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 FULLERTON AND PARKER CALLED 
  BEFORE COURT FOR HEARING

  State Brought Charge for
    Violation of State 
       Medical Laws.

 Friends of the Two Men Packed
    Court Room at Hearing
         Last Friday.

The arrest and recent hearing
of Isaac Fullerton and George W.
Parker on charge of practicing
medicine and administering
mechano-therapy without licenses
aroused a great deal of discussion
and interest among the many
friends of these two men.
The men were brought before the
court last Friday afternoon and
were given a hearing before the
judge.  The Court room was 
packed with people who were
anxious to know the outcome of
the case.  Mr. Bailey represented
the case of the two men on
the defensive and the county
prosecutor with his assistant
presented the case for the state
which brought the charge.
   It happened, as it developed at
the hearing that a young man 
by the name of Dorshey an inspector
for the State Medical Association,
had made a visit at the 
Sanitarium here in town Feb. 2
under the guise of a patient.  He
made arrangements to see Mr.
Fullertown on the next day Feb. 8
at 10:00 o'clock for the purpose
of getting a diagnosis.  He came
in with another man named Robinson,
State narcotic inspector,
on the next day, bought a ticket
of admission and was let into the
private examining room of Mr.
Fullerton, who made the examination
in his usual way by means
of the foot.  The young man was
told what was the matter and was
advised to use certain herbs and
leaves to effect a cure.  The
young man also took a massage
from Mr. Parker for which he 
paid $1.00.
   It later developed that this
man made up two affidavits, one
against Fullerton and the other
against Parker, charging them
for violating the state medical
law.  In the hearing at Ottawa
the state witness was unable to
give a clear definiton of the
technical terms involved in the
charge.
   Fullerton has been arrested and
tried for practicing medicine
without license.  On the two
previous charges he was acquitted.
   Now it is quite interesting to 
know just what method Mr. Fullerton
employs in his almost miraculous
healings.  He claims no 
religious power what is known
as faith cure.  He never appeals
to his patients on that side of
their lives, altho both he and his
partner are firm believers in the
efficacy of sound religious faith.
"We use prayers" they say, "but
not with our patients."
   Mr. Fullerton examines the
patient's bare foot and claims that
he can detect a person's ailments
by means of this member.  He
thinks that the foot is best able to
suggest the possible ailments of a
patient because it is more sensative
than the hand.  Then, after giving
a diagnosis of the case, he
advises them to use certain home
grown, natural remedies, relying
entirely on means easily available
to the patient.  Mr. Fullerton
never writes a prescription himself.
The patient has to do it for 
himself at his suggestion.

   A great many cures have been
effected and a large number of
persons in the immediate vicintiy
could testify as to the help they
received.  But of course there
are also those who have not been
helped.
   There is one phase of the man's
work that appears unexplainable
and this is his apparent ability to
tell when and how and where 
some experience had taken place
in a patient's life.  There are
those who testify he could tell
them of long forgotten accidents
which were an indirect or direct
cause of their aliments.  This
borders on spititualism and is
beyond the scope of this article.
   Mr. Fullerton began his practice
some twenty-five years ago,
at his mdest home near here.
It came to him, so he claims, in a
dream.  The dream portrayed a 
large army of cripples, maimed,
halt, sickly persons coming to
him to be cured.  He ventured
out on that dream-suggestion
and began the treating of corn*.
The practice gradually developed
so that he had to seek other 
quarters.  About ten years ago he
came to Columbus Grove and has
been located in the same place in
partnership with Mr. Parker.
   Patients have come to them
from almost every corner of the
globe, from Europe, South America.
Northern Canada, Honolulu and
the Philippines.  On one day
he has had over eighty patients
but on the average about twenty.
They come to him for all kinds
of ailments and diseases and
where he cannot do the work he
calls in a local physician to his
aid.
   Mr. Fullerton is nearly seventy
five years of age.  He is known
to everybody in this community.
In his early manhood he used to
run a threshing outfit and many
times we used to watch his little
wheezy engine do the threshing
on father's farm.  He is exceedingly
modest in appearance, looks
more like an everyday laborer,
wears a slouch worn out hat, corduroy
pants and blue shirt.  His 
hair is scanty, his lips are set
firm and eyes are small drooping
and sunken.  He claims to title
for himself.  Dislikes to be called
doctor, is uneducated and never
makes any assumption to know
medicines, but believes in the
curative possibilities of herbs and
roots, and places a great deal of
importance on the influence of
mind over body.
   The decision of the court was
handed down Wednesday morning
and imposed a fine of $100
on Fullerton but acquitted Mr.
Parker.

***Note: a caption under one of the
pictures states "Pictures furnished
thru courtesty of Toledo News-Bee",
The article is dated Thursday,
February 23rd, 1922, in the Columbus
Grove Ohio paper.
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