Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
A RICH EXPERIENCE.
What a Prominent and Well known
New York Physician Told a
Reporter.
His Revelations Upon a Subject Of Vital
Interest to All.
Detroit Free Press. |

Detroit Free Press
| The experience of any one of education
| and learning extending over long period Of
time must necessarily be valuable, and while
| no two experiences in this world are alike,
there is such a similarity between them as to
render one which is rich in valuable facts OF
| benefit to all. Americas greatest orator de.
clared that he knew no way of judging the
future but by the past; and past personal
experience is of the same nature as that his
tory which repeats itself.
A representative of this paper while loung-
ing in the lobby of prominent New York
hotel. met a gentleman whom he had known
years before in the city of Detroit, but whom
he had not seen before in a number of years.
When the knight of the quill had last seen
this gentleman. he was giving his entire time
and attention to an extensive medical prac-
tice, and was oD the crest of the wave of pop
ularity. From Detroit be removed to New
York, where he could find more extensive
field for his talents and experience. Although
several years had passed, the doctors physi-
cal condition had evidently very much i'm
proved, for he was looking much berter than
when the man of news had last seen him.
After some general talk, the doctor fell into
some truths so scientific and valuable as to
justify their reproduction in print.
"Yes," said the doctor, 81 have improved
in health since you last saw me, and [ hope
ever, I have succeeded in doing, and it is one
of the hardest things for any one, especially
a doctor, to do, and that is, 1 have overcome
my prejudices. You know there are some
people who prefer to remain in the wrong
rather than acknowledge the manifest right.
Such prejudice leads to bigotry of the worst
order, and of precisely the same nature as
characterized the sixteenth century, when
people were burned at the stake. Now I am
physician of the old school order, too
but I have, after years of experience and OBJ
servation, come to the conclusion that truth
is the highest of all things, and that if preju-
dice or bigotry stand in the way of truth, so
much the worse for them-they are certain to
be crushed sooner or later. Why, when 1
knew you in Detroit would no sooner have
LuOugub VI SiOldtiuS tlc COuo OI egn1cS la1Q
down by the profession, or prescribing any
thing out of the regular order, than l would
of amputating my hand. Now, however, I
prescribe and advise those things which be.
lieve to be adapted to cure, and which my
experience has proven to be SUCH"
''This is rather an unusual way for ply
sician to talk, is it not, doctor ?"
"Certainly it is. 1t is way outside of our
code of ethics, but | have grown far beyond
the code. l have all can attend to, and am
determined to be honest with my patients
aud mankind, whether my brother physicians
are with me or not. Why, / prescribe medi-
cines every day, some Of them so.called
patent medicines, which would render me
liable to expulsion from the medical fra
ternity, but l am supremely Indifferent to
their laws"
"Are the medical fraternity of the country
combined against proprietary medicines, doc
tors
"Invariably and it is sufficient ground for
expulsion from any medical society in the
land to prescribe any patent medicine what
ever, no matter if it is made from an exact
formula, such as physicians are using every
day. You see the code is established and
sustained by old physicians like myself, who
make the rules and insist upon their enforce
ment in order to keep the younger doctors
from obtaining foothold and encroaching
upon the already established practice of the
older ones. This is largely the reason why
Young physicians have such hard time of
it; they are fettered by the code, and have
only their personal influence to depend upon
in securing practice"
How did you come to get such heretical
ideas as these, doctor %
and observation. l obtained my first ideas
upon the subject, however, from having been
cured after all my care and skill of my pro-
fessional brethren had failed to relieve me.
Why, l was SO badly off with complication
of troubles, including dyspepsia, and conse-
quently imperfect kidneys and liver, that /
feared l should have to give up my practice.
For mora than month l could not sit down
or get up without the most intense agony,
and I was suffering all the while. Some one
advised me to go out of the regular channels
and try remedy that was becoming quite
famous for the remarkable cures it was effect
ing /; but my prejudice was altogether too
strong for that However, l did quietly begin
trying the remedy, but | promise you | said
nothing to my brother physicians, OF even
to my family about it.. Well, sir, it was
revelation to me for in all my medical ex-
psrience 1 never saw anything operate so
rapidly or so effectually as that did. / owe
| my health to-day, and for all know, nv life
| alSO-LO TtiDtuJ kuUHu do w dTler SaI6
| Kidney and Liver Cure. That was the
starting point with me, and my prejudices
| faded very rapidly after that, can assure
| you. l went to reading extensively, and an.
alyzing more extensively, and 1 suppose I
analyzed all the leading proprietary medi-
cines that are made. Many of them I found
perfectly useless, being compounded simply
OF water with little favoring. A vast ma
| jority of them all, however, l found made up
of prescriptions used by physicians in their
everyday practice but out of the entire num-
| Der | found only two that contained abso-
lutely harmful ingredients, and then in very
slight quantities. Indeed, we are prescribing
things constantly that have more deleterious
matter in than they had. After discovering
this said to myself, Why should the medi-
cal fraternity be prejudiced against those
prescriptions which they are writing every
| day, simply because they are put up by whole
| sale and are sold with Government stamp
on the wrapper? l saw its manifest absurd
ity and resolved that l would be bound by it
ne longer. Since that time l have pre-.
scribed proprietary remedies nearly every
day, in my practice, and l have no reason to
regret having done so. Why, only few
DAYS ago / advised lady who was suffering
| from serious female difficulty and displace-
ment to use this same Safe Kidney and Liver
| Cure which cured me. l saw her this morn
ing and she is nearly well; the pain and in
fammation are all gone, and she is around as
usual. We have no right in the medical fra
terniiy to sit back and declare there is no
such thing as improvement or advancement,
or that we have monopoly of the remedies
which nature has given to mankind. There
are great changes going on in every depart
ment of life, and there are great develop
ments in medicine as well. Thousands of
| neonle die every wear from srpDosed tvnhoid
fever, rheumatism or other complaints, when
in reality it is from trichina, and the result
of eating poorly-cooked and diseased pork. A
vast majority of all diseases arise from i'm
perfect kidneys or liver. The liver becomes
clogged, and its work is thrown upon the