Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-04
The Leaves OF the free were for the
Healing Of the Nations.

We have published the celebrated medi-
cal advertisement of DIR. III. Il. Helmbold.
Previous to doing so, we have received a
moderate reward in the usual way, of pay
ment, which we apply to all the wares,
wants and business cards we present to
our readers. 1t is our custom to examine
everything thoroughly which we offer
through our columns, and to refuse all that
we cannot commend. Now, as our readers
know, we never do anything by halves,
that can readily infer that when so-called
medical advertisement occupies whole
page in the Church Union, we mean some-
thing by it. 1t is not our purpose to dodge
or tergiversate, or wink at any such thing.
| We have no managing agent who SNUG
giles into one column what is boldly con-
demned in another. The Gettysburg asy-
| lum swindle came to US; we judged not
by feeble sense, popular disfayor, nor Con-
gressional action, but we examined for our
selves, and no money in the world could
buy one inch of the Church Union to COM
mend it. Precisely the same course we
pursued toward Helmbold's buchu We
had seen it everywhere; it haunted our
vision on rock, mountain, and cuTbstone;
| in the cars, on steamboats,, and by the
wayside, we saw this omnipresent specific
advertised. We never gave it thought
never condemned il, never commended it;
did not rush inth face of prejudices, and
cry out quack quack We knew nothing
fit; had other, and, we thought, more
important subjects for contemplation, than
| this wonderful medicine. So, when it
came up for our consideration, we deter
mined to investigate for ourselves. As We
do in theology so do we in medicine
never ask, "What does DIR. so and so think
/ - = Ill
the world may espOuse, yet let our right
hand forget its cunning, and our tongue
! cleave TO the roof of our mouth, if we
waver one atom in our devotion. If it be
| right, not even the fact that host can
! commend, and fortune is being made out
/ of it, shall keep us from fidelity to it. For
there be many men so mean in this world
that they will never advocate good thing
if anybody gets good living by it. We
| know of men who won't hear Henry Ward
| Beecher preach, because he lives in
brown stone front, and manages to keep
the wolf from the door quite easily. just
so with DR. Helmbold, because he is making
a fortune by his enterprise, we cannot
bend ourselves to the mean talk of con-
demnation and wholesale SANDER There
is something about the man you like at
once. He is no quack. A quack is an
empiIicst, who tampers with disease, by
APPLYING medicines he knows nothing
about. DIR. Helmbold is an educated man;
he is frank in every respect; readily lays be-
fore You the ingredients OF Vegetable COM
pounds of his medicine. The very pro-
cesses of distillalion are perfectly patent;
there is no diabolical decOctiOn or COM
pounding of elements that are vile, and OF
course, secret. Everything is open and
l., ~. xr-I,at ba NO Ennurg. VI
cannot be in his establishment three min
lutes without seeing that he knows what
he is about. All the world may know that
the medicine he sells so largely all over TIE
world, is the very best diuretic known. 1t
is in strict accordance with the text at the
head of this article. 1t is but the leafO a
shrub or tree, gathered by the wild Hot
tentOts, and has been known for many
years. Many others have used, and bear
ample testimony To its usefulness. We
dare any unpreiudiced physician to test
its virtues and not yield to its superior
merit. There are other ingredients, as his
advertisement shows. And now having a
good thing, devoted to il with an en-
ihusiasm which bespeaks honesty at once,
what can we say, what need we say. The
diseases treated are, some of them, pecu-
liar and fearful; but did our Savior shrink
from the lOathsome leper, because the
world did E? The buchu is a specific RENEE
dy, and ought to 90 all over this world, if
it is what any scientific man can prove IL
to be. Believing it to be blessing, we
have allowed il place, and shall do it again,
and for any and every good thing. As a
toad or a viper, we would shrine from er-
ror or evil, whether of Church or State;
but every good thing we advocate. Let
the insane man who cries out at every
thing medicinal, pause, reflect and come to
his senses. Quackery is empirical, but
such is not the buchu; nor of such is the
enterprising and enthusiastic man who is
bound to succeed, because he wields
right Success to the buchu. Let the
leaves of the tree be for the healing of the
nations.