Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-18
DIR. TANNER.


He Denies He Is Dead and Gives His
Views on the Doctors.
cleveland Cor. Sept. 49, Chicago Tribune.]
met by chance DR.. H. s. Tanner, the
faster, yesterday on the train. His corp
ulent and jolly form had not in the least
the appearance of faster. He fell read
ily into conversation. He was on his way
home from burying his father, who had
lived and died in Litchfeld, Medina
county, o., for nearly forty years.
"Tell the Tribune people" said the
doctor, ''that am not dead yet-that
the obituary which circulated the round
of the papers saying that fell down
stairs and broke my neck in Amsterdam
was premature. l am, as you see, hearty
and healthy, and expect to live for many
wears yet to demonstrate to the world that
many of the theories still held by the So
called medical world are perfectly ground
less and the worst of humbugs. There
were all kinds Of things said about what
would become of me, you remember,
when l should break my fast. One Of
the doctors said that l could not by any
possibility take more than the nourish-
ment that would be gained by licking
the mucilage on postage stamp. One
homeopathic doctor got it down fine
when he said that could only smell of a
piece of brown toast. What was the
surprise of all when took hold of every
thing that the summer market afforded?
I ate watermelons, and apples, and peach
es, and beefsteak, and anything and ev-
erything l could get"
sswHAT WAS THE SECRET OF YOUR SUCCESS,
doctor, in going through your wonderful
fast, and then rallying so soon from it's
depicting effects ?"
'Just simply that Tanner rules this
body [pointing to HIMSELF When Tan
ner says to this stomach, Now you rest,
remain perfectly quiet, it does SO by alb
solute subservience to will power. When
Tanner, after the rest has been carried
forward far enough, says, Now go TO
work, stomach, and do your work wen,'
lit again obeys the mandate, and performs
its functions IN perfect way. 1t is al
ways bad thing for any man to discover
that he has such thing as a stomach.
That organ should perform its functions
without any effort, and without any one
knowing that it is at work. That is the
case in the healthy condition. But when
it gets to going wrong, then it is that one
knows that there is such a thing as a
stomach. Any man who Will
KEEP HIS PASSIONS AND APPETITEs IN
Subsection
can have good stomach The trouble is
always, no one will do this. Every one
likes to let his appetites and passions run
away with him, and the first thing he
knows he is brokenFin health. So soon
as mans stomach is gone he is gone all
over There is most intimate cOnnec-
ton between the mind and the stomach.
When one is affected the other usually
is"
care you practicing medicine now?"
somewhat don't care for general
practice When l go to a place l can
find all desire to do in very few days.
Practice comes to me. | don't have to
wait and have it grow up around me by
the old process, as most physicians do. L
t intend to start a sanitarium on the shores
of Lake Chautauqua next season for the
treatment of special cases. The doctors
, are mostly down on me. | have done a
good deal to spoil their business. The
, thing that makes doctors in good demand
and well paid is the belief IN the curative
powers of medicine. Now any one who
knows is aware that there is very little
good in medicine. The best and oldest
physicians, when they get sick,
WILL TAKE NO MEDICINE.
, They have no faith in it. The whole
thing is in the recuperative power in
man. When that is broken man will
die. When there is any of it left he
will rally. 1t is very strange to me that
people can't understand this and cease to
b such faithful devotees at the shrine of
burnt toads and dried flies. Since have
taken this stand against the doctors l
have taken new name. l call myself
"Cureopathic' | am different from all
the others, and so take new name. The
trouble. is, people generally take too much
medicine and too much alcohol when they
are sick. What they need is to be prop
erly cared for and nursed, and perhaps
occasionally little medicine should be
given.