The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-30
Rich Experience
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations Upona Subject OF Vital
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From the Detroit Free Press
Thu experience Of any one OF scneation
and learning extending over q long period Of
Time must necessarily be valuable. and
whtlc no two experiences In this world are
alika. there Il such . similarity between
thsm as 10 render one which Is rich In salu-
able t.cts Of benefit 70 all. Americas great
at orator Declared thai he knew OF 10 way
,udxtue the future but by the past; and past
personal experience is OF the same natuI. al
thai history which repeats itself.
A representative of this paper nile
i~ounging In the LOBBY OF q prominsn nj New
York hotel. met = gentleman whom he had
known ysars before In The city OF Detroit.
but whom he had not seen before for a num-
Der OF years. When the knight OF the quiil
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 10 New York where he could md a
| more extensive nsld for his talents and ex-
perlence.A Although several years had passed
| the doctors physioal condition had evident
iy been very much improved. for he was
| lookinx much better thAn when the man OF
news had last seen him Alter some gensral
talk. the dostor foil into an easy Train OF con-
versation and uttered some truths 50 scien-
| tide and valuable. as 10 Justify their repro
duction In print
yes" said the doctor. Il have Improved
| In health since , on last saw me and 1 hope
| also In many other ways. One thing. how
svor, have succeeded In doing. and II Is one
. the hardest things for any one. and es-
p.ciaily a physician. to do and that N have
| overcome my prejudices. You know there
| are some people who prefer To remain on the
wrong rather than acknowledge the mani
feat right. such prejudice leaas 10 bigotry oil
| the worst order. azd u precisely the same
nature as characterized the sixteenth century
| when people were burned attic stake. Now
1 am n physici an and OF the old school order,
too; but / have alter years OF experience and
observation como To the conclusion thai
truth is the highest OF al things. and that II
| prejudice or bigotry stand In the way Of
much the worse Tor them-they are
| certain to be crushed sooner or later, Why,
when knew you In Detroit. l would have
no sooner thought OF violating the code Of
ethics laid Town by the profession. or ofpre-
scribing anything out of the regular order.
than 1 would ofa lputating my hand. Now.
however, L prescribe and ADVISE those
| thing which I believe TO be adapted TO cure.
| and which my experience has proven 10 be
suoh."
..This is rather an unusual way for . ply
sioian 10 tails. Is II not. DOCTOR"
Certainly IL il; It is way outside OF. oar
code OF ethics. bur have grown far beyond
the code. l have all ! can attend TO, and aim
determined to be honest with my patients
and with mankind, whether my broiner
physicians are with mo or not Why. I pre-
scribe medicines every day, some OF them
- N -As. w,AIl.lrao x.hf.I rAttl1
| render me liable to expulslon from the med
ical fraternity. but 1 am supremacy indin-
erent 70 their lava"
Are the medical fraternity OF the country
combined against proprietary medicines.
doetor?"
.InvarInbly, and II 10 sufficient ground for
expulsion from any medical society In ths
land to prescribe any patent medicine what
ev er, no matter II IL is mado from an
exact formula, such as physicians
are using every day. You see the code is
established and sustaine ed by old physicians.
like myself, who make the rules and insist
upon their endorsement la order 10 keep the
young er doctors from obtaining a foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, cstab
lished practice OF the older ones. This Is
largely the reason why young phy.icians
have such o nard time OF 1t; they are fet-
tered by the eode. and have only their per-
sonal influence to depend upon in securing
practice"
.How did you come to get such heretisal
ideas as these. DOCTOR"
.Oh. they are the result OF my experience
and observation. I obtained my nrst Idea.
upon the subject. however, from having been
cured after all my care and the skill of my
professional brethren had failed To relieve
rue. Why. 1 was SO badly or with a compli-
cation OF troubles. including dyspepsia. and
| consequently Imperfect kidneys and liver.
| that I feared I should have TO give up my
| practice. For more than a 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 70 90 Out of
the regular channels and try q remedy that
was becoming quito iamous for the remarka-
| bic cures II was enecting; but my prejudice
was altogether too strong for that. However,
I did uietly boa In trying the remedy but !
| promise you 1 said nothing 10 my protner
| physicians. or ov en- to my FAMILY about Il.
| Welis ir, IL was n revelation to me; for In all
operate 50 rapidly or 90 e~ffectuaily as thai
| did. / owe ms health to-day-snd Tor all
Wsrnsr SAFE Kidney and Liver curs' That
was the startling point with me, and my
preaudices faded very rapidly after that 4 eau
and analysing more extensiveIy. and !
suppose 1 analy zed all the leading proprie-
tary medicines that are made. Many OF
them 1 found perfectly useless, being CON-
| pounded simply Of wafer with N little flavor
i found made up nom prescription used BY
physicians In their every day PRACTICE: but
out OF the entire number; 1 found oniy two
disnts, and then In very slight quantities..
Indeed we are prescribing things con
erins this / said to myself: why should
in them than they had. After discov
s .bss %e easscri h5ssspn, Which, Ds p tsey sss ~ agaiinn.
avery day. simply because they are put up
BY wholesale andare sold with government
absurdity and resolved that I would be bound
by II no longer. Since that time / have pre-
day, in my practice, and / have no reason u
regret having done SO. Why. only q few days
ago ! advised 2 lay ' no was aanering from
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure thai
cured me. i saw her this morning and she
are ali gone and sne is around as usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity to Sit
o 9sc ad S 1na Seosare or r that We have q monop.
oily OF the remedies which nature has gwen
20 mankind. There are great changes going
great developm-n ts In medicine as weS<
Thousands OF people die every. year frdfh
complaints, when In reality It il from trichi-
ia. aud the result OF eating poorly cooked
or diseased pork; a vas, majority Of al dis
The liver becomes clogged. and Its work is
thrown on the idney n; they becoms over
worked and break down. and so tho poison
gets into the blood instead OF being thrown
rom the system. No ono with perfect kid
neys and liver In ever troubled with malaria,
and Il il the poisonous particles which these
disessed organs allow to get into the blood
that clog the capillarics o. the lung1 and
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands OF ehildren are dying every year from
dropsy as the equei to scarlstiDa, when in
reality 1t is diseased kidneys which have
hecuma xeakerad by the fever they have