Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-03
A RICH EXPERIENCE.
What a Prominent and Well-KnOWn
New York Physician Told
Reporter.
His Revelations Upon a Subject Of Vital
Interest to AL.
detroit Free Press. I

learning extending over long period of time
must necessarily be valuable, and while ne two
experiences in this world are alike, there is
such a similarity between them as to render
one which is rich in valuable facts of benefit
to all. Americas greatest 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
Representative of this paper while loung-
ing in the lobby of a prominent New York
hotel, met gentleman whom he had known
years before in the city of Detroit, but whom
he had not seen before for a number 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 vas on the crest of the wave of populari-
| ty. From Detroit he went to New York, where
he could find a more extensive field for his
talents and experience. Although several
years had passed, the DOCTORS physical condi-
tion lad evidently very much improved, for
he was looking much better than when the
mao of news had last seen him. After some
general talk, the doctor fell into an easy train
of conversation, and uttered some truths so
scientific and valuable, as 10 justify their re-
production in print.
''Yes," said the doctor, 81 have improved in
health since you list saw me, and hope also
in many other ways. One thing, however,
have succeeded in doing, and it is one of the
hardest things for any one, and especially a
doctor, to do, and that is, / have overcome my
prejudices. You know there are some
people who prefer to remain in the wrong
rather than acknowledge the manifest 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 am
physician, and of the odd school order too;
but have, after years of experience and OBJ
servation, come to the conclusion that truth is
the highest of all things, and that if prejudice
or bigotry stand IN the way of truth, so much
the worse for tbem-they are certain to be
crushed sooner or later Why, when / knew
you in Detroit, would have no sooner thought
of violating the code of ethics laid down by
the profession, or of prescribing anything out
of the regular order, than | would of ampu
tating my hand. Vow, however, prescribe
and advise those things which believe adapt
ed to cure, and which my experience has prov
en- to be SUCH"
"This is rather an unusual way for physi-
clan to talk, is it not, doctor?"
Certainly it is. 1t is way outside of our
code of ethics, but have grown far beyond
the CODE l have all can attend to, and am
determined to be honest with my patients and
mankind, whether my brother physicians are
with me or not. Why, prescribe medicines
every day, some of them so-called patent
medicines, which would render me liable to
expulsion from the medical fraternity, but /
am supremacy indifferent to their laws"
care the medical fraternity Of the country
combined against proprietary medicines, doc
tor?''
"Invariably, land it is sufficient ground for ex-
pulsion from any medical society in the land
to prescribe any patent medicine whatever,
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 younger ductoro from obtaining a
foothold and encroaching upon the already
established practice of the elder ones. This
is largely the reason why young physicians
have such hard time of il; they are fettered
by the code, and have only their personal in
fuence to depend upon in securing practice"
"How did you come to get such heretical
ideas as these, doctor?'
ooh, they are the result of my experience
and observations. 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, was so badly off with a complication
of troubles, including dyspepsia, and conse-
quently imperfect kidneys and liver, that ]
feared l should have to give up my
| practice. For more than month I could not
sit down or get up without the most intense
agony, and was suffering all the while. Some
one advised ME to 90 out of the regular chan
| nels and try remedy that was becoming quite
famous for the remarkable cures it was effect
ing; but my prejudice vas altogether too
strong for that. However, did quietly begin
trying the remedy, but promise you | said
nothing to my brother physicians, or even to
my family about it. Well, sir, it was revel-
alton to me; for in all my medical e experience
| never saw anything operate so rapidly or so
effectualy as that did. l owe my health to-
day, and for all know, my life also-to the
remedy known as Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure. That was the starting point with
me, and my prejudices faded very rapidly after
| that, l can assure you. / went to reading ex-
| tensively and anallzing more extensively, and
l suppose analyZed ell the leading proprie-
tary medicines that are made.
Many of them I found per-
fectly useless, being compounded simply
of water with little havoring. A vast ma
| jority of them all, however, found made up
of prescriptions used by physicians in
their every day practice; but out of the entire
number found only two that contained abso-
lutely harmful ingredients and then in very
slight quantities. Indeed we are prescribing
| things constantly that have more deleterious
matter in than they had. After discovering
| this, l said to myself: why should the medical
fraternity be prejudiced against those pre-
scrlptions which they are writing every day,
simply because they are put up by wholesale
| and are sold with government stamp on the
wrapper. l saw its manifest absurdity and re-
solved that would be bound by it no longer
| Since that tine have prescribed proprietary
remedies nearly every day, in my practice, and
| have no reason to regret having done so.
l Why, only few days ago advised lady who
was suffering from a serious female difficulty
and displacement to use this same Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure which cured me. / saw her
this morning an0 she is nearly well; the pain
| and Inflammation are all gone and she Is
around as usual. We have no right in thu
medical fraternity to sit back and declare there
is no such thing as improve
ment or advancement, or that We have
a monopoly 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
we'll Thousands of people die every year
| from supposed typhoid fever, rheumatism OF
| other complaints, when in reality it is from
triehina, and the result of eating poorly cooked
| and diseased pork. vast majority of all dis
| eases arise from imperfect kidneys or liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and its work il
| thrown upon the kidneys; they become over