Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-06
THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.
q Subject of Vital Interest, Affeot-
Ing h Welfare of All.

The HIGHEST AUTHORITY.
Upon q Subject of Vital Interest, Afsot-
Ing h Welfare of All.
The following remarkable letter from one
OF the leading and best known scientific
writer's of the present day is especially
significant, and should be of unusual value
70 all readers who desire to keep pace with
the march of modern discoveries and events:
"a general demand for reformation is
one OF the most distinctive characteristics
OF the nineteenth century. The common
people, as well as the more enlightened and
refined, cry out with no uncertain voice to
serVatlsm and superstition which has held
inc masses In gross ignorance during a
large portion of the worlds history, andin
the time of the Dark Ages came near oh.
nterating the last glimmer of truth. Dog.
matte assertions and blind empiricism are
losing caste among all classes of all coun-
tries. People are beginning to think for
themselves, and to regard authority much
less than argument. Men and women are
no longer willing that q few individuals
should dictate to them what must be their
sentiments and opinions. They claim the
rlght to solve for themselves the great
questions Of the day and demand that the
general good of humanity shall be re.
spected. AS the result Of this general
awakening, we see, on every hand, unmis-
taxable evidences of reformatory action.
PEOPLE who, a few years ago, endured suf-
terlng the most intense in the name of
duty, now realize the utter foolishness Of
such a course. Men who were under the
bondage of bigoted advisers allowed their
health to depart; suffered their constitu-
tlons to become undermined and finally
died as martyrs to q false system of treat
ment. There are millions Of people filling
untimely graves who might lave lived to
q green old age had their original troubles
Deen taken IN time or properly treated.
There are thousands Of people to-day,
t~houghtlessly enduring the first symptoms
Of some serious malady and without the
slightest realization of the danger that is
before them. They lave occasional head.
aches; a lack of appetite one day and a
ravenous one the next, or an u%naccounta-
BILE feeling of WEAKNESS, sometimes accom-
panied by nausea, and attribute ali these
troubles to the old idea of a slight cold or
malaria. 1t is nighttime that people awoke
to a knowledge of the seriousness of these
matters and emancipated themselves from
the professional bigotry which controls
them. When this is done and when all
classes of physicians become liberal enough
to exclude all dogmas, save that it is their
duty to cure disease as quickly and as
safely as possible to maintain no other po.
sition than that of truth honestly ascer-
tanned, and to indorse andrecommend any
remedy that has been found useful, no mat
ter what it's origin, there will be no more
quarreling among the doctors, while there
will be great rejoicing throughout the
world.
~ am we'll aware of the censure that
will be melted out to me for writing this
my honest convictions unless 1 extend a
helping hand and indorse all that I know
to be good. The extended publications for
the past few years., and graphic descrip-
tions of different diseases of the. kidneys
and liver have awakened the medical pro-
fesslon to the fact that these diseases are
greatly increasing. Th treatment of the
doctors has been largely experimental and
1aany of their patients lave died while
they were casting about for a remedy to
cure them.
sit is now over two years since my at
tention was first called to the use of a most
wondertul preparation in the treatment of
Brlght's disease Of the kidneys. Patients
had frequently asked me about the remedy
and / had heard of remarkable cures eff
fected by it, but like many others / hesi-
tated to recommend it's use. A personal
friend of mine had been in poor health for
some time and his application for insur-
ance on his life had been rejected on &C.
count of Bright's disease. Chemical and
microscopical examinations of his urine re-
vealed the presence of large quantities of
albumen and granular tube casts, which
confirmed the correctness Of the diagnosis.
After trying all the usual remedies, I di-
rected him to use this preparation and was
greatly surprised TO observe a decided inn
provement within a month, and within
four months no tube casts could be dis
covered. At that time there was present
only a trace of albumen, and he felt, as he
expressed it, perfectly well,' and all
fh,.orvrh thu SrA,,onoo Of nv mn r3c Sof0
Cure, the remedy he used.
"After this / prescribed this medicine in
full doses in both acute and chronic ne.
phritis, [Bright's diseased and with the
most satisfactory results. My observations
were neither small in number nor hastily
made. They extended over several months
and embraced a large number of cases
which have proved so satisfactory to my
mind, that / would earnestly urge upon
my professional brethren the Importance
of giving a fair and patient trial to War.
ner's Safe Cure. In a large class of all.
ments where the blood is obviously in an
unhealthy state, especially where glandu-
lar engagements aud in1ammatory erup-
tions exist, indeed in many of those forms
of chronic indisposition in which there is
no evidence of organic mischief, but where
the general health is depleted, the face sal
low, the urine colored, constituting the
condition in which the patient is said to be
: bll1OuS,' Cno Advantage gained Oy tne use
of this remedy is remarkable. In Bright's
disease it seems to act as a solvent of al.
bumen; to soothe and heal the inflamed
membranes; to wash out the epithe' ial
debris which blocks up the tubuli uriniferi,
and to prevent a destructive metamorphosis
of tissue.
%"Belonging as I do to a branch Of the
profession that believes that no one school
Of medicine knows all the truth regarding
the treatment of disease, and being indie.
pendent enough to select any remedy that
will relieve my patients, without reference
to the source from whence it comes, l am
glad to acknowledge and commend the
merits of this remedy thus frankly.
Respectfully yours,
= R. A. GUM, NJ. D.
"Dean and Professor of Surgery, United
States Medical College of New York
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