Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1871-04-19

VI NOOuph AhhhSAAS"
generations lived in villages
and towns, where physicians
were plenty and near at hand.
Now, the people are widely
scattered, in many sections OF
these many countries. For
great numbers the timely treat.
ment of physicians cannot be
had; over large tracts of coun--
try good and competent physi.
clans cannot be had at ALL
They cannot visit patients
enough many miles apart to
live by their profession, nor
can they carry medicines with
them on horse back for all
their requirements. Hence
has risen in these modern times,
a necessity for remedies ready
at hand, with directions for
their use--a present recourse
for relief in the exigences Of
sickness, when no other help is
near. 1t is a new necessity
conseouent upon the changed
conditions of human life-a
want l have spent my years in
supplying, and | will tell you
something of its extent. Our
labratory makes every day
some 100000 potions or doses
of our preparations. These
are all taken by somebody
Here is a number equal to the
population of fifteen cities as
large as Lowell, taking them
every day (for sickness keeps
no sabbaths) nor for once only,
but again and again year after
year, through nearly one.third
of a century: We all join in
jokes about medicines as we
do about the Doctors mission
to kill, the clergyman's insin.
cerity and the lawyers cheat.
ing. Yet each Of these laborS
among the most serious reali-
ties of life. Sickness and its
attendant suffering are no joke,
neither is the treatment of then,
This system of transportable
relief, to be made available to
the people, must keep its rene
dies fresh in their memories
This is done by Advertising
Mark its extent. An advertise.
ment, taking the run OF the
newspapers with which we con.
tract (some 1900 annually is
struck off in such numbers,
that when piled upon each 9th.
fiat-wise like the leaves of a
book, the thickness through
them is sixteen miles. In ad-
dition, it takes some seven
million of pamphlets and
twelve million circulars to meet
the public demand for this
kind of information. Our an.
nual issue of pamphlets alone,
laid solid upon each other,
make a pile eight and and one
quarter miles high. The circu-
lars measured endwise reach
1894 miles, and these assertions
are matters Of mathematical
certainty.
Whatever the estimation in
which these publications may
be held here, they reach the
firesides of millions upon mil
lions of men who do treasure
and regard them, who in their
trials do heed the counsel they
bring. ..
Not only over these great
Western continents but also
throughout that other land so
little known to you, under our
feet, the Australian continent,
there are few villages as large
as this which are not familiar
with the name you have chosen,
and mploying the remedies
that bear it.
Thus, gentlemen, have /
striven In my humble sphere to
render my service to my fellow
men, and to deserve among the
afflicted and unfortunate some
regard for the name which
your kind partiality hangs on
these walls around me. We
may look forward with conf
dent hope to the renown you
will gather under it, and the
prosperity, which there is rea.
son to trust the future has in
store for YOU. Situated as YOU