Plot

Robert Dane, a young physician, becomes engaged to Violet Hope, daughter of the governor, who approves her choice. Hope is passionately devoted to his child. Dane, despite his skill, loses a patient and the futility of his drugs in this case causes him to give consideration to a new and unrecognized no-drug method of treating disease. His investigations convince him of the merits of the method, and he begins to use it in his practice with success, entirely abandoning the practices of the recognized schools of medicine. In consequence, his license as a physician is canceled, and he is forbidden to practice, to do so without a license being a criminal act. Regarding Dane as a ruined man, Hope orders his daughter to break her engagement, and forbids Dane in the house. Soon after, Violet falls ill of a deadly malady, the same disease from which Dane's patient died, but which Dane has since demonstrated, yields readily to the new treatment. Violet is attended by the foremost physicians of the state, the committee which canceled Dane's license to practice, and their verdict is that she must die, that she will not live an hour after their consultation. Word of this reaches Dane and he grows frantic. He appeals to Violet's father for permission to try his new method, but is refused. Utterly reckless and determined to save the girl he loves, Dane resorts to violent means, and, preventing interference with his revolver, makes his way to the girl's room, forcing all except a nurse to leave. The aid of the police is procured and the closed door of the bedroom cautiously approached. It is at once opened upon a knock, and Dane steps out, smiling in his happiness to tell them that Violet will recover, and is now quietly sleeping. "When the dazed governor realizes what has occurred Dane is quickly released by the officers to whom he has surrendered. Two months later the press announces that, at the request of the Medical Committee of the Board of Health, the legislature has passed, and the governor has approved, a bill permitting the granting of physicians' licenses to adepts in the new art of treatment. Violet has the happiness of presenting to her sweetheart the first license under the new law.—Moving Picture World synopsis