Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-02

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THE On San EhAN-
CISCO ATl nm .NAleKsS Ap-
DUsaoPAR1NDE, ANiA10RtA
PRINCRLY FEB.
SAN FRANc1soo, July /, 1870.
Na,isaansips aeL1s0e4t,s,
San Franaico 81 BEEN particularly
fortunate for soue nan IN being
blessed with Q succession Of medical
luminaries, who4nvtantaneously hash
into brilliancy By psrsi:tent adyerts-
ing. fatten tpr oitcn ~
purses Of the chronic dck, and then
retire into the .obscurity Of private
life, with a first LOTTERY prize banking
account. These medical meteors have
not been conAn11std ahyShstionality
or to any particular branch Of the Gu
rative art. Cinnamon and Irishmen,
Russians and Poles Englishmen and
Americans, Christian, Infidel and Jew,
meet on a commS1 ground for 9 COM
mon purpose, edch kone working the
inexhaustible minei of public credulity
with a persistenoe that seems to be the
chief virtue of humbug. The panaceas
of these Esculapiap wolves are as va
rious as their htt4nlAce, and, include
all things In earth, air and water, AMI
NAL, vegetable OF, mineral. Ii Pc
Tai's pharmacopta sconzists Of spotted
snake ten, centipede decoction, effu-
sions of horned toad, and similar pre-
.farations of juicy reptiles. Josselyn,
Of abortion fame, cures all Ills with an
electric machine. Louis Jacob Jordan,
alias Kahn, proprietor Of the London,
New York and San rancisco Anatom-
fcal Museums, doses his patients with
colored soap-suds, sweetened: Bentol.
magnetizes disease. The Indian Herb
Doctor, who, like Wilkie Collins he
roine, has "no name," restores health
to the sick by preparations Of herbs
culled from the fields and forests, "
otherwise, Epson salts, ~variously dis
guised. u-~
The Indian Herb Doctor.
This last worthy Is a~tcpresent the
Upright particular sta" Of the medi-
cal armament, and his office Is crowd
ed from morning till night with search
+ after Gods great gift Of health.
He dawned upon society with a mild
effulgence some few weeks ago as a
pimple-banisher, his glories being
Somewhat obscured by the setting "a
dlence Of the King Of Pain. When
that monarch of medicine took unto
himself the wings Of the locomotive,
and flew to the uttermost part OF Ne
vada, Tupperish odes announced the
rising Of the new luminary, quickly
followed by the usual testimonials OF
cured consumptives and renovated
dyspeptics, with special certificates
from the proprietor Of the sore leg OF
fifteen years standing. Having no
opposition to contend against, his sue
cess as a m~oney-maker has been won
derful, a perfect stream of coin flowing
into his Golfers from the rising Of the
sun to the going down thereof. But 1t
Is the fate Of all great men to have en-
emies. Even Moses was called q quack
by some Of the unbelieyers when he
held up the serpent and told the az
flioted to look and be healed, and our
Indian Herb Doctor must have been
more than mortal If he expected to es-
cape calumny. So, 1t Is whispered on
the streets and rumored at the police
Office that many complaints have been
made by impatient patients because he
obtained their money without any re-
sulting benefit, and the dispenser OF
Indian drugs Is more than likely to
come to grief.n Y
A Blew II Quackery.
The newly created Board Of Health
has struck a blow at quackery that
will be severely felt by some physi-
clans of supposed responsibility, by
recurring every certificate Of death to
state at what college the attendant
medico graduated, II Is almost a pity
that this resolution was passed, rs l
was preparing an article on the Gu
riosities of Death" and am not likely
to meet with any more such gems as
"Died from q rupture of the head
and "~Suffocated by eating poison"
both of which are on file In the Coro-
ner's office.
Advertising the Means Of Success.
That Californians are more credulous
than the rest Of mankind 10 M can
for a moment imagine, so that there
must be some other reason for the sue
cess that attends the career Of quack-
cry. We have more newspapers, and
newspapers are more read, In proper
ton to population, than any other
State In the Union /; and persistent and
judiclous advertising must consequent
ly bring these neutrality-suspicious. into
the field of every mans observation.
Advertising Is the sole secret Of sue
cess, and these quacks make their for
tunes solely through printers ink!
what They Pay fer Advertisements,
Alfred James WEIGH, formerly a
saloon-keeper In Victoria, Afterwards
proprietor Of the Willows, in this city,
developed as q speciality doctor some
two years ago. The first four months
he spent $4,000 IN advertisements, and
at the end of a twelvemonth his profits
amounted to nearly $4,000. The
King of Pain gave an order to an ad-
vertlsing agency, on his arrival here,
to insert column advertisements In all
the city papers, which brought him
into instant notoriety. On several oc-
casions he had page advertisements,
and he says that the effect was per-
ceptible almost Immediately. Gibbon.
Hall and Josselyn, three Of II most
prominent Especially" men, spend
from $500 to $l,400 dollars per month
in making their "institutions" known,
and s. P. f. Beck, who has just taken
hold Of Jordap's practice, entered the
field last week with a determination
to dlsburse $500 per month. Holloway,
In England; Humboldt, Bristol and
Aver, In the Eastern States; Czapkay
and Welch, In California, are exam
Piles Of what can be done by PATRON
tzlng tho printer; to which list may
L. 3IaJ II. Lh~w. az nraoank In fhto