Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-04-09
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Leaves Of the Tree were for the
Healing Of the Nations.

[Erom the Church Union.l
We have published the celebrated me0i-
cal advertisement of DR.. III. t. Helmbold. |
Previous to doing so, we have received q |
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,
mat can readily infer that when q sO-called
medical advertisement occupies a whole
mage in the Church Union, we mean some
thing by it. 1t is not our purpose to dodge
or lerpiversate, or wink ut any such thing.
We have no managing agent who snug
giles into one column what Is boldly con-
demned In another. The Gettysburg asy-
linn swindle came to us; we Judged not
by feeble sense, popular disfavOr, nor Con-
gressional action, but we examined for our
selves, and no money in the world could
buy one inch of the Church UniOn 10 cem-
mend It. Precisely the same course we
pursued toward Helmbolds buchu. We
had seen It eveTywhere; il haunted our
vision on rock, mountain, and cuFbstone;
in the cars, on steamboats,, and by the
wayside, we saw this Omnipresent specific
advertised. We never gave It . thought
never condemned It, never commended 1t;
did not rush in the face Of prejudlces, and
cry out duack quack We knew nothing
oft; had other, and, we thought, more
important subjects for contemplation, than
this wonderful medicine. SO, when 4
came up for our consideration, we deter
mined to investigate for ourselves. As We
do in theology, so do we in medicine
never ask, sEWhat does Dr. so and so thinl
or saw, Of surmise ?' If 1t is wrong, al
the world may espOuse, yet let OIr righ
hand forget its cunning, and our tongue
cleaye to the roof of our mouth, il VIZ
wayer one atom in our devotion. If itbt
right, not even the fact that host car
commend, and a fortune is being made out
of it, shall keep US from fidelity to it. Fol
there be many men so mean in this world
that they will never advocate 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
80 with DR. HelmbOldbecause he is making
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
empiricst, who tampers with disease, by
APPLYING medicines he knows nothing
about. Dr. Helmbold is an educated man;
he is frank in every respect; readily lays be-
fore YOU the ingredients or Vegetable COM
pounds OF his medicine. The very pro-
cesses of distillation are perfectly patent;
there is no dabolical decoction or com
pounding of elements that are vile, and OF
course, secret Everything is open and
above board; what be does he knows; you
cannot be in bis establishment three min
utes without seeing that he 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 diuretic known. 1t
is in strict accordance with the text at the
head ofthis article. 1t is but the leaf of
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 unprejudiced physician to test
its virtues and not yield to its superior
merit. There are other ingredients, as his
advertisement shows. And now having
good thing, devoted to it with an en-
thusiasm 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? The buchu is specific reme-
dy, and ought to go all over this world, if
it is what any scientific man can prove it
to be. Believing it to be blessing, we
have allowed it place, and shall do it again,
and for any and every good thing. As a
toad or a viper, we would shrink from err
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.