The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-23
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
Ms Revelations Upons Subject OF Vital :
ieresi to All.
Prom the nstroit Fro prass
Mis- Revelations upoas Subject OF Vital
ierest to All.
From the Detroit Free Press.

able facts OF benefit TO all. Americas great
est orator declared that he knew of no way
Judging the future but by the past; and past
personal expsrience Is OF the same nature as
that history which repeats itself.
A representative OF this paper nile
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 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 nnd a
more extensive neld for his talents and ex-
perience. 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-
versatton and uttered some truths SO scien-
tide and valuable, as to justify their repro
duction In print.
Eyes" said the doctor, Il have improved
In health since you last saw me and l hope
also in many other ways. One thing, how
ever. Ihave succeeded In doing. and IL is one
OF the hardest things for any one, and es-
peciailyla physician, to do and thai 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 century
when people were burned at the stake. Now
/ am a physici an and OF the old school order.
too; but 1 have after years OF experience and
observation come TO the conclusion that
truth is the highest OF al things, and that IL
prejudice OF bigotry tand in the way of
truth-so much the worse for them-they are
certain TO be crushed sooner or later. why.
when l 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 ofa nputating my hand. Now.
however. 1 prescribe and advise those
things which / believe to be adapted to cure.
and which my experience has proven to be
SUCH"
This is rather an unusual way for a ply
sician to talk, is 1t not. DOCTOR"
Certainly it is: It is way outside of our
code OF ethics, bur l have grown far beyond
the code. 1 have all 1 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-called patent medicines, which would
render me liable to expulsion from the med
icai fraternity. but 1 m supremacy indin-
erent to their laws"
Are the medical fraternity Of the 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 1t 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 doctors from obtaining a foothold
and enoroaching upon the already estab.
lished practice ofthe older Ones. This is
largely the reason why young physicians
have such n hard time of IL; they are fet-
tered by the code. and la 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. / obtained my first ideas
upon the subject. however, from having been
CuicQ hAtti ~ II ChTt anu the skill oil my
professional brethren had failed to relieve
me. Why. i was so badly of with a COMPILE
cation OF troubles, including dyspepsia. and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver.
that | feared l should have to give up my
practice. For more than a month 1 could
not sit down or get up without the most in
tense agony. n ] 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 II was enecting: but my prejudice
altogether too strong for that. Howeyer
1 did uietly beg In trying the remedy but |
promise you l said nothing 70 my Drotner
Well sir, 1t was q revelation to me; for In ali
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 as
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. That
was the starting point with me, and my
preiudices faded very rapidly after that / can
assure you. / went to reading extensively
suppose / analysed all the ieading %proprie-
tary medicines that are made. Many OF
them l found perfectly useless, being COM
Ing. vast majority of them all, however,
l found made up from prescriptions used by
p pny OF the e nj tre humber eyery da aSub practice on but but
that contained absolutely harmful ingre-
dients, and then in very slight quantities.
stantly, that have more inJuriour matter
ering this / said to myself: why should
the medical fraternity be preIudIced aasios,
those prescriptions which they are whiting
every day. simply because they are put up
by wholesale and are sold with n government
stamp on the wrapper. l saw It's manIfest
~absurdity and resolved that / would be bound
by u no longer. Since that time l nave pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neBrly every
day. in my practice, and l have no reason 10
regret having done so. Why, only a few days
n kertOua female dlfnCulfv md dtapIoraroop t
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure thai
cured me. saw her this morning and III
Is nearly well: the pain and inflammation are
are all gone and she Is around us usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity to sit
back and declare there Is no Improvement
or advancement, or that we have a monop-
oily of the remedies which nature has given
TO There are great changes going
on in every department OF life and there are
great developments in medicine as well.
Thousands OF people die every year from
supposed typhoid lever, rheumatism or Other
complaints. when in reality 1t Is from trichi.
or diseased pork. A vast majority OF ali dis
eases arise from imperfect kidneys and liver
the liver becomes ciogged, and its work is
worked and break down, and so the poison
gets into the blood instead OF being thrown
| neys and liver is ever troubied with malaria
and 1t IL 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
reality It is diseased kidneys which have
become weakened by the fever they have
Just had. Here Is another strange thing: moi
one in ten people who nave 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 o
other ways"
"Well. doctor, you hs.ve got some new
truths here, certainly but they sound very
reasonable TO me-
"Weil, whether tney are reasonable or not
/ have demonstrated to my own satisfaction
that they are true, ano l propose to stand BY
hem. no matter how much opposition 1 maj
raise by doing 40. Any man, be he politi
clan, preacher or physician. who IL SO con.
sidernte of his pocketbook or his own per.
soma ends rs TO stultify himself by suppre