The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-30
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations Upon Subject OF Vital :
terest 10 All.
His revelations Upon a Subject OF Vital


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 a 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 papeI nile
l~ounging in thel 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-
move 70 New YORK where he could md 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 maj of
news had last seen him. After some general
talk, the doctor fell into an easy train OF con
versation and uttered some truths 80 scien-
'19 oo " Justly lltAI EcIfO-
duction in print.
YES" said the doctor, Il have improved
In health since you last saw me and hope
also In many other ways. One thing, how
ever. lhave succeeded In doing, and il is one
OF the hardest things for any one, and es-
peciallyla physician, to do and that Is nave
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 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 for them-they are
certain to be crushed sooner or later. Why.
when 1 knew you In Detroit, l would nave
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 Dputating my hand. Now.
however. l prescribe and advise those
things which l believe to be sd apt to cure.
and which my experience has proven To be
SUCH"
"Thi is rather an unusual way for a ply
stefan to talk, is 1t not, DOCTOR"
Certainly 1t is: 1t is way outside OF our
code of ethics. bur / have grown far beyond
the code. 1 have all I 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
render me liable to expulsion from the med
ical fraternity. but l am supremacy indiG-
erent TO their laws"
Are the medical fraternity ofthe country
combined against proprietary medicines.
DOCTOR"
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 enforcement in order to keep the
doctors from obtaining a foothold
and eneroaching upon the alread, estab
lished practice ofthe older ones. This is
largely the reason why young physicians
have such n hard time of 1t; they are fet-
tered by the code. and ave only their per-
sonal influence to depend upon in securing
How did you come to get such heretical
ideas as these, doctef?'
"Oh, they are the result of my experience
observation. l obtained my first ideas
the subject. however, from having been
cured after all IL y care and the skill of my
professional brethren had failed to relieve
me. Why. / was SO badly off with "A compli-
cation of troubles, including dyspepsia. and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver,
that reared 1 should have TO give up my
practice. For more than a month l could
sit down or get up without the most in
tense agony, and ] was suffering all the
while. Some one advised me to go ont of
the regular channels and try n, remedy that
was becoming quite famous for the remarka-
BILE cures 1t was edecting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for thai. Howeyer
l did uietly BEGIN trying the remedy but
promise you 1 said nothing TO my Drotner
physicians. or even to my family about II.
Well sir, 1t was a revelation to me; for in ali
my medical experience / never saw ANYTHING
did, 1 owe my health t~o-day-and for aii
know, my life also-to the remedy known as
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. That
was the starting point with me, and my
preIudices faded very rapidly after that can
assure you. ! went 10 reading extensively
and analyzing more extensively, and I
suppose | analysed all the leading proprle-
tary medicines that are made. Many OF
them l found perfectly useless, being cor.-
Pounucu hiihpiy vi WditT with Il little fiStNOr-
Ing. A vast majority OF them all, however.
/ found made up from prescriptions used by
physicians in their every day practice; but
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
II them than they had. After discoS.
the medical fraternity be prejudiced against
those prescriptions which they are whiting
every day, simply because they are put up
by wholesale and are sold with agovernment
stamp on the wrapper: 1 saw Its manifest
absurdity and resolved that | would be bound
by 1t no longer. Since that time / have pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neurly every
day, in my practice, and l nave no reason to
regret having done so. Why, only a few DAYS
ago / advised a lady V no was suifering from,
u 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 are
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
oily of the remedies which nature has given
to mankind. 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-
or diseased pork. A vast majority OF all dis
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and its work is
thrown on the kidneys; they become over
worked and break down, and so the poison
gets into the blood instead of being thrown
nom thesystem. No one with perfect kid.
| neys and liver is ever troubled with malaria;
and 1t is the poisonous particles which these
that clog the capillaries o: the lungs and
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands ofchildren are dying every year from
dropsy as the sequel to scarletina, when in
| reality 1t is diseased kidneys which nave
become by the fever they nave
| Just had. Here is another strange thing: not
one in ten people who have diseased kidneys
| notice any pain in the vicinity of the kid
neys for these organs lose their nervous SEN
sibilities when they become diseased, and
the symptoms are shown In hundreds OF
other ways"
well, doctor, you Ihs.ve got some new
truths here, certainly but they sound very
reasonable to me-