Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-19
A PHYSICIANS ExDerience.

AS a medical student in various North
ern colleges and hospitals, the writer has
often seen at a glance more than hun
bred eases in the same ward, of various
forms and grades of strumOus, cachectic.
and other contagious and hereditary blood
poison diseases, and has watched them
remaining in those wards for whole
year, and still not cured or even benefited.
The mercurial and other regular remedies
had failed to cure them. 1t is admitted
by our ahlest medical authors that though
mercury Is still the sheet anchor of conf
dence in the treatment of that monster
cOntagiOn which is the great parent
source of nearly all blood poison diseases
known, yet it is still considered altogether
unsatisfactory in its results. In these
convictions my own experience most de-
cidedly concurs, for | have never had in
my practice any satisfactory results, but
have more than thousand times felt hu-
inflated in not possessing a curative
remedy for these cases.
Such facts truthfully illustrate the can
did admissions OF the medical profession
of to-day, that for a certain contagious
and pestiferous class of blood diseases
they possess no remedy with which they
can assure positive radical cure. The
ablest medical authorities of the world
still recommend mercury as the remedy.
but decline to assure that it will radically
and permanently cure,
Such exceedingly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
have legitimately persuaded thousands of
medical practitiOners-whO have trayers-
ed and exhausted the list of professional
remedies without cure-tO try the SWift;s
Specific. They have risked their ethical
standing and tested this vegetable remedy.
which, like a charm, has furnished them
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Now, under such humiliating confess
sions, what apology could be demanded or
explanation asked for employing a remedy
that is so positively and extensively known
as an infallible and permanent cures
What act in mans life could be more JUS
tiflables
Why should doctors hesitates They are
seeking to relieve afflicted humanity-tO
arrest the natural course and tendency of
diseases--to reinstate health and promote
comfort and happiness. Hence, they are
authorized and empowered to use that
remedy which eXperience-the only guide
in all medicine-has shown to be efficient
as cure. This obligation on the part of
the physician to his patient, is clearly
subversive of all ethical restrictions. And
moreover, the doctor possesses the profess
siOnal right to use Swift's Specific, from
the fact that it is strictly ofticinal. Every
ingredient composing this preparation is
official in the United States dispensatorv.
and hence presumed to be knOwn-as to
its medical and therapeutic properties.
It is but recipe of officinal medicines,
and this combination is as ethical as any
other recipe; and may not, nay cannot, be
classed as a nOstrum.
All the best remedies of to-day were
empirically discovered, and the Swift's
Specific does as certainly possess the
properties claimed for il as does quinine
or opium, This fact, time and experience
have abundantly established. The doe
tors for want of satisfactory remedies in
certain cases, have resorted to this Spe-
cific. They have found it astOnishingly
effectual, and there is no doubt of the fact.
from positive evidence, that a large pro-
portion of the medical profession are to-
day using this Specific in large class of
cases for which they know outside of this
remedy no cure! They do use it and re-
port most satisfactory results. In this
they have acted right. They are saving
their patients and their own reputation.
doing good to suffering humanity. and at
the same time have infringed no reason
able claim of professional ethics. The
entire medical faculty may consistently
employ this recipe, for in every reasonable
sense, it is professional.
AS to my own professional opinion of
this Specific, state truthfully that con-
slider it beyond all comparison the most
efficient blood Alternative known to medi-
cal science. That, without an canal in
It's charming curative properties, it be-
comes indispensable, in that 1t happily
meets an increasing demand for a remedy
that the learned medical faculty has failed
to furnish. }, DICKSON SMITH, MD.