeded to use means to injure 
one of our graduates, because said graduate did not 
belong to the Medical Monopoly Ring, who had not 
only saved the lives of those children, but who had 
complied with the law in every particular. The Mich- 
igan law is one of the fairest and most just laws in the 
entire Union, and the Allopaths "there"have been de- 
feated again and again. They lobbied a bill through 
the last legislature, but the Governor vetoed it; and 
when the Secretary in his frantic efforts through the 
newspapers and by other means undertook to mislead 
the people, we of course issued circulars and cartoons, 
and we tore off the sheep-clothing from the incompe- 
tent and slanderous quacks and showed them up in 
their true light. We soon had them frothing at the 
mouth and the articles that appeared in the news- 
papers intended to injure us, showed conclusively the 
weakness of their position. It was actually amusing to 
notice a "write up" by a newspaper, that wanted in their 
forlorn condition, to help them out of the hole by 
stating that a certain Michigan town was in the 
hands of our graduates, who were doing the bulk of 
the business. This demonstrated conclusively their 
lack of business tact as clearly as they had formerly 8 
shown their lack of medical ability and skill; but they 
did not seem to comprehend the fact until we pointed 
it out to them that the public had sense enough to 
employ our graduates in preference, and that publish- 
ing such facts to the world was advertising their own 
incompetency. 
In order to give the public a still better chance to 
judge of the justice of our cause, we advertised that 
speakers from our Institution would lecture in the 
town where the attack was made; and since that took 
place, it is surprising how still they keep, and the plan 
they have now adopted, (being unable in an open field 
and in a fair fight to down us) is to find out men, that 
are aspiring to be elected to the legislature. (Then all 
the Allopathic Doctors in the State of Michigan) who 
are in favor of a law that will rob the people of their 
most sacred rights, and help them to drive from the 
state, men that can cure cases that they can't, will work 
to elect such men if said aspirants will only promise 
to vote for such a bill. Ohio has until lately been a 
free state; but at the last session of the legislature, an 
infamous bill was lobbied through both houses, 
that it is said, cost the Allopathic Doctors of that state 
from ninety to one hundred thousand dollars. Their 
scheme was to begin laying their wires a year or two 
before the legislature met, and buy up their men to do 
their bidding. Michigan seems to be following suit. 
Proper action on the part of the people can of course de- 
feat such attempts, but the trouble is the people are not 
usually aware of the trap that is laid until it is too late. 
They have never asked for such monstrous laws and we 
have certainly said enough to put them on their guard. 
They must remember that while there are good hon- 
orable men in the Allopathic profession, the controll- 
ing element is in favor of laws that make saving life, (if 
performed by one that is not in their ring), "a crime," 
and shelters those in the Medical Trust even if they 
are committing crimes for which high-way robbers 
and other criminals are sent to the penitentiaries. 
Look out for the tricks and frauds of State Boards of 
Health, and State Boards of Medical examiners. 
J. ARMSTRONG, M. D. 
Chicago, June 15. _ Starving members of the Michigan Medical Legislation League plot- 
ting to smuggle an infamous bill through the legislature to pre- 
vent the people from employing the physician of their choice. ILLINOIS HEALTH UNIVERSITY. 
* 683 West Vaa Buren SL, Chicago, 111. 
Incorporated under the La^'of the State of Illinois- 
J. ARMSTRONG, M. D., president and treaddner. 
C. M. HOVEY, L. L. D., vke-fresidekt and secretary! 
System of Medicine taught is the Physio-Medical (or Natural) 
¥'Stem. Founded in the United States by Dr, Samuel Thomson, 
aught and practiced in Europe by Professor Kirk, Scotland's 
greatest Medical reformer. Foundation principles-medicines tend 
to cure; poisons tend to kill. The difference clearly taught and 
thoroughly explained. 
FACULTY. 
Zwigtman Van Noppen, M. D. M. L. Reed, M. D. 
Chas. M. Hovey, L. L. D. Mary E. Sellen, M. D. 
Rev. C. K. Drumheller, M. D. Th os. A. Bland, M. D. 
J. Armstrong, M. D. J. L. Rullison, M. D. 
Among other equipments useful in teaching, our lecture room 
contains a German Anatomical model of a Woman, natural size, 
standing on a base. Totally dismountable and removable. Mus- 
cles and blood vessels in perfect execution. Many students can by 
the use of this expensive model (Price $405.00) aquire a better ana- 
tomical knowledge than in the dissecting room. 
Students can enter at any time. Can receive instruction 
day time or evening the year round. Private lectures given to 
those desiring to advance more rapidly toward graduation. Lec- 
tures type-written or printed and sent to students unable to 
attend. Send for 1896 Annual Announcement. 
The following seven lectures more clearly explaining in de- 
tail our position and the foundation principles of this system of 
medicine sent for 10c each. 
LECTURE I-The tricks, deception and fraud practiced in the United 
States by so-called State Boards of Health, and the State Boards of Medical 
Examiners. 
LECTURE II-Comments on Dr. Senn's speech before the American Asso- 
ciation in which he pictures the crimes of the Medical Profession. 
LECTURE III-Horrible surgical operations and needless amputations by 
Doctors of the ''regular" school. 
LECTURE IV-Poisonous drugs recommended by State Boards of Health 
produce some of the worst forms of disease and often cause death. 
LECTURE V-Consumption, how to treat it scientifically, the ridiculous 
and absurd means often recommended by Medical Monopoly Doctors. 
LECTURE VI-The outrages perpetrated on the people by ignorant Health 
Officers and State Boards of Health in their unscientific and ridiculous attempts 
to eradicate contagious and infectious diseases. 
LECTURE VII-The duty of the clergy to assist in repealing such infam- 
ous medical laws as are now in force in Illinois. 
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The seven lectures above mentioned, "Saving Life a Crime in Illinois", 
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