The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-31
HEALING or THE NATIONs.
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We have published the celebrated medical
advertisement OF DR.. II. T. Helmbold. Previous
10 doing so we have received moderate reward
In the usual way of payment, which we apply
present to our readers. 1t Is our custom to ex-
anime 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, they can
readily infer that when q so-called medical
advertisement occupies a whole page in the
is not our purpose to dodge or to terglversate,
or 20 wink at any such thing. We have no
managing agent who smuggles into one
column what is boldly condemned in another.
The Gettysburg Asylum swindle came TO us;
wejudged not by feeble sense, popular disfavor,
nor by Congressional action, but we examined
for ourselves, and no money in the world could
buy one inch of the "Church Union" to COM
mend 1t. Precisely the same course we pursued
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everywhere; it haunted our vision on rock
mountain, and curbstone; in the cars, on steam
boats, and by the wayside, we saw this omni-
present specific advertised. We never gave 1t
thought-never condemned 1t, never COM
mended II; did not rush In the face Of preju-
dices, and cry out quack quack! We knew
bad 9th
important subjects for contemplation than this
wonderful medicine. SO when it came up for
consideration we determined to investigate for
ourselves. AS we do in theology, so do we in
medicine-never ask, What does DIR. So-aud-
10 think or say or surmise 2" If 1t is wrong,
all the world may espouse yet let our right
hand forget its cunning, aud our tongue cleave
TO the roof OF our mouth, If we waver one atom
In our devotion If II be right, not even the
fact that q host commend and q fortune is
being made out of it, shall keep US from fidelity
to 1t. For there be many men so mean In this
world that they will never advocate @ good
thing If anybody gets good living by 1t.
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
Or. Helmbold; because he is making fortune
by his enterprise, we cannot bend ourselves to
the mean task Of condemnation and wholesale
slander. There Is something about the man
an em ssricist who tampers with disease by ap-
ply remedies he knows nothing about DR..
HeImbold is an educated man; he is frank In
every respect; readily lays before you the in
gradients or vegetable compounds of his medi-
cine. The very processes of distillstion are
perfectly patent; there is no diabolical decoc-
tion or compounding of elements that are vile
and, O! course, secret. Everything is open and
above board; what he does he knows; you can
not be in his establishment three minutes
without seeing that he is a man who knows
what he is about All the world may know
that the medicine he sells so largely all over
the world is the very best diuretc known. 1t
A In strict accordance Win the text at the
head OF this article. 1t is but the leaf OF shrub
Ttree, gathered by the wild Hottentots, and
has been known for many years. Many others
have used 1t, and bear ample testimony to It's
usefulness. We dare any unprejudiced physi-
clan 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 1t with an enthusiasm
which bespeaks honesty at once, what can we
sRy-what need we sNy2 The diseases treated
are, some Of them, peculiar and fearful but did
Our Saviour shrink from the loathsome leper
because the world did? The Buchu is q specific
remedy, and ought TO 60 over all this world, II
Is what any scientific man can prove it to be,
blessing Believing 1t to be blessing, we
have allowed 1t place. and shall do 1t again.
and for any and every good thing. AS a toad
or viper would we shrink from errer or evil,
whether of Church or State; but every good
thing we advocate. Let the insane man who
! cries out quack at everything medicinal, pause,
Meet. and come 10 his senses Quackery is
empirical, but such is not the Buchu; nor OF
Euoh is the enterprising and enthusiastic man
who is bound to succeed. because he Yields