The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-05
The Leaves of the free
WERE FOR THE
HEALING OF THE NATIONS.

We have published the celebrated medi-
advertisement of DR.. H. t. 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. It Is our custom to examine
everything thoroughly which we offer
through cur columns, aud TO refuse all
that we cannot commend. Now. as our
readers know we never do anything by
halves, they can readily infer that when
a so called medical advertisement occu-
pies a whole page in the Church Union, we
mean something by it. It is not our pur-
pose to dodge or tergfversate, or to wink
at any such thing. We have no managing
agent who smuggIes into one column what
is boldly condemned in another. The Get
tysburg Asylum swiadle came to us: we
judged not by feeble sense, popular dis
favor, nor by Congressional action, but we
examined for ourselves, and no money in
the world could buy one inch of the
Church Union to commend 1t. Precisely
the same course we pursued toward Helm
boid's Buchu. We had seen it everywhere;
it haunted Our vision on rock, mountain,
and curbstone; in the cars. on steamboats,,
and by the wayside, We saw this omn1-
presents specific advertised. W 9 never gave
it a thought-never condemned it, Eever
commended 1t; did not rush in the face Of
prejndices, and cry out Quack! quack!
We knew nothing or 1t; had other, and
we thought more Important. subjects for
contemplation than this wonderful medi-
cine. So when it came up for our consid-
Grafton, we determined to investigate for
ourselves. As we do in theology, so do we
in medicine-never ask. "Wnat does DR..
So-and-sol think, or say, or surmise?p II
it is wrong, all the world may espouse, yet
let our right hand forget its cunnlng, and
our tongue cleave to the roof OF our mouth,
If we waver one atom in our devotion. II
it be right, not even the fact that a host
commend, and a 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 a
good thing if anybody gets a good living
by it. We know OF men who won't hear
Henry Ward Beecher preach, because he
lives in a brown-stone 'front.', and manages
TO keep the wolf from the door, quite
easily. Just so with DR.. Helmbold; be
cause he is making a fortune by his enter
prise, we cannot bend ourselves to the
!, mean task of condemnation and whole
sale sIander. There is something about
the man you like at once. He is no quack
A quack is an empiricist, who tampers
with disease by applying remedies ht
knows nothing about. DR.. HeImboId 4
an educated man; he is frank In every
respect; readily lays before o the ingre
dients or Vegetable compounds Of III
med1cIne. The very processes of distilIa
ton are perfectly patent; there Is no dia
! bolical decoction or compromising of ele
!, ments that are vile. and, of course, secret
Everything is open and a~bove-board
what he does he knows; you cannot be IL
his establishment three minutes without
seeing that he is Q man who knows whar
he is about. All the world ma know tina
, the medicine he sells so largely all owe
, the world is the very best diuretic known
It is in strict accordance with the text a
the head of his article. 1t is but the lea
. of a shrub or tree, gathered by the wiki
Hottentots, and has been known TO
| many years. Many others have used ahC
} bear ample testimony to its usefulness
We dare any unprejudiced physician &c
D test its virtues and not yield to it's superior
merit. There are other ingredients. as his
advertisement shows. And now, having
) done a good thing, devoted to it with lt
enthusiasm which bespeaks honesty at
! once, what can We say, what need we say
The diseases treated are, some of them
peculiar and fearful; but did our Saviour
shrink from h loathsome Ieper, because
the world did? The Buchu is a SPECIFIC
remedy, and ought to go over All thil
world, If 1t is, what any scientific man car
prove 1t to be, a blessing. Believing it t.
be a blessing, we have allowed 1t place
and shall do II again. and for any and
every good thing. AS a toad or a viper
would we shrink from error or evil
whether of Church or State; but every
/ good thing we advoc ate. Let b insane
man who cries out quack at everything
medicinal, pause, reflect, and come to his
senses Quackery IS empirical, but such is
not the Buchu; nor of such is the enter
prisIng and enthusiastic man who Is
bound to succeed, because he wields right.
Success to the Bnchui Let the leaves oil
the tree be for the healing of the nations.
Church Unfon. March q, 1858. EDITORIAL.
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