The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-07
Neutrality-suspicious. MUIR
DERERS.
Warranted tO Cure.

| CtAGS. AB0 IHVSuEGTS Ot luCh
name find market for millions O
packages, boxes and bottles of tn
drastic horror which it misrepre
sents. The retail dealers of it built
palaces of drug stores, and draV
princely fortunes therefrSm. Ofth,
tens of thousands who die every
year, poisoned cut OF life by paten
medicines, humbugs and quack doc
tors, no record is kept--On earth
A majority OF persons who enjoy
more than average good health, af
ter reading lying advertisements o.
quack doctors, patent medicine al
manacs, which are scattered broad
cast over the country, imagine them
selves sick from described symp-
toms Of fatal diseases. straightway
bolt for the nearest drug store. or
cross goods store, and purchase come
of the vilIainous poison. and surely
make themselves sick. Or if there
should be quack doctor in reach
whose miraculous cures and special
compounds have been extensively
advertised, on the very rocks. trees
and fences, together with circulars
and the public prints, bis Office will
be crowded and his purse filed by
poor deluded humanity. If there
be in the wsrld any wages of sin,
surely the fortunes of these lying
poisoners are the savings thereof.
The simple truth is. if there were
not hungry market for these wares,
there would not be an ever increas-
ing supply, We may as we'll admit
that the majority Of human beings
are as they think. seriously damaged
in respect to their bodies, and that
they will patronize travelling thinkers,
and buy all sorts of absurd cements,
30 long as they retain an ignorant
nope to patch up their rickety ma
;hiuery for a little further useful
less. Quacks are ostensibly cheap
,r than skilled doe.ors. Witches
oroth. warranted TO cure all haman
lis, at a dollar a bottle, is cheaper
ven than quscks' attentions. An
'ther thing, certain diseases attaches
hame, which makes the sufferer an
,ious to cure himself secretly. UR-
il people are taught that it is death,
hame and disgrace to patronize
uch venders and pretenders, they
7ill grow rich, build churches. say
ong prayers, and thank God that
hey are not as other men.
There is a system of medicine that
as been acknowledged by the civil
sed world since, and even before,
be beginning Of the Christian era
ighteen hundred years agol The
anne theory taught by the old phi.
Pythagoras, Empedocles
nd Democritus, together with Gel
US. Hipporcates and many others Of
lat age, is still recognized as the
asis of the present reputable prac-
ice of medicines. During all this
,ng period of time, some ef the
nest scholars the world has pro-
uced, have been engaged in inyes.
eating the workings of the human
ystem, together with unraveling the
idden mysteries of the mineral and
egetable kingdom. Then why
hould people patrosize patent med
,ine makers and qnack doctors?
o what purpose are our schools Of
lstruction, our special hospitals,
ur regularly appointed lectures, our
examinations. aud our
.rict code Of ethics, il the followers
f these regulations are to be classed
ith the vulgar advertisers, quacks
nd greedy adyenturers? We appeal
} every thinking individual, should
uch state of things be encouraged?
hey do encourage these nefarious
ractices when they patronize man
ho has TO trumpet his own praise
! [ ublic prints, circnlars, or any
Iode resorted to by the class
amed, We appeal to the press and
, the thinking class of people to
lscourage that which is dishonest,
,r if any book or advertisement
ates an untFuth it is dishonest to
rOmuEgate the statement,
If there is anythiug more precious
Dove all worldly possessions, that
ling is health, and as we are re-
lted TO be q reasonably prudent
eople, looking pretty sharply after
I our interests, 1t seems incredible
lat We take almost no precautions
all for the protection OF this, our
est precious and most easily i'm.
eriled treasure. And Jet such is
10 fact. In some Of the States
ere are laws more or less worth.
IS. nominally intended to prevent
persons from imposing
j the public with false pretensions
medical and surgical skill. In
hers there are no laws at all upon