The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-28
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations Upona Subject Of Vital :
teresi to All.
HI. Revelations Upon a Subject Of Vital

able facts Of benefit to all. Americas great
est orator declared that he knew OF no way
Judging the future but by the past: and past
personal experiences is of the same NATURE as
hal history which repeats itself.
A representative of this paper lille
lounging In the lobby OF a 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 for a num-
Der 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 practice. and was on the crest of the
wave of popularity. From Detroit he re-
moved to New YORK where he could ind a
more extensive field for his talents and ex-
perience. Although several years had passed
the doctors physical condition had evident-
ly been very much improved. for he was
looking much better than when the man OF
news had last seen hin. After some general
talk. the doctor fell into an easy train OF con-
versation and uttered some truths 80 scien-
tinc and valuable, as to justify their repro
duction In print.
yes" said the doctor. II nave improved
In health since you last saw me and l hope
also In many other ways. One thing, how
ever. Ihave succeeded in doing, and 1t is one
OF the hardest things for any one, and es-
pecialiyla physician. to do and that Is have
overcome my ~prejudices. You know there
are some people who prefer to remain on the
wrong rather than acknowledge the mani
fest 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
1 am a physici an and Of the old school order.
too; but 1 have after years OF experience and
observation come to the conclusion that
truth is the highest of al things, and that IL
prejudice or bigotry stand in the way of
truth0so much the worse for them-they are
certain TO be crushed sooner or later. Why,
when / knew you in Detroit. would have
no sooner thought OF violating the code OF
ethics laid down by the profession, or OF pre-
scribing anything out of the regular order.
than [ would offs nputating my hand. Now,
however,. 1 prescribe and advise those
things which l believe TO be adapted TO cure.
and which my experience has proven to be
SUCH"
This is rather an unusual way for a ply
sician to talk, is 1t not. DOCTOR"
Certainly 1t is: 1t Is way outside OF our
code ofethics. bur l have grown far beyond
tho code. have all l can attend to, and am
determined to be honest with my patients
and with mankind, whether my brother
physictans are with me or not. Why. L pre-.
scribe medicines every day, some of them
so-called patent medicines, which would
render me liable to expulsion from the med
icai fraternity. but 1 am supremely indin-
erent TO their laws"
Are the medical fraternity Of the country
combined against proprietary medicines,
doctorf"
Invariably. and 1t is sufficient ground for
expulsion from any medical society in the
land TO prescribe any patent medicine what
ever, no matter II it Is made from an
exnct formula, such as physicians
are using every day. You see the code ia
established and sustained by old physicians.
like myself. who make the rules and insist
upon their enforcement in order to keep the
younger doctors from obtaining n foothold
and eneroaching upon the alread, estab,
lished practice ofthe older ones. This Is
largely the reason why young physicians
have such a hard time OF 1t; they are fet-
tered by the code. and have only their per-
n influence to depend upon In securing
practice"
How did you come to get such hereticai
ideas as these, DOCTOR"
"oh. they are the result OF my experience
and observation. / obtained my first ideas
upon the subject. however, from having been
cured after all my care and the skill of my
professional brethren had failed to ~reIiove
me. Why. / was SO badly Off with a compli-
cation of troubles. Including dyspepsia. and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver.
that l feared l hould have 10 give I'M NV
practice. For more than a month I could
not sit down or get up without the most in
tense agony. and ] was suffering all the
while. Some one advised me to 20 out of
N kUnln oh N ~ \ nrl So
was becoming quite famous for the remarka-
BILE cures 1t was effecting; but my preIudice
was altogether too strong for that. However.
l DID uietly begin trying the remedy but /
promise you 1 said nothing 10 my brother
physicians. or even to my family about ii.
Well sir, 1t was a revelation to me; FOR in ali
my medical experience l never saw anvthino
operate SO rapidly or SO effectually MS thai
did. " my health t~o-day-and for all i
Warner'sSa Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. Tbat
was the starting point with me, and INV
preJudices faded very rapidly after that / can
and analyzfng more extensively. and /
suppose / analy zed all the leading proprie-
tary medicines that are made. Many OF
them l found perfectly useless. being com.
pounded imply OF water with a little flavor
ing. vast majority OF them all, however,
physicians in their every day practice. hit
out OF the entire number. l found oniy two
that contained absolutely harmful ingre-
Indeed we are prescribing things con.
SANITY that have more inJuriour matter
in them than they had. After discoy.
the medical fraternity be preJudiced against
those prescriptions which they are writing
every Day, simply because they are put up
by wholesale and are sold with d government
stamp on the wrapper. l saw It's manifest
aDsurdity and resolved that would be bound
by It no longer. Since that time l have pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neurly every
day, In my. practice, and l nave no reason Ia
regret having done SO. Why, only a few days
ago ! advised a lady " ho was suffering from
a sefious female difficulty and displacement
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure thai
cured me. I.saw her this morning and she
Is nearly well. the pain and are
are all gone and she is around as usual. We
rave no right In the medical fraternity to SIT
or advancement. or that we have a monop-
oily OF the remedies which nature has given
on in every department Of life and there AR
great developments In medicine as well
Thousands OF people die every year from
supposed typhoid fever, rheumatism or other
complaints, when in reality 1t is from trichi
ma, and the result of eating poorly cooke
or diseased pork. A vast majority OF ali dis
eases arise rom imperfect kidneys and liver
thrown on the kidneys; Trey become over
worked and break down, and so the poisor
rom hesystem. No one with Perfect KID
neys and liver is ever troubled with malaria
and 1t is the poisonous particles which thes,
that clog the capillaries o. tho lungs AMI
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands ofchildren are dying every year iron
dropsy as the sequel to scarletina, when IL
reality II fs diseased kidneys which hav,
become weakened by the fever they hay,
Just had. Here is another strange hing: no
one In ten people who have diseased kidney
notice any pain in The vicinity of the Kid
neys for these organs lose their nervous sen
sibilities when they become diseased, AM
the symptoms ARE shown In hundreds 0
other ways
"Well, doctor, you hsve got some new
truths here, certainly but they sound yer,
reasonable TO me-
"Well. whether tney are reasonable or not
have demonstrated to my own satisfaction
that they are true, ane ! propose to stand b,
them no matter how much opposition / ma,
raise by doing so. Any man, be he politi