02/02/2021
A true story from a trial in 1916... great story:
HEAL THYSELF (U.K.), March 1943
Scene: Washington, D.C. The week of presidential election in 1916. Case: United States Postal Department vs. the Ensign Remedy Company, Battle Creek, Mich.
Dr. Ensign was cited to appear before the postal department to show reason why a fraud order should not be issued against him barring him from using the mails on two charges.
First, that homeopathic medicine, or rather his medicines, contained no medicine ; and secondly, that no medicine can cure. (The Ensign literature, some of which circulated through
the mails, claimed that his homeopathic medicines cured sick folks, to which the 'government took issue maintaining that no medicine ever cured. That being the position of allopathy.)
The trial of the case took five days of very bitter fighting. Indeed, a biased government prosecuting attorney was so incensed during the trial one day that he had a very severe attack of acute indigestion on his return to court after eating dinner in that angry state of mind. They were about to adjourn court, when, having my pocket case of 6ox (B. & T.) with me, I offered to prescribe, which assistance the lawyer very graciously accepted while the dozen or more government physicians and other physicians called to testify from Washington and elsewhere, looked on in amazement.
For several days I had been of the opinion that this lawyer needed a dose of Nux vomica for his disposition and now I knew he needed it, so I gave it to him on his tongue, and so certain
was I of the result that I stated aloud so that everyone could hear that that one powder would relieve him within five minutes. One of our defense witnesses (an ex-president of the
American Institute of Homeopathy) arose from his seat and exploded, " Dr. Schwartz, I would not say that." "Why not? " I asked in reply. "It cannot always be done," he answered.
"Oh yes," said I, "when you give the right medicine."
I had hardly more than reached my seat when the government prosecuting attorney called across the court, " Dr. Schwartz, I am entirely relieved." It is needless to say that Homeopathy
itself won her own case although the statutes still forbid the word "cure" on bottles of medicine or advertising matter sent through the mail. And the government chemist from the Department of
Agriculture is still wondering why he could not find any medicine in Ensign's homeopathic sugar. "Believe it or not," it is a matter of record.
