The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-26
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reproduction in print.
Eyes," said the doctor, II have inn
proved in health since you last saw
me and l 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
L have overcome my prejudices.
You know there are some people
who prefer to remain in 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 charac=
terized the sixteenth century when
people were burned at the stake.
Now / am a physician of the fold
school order, too; but ! have, after
years of experience and observation,
come to the conclusion that truth is
the highest of oil 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 laid down by the profess
sion, or of resembling anything out
of the regular order, than would of
my hand. Now, how
ever, | prescribe and advise those
things which / believe to be adapted
to cure, and which nay experience
has proven to be SUCH"
This is rather an unusual way for
a physician to talk, is it not, dOctor%
"Certainlv it is. 1t is way outside
of our code Of ethics, but l have
grown far beyond the code. have
all [ can attend to, and am deter
mined 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 medi-
cines, which would render me liable
10 expulsion from the medical fra
ternity, but | am supremely indiffer-
ent to their laws"
care the medical fraternity of the
country combined against proprie-
tary medicines, doctOrr
"lnvariably, and it is sufficient
ground for expulsion from any medi-
cal society III 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 es-
tablished and sustained by old physi-
clans like myself, who make the
rules and insist upon their enforce
ment in order TO keep the younger
doctors from obtaining foot hold
and encroaching upon the already
established practice of the older
ones. This is largely the reason why
Young physicians have such q hard
time of they are fettered by the
code, and have only their personal
influence to depend upon in secur-
ing practice"
GLOW did you come to get such
heretical ideas as these, doctorw
ooh, they are the result of my ex-
perience and observation. Iobtain-
ed 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 complication of troubles, in.
Guiding dyspepsia, and consequently
imperfect kidneys and liver, that |
feared should have to give up my
practice. For more than a month
could not sit down or get up without
| the most intense 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 re.
markable cures it was effecting; but
my prejudice was altogether too
strong for that. However, i die
quietly begin trying the remedy, but
L promise you | said nothing to my
| brother physicians, or even to my
family about it. Well, sir, it was 8
revelation to me; for in all my medi'
cal experience L never saw anything
operate so rapidly or so effectnally
as that did. 1 owe my health to-day
and for all know, my life alsO-tC
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.r L went tC
reading extensively and Analysing
more extensively, and Iisupposel
analyzied all the leading proprietary
medicines that are made. Many o.
them / found perfectly useless, be
ing compounded simply of water
with a little fiavoring. A vast ma,
iority of them all, however, l found
made up of prescriptions used by
l'physicians in their every day prac
1 tice 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 IL
than they had. After discovering
this. said to myself: why should
the medical fraternity be preJudlced
against those prescriptions they are
writing every day, simply because
they are put up by wholesale and are
sold with q government stamp on
the wrapper? L saw its manifest abb
surdity and resolved that would
be bound by it no longer. Since
that time, 1 have prescribed proprie.
tary remedies nearly every day, IN
nv practice, and l have no reason 70
regret having done SO. Why, only
a few days ago L advised a lady who
was suffering from a serious female
difficulty and displacement to use
| this same Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure which cured me-. l saw her
this morning and she is nearly well
the pain and inflammation are all
zone and she is around as usual.
we have no right in the 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
las we'll, Thousands of people die
Iaevery year from supposed typhoid
fever, rheumatism or other com,
plants, when in reality it is from
trichina, and the result. of eating
noorly cooked and diseased pork
| A vast majority of all diseases arise
from imperfect kidneys or liver
1 The liver becomes clogged, and it
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