Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-27
A RICH EXPERIENCE
Upon A SUBJECT or VITAL im90s-
LANCE TO ALL.
What a Prominent and weli-known
New York Physician Told
Reporter.
Detroit Free Press

The experience Oh any onc VI ouue~
ton and learning extending over lonI
nsriod of time must necessarily be valu
able. and while no two experiences II
this world are alike. there is such sim
ilarity between them as 70 render on'
which is rich in valuable facts oil benen
10 all. Americas greatest orator de
clared that he knew OF no way oil Iudg
ing the future but by the past; and pas
personal experience is OF the same ma
ture rs that history which repeats II
self.
A representative OF this paper while
lonneing in the lobby OF q prominen
New York hotel, met a gentleman whom
he had known years before in the city
of Detroit, bat whom ne had not seer
before for a number Of years. Wher
the knight OF 1.-THE quill had last seen thi:
gentleman. he was giving hisrntire time
and attention 70 an extensive med'ea
practice, and Was on the crest vi the
wave Of popularity. From Detroit he
removed TO New York where he could
find a more extensive field for his tai.
ents and experience. Although several
wears had passed, the doctors physical
condition had evidently very much I'M
proved, for he was looking much better
than when the man OF news had last
seen him. After some general talk, the
doctor fell into IN easy train OF CONVEX
sation and uttered some truths so scien'
titic and valuable, as to justify their re-
production in print.
yea" said the doctor, al have i'm
proved in health since you last 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 doc
tor, 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 prejudices leads
to bigotry OF the worst order, and oil
precisely the same nature as character
lied the sixteenth century when people
we're burned at the stake. Now | am a
physician and Of the old school order,
too, but have, after wears OF expert
ence and observation, come to the con-
clusion 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 them-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 aid down by the profession, or oil
prescribing anything out OF the regular
order, than l would OF amputatlng my
hand. Now, however, i prescribe and
advise those things which l believe to
be adapted to cure, and which my ex-
perience has proven to be such"
This is rather an unusual way for q
physician to talk, is il not, DOCTOR
Certainly it is. 1t is way outside oil
our code OF ethics, but have grown fan
bey ond the code. have all / can
attend to, and am determined to be hon
est with my patients and Mankind
whether my brother physicians are with
me or not. Why, prescribe medicines
every day, some OF them sO-called pat
ent medicines, which would render me
liable to expulsion from the medical
fraternity, but am suPremely inditier'
ent to their laws"
"Are the medical fraternity CT the
country combined against proprietary
medicinesl"
Invariably, and il is sufficient ground
for expulsion from any medical society
in the land to prescribe any patent med
,cine Whatever, no matter il II is made
from an exact formula, such as physi-
clans 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 foothold end encroach'
ing upon the already established prac'
tice of the older ones. This is largely
the reason why young physicians have
such a hard time OF il; they are fettered
bv the code, and nave only their per
s0ual Influence to depend upon IN Sc
curing practice.
Glow did you come to get such heret
ical ideas as these, doctor?
'Oh, they are the result OF my expert
ence and observation. ! 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 of with compli
cation of troubles, including dyspepsia
and consequently imperfect kidneys
and liver, that feared should have tC
give up nv practice. For more than
month could not sit down or get ~
without the most intense agJny, and
was suffering all the while. Some ons
advised me to 90 ont oil the regular
channels and try q remedy that was be
coming quite famous for the remarkable
cures il was etfecting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for that. How
ever, | did quietly begin trying the
remedy, but | promise you | said moth
ing 10 my brother physicians, or even
10 my family about it. Well, sir, II Vas
a revelation to me; for in all my medical
experience never saw anything oper
ate so rapidly or 50 stfrctually as that
did. lowe my health to-day, and foI
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 alter that can assure you
| went 10 reading extensively AMI an
al, zjng more extensively, and | suppose
| analyzsd all the leading proprietary
ms dicines that are made. Many OF them
I found perfectly useless, being com
pounded simply OF water with 4 little
tiavoring. A vast majority OF them all
however, ! found maize up o! p-escriP'
tiOns used by physicians in their every
day practice; but out Of the entire mum
Der found only two that contained alb
solutely harmful ingrrd ents, snd then
in very slight quantities. Indeed We
are pTescrib ny thirgs constantly that
have more deleterIOus matter in than
they had. Alter discovering this, ! said
to myself: why should the medical
fraternity be prsjudiced against those
prescriptions which they are writing
every day, simply because they are put
up by wholesale and are sold with 6
government stamp on the wrapperP ]
saw its manifest absur,iity and resolved
that would be bound BY it no longer.
Since that time | have pres ribbed pro-
prietary remedies nearly every day, in
INV practice, and | have no reason to ~.
greet having done so. Why, only few
daN ago advised a lady who was suf-
iering from q serious female difficulty
and displacement to use this same Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure which cured
me- A SAN her this morning and abe IL