The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-20
Rich Experience.
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations Upona Subject Of Vital Ia
teresi TO An.

tAttAuAhB OVER a long DcrlOd 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 OF
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 while
lonnging In the lobby OF a PROMINENT New
York hotel. met Q 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 10 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-
perlence. Although several years had passed
the DEBTORS 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-
tine and valuable. as to justify their repro
duction In print.
YES" said the doctor, Il have improved
- p u
In health since GU last saw me and / hone
also In many other ways. One thing. how
ever, Ihave succeeded in doing. and IL Is one
ofthe hardest things for any one, and es-
pecially.a 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 centu,y
when people were burned at Ii G stake. Now
l am a physici an and Of the old school order.
too; but l have after years OF experience and
observation come to the conclusion thai
truth Is the highest OF al things, and thai If
prejudice or bigotry stand in the way OF
truthSso much the worse for them-they are
certain 10 be crushed sooner or later. Why.
"hen 1 knew you in Detroit. / would have
no sooner thought OF violating the code of
ethics laid dow by the profession. or of pre-
scribing anything out OF the regular order.
than [ would OF II Iputating my hand. Now.
however. l prescribe and advise these
things which / believe TO be ac aptcd TO cure.
and which my experience has proven 10 be
such."
This is rather an unusual way for n ply
sician to talk, Is II not, doctor?r
Certainly II is: IL is way outside of our
code of ethics, bur l nave grown far beyond
the code. I have all can attend to, and am
to be honest with my patients
and with mankind, whether my brother
physicians are with me or not. Why, I pre-.
scribe medicines every day, some OF them
so-cailed patent medicines, which would
render me liable to expulsion from the med
ical fraternity. but l am supremacy indiu-
erent TO their laws"
Are the medical fraternity OF 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
ever, no matter If 1t Is made from an
exact formula, such as physicians
are using every day. You see the code is
established and ed by old physicians.
like myself. who make the rules aud insist
upon their enforcement in order TO keep he
younger doctors from obtaining a foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, estab
lshed 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-
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. l 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 of with a commit
cation of troubles. including dyspepsia. and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver
that 1 feared I should have 10 give up nv
practice. For more than a month I couId
not sit down 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 channels and try a remedy that
was becoming quite famous for the remarka.
BILE cures 1t was effecting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for thai. Howevor
i did uietly begin trying the remedy buf 4
promise you 1 said nothing 10 my brotner
Well sir, 1t was a revelation TO me: for in nil
my medical experience / never saw anvfhtng
operate so rapidly or so effectuaIly rs thai
did, l owe my health t~o-day-and for ali /
know, my life also-to the remedy known as
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. Thai
~preIudices faded very rapidly afier thai I c mS
assure you. / went to reading extensively
and anaiyzlng more extensively, and /
suppose l analyze all the leading proprie-
tary medicines that are made. MANY of
them l found perfectly useless, being COM
pounded simply OF water with a little flavor.
ing. A vast majority OF them all, however
l found made up nom prescriptions used bv
physicians In their every day practice; but
that contained absolutely harmful inere-
dients, and then in very slight quantities.
Indeed we are prescribing things con
ering this 1 said to myself why should
in them than they had. After discov
those prescriptions which they are within
every day, simply because they are put up
BY wholesale and are sold with government
IlnD ON Inc WTannar 0nw ~ H..
absurdity and resolved that l would be bound
by IT no longer. Since that time / have pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neBrly every
day, in my practice, and 1 have no reason Ia
regret having done SO. Why, only a few days
ago ! advised a lady v no was suffering from
a serions female difficulty and displacement
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure thar
cured me. / saw her this morning and she
Is nearly well; the pain and inflammation me
are all gone and she is around AS usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity TO sill
back nnd declare there Is no Improvement
or advancement, or that WI have q monop-
oily OF the remedies which nature has gwen
to mankind. There are greaI changes going
on In every department OF life and there are
great developments In medicine us well.
Thousands OF people die every year from
supposed typhoid fever, rheumatism or other
complaints. when in reality It is from trichi-
ma. and the result of eating poorly cooked
or diseaseo polk. A vast majority OF ali dis
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and Its work is
tworked and break down, and so the poison
gets Into the blood instead OF being thrown
from the system. No one with perfect kid.
neys and liver is ever troubled with malaria;
and 1t Is the poisonous particles which these
diseased organs allow to get into the blood
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands ofchildren are dying every year from
dropsy as the sequel to scarletina, when In
reality It Is diseased kidneys which have
become weakened by the fever they have
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 oil
other rays.
''Well, doctor, you hsve got soma new
truths here, certainly but they sound very
reasonable TO me-
"Well. whether tney are reasonable or not.
! have demonstrated to my own satisfaction
that they are true. ane l propose to stand by
them no matter how mich Oppaeitian I ,nax.