A Right Decision

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A Right Decision

A Right Decision.—Some years ago Mr. Eugene Christian of New York, having failed to find health in any other way, began to study his own case, the chemistry of his own body, and food chemistry, and worked out a plan by which he fully recovered. Since that time he has endeavored to help others by prescribing diets, and excellent success has been reported. Mr. Christian came to the conclusion that Materia Medica is a very uncertain thing, that as many are cured outside of physicians' prescriptions as inside. He therefore has prescribed no medicine in his suggestions to others, simply a better diet. But the physicians undertook to make out that Mr. Christian was practising medicine without license and hence prosecuted him, that is, the county medical society of New York did. Detectives followed him, hounded him, and finally secured evidence, supposedly, against him. His case was brought before the court of special session of 1907, and decided against him. His work was considered unlawful and he was fined the sum of $25.00. An appeal was taken to the appellate division of the Supreme Court, and from there it was passed on to the Supreme Court itself. A decision was handed down Dec. 20, 1907, exonerating him completely in the following words: "As upon the whole case we find that no crime was committed and that the defendant was improperly convicted, the judgment appealed from should be reversed." And so it should be. Certainly one should have the right to choose his own physician and his own methods of treatment for any disease that he may have.