The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-22
Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
nj. Revelations Upon. Subject .oi vital
terest to All.

and learning extending over q long period 9
time must necessarily be valuable. an
while no two experiences In this world ar
slike- there Is such . similarity between
tram a. 70 render one which Is rich In valu
~. t.et. Of benefit to all. Americas great
- orator declared that he knew ofno way
,udeins the future but by the past; and pas
psrsoual experience is OF the same natuie al
that history which repeats itself.
A representative of this paper hiis
~Iounging in the lobby OF q prominent Ne"
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 gull
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 md .
more extensive field for his talents and ex-
periepee. Although several years had passed
the doctors physical condition had evident
/ ly been very much improved. Tor lie was
| looking much better than when the man oil
news had last seen him. Ater some general
| talk. the doctor fell into m easy train OF con-
versation and uttered some truths so scien-
| ttdc and valuable, As TO Justify their repro
duction in print
YES" said the doctor. Il have iinPro'eo
| In health since you last saw me n 1 nope
also In many other ways one ming now
ever. Ihave succeeded In doing. and IL Is one
Q the hardest things for any one anu es-
nec,allv a physician, to do and that IS have
avarcone nv preIudices. You know there
are some people who prefer to remain on the
wrong rather than acknowledge the mani
| Fest right. such prejudice leads 10 bigotry OF
| the worst order, and OF precisely the same
| nature al characterized the sixteenthc century
| when people were burned at the stake. Now
1 am q physici an and Of the old school order,
| too; but 1 have after years OF experience ana
| observation come to the conclusion that
truth il the highest of AL things, and thai II
prejudice or bigotry stand In the way OF
| truth-so much the worse for them-theya are
| certain to be crushed sooner or later. Why,
when knew you in Detroit, 1 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 q lputating my hand Now.
however. 1 prescribe and advise those
things which 1 believe to be adapted TO cure.
and which my experience has proven to be
SUCH"
ssThis is rather an unusual way FOR n phy-
stefan to talk Is 1t not. DOCTOR"
Certainly 1t il: It is way outside OF our
sode Of ethics, bur | have grown far hey nd
the code. have all l can attend 10. and an
determined TO be honest with my patients
and with mankind, whether my brother
physicians arc with me or not Why, l pre-
scribe medicines every day. some of them
so-called patent medicines. which would
render me liable 10 expulsion from the mec-
ical fraternity. but / am supremacy indin-
erent to their laws"
s.Are the medical fraternity OF the country
combined against proprietary medicines,
doctor7r
..Invarlably, and it is sufficient ground for
expulsion from any medical society In the
land to prescribe any patent medicine what
ever, no matter II IL Is made from m
exact formula. such as physicians
are using every day. You see the code is
established and sustained by old physicians,
like myself. who make tho rules aud insist
upon their enforcement in order TO keep the
Young r doctors from obtaining a foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, estab
lished practice ofthe older ones. This is
largely the reason why young physicians
nave such q hard time of IL; they are fet-
tered by the code. and have only their per-
sonal influence to depend upon In securing
practice
allow did you come to get such heretical
ideas as these. DOCTOR"
.Oh, they are the result OF my experience
and observation. l obtained my nrst 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. l was SO badly of with a compli-
cation of troubles, including dyspepsia, and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver.
that 1 feared 1 should have to give up my
practice. For moro than q month l could
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
tho 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 that However,
/ did utetIy beg In trying the remedy but /
promise you ! said notning 70 my protner
Well sir, it was a revelation to me; FOR In all
my medical experience l never saw anything
did, 1 owe my health to-day-and for all
know my life also-to the remedy known az
Was he Starting point with me, and my
assure you. 1 went to reading extensively
suppose i snaiszed all the leading .proprie-
tary medicines that are made. Many OF
pounded simpiy OF wafer witha little flavor
Ing. A vast majority OF them all, however,
1 found made up rom prescriptions used by
out OF the entire number. l found only two
that contained absolutely harmful ingre-
indeed we are prescribing things con.
sring this i said to myself: Why sho1ld
the medical fraternity be ~prejudiced against
those prescriptions which they are writing
BY Wholesale andare soid with government
stamp on the wrapper: l saw It's manifest
absurdity and resolved that would be bound
scribed proprietary remedies negrly every
day, in my practice, and l have no reason to
ago q advised a lady who was suffering from
o serious female difficulty and displacement
to use this anne , kSi sr XXI, and Md Liver Cure uns t sba
is nearly well; the pain and inflammation are
are all gone and she ts around as usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity to sit
back and declare there is no improvement
| or advancement, or that we have q monop-
oily OF the remeaies wnacn nat 10 mas gl n,ea
| on In every department OF life and there are
great Developments In medicine MS well.
supposed typhoid fever, rheumatism or other
| complaints, wien in reality IL Is nom trichi-
ne. and the result Of eating poorly Z, cooked s1f s;si
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and Its work Is
worked and break down, and so the poison
gets INTO the blood instead of being thrown
Iom the ' ,i,ss p sy So t 9n e wiah uI RsSr, %aia nia.
and II is the poisonous particles which these
diseased organs allow to get Into the blood
that clog the caplllaries o. the lungs and
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands OF children are dying every year from
dropsy as the sequel to scarletiDa, when in
reality It is diseased kidneys which have
becume ~eaken by the fever they have
iust had. Here Is another strange thing: not
one in ten people who nave diseased kidneys
nofice any pain in The vicinity OF the kid
news for these organs lose their nervous sen
abilities when they become diseased, and
other ways.v