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DEFENCE AND CHALLENGES.A ‘ 
Defence and Challenge 3 
Attack — 
From the American Medical Association Journal, April 
2i, 1888 4 
Attack and Apology — 
From the Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia, 
May 5 and 26 • . * 8 
From the Pittsburg Medical Review, May 26 . . . . 9, 10 
From Dr. Henry O. Marcy, in the Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal, Feb. 15, 1888 11 
Defence and Challenge 13 
Reviews . 14 
Murdock Liquid Food Co., 
BOSTON. 
Press of Rockwell & Churchill. FREE SURGICAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEH. 
112 BEDS. EVERY BED FREE. 
SUPPORTED BY THE MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD CO., BOSTON. 
The benefit of our Free Surgical 
Hospitals for Women is being rec- 
ognized in all parts of the United 
States by the medical profession, as 
they are sending ladies suffering for 
the want of an operation (known as 
capital case) from all sections. 
The Surgical Staff of Murdock’s 
Free Hospitals for Women are in 
daily attendance, except Saturdays, 
to examine patients and assign beds. 
Our Hospitals for Women con- 
tain 112 beds, every bed free. 
Year ending January i, 1S88: 
953 operations ; 9 deaths. 
Four months, ending May 1, 
1888 : 320 operations ; 4 deaths. 
Total patients treated in five years, 
between 1,700 and 1,800,— all free 
of expense to them. This Hospital 
will exist after all its detractors 
have deceased. “THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL,” 
AND THE MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD COMPANY, 
BOSTON. 
It is with sorrow that we quote the fact that the Edi- 
tor has compromised his columns by using malicious 
correspondents, and then refuses the Murdock Liquid 
Food Company his columns for their defence, and re- 
fuses to make a practical investigation by choosing a 
committee for the Journal or Society at the cost of the 
Murdock Liquid Food Company, who are willing to pay 
the expenses in advance. 
Do the members of the Society 
endorse such acts? Judge for 
yourself after reading both sides. 
Then choose a committee from the 
Society to visit the Hospital, and see 
if the mortality is not less, patients 
discharged quicker from the same 
class of operations and in better 
physical health than is done widi 
other foods, owing to the use of their 
Liquid Food and Suppositories. 
Then if you will accept the trust, 
no fault will be found with the criti- 
cism you can make, if you will 
make. The tests to be in both 
infants’ and adults’ Hospitals in 
each city for all classes of diseases 
equal to six beds each for one year 
compared with all other Foods in 
the market for such money will be 
advanced monthly to pay the cost of 
all purchases. 
If neither proposition is accepted 
within thirty days, or more time 
asked for, then it is made to every 
Medical Journal in the U.S., and on 
the same terms, results to be published 
by the society or by the journals that 
make the test. THE MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD COMPANY. 
[From the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 21.] 
Letter from Boston. 
There has been considerable in- 
terest in medical circles in this 
vicinity over a discussion in some 
of the secular journals about a cer- 
tain food preparation manufactured 
in Boston. Believing that this in- 
terest is not confined to the Hub 
alone, perhaps a few words may be 
written of interest to those more 
or less remote from the centre of 
action. We refer, of course, to the 
Murdock Liquid Food Company, of 
which the principal, Mr. Murdock, 
is the active agent in maintaining 
for over a year a hospital in the 
building devoted to the manufacture 
of their food preparations, the latest 
of which is “ Food Suppositories.” 
This, the “Free Surgical Hospital 
for Women,” is apparently the cli- 
max of Mr. Murdock’s charity, lib- 
erality, and ambition, following his 
“ West End Boys’ Home ” and “ In- 
fant Hospital.” 
Of the merits of the food as such, 
we will make no remark, beyond 
stating that it has been commented 
upon in a late number of the “ Bos- 
ton Journal of Health.” 
The combined hospital will ac- 
commodate about 150 patients. Dr. 
E. W. Cushing has charge of the 
regular side, and Dr. Packard of the 
Homoeopathic. It was in this hos- 
pital that Dr. Martin, of Berlin, 
operated while in Boston, perform- 
ing his operation of removal of the 
uterus through the vagina. 
The whole thing has been looked 
upon as not exactly the proper 
thing; still, nothing was done, and 
things simply took their own proper 
course, till the “ Boston Journal of 
Health,” in a series of articles ex- 
posing fraudulent and deceptive 
foods and medicines, took up “ Mur- 
dock’s Liquid Food” among the 
number, exposing the falsity of the 
preparation, composition, and profit 
in a lengthy article. Mr. Murdock 
then saw fit to answer this, stating 
why he thought the article had been 
written, and denying some of the 
statements, making quite a breezy 
article. To this the “Journal” 
replies only in stronger terms, de- 
nouncing in emphatic language the 
preparation, and replying to some 
of Mr. Murdock’s statements or 
rather mis-statements ; things were 
getting interesting. 
In the meantime Dr. Marcy, who 
had severed his connection some 
time previously to any thought of 
the discussion, published in the 
“ Boston Medical and Surgical 
Journal ” a card stating his previous 
withdrawal from the Murdock Hos- 
pital, and giving as his reasons for 
so doing that the Hospital was not 
acting up to its agreement, in regard 
to running and management of the 
Hospital. Immediately Mr. Mur- 
dock replies in the following num- 
ber of the same journal, contradict- 
ing flatly some of Dr. Marcy’s 5 
statements, and referring to letters 
of the Council of Ethics of Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, in com- 
mendation of the enterprise, which 
in the next issue of the “ Journal ” 
was flatly contradicted by the Coun- 
cil, thus leaving the way open for 
Dr. Cushing to show the letter 
which they claim he has not. 
Here the matter rested, and inter- 
est is still maintained as to the out- 
come. Mr. Murdock has very much 
retracted and modified his adver- 
tisement in the daily papers, but 
probably, with the means at his 
disposal, among which may be 
reckoned the “ Annals of Gynsecol- 
ogy ” and the Hospital, will endeavor 
to keep before the public the merits 
of his food preparations, while the 
“ Journal of Health ” intends push- 
ing its expose, and bring the whole 
thing plainly and truthfully in its 
proper light, along with others, the 
latest being Scotch Oats Essence. 
W. 
My hospitals have been open and 
in operation since April 18, 1883, 
and have admitted patients every day 
since. When first opened I had to 
use such buildings as I could com- 
mand, and many looked at it as an 
experiment, being in doubt if the 
profession would approve of it. 
When I found that they did indorse 
my efforts by sending me patients, I 
then built my present building, 175 
X 120 ft., five stories high, and as- 
signed the two upper stories to my 
hospitals, which have no connection 
with my works or with each other. 
The Homoeopathic and Regular en- 
trances are separate, and fire-proof. 
In relation to the attack of the 
journal mentioned, for my defence, 
I quote from it: “The informa- 
tion was obtained from a dis- 
charged laborer. ” Did you ever 
know a person to give a part or a 
whole of his business to a laborer? 
If so, why I am not the man. From 
the second article I quote: “We 
sent it to our attorney before pub- 
lishing it.” Do you wish to know 
any more of the paper or writer? 
The Medical Press said, “No” ; as 
no medical journal would copy it. 
I think when I advertised to the 
world the good which has been done 
in my hospitals, my pride receives 
more satisfaction from the suffering 
women whom I have released from, 
in many cases, worse than death, as 
many were dying by inches. I can 
prove that over one thousand wom- 
en have been restored to health in my 
present hospital in eighteen months. 
No. 1. 
Boston, April 23, 1888. 
To the Editor of the “ Journal of 
the American Medical Associa- 
tion ”: — 
Dear Sir, — I ask the use of 
your columns to reply to your cor- 
respondent from Boston, in your 
issue of April 21st. Allow me to 
thank him for the information he 
gave that was accurate, and allow 
me to correct his errors, a thing 
which I know you and he will be 
pleased to have me do. 6 
Where is the physician in the 
whole world who would refuse to 
send suffering women, with or with- 
out money, for treatment? The 
treatment to all is free as far as I 
am concerned. Physicians are satis- 
fied, as I have had patients sent by 
them from all parts of the United 
States and from the Provinces. 
The condition in which they re- 
turned home was so satisfactory, 
and the demands for admission 
were so numerous,that I was obliged 
to build two new wards and to 
equip two laboratories. Our weekly 
clinics now number over fifty phy- 
sicians. Am I not worthy of credit? 
I will close by inviting you or 
any member of your journal or 
Association, or a committee from 
one or both, to visit my hospitals 
and works. Then you will realize 
what I have done and am doing. 
This offer was also made you July, 
1887, and all bills would be paid. 
Yours respectfully, 
Albert L. Murdock, 
Proprietor of Murdock 
Liquid Food Co. 
surgeons in Boston. One of them 
had trouble with Dr. Marcy at 
the Chicago meeting. If not so, 
how could Dr. Nash be represented 
by “W.” unless it was reversed, 
and should be “ M,” as he was 
lately the assistant of Dr. Henry O. 
Marcy, of Boston, and I defended 
myself from Dr. Marcy’s attack on 
me in the “ Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal,” by his own 
letters to me, from which he could 
not reply, and was disgraced. 
Now, doctor, do you think the 
members of the American Medical 
Association would approve of your 
lending the columns of the “Jour- 
nal ” to attack a man who is as well 
known as I am by them and 
yourself with a refusal of your 
columns to me to defend my char- 
acter and works. 
Now, please review our rela- 
tions, and see who is responsible for 
this trouble. 
We have never had an interview, 
and no correspondence from me. 
After being solicited two years, 
I gave you my advertisement, and 
always remitted on receipt of bills. 
My Food ranks higher to-day 
with the profession than ever, as 
they use more of it, it being reli- 
able, and all made by myself, and 
the last bottle by the same formula 
as the first bottle made eight years 
ago. I pride myself that there is 
no change in my character. I have 
never had any trouble with the 
Medical Press, and have always 
been inspected by them with your 
No. 2. 
Boston, May 13, 1888. 
Dr. N. S. Davis, Editor of the 
American Medical Association 
Journal: — 
Dear Sir, —I am surprised at 
your not publishing my reply to 
the letter from your correspondent 
“W.,” as his signature was adopted 
to throw mistrust on two of the best 7 
exception, and this I was not aware 
of until July last, when Dr. Marcy 
told me that you told him that my 
advertisement could not be renewed 
when it expired. 
This you thought better of, as 
after that date you gave me 
your best pages before or after 
reading-matter for no extra cost. 
On receipt of your first bill I advised 
you to cancel my advertisement. 
Since that date I have had advices 
from you twice asking for my 
advertisement. Since then have re- 
ceived letters from you twice asking 
for my advertisements for your 
special issue for the late conven- 
tion. 
How do these facts look combined 
with your refusal to publish or 
investigate my defence? I think it 
looks about the same as the posi- 
tion taken by the monthly that 
made the attack when I refused to 
advertise with them, or by letting 
them write an article on my 
Hospital and taking a given 
number of their paper to pay 
for it, which I declined, but did 
show them through my work and 
Hospital. After that they black- 
mailed me. 
This is not personal, as I have a 
high respect for you as a man. I 
know that other parties have been 
instrumental in using your columns 
without second thought on your 
part, owing to their reputed high 
standing, to compromise us both. 
Enclosed find stamp and envelope, 
and please advise me by return 
mail, if you will publish my letter of 
April 23, 188S. 
Yours respectfully, 
Albert L. Murdock, 
Proprietor of Murdock's Liquid 
Pood Co., Boston. 
65 Randolph Street, 
Chicago, III., May 17, 1S88. 
Albert L. Murdock : — 
Dear Sir, —Your letter of May 
11 is received. I have not yet, and 
do not intend in the future, to pub- 
lish your previous letter, simply be- 
cause it did not specify nor refute or 
correct a single misrepresentation 
alleged to have been made by the 
correspondent “ W.,” but was 
throughout an eulogy of your Hos- 
pitals and Liquid Food well adapted 
for an advertisement. Besides, al- 
most simultaneous with your letter 
I received one from Dr. E. W. 
Cushing, in reply to the same cor- 
respondent “ W.,” in which he 
pointed out and replied to the al- 
leged misrepresentations fully, and 
I promptly published it in the 
“Journal.” Having thus given both 
sides equal privileges, there the mat- 
ter must stop. Personall}', I have 
never written you a letter before, 
neither have I ever requested the 
agent of the advertising department 
of the “Journal,” Mr. White, to write 
or solicit an advertisement from you. 
Whatever he has done has been 
without my knowledge or prompt- 
ing, and in the line of his business. 
Respectfully yours, 
N. S. Davis. 8 
MURDOCK’S LIQUID FOOD. 
[From the “ Medical and Surgical Reporter,” 
Philadelphia, May 5, 1SS8.] 
This widely advertised article of 
diet, which had for some time the 
quasi indorsement of certain well- 
known members of the medical pro- 
fession in Boston, and which is said 
to still have the support of the “ An- 
nals of Gynaecology,” has recently 
come in for a share of the search- 
ing investigations of that admirable 
paper, the “ Boston Journal of 
Health.” The result has been a de- 
scription of the character of Mur- 
dock’s Liquid Food which is not 
calculated to increase its popularity 
with the medical profession. The 
present state of the discussion in- 
cludes statements by disinterested 
medical men that the manufacturer 
of this Food has attempted to deceive 
the medical profession and the com- 
munity, and denials and counter- 
charges by Mr. Murdock. As it 
stands, the latter seems to have de- 
cidedly the woi'st of it; and our 
readers may as well bear in mind 
that the claims made for his prep- 
aration are discredited by those who 
probably know most about it and 
him, and that it is openly placed in 
the same category with fraudulent 
articles of commerce. 
nal of Health,” and others contained 
in a letter signed “W.,” in the 
“Journal of the American Medical 
Association,” April 21, 1888. The 
opinions which we repeated were 
unfavorable to the Food, and con- 
tained an intimation which was far 
from complimentary to Dr. E. W. 
Cushing, editor of the “ Annals 
of Gynascology.” Since the publi- 
cation of our editorial we have re- 
ceived information which leads us 
to believe that injustice has been 
done both to Mr. Murdock and to 
Dr. Cushing, and that we owe it to 
both to acknowledge the fact. So 
far as the food is concerned, it ap- 
pears to be an article which has 
proved of great value in the hands 
of physicians, and deserves to be 
judged on its merits. We have re- 
ceived the testimony of a number of 
medical men to its usefulness, and 
have been confronted with persons 
who have received much benefit 
from using it. So much we deem 
it right to say — contrary to our cus- 
tom — in these columns, because we 
think we have before done Mr. 
Murdock an injustice. 
As to Dr. Cushing, we regret that 
we have given a sort of sanction to 
an attack upon him, which we have 
reason to believe was prompted by 
unworthy motives, and for which he 
has been unable to obtain, in the 
pages of the “ Journal of the Ameri- 
can Association,” the redress to 
which he thinks he is entitled. 
[From the Philadelphia “ Medical & Surgical 
Reporter,” May 26, iSSS.] 
In the “Reporter” May 5, 1888, 
we published a short editorial note 
referring to Murdock’s Liquid Food, 
founded upon certain charges made 
in regard to it by the “Boston Jour- 9 
Compare this human 
attack and the manly apol- 
ogy, both unbeknown to 
me and from a stranger, as 
I received them both by 
the same mail. 
themselves. When that is done the 
Society will have as much trouble to 
spend its money as they now have 
to get it, if you can judge from some 
of the advertisements in the “Jour- 
nal.” The “ British Medical Jour- 
nal,” with a field only one-fifth as 
large in physicians to draw from, 
cleared, over all expenses, last year, 
over $150,000, and did not disgrace 
its columns by attacking honest men. 
It occurred from the editor hav- 
ing unbounded confidence in the re- 
puted honesty of Dr. Davis, for if 
he was honest he would have made 
an apology between April 21 and 
May 5. And again, the editor having 
been associated with the “ Reporter” 
only two years, unfortunately with his 
press of business did not know that 
I was running my Hospitals to show 
the profession that I could save life 
by the use of my Liquid Food and 
suppositories when they could not 
without it, and the 2,000,000 bricks 
in the Hospital were put in to have it 
remain, and do good work after we 
are all gone. From the fact that 
no other medical journal copied 
the article from the Society Jour- 
nal, or has written about me, flatters 
me to think that they have more 
confidence in my acts than they do 
in Dr. Davis’ authority. There is 
one thing sure, when the Society 
have an editor they have confidence 
in then their journal will prosper, 
whereas now, with five years’ labor, 
the circulation of this Journal is only 
about one-half of some of the other 
medical journals. What the pi'ofes- 
sion want is matter that is original, 
and can be relied on, not from rail- 
road employes, instigated by mali- 
cious men who are ashamed to write 
I am afraid that the col- 
umns of the “American 
Medical Association Jour- 
nal ’’will not be read with 
that confidence in the 
future as in the past after 
this exposure of wilfulness 
of the editor in not correct- 
ing or allowing parties to 
defend themselves when 
assaulted by malicious 
correspondents. 
Again we quote the opin- 
ion of the medical press, 
and are receiving letters 
daily of the same tenor. 
FOOD FOR REFLECTION. 
[From the “ Pittsburg- Medical Review,” 
May 26, iS88.] 
Mr. Murdock, of Boston, the 
proprietor of a liquid food, is a 
a man of genius. Fie built a hos- 
pital, complete in its equipment 
and of the latest sanitary architect- 
ure, and, opening its doors in the 
name of the food company, asked 
the afflicted to come in. Being a 
worldly-wise man and a philanthro- 
pist for revenue only, he divided 
the institution into two parts, one 10 
of which he handed over to the 
homoeopaths, and the other he per- 
suaded the regular profession to 
accept. The medical gentlemen 
who entered so effectually into this 
scheme were not the youthful and 
obscure of the Boston doctors, but 
those of wide reputation and large 
experience, and both the regular 
and the homoeopath united in sing- 
ing a rather inharmonious hymn of 
praise to the hospital and the food. 
Now comes the legitimate result 
of all this chicanery. The “ Boston 
Journal of Health ” had a chemist 
examine the food preparations on 
the market, and happened upon a 
sample of Murdock’s. He found 
that it was false in composition and 
in preparation, and that the profits 
from its sale were enormous. The 
“Journal” published this article 
and denounced the food as a fraud. 
Then the regular faction of the 
mongrel staff of the hospital with- 
drew in great indignation, saying 
that the management had violated 
its agreement and had used them 
badly. It is not to be supposed 
that Mr. Murdock accepted these 
things quietly. Oh ! no. He stout- 
ly championed his hospital and his 
food in the Boston newspapers and 
a perfect storm of controversy raged 
in the City of Culture. In such a 
newspaper war the profession is of 
course the sufferer in dignity and 
prestige and the food gets any quan- 
tity of free advertising. 
The moral of all this is as plain 
as the monument on Bunker Hill. 
Do not have any professional con- 
nections with the proprietary medi- 
cine (or food) man. “ He that 
touches pitch shall be defiled there- 
with.” 
[From the “ Pittsburg Medical Review,” 
June i, iSSS.] 
The May number of the Review 
contained an article criticising the 
Murdock Liquid Food Hospital, 
that we find on further information 
is unjust in many particulars. The 
Boston Journal of Health, the 
publication that first denounced the 
food, is an anonymous sheet; and 
the source of its information was 
not a chemical analysis as we in- 
ferred but the evidence of a dis- 
charged employe of the food fac- 
tory. These two considerations in 
themselves are sufficient to deprive 
the accusations of the Journal of 
Health of all credence. We also 
learn that the Annals of Gynceco- 
logy is not the property of Mr. 
Murdock, but is an independent en- 
terprise, and that the only connec- 
tion Mr. Murdock has with it is 
that he uses it as an advertising 
medium, 
The attendance of Dr. Martin at 
the hospital was not due to any ef- 
fort of Mr. Murdock, as we stated, 
but was at the solicitation of Dr. 
Cushing, who is Dr. Martin’s per- 
sonal friend and former pupil. The 
correspondence published in the 
Medical & Surgical ■ Reporter, 
May 26, may be accepted as ex- 
plaining Dr. Cushing’s position in 
the hospital. 
This much in justice to Mr. Mur- 
dock and Dr. Cushing; but we do 
not want to be understood as indors- 
ing in any way the methods of Mr. 
Murdock, nor can we look upon the 
Murdock Liquid Food Hospital as 
a purely disinterested philanthropic 
scheme. 
“ Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
Will never mark the marble with his name.” 11 
From the ‘‘Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,” 
Feb. 27, 1888. 
DR. H. O. MARCY AND THE MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD 
HOSPITAL. 
116 Boylston St., 
Boston, February 15, 1888. 
Mr. Editor:—Permit me the 
favor of your columns to inform any 
interested that I am not connected 
with the Free Surgical Hospital for 
Women, supported by the Mur- 
dock Liquid Food Company. I 
gave much time without compen- 
sation to its organization, with the 
understanding that it should be a 
great charity, worthy of the approval 
of the most critical, conducive alike 
to the relief of suffering and the 
proper teaching of Gynsecology, 
both clinically and in journalistic 
form. Plaving failed to secure that 
which I thought the profession de- 
manded, after consultation with 
eminent medical men, I felt it obli- 
gatory to withdraw last July. 
Very respectfully. 
Henry O. Marcy, M.D. 
THE MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD HOSPITAL AND DR. 
H. O. MARCY. 
Boston, February 24, 1888. 
Mr. Editor : — I ask the use of 
your columns to reply to Dr. H. O. 
Marcy’s letter of the 16th, in rela- 
tion to his connection with my 
Free Surgical Hospital for Women. 
The letter is inaccurate in every- 
thing relating to facts, which I at- 
tribute to his short memory, and in 
correcting a few points I will show 
how he was connected with me and 
my hospital. 
(1.) His connection was not made 
by me, but by him, through my head 
surgeon. 
(2.) He received no pay from me, 
but had and used the privilege of 
putting in private patients and re- 
ceiving from them a fee for opera- 
tions, nothing being charged or re- 
ceived by me in any case for board 
or attendance. 
(3.) We never had any disagree- 
ment until I refused to give him 
the control of my Gainsboro’-street 
Hospital, and then it came from 
him. 
I quote from his letter of July 
21, 1887, concerning displacement 
of Dr. Packard, who had been with 
me three years : — 
“The only misgiving in carrying 
this into effect may be your obliga- 
tion to Dr. Packard, a gentleman 
whom I very much like. If you 
think you had better do this, and, 
if necessary, indemnify him for any 
obligation you feel you may owe 12 
him, I am yours at command upon 
the conditions previously considered. 
I need not assure you that you have 
my best wishes in your good work, 
and that my relations with you 
have been to me highly satisfac- 
tory.” 
The other condition referred to 
is the incorporation of the Hospital, 
or the appointment of a Board of 
Directors. To this I assented, and 
the board was selected, but not or- 
ganized, as he was not satisfied with 
this alone. 
Again, July 25, 1887 : “ I would 
wish for no more pleasant personal 
relations than have been between 
us from the beginning, and should 
be glad to avail myself of the priv- 
ilege of sending patients to you so 
long as I may be permitted. With 
the very highest considerations, be- 
lieve me, 
Very respectfully, 
Henry O. Marcy.” 
of that Society. By their advice the 
whole matter, including the relations 
of the medical officers of the Hospital, 
was submitted by Dr. Cushing in 
writing to the1 Committee on Ethics 
and Discipline. From its answer, re- 
ceived after a meeting of the council 
had intervened, it was decided to be 
a proper and honorable thing for a 
member of the Massachusetts Medi- 
cal Society to hold a position as sur- 
geon in my Hospital. I enclose a 
copy of this correspondence. 
By this correspondence, which 
was made with my knowledge and 
assent, I became bound to receive 
with respect any suggestions ema- 
nating from the Committee of Ethics 
and Discipline, in case my hospital 
should in any way merit its censure. 
I promised Dr. Cushing never to put 
him nor his consultants or assistants 
in any position which should merit 
such censure. I never have done so, 
and I have no intention or wish to 
do so. All this Dr. Marcy knew 
when he came here, and what he says 
about any other understanding I 
must attribute to a confused or in- 
accurate use of language on his 
part. 
The good work which has been 
done in my free hospitals this last 
year, being over five hundred opera- 
tions — free as far as I am concerned 
— ought to entitle me to the respect 
of the profession, and all who visit 
me accord it to me. 
I certainly was liberal in trying to 
remove from the mind of Dr. Davis, 
the president of the American Medi- 
Since that date he has sent me 
about two patients monthly. 
I cannot see where I have com- 
promised Dr. Marcy. My hospital 
on Huntington avenue is open to 
the inspection of the profession, 
under the sanction, and subject to 
the criticism of the proper authorities 
of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety. Before accepting the position 
of surgeon to my hospital, Dr. E. W. 
Cushing visited Natick, Worcester, 
and Springfield, to consult with the 
chairman and senior members of the 
Committee on Ethics and Discipline 
1 This letter was addressed to the chairman of this committee and was answered by him; I am 
informed that it was never before the whole committee officially. “ See Phila. Med. & Surg. Reporter ” 
May 26, 18SS. 13 
cal Association, any injury which 
Dr. Marcy’s reputation might have 
suffered by being connected with 
my hospital, as I gave Dr. Marcy 
authority to invite said president, 
with a committee appointed by him, 
to visit Boston to inspect my hospi- 
tal, and I would pay the bills, and he 
should act on their instructions after 
the visit, not before, as they had 
no right to give advice without 
knowledge. This offer was de- 
clined by Dr. Marcy. 
In closing, I would say my Hospi- 
tal on Gainsboro’ street was or- 
ganized before Dr. Marcy came into 
the Huntington-avenue Hospital, 
and that there is no professional con- 
nection whatever between the sur- 
geons of the two hospitals and that 
since he left me the usefulness of the 
regular hospital has increased, as 
the number of patients has increased, 
and these are sent in by physicians 
in most cases. To accommodate all 
these patients I have added two 
wards to the regular hospital. 
Moreover, many eminent physicians, 
who personally were indifferent or 
critical, now send patients here and 
are present at operations. In point 
of fact, Dr. Marcy must have for- 
gotten that he operated here on Mrs. 
G., on September 17, 1887, and that 
he was quite officious in inviting 
his friends here, and in sending in 
and showing his cases, when oper- 
ations were performed here on Sep- 
tember 19, 1887, by a distinguished 
foreign surgeon, in presence of 
some of the most eminent medi- 
cal men of New York and of 
Massachusetts. 
Yours respectfully, 
Albert L. Murdock, 
Proprietor. 
In the magazine quoted by them 
it is insinuated that my Liquid Food 
contains hog’s blood and fish albu- 
men. This is as false as words can 
express. Many say that it contains 
boric acid, glycerine, salt, and poor 
whiskey. If any medical society or 
journal can find a responsible chemist 
that can find a grain of any of these 
products in any bottle that I have 
made during the last eight years, or 
ever shall make, or find two bottles 
that do not contain the same proper- 
ties prior to the investigation, I will 
make arrangements to bond to them 
one hundred, or two hundred, or 
three hundred thousand dollars’ 
worth of real estate ; and if a grain of 
any of them can be found, one-half 
shall be retained by them, and the 
other half shall be given to these de- 
tractors and counterfeit manufactur- 
ers of my Liquid Food, as I wish to 
reward them handsomely if they 
can show that I do not tell the 
truth, as such men always die if not 
live poor. This last claim, from the 
fact that an extract in the market 
not a Food claims to be like mine, 
contains those properties, so they 
advise all physicians when asked ; 
but all know such properties con- 
tain no nourishment. This ac- 
counts for this charge against my 
Liquid Food. 14 
The manufacturers of this extract 
took several thousand copies of the 
“Boston Journal of Health” con- 
taining the attack on my Liquid 
Food, and have since had their 
advertisement in it, and their ad- 
vertisements where they have made 
reference to physicians’ inquiries, 
proves that the names were used in 
many cases without consent. 
See how low a man can fall in a 
few months who is not truthful! 
Dr. Nash, after learning all that Dr. 
Marcy could teach him, becomes 
a malicious correspondent for your 
journal, writes a two-page article 
full of falsehoods and insinuations 
which are worse; then the em- 
ploye of a railroad shall next ex- 
pect to hear he is peddling Dr. 
Davis’ favorite laundry soap for 
hospital use, to which he gave a full- 
page letter, and it was published in 
“ Medical Journals,” but not yours, 
as he does not approve of the 
profession compromising their posi- 
tion in such ways. My advice to 
Drs. Marcy and Nash would be to 
think and remember better, then 
they could write articles that would 
not compromise the medical press 
or themselves, as no man ever had 
a better defence than I have had of 
publishing their letters, consisting 
of insinuations from unresponsible 
writers or their own false statements, 
as no man could visit my Hospital 
and works as they have and write 
such trash about my Liquid Food 
and be honest. To confirm its 
value, I refer to them members ot 
any society they belong to, as it has 
been in general use of the pro- 
fession eight years. I have done 
all I can to help, for when 
I gave my advertisement to Dr. 
Davis, I also sent twenty-four 
bottles of Liquid Food (as I have 
to every journal that ever had 
my advertisement), so he could 
test its value, and if not, read the 
pamphlet round each bottle, which 
contains essays on Murdock’s Liq- 
uid Food,— two read before your 
own Society four and seven years 
ago; one before the British Medi- 
cal Association two years ago ; and 
at each it was discussed and in- 
dorsed, and are the only ones ever 
read on Raw Foods, — the authors 
are members of your Society, and 
have used my Liquid Food daily 
for seven to eight years, and do now, 
as do a large part of the members 
of your Society. SUPPORTED BY THE MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD CO., BOSTON. 
This Home is free to any boy to 
enter, and no questions asked as to 
past character; no restriction as to 
color, race, or religion. The Home 
is equipped equal to the best, with 
hair mattresses, spring beds, hot 
baths, toilet, singing, reading rooms, 
also rooms for gymnasium, tailor 
and shoemaking shop. We have not 
a boy that does not support himself, 
therefore not one in either shop. 
No news, telegraph or boot-blacks 
have ever applied, and only one boy 
discharged in two years. If they 
have it they pay $2 weekly, if not 
less, but always retain 25 cents 
weekly for their own use. This 
money is deposited in bank in the 
name of trustees, and when the 
boys are twenty-one years old, if 
they are temperate, it is returned to 
them with interest, even if they 
have been out of the Home for 
years, receiving back, based on the 
age of fifteen, one year, $131 ; two 
years, $250; 3 years, $367. Each one contains 1-2 oz. of Murdock’s Liquid Food. 
For Nourishment and Support in all Cases where the Stomach 
Refuses Food. 
In all Wasting Diseases. 
In Severe Vomiting of Pregnancy. 
In Dyspepsia, Fevers, Seasickness. 
After Severe Surgical Operations. 
When we remember that a large part of all food is digested by absorption in the intestines, and 
knowing the value of Murdock’s Liquid Food in making new blood when taken by mouth, and that 
each large suppository contains as much nutrition as a full quantity of Liquid Food if taken by mouth, 
we can say no more in recommending the Suppositories except that the daily use of them in our Free 
Surgical Hospitals for Women, containing 112 beds, confirms our claim. 
Our Suppositories have been found more convenient than nutritive injections, and much more 
nutritious, as they are wholly retained. 
They may be employed, also, with advantage in Piles, Constipation, and various 
rectal ailments, since, besides their value as food, they have a useful local action 
mechanically. 
Results are obtained quicker if the patient will take 5 or more drops (increasing 
as the stomach will admit) to one table-spoonful of Murdock’s 
Liquid Food before each meal and on retiring. 
For any physician that has not used our Liquid Food or Suppositories, we will deliver 
to the Boston Express, 12 oz. of Liquid Food, free; 
and 1-4 doz. Adults’ and 1-3 doz. Infants’ Suppositories, by Mail free. 
MURDOCK LIQUID FOOD CO., 
BOSTON, 
THE ONLY MANUFACTURERS OF 
RAW FOOD EXTRACTS IN THE WORLD, 
AND SO RECOGNIZED BY ALL NATIONAL MEDICAL SOCIETIES THAT 
HAVE INVESTIGATED IT.