The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-22
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations upona subject Of Vital


tefcSt 10 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 a similarity between
them as to render one which is rich in vaiu-
able facts OF benefit 10 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 natuiU as
that history which repeaas 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 ind 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 tho man OF
news had last seen him. Alter some general
talk. the doctor fell into IN easy train OF con-
versation and uttered some truths so scien-
tinc and valuable. as to justify their repro
duction In print.
YES" said the doctor. Il have improved
in health since , GU last saw me and 1 nope
also in many other ways. One thing. how
ever. Ihave succeeded in doing. and 1t is one
OF the hardest things for any one, and es-
pecially a 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 ieads to bigotry Of
the worst order, and of precisely the same
nature as characterized the sixteenth century
when people were burned at tine stake. Now
1 am n ply sici an and OF the old school order,
too. but l have after years OF experience and
observation come 70 the conclusion that
truth is the highest OF al things, and that If
prejudice or bigotry stand in the way of
truthSso much the worse Tor them-they are
certain TO be crushed sooner or later. Why,
when 1 knew you in Detroit. / 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 1 believe to be soapted TO cure,
and which my experience has proven 10 be
such"
"rhis.is rather an unusual way for a ply
sician to talk is 1t not. doctor?'
Certainly 1t is: 1t is way outside OF our
code of ethics, bur have 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, I pre-
scribe medicines every day. some OF them
so-called patent medicines, which would
ender me liable to expulsion from the med
ical fraternity. but 1 am supremacy indin-
erent to their laws"
"Are the medical fraternity ofthe country
combined against proprietary medicines,
DOCTOR"
Invariably. and 1t is sufficient ground for
expulsion from any medical society in the
land to prescribe any patent medicine what
ever, no matter II it is made from au
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
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 q 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 hereticai
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 skin OF my
professional brethren had failed to relieve
me-. Why. l was SO badly of with n compli-
cation OF troubles, including dyspepsia, and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver,
that / feared 1 should have 10 give up my
practice. For more than a month / could
not sit down or get up without the most in
tense agony, and ] was suffering all the
while. some one advised me 10 go out or
the regular channels and try n. remedy that
was becoming quite famous for the remarkn-
bic cures IL WAS effecting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for that. However,
1 did uietiy bek In trying the remedy but 1
promise you 1 said nothing 10 my Drotner
physicians. or even to my family about 1t.
Well sir, IL was n revelation to me; for In ali
my medical experience 1 never saw anything
operate SO rapidly or SO efiectuaiiy as that
know, my life also-to the remedy known as
Warmers Safe Kidney aud Liver Cure. That
was tho starting point with me, and my
~preiudices faded very rapidly after tina. 1 can
assure you. l went to reading extensively
and analyzing more extensively, and /
suppose analysed all the leading proprie-
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pounded simply OF water with a little flavor.
ing. A vast majority OF them all, however,
1 found made up from prescriptions used by
physicians In their every day practice; but
out of the entire number. l found only two
that contained absolutely hai mful lngre-
dents, and then in very slight quantities..
Indeed we are prescribing things con
ering this l said to myself: why should
in them than they had. After discoy
the medical fraternity be ~prejudlced against
those prescriptions which they are writing
by wholesale and are sold with a government
stamp on the wrapper. / saw Its manifest
absurdity and resolved thatI would be bound
by II no longer. Since that time / have pre-
day., in my practice, and l have no reason to
regret having done so. Why, only q few days
ago l advised u lady y no was suffering from
a erious femaled difficulty and displacement
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure that
cured me. l saw her this morning and she
Is nearly WE'LL; the pain and inflammation are
are all gone and she Is around as usual. We
have no right in the medical maternity TO sit
back and declare there Is no Improvement
or advancement, or that we have n monop-
oily of the remedies which nature has given
10 There are great changes going
on In every department oil life and there are
great developments In medicine as well.
Thousands OF people die every year from
opposed typhoid fever, rheumatism or other
complaints, when In reality IL Is from trichi-
ma. aud the result of eating poorly cooked
or diseased pork. A vast majority of all dis
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes cloggcd, 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 the system. No one with perfect kid
neys and liver Is ever troubled with malaria;
and It Ia the poisonous particles which these
1 .llaaao amt nrUa ms allnu In not fnfn thn blood