The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-27
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
Mis- Revelations upoaa Subject Of Vital
teresi 10 All.

Mis- Revelations upona Subject Of Vital
teresi 10 All.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The experience of any one Of education
and learning extending over q long period OF
time must necessarily be valuable. and
while no two experiences In this world are
alike, there Is such . similarity between
them As 20 render one which Is rich In valn-
able facts of benefit 70 all. Americas great
.st orator declared that he knew OF no way
Judging the future but by the past; and past
personal experience is OF the same natuie As
that history which repeats itself.
representative of this paper nile
lounging In the lobby OF u prominent New
York hotel, met a gentleman whom be 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 quin
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 4
more extensive hsld for his talents and ex-
perience. Although several years had passed
the doctors physical condition had evident
Is been very much improved. for he was
| looking much better than when the man OF
| news had last seen him. Alter some general
! talk, .he doctor fell into an easy train OF OOH
versation and uttered some truths so scfen-
| tinc and valuable. rs 10 Justify their repro
Iduction In print
..Yes.s said the doctor, Il have improved
In health since , on last saw me and 1 hope
also IN many other ways Ono Thing. how
ever. have succeeded 10 doing. and It Is one
g the hardest things for any ono. and es-
| pecially a physician. TO do and that Isl have
overcome my prejudioes- You know there
are some people who prefer 10 reEain on the
wrong raj her than acknowledge the mani
| feat right. such prejudice leaas to bigotry OF
| the WORT order. AID II precisely the same
| nature as characterized the sixteenth century
| When people were burned at tle stake. Now
| 1 am u physici IN and OF the old school order,
too; but l nave alter years OF experience and
| observation come 10 the conclusion that
| truth IL 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 10 be crushed sooner Or Inter Why.
when l knew you In Detroit. l would have
no sooner thought OF violating the code Of
ethics laid down by the profession, or OF pre-
scrlbing anything out OF the regular order.
than [ would of a .putating my hand. Now.
however. 1 prescribe and aavise those
things which l bell, 70 TO be acnpted TO cure.
and which my experience has proven la be
such"
This is rather nm unusual way for n ply
sicIan to talk. isit not. doctor"
"Certaiuly IL Is; It Is way outside Of our
code of ethics. buI l have grown far be, one
tho code. have al l can stieni W. and am
determined To be Lons.t wth ny patents
aud with mankind, whether my brother
phy1icians are with me or not. Why. I 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 supremacy indiff-
erent 10 their laws"
"Are the medical fraternity OF the country
combined against proprietary medicines.
DOCTOR"
..Invariably, and It il sufficient ground for
expulsion nom any medical society In the
land to prescribe any patent medicine what
evsr, no matter II 1t Ia made from an
exact formula, such a. physicians
are using evsry day. You see the code is
established and sustained by old physicians.
like myself, who mako the rules aud insist
upon their enforcement in order 10 keep the
younger doctors from obtaining a foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, estab
lished practice ofthe older ones. This Is
largely the reason why young physicians
have such a hard time Of 1t; tney are fet-
teredb by the code and have only their per-
sonal~ influence to depend upon in securing
practice"
allow did you come to get such herstisal
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. I was SO badly or with q compli-
cation of troubles. including dyspepsia, and
consequently Imperfect kidneys and liver.
that feared / should have 10 give up r1y
practice. For more than y 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 70 60 out of
the regular channelsa and try o remedy that
was becoming quite famous for the remarka-
bic cures 1t was e~necting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for that However,
1 did uietly bek in trying the remedy but 1
promise you'll SAID nothing TO my orotner
physicians. or oven to my family about II.
w ell sir, IL WAS O revelation to mt; for In all
my medical experiences l never snw anything
operate 80 rapidly or SO efectually aa that
did 1 owe my health ~to-day-and Tor all l
know. my life also-tot the remedy known as
was The starting point with me, and my
preiudices iaded very rapidly after that 1 eau
a arsi's sSS sI; eI more re- estensiyeiS' and
suppose l nnaiy zed all the leading propric-
tary medicines that are made. Many oil
them 1 found perfectly useless. being COM
pounded simply Of wafer with u little flavor |
ing. Ava,t majority OF them all, however,
l found made up nom prescriptions used by |
physicians in their every day practice; but
out OF the entire number. l found oniy two
that contained absolutely hal mful ingre-
dients, and then In very slight Quantities.
Indeed wc are prescribing things con
ering this 1 said to myself: why should |
In them THAI they had. After discov |
the medical fraternity be preJudiced against
those prescriptions which they are writinL |
by Wholesale and are sold with n government
stamp on the rappe l saw its manifest
absurdity and resolved that would be bound
by It no longer. SINCE that time l have pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neprly every
day, in my practice, and 1 have no reason To
regret having done SO. Why, only a few days
o .erious female difficulty and displacement
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure that |
cured me. / saw her this morning aud she
are ali gone and she is around a. usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity TO sit |
back and declare there Is no Improvement
oily or the remedies which nature has gwen |
to There are great changes going
on IL every department OF life and there are
great DEVELOPING nts 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-
M, aud the result OF eating poorly cooked
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and Its work IL
thrown on the kidneys; tboy become over
gets Into the blood Instead Of being thrown
from thesystem- No one with perfect kid
| neys aud liver 10 over troubled with malaria;
| and II il the poisonous Particles which theke
l Il. or~ur m u1IAxU Ia rat infn fhA hlnraI