The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-21
A Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
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 valu-
able facts of benefit to all. Americas great
est orator declared that he knew OF nc way
Judging the future but by the past; and past
personal experience is of the same natuIu as
that history which repeats itself.
A representative OF this paper lille
lounging in the lobby of a prominent New
York hotel, met n 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 find 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 the man OF
news had last seen him. Alter some general
talk. the doctor fell into an easy train OF con-
versation and uttered some truths 80 scien-
tihc and valuable, as To Justify their repro
duction IN print.
YES" said the doctor, Il AVE improN ed
in health since , oil last saw me and / nope
also in many other ways. One thing. how
ever. Ihave succeeded In doing, and it is one
of the hardest things for any one, and es-
pecialiy. a physician. to do ana thai ISL have
overcome my ~preJudices. You know there
are some people who prefer to remain on the
wrong rather than acknowledge the mani
fast RIGHT kuah nrafuAiaa iao - IN htaasr.. 90
the worst order. and of precisely the same
nature as characterized the sixteenth century
when people were burned at tAe stake. Now
/ am y physici IN and OF the old school order,
too; but l have after years OF experience and
observation come To the conclusion tnai
truth is the highest of al things, and that II
prejudice or bigotry stand in the way of
truthSso much the worse ior then-they are
certain TO be crushed sooner or later. Why,
when 1 knew you in Detroit. / would have
no sooner thought oil violating the code OF
ethics laid down by the profession, or OF pre-
scribing anything out OF the regular order,
than | would OF a .putating my hand. Now,
however. 1 prescribe and ADVISE those
things which I believe to be adapted to cure,
and which my experience has proven To be
such.n
"rhis is rather an unusual way for a ply
stefan to talR. is it not, DOCTOR"
Certainly 1t is: 1t is way outside OF our
code OF ethics. buI l have grown far beyond
the code. 1 nave 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, l 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 l am supremacy indin-
erent to their laws"
"Are the medical fraternity ofihe 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 au
exact formula, such as physicians
are using every day. You sec 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 IA foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, estab
lished practice ofthe older ones. This is
largely the reason why young physicians
have such a hard time of 1t; 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:n
"Oh, they arc the result of my experience
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. l was SO badly of with a compli-
cation OF troubles, including dyspepsia, and
consequently imperfect kidneys and liver,
that l feared 1 should nave 10 give up my
practice. For more than a month 1 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
the Regular channels and try a. remedy that
was becoming quite famous for the remarka-
bic cures 1t was effecting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for that. However.
! did uIetiy bek in trying the remedy but /
promise you 1 said nothing 10 my brother
physicians. or even to my family about 1t.
Well sir, II was a revelation to me; for In ali
my medical experience / never saw anything
operate SO rapidly or SO ~efiectually as thai
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
prejudice faded very rapidly after that I caSs
assure you. 1 went to reading extensively
and analyzing more extensively, and l
suppose 4 analysed all the leading proprie-
tary medicines that ore made. Many OF
them l found perfectly useless, being com
pounded simply OF wafer with q little flavor
ing. A vast majority OF them all, however,
l found made up from prescriptions used by
physicians in their every day practice; but
that contained absolutely harmful ingre-
dents, and then in very slight quantities..
SANITY that have more inJuriour matter
ering this l said to myself: why should
in them than they had. After discov
the medical fraternity be ~prejudiced against
those prescriptions which they are writing
every day. simply because they are put up
by wholesale andare sold with agovernmant
l sfa mr. m the W Kramer RAW ltg manifest
absurdity and resolved that 1 would be bound
by II no longer. Since that time / have pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neurly every
day, in my practice, and j have no reason to
regret having done SO. Why, only a few days
ago advised a lndy ' no was suffering from
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure that
cured me. l saw her this morning and she
is nearly well; the pain and infiamation aie
are all gone and she is around as usual, We
have no righti in the medical fraternity to sit
back and declare there is no Improvement
or advancement. or that we have IA monop-
oily of the remedies which nature has gwen
to mankind. 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 fever, rheumatism or other
complaints. when in reality 1t is from trichi-
ma, aud the result of eating poorly cooked
or diseased pork A vast majority OF alidis-
eases arise FROM imperfect kidneys and liver.
thrown on the kidneys; they become over.
WORK ed and break down, and so the poison
gets into the blood Instead of being thrown
from thesystem. No one with perfect kid
neys and liver Is ever troubled with malaria;
and 1t Is the poisonous particles which these
diseased organs allow TO get into the blood
tina clog the capIllaries o: the lungs and
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands ofchildren are dying every year from
reality 1t is dis eased kidneys which have
become weakened by the fever they have
lust had. Here Is another strange thing: not
one in ten people who have 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 htve got some new
truths here, certainly but they sound yery