The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-09
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations UpOna subleci Of Vital :
ierest to All.
From the Detroit Free Press.


The experience OF any one of education
and learning extending over a long period OF
time must necessarily be valuable, and
while no two experiences In this world are
alike, there Is such q similarity between
them as to render one which Is rich in valu-
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 experience is OF the same nature as
that 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 find a
more extensive field for his talents and ex-
pertence. 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 him. After some general
talk. the doctor fell into an easy train OF con-
versation and uttered some truths SO scien-
tinc and valuable, as 10 justify their repro
duction In print.
-Yes.' said the doctor, Il have improved
in health since you last saw me and l hops
also in many other ways. One thing, how
ever. Ihave succeeded in doing, and IL Is one
OF the hardest things for any one, and es-
| peciallyla 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 10 bigotry OF
the worst order, and of precisely the same
nature as characterized the sixteenth century
when people were burned mt tie stake. Now
1 am a physici IN and OF the old school order,
too; but l have after years of experience and
observation come to the conclusion that
truth is the highest OF al things, and that II
prejudice or bigotry stand In the way of
truth-so much the worse Tor them-they are
certain to be crushed sooner or later. Why,
when 1 knew you in Detroit, 1 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 ola nputating my hand. Now.
however. 1 prescribe and advise those
things which l believe to be adapted 10 cure,
and which my experience has proven To be
such.nt
'Thisps rather an unusual way for a ply
siclan to talk, Is 1t not, doctor?'
Certainly It is: 1t is way outside OF our
code OF ethics, bur nave grown far hey ond
the code. have all / can attend to, and am
determined to be honest with my patients
and with mankind. whether my brother
physicians are with me or not. Why, 1 pre-
scribe medicines every day. some of them
so-called patent medicines, which would
ender me liable to expulsion from the med
I ical fraternity. but 1 am supremacy indln-
| erent to their laws"
Are the medical fraternity of 1.-THE country
combined against proprietary medicines,
DOCTOR"
Invariably. and II is sufficient ground for
expulsion from any medical society in the
land To prescribe any patent medicine what
ev er, no matter II 1t 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 aud insist
upon their enforcement In order 10 keep the
younger doctors from obtaining a foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, cstab.
lished practice ofthe older ones. This is
largely the reason why young physicians
have such a hard time OF it; they are fet-
tered by the code. and nave only their per-
sonal influence to depend upon in securing
practice"
"How did you come to get such heretical
ideas as these, DOCTOR"
"Oh, they are the result of my experience
and observation. 1 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 relieve
me. Why. l was so badly Off with n compli-
cation OF troubles, including dyspepsia, and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver,
tina 1 feared l should have TO give up my
practice. For more than a month 1 could
not sit dow or get up without the most in
tense agony. and ] was suffering all the
while. Some one advised me to go out of
the regular hannels and try a. remedy that
was becoming quite famous for the remarka-
BILE cures II was etieeting; but my prejudice
| / did uietly begin trying the remedy but /
promise you 1 SAID nothing 10 my brother
| Well sir, 1t was a revelation to me; for in ali
my medical experience l never saw anything
S Sfsn { ow sc m naPlS HEALTH 1r ~so-d saiec.1aiiy for as al saH /
know, my life also-to the remedy known as
Warmers Safe Kidney aud Liver Cure. That
prejudices aided very rapidly after that 1 can
assure you. l went to reading extensively
suppos I anais zed ali the ieading pranrie.
tary medicines that are made. Many OF
them found perfectly useless. being com
Ing. vast majority OF them all. however,
1 foundm made up from prescriptions used by
! DnyblCiuubl II lntlT etCTy uuy DTaCIlce. Dut
out of the entire number. / found only two
that contained absolutely harmful ingre-
dients, and then in very slight quantities.
Indeed we are prescribing things con
stantly that have more inJuriour matter
ering this ! said to myself: why should
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 a government
stamp on the wrapper. 1 saw It's manifest
absurdity and resolved that would be bound
1 hU IL M Ipn1Ar ~ Shat ftVnn Z ln.,,. -.
scribed proprietary remedies neurly every
day, in my practice, and l have no reason to
ago / advised a lady v ho was suffering from
n serious female difficulty and displacement
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure that
cured me. l saw her this morning and she
Is nearly well; the pain and inflammation aie
are all gone and she is around as usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity to sit
back and declare there is no Improvement
or advancement, or that we have "A monop-
oily of the remedies which nature has gwen
TO ankind There are great changes going
on in every department OF life and there are
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 cooked
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and Its work is
thrown on the kidneys; they become over
gets INTO the blood instead OF being thrown
nom thesystem. No one with perfect kid
and it is the poisonous particles which these
diseased organs allow to get into the blood
that clog the cnplllaries o: the lungs and
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands ofchlldren are dying every year from
dropsy as the sequel TO scarletina, when in
reality 1t Is diseased kidneys which have
become weakened by the fever they have
Just had. Here IL another strange thing: not
notice any pain In the vicinity of the kid.
neys for these organs lose their nervous sen
sibiIitIes when they become diseased, and
the symptoms are shown in hundreds OF
other ways"
We'll, aoc.or, y19 nsve got some new