The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-26
A Rich Experience.
What a Prominent and Well
Known New York Physi-
clan Told a Reporter.
His Revelations Upon a Subject Of Vital Ia.
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 q 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 no way Of
Judging the future but by the past; and past
personal experience is of the same nature as |
that history which repeats itself.
A representative Of this paper While |
~lounging in the lobby of a Mt 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 q years When the knight OF the Quill
mad 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 ind 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. After some general |
talk. the doctor fell into an easy train Of con-
versation and uttered some truths so scien-
Tine and valuable, as 10 Justify their repro
duction In print.
1870 a nave improved
In health since you last saw me and / hope
also in many other ways. One thing, hog-
ever, Ihave succeeded in doing, and it Is one
OF The hardest things for any one, and es-
pecially. a physician, to do and that rs I 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
l am a physici IN and OF the old school order.
too; but have after years OF experience and
observation come 10 the conclusion thai
truth Is the highest OF al things, and that II
prejudice or bIgotry stand in the way of
trufh-so much the worse for them-they are
certain 10 be crushed sooner or later. Whv |
when ! knew you In Detroit. / would nave
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 OF a lputating my hand. Now
however. 1 prescribe and advise those
things which believe TO be adapted to cure. |
and which my experience has proven tu he
such.'
This is rather an unusual way for a ply
sician to talk, is 1t not. doctor"
Certainly 1t is: 1t is way outside of our
code of ethics, bur l have grown far beyond
the code. ] have all l can attend 10, 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
render me liable To expulsion from The med
ical maternity. but ] am supremacy indIG-
erent to their LAVE"
Are the medical fraternity ofthe country
Hnhf. Al 49,
doctor?''
"Invariably. and il is sufficient ground far
expulsion from any medical society in the
land to prescribe any patent medicine what
ever, no matter II II 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 aud Insist
upon their enforcement In order to keep the
younger doctors from obtaining a foothold
and encroaching upon the alread, estab
lished practice ofthe older ones. This liz
largely the reason why young physicians
have such n hard time OF IL; they are fet-
tered by the code. and have only their per-
sonal influence to depend upon in securing
practice
How did You come to get such heretical
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
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 ana liver
that i feared l should have TO give nm NV
practice. For more than a month 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 ont of
the regular channels and try a remedy th,,
was becoming quite famols for the remarka.
BILE cures 1t was efecting; but my preIudice
was altogether too strong for thai. However
1 did uiety begin trying the remedy but
promise you 1 SAID nothing 10 my protner
physicians. or even to my family aboul III
Well sir, IT was a revelation TO me: for in ali
my medical experience / never saw anythinp
operate so rapidly or SO effectually as thai
did. | owe my health to-day-and for all i
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure Thai
was the starting point with me, and my
assure you. 1 went 10 reading extensivsip
suppose analyzed ali the leading proprie.
tary medicines that are made. Many of
them l found perfectly useless, being COM
pounded simply OF waier with a little flavor.
1 found made up nom prescriptions used nv
physicians In their every day practice; but
that contained absolutely harmful inere.
dients, and then in very slight auantities.
Indeed we are prescribing things con
ering this ! said to myself: why should
in them than they had. Amer discov
those prescriptions which they are writinC
every day, simply because they are put up
by wholesale and are sold with government
stamp on the wrapper: l saw Its manifest
absurdity and resolved that would be bound
by It no longer. Since that time have pre-
scribed proprietary remedies neurly every
day, in my practice, and l have no reason 10
regret having done SO. " by, only a few days
ago ! advised a lady v no was suffering from
a serious female difficulty and displacement
to use this same Kidney and Liver Cure that
cured me. saw her this morning and she
Is nearly well; the pain and nIe
are all gone and she is around as usual. We
have no right in the medical fraternity to si
or advancement. or that we nave n 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
ma, aud the result of eating poorly cooked
or diseased pork. A vast majority OF all dis
eases arise IRON imperfect kidneys and liver.
The liver becomes clogged, and It's work Is
brown on the Kidneys; they become over
gets into the blood instead OF being thrown
from thesystem. No one with perfect kid
neys and liver is ever troubled with malaria;
and IL Is the poisonous particles which these
diseased organs allow TO get into the blood
that clog the capillaries o: the lungs and
cause tubercles and consumption. Thou
sands ofchildren are dying every year from
droPsy a. the sequel TO scarletiDa, when in
reality It Is diseased kidneys which have
become weakened by the fever they have
Just 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 oi
other ways"
well, doctor, you hfve got some new
truths here, certainly but they sound very
reasonable to me-
"well. whether lney are reasonable or not,