Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-12-01
THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.
Upon Subject of Vital Interest, Effect
ing the Welfare of ALI.

one of the leading and best known scien
tific writer's of the present day is espec-
tally significant, and should be of un-
usual value to 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 characters.
tics of the nineteenth century. The
common people, as well as the more
enlightened and refined, cry out with
no uncertain voice to be emancipated
from the slavery of conservatism and
superstition which has held the masses
in ignorance during large portion of the
worlds history, and in the time of the
Dark Ages came near obliterating the
last glimmer Of truth. Dogmatic as
sertions and blind empiricism are losing
caste among all classes of all countries.
People are beginning to think for them
selves, and to regard authority much
less than argument. Men and women
are no longer willing that few indi-
viduals should dictate to them what
must be their sentiments and opinions.
They claim the right to solve for them.
selves the great questions of the day
and demand that the general good Of
humanity shall be respected. AS the
result of this general awakening, we
see, on every hand, unmistakable evil
dences of reiormatory action. People
who, few years ago, endured suffer
ing the most intense in the name of
duty, now realize the utter ioolishness
of such II course. Men who were I'M
der The bondage of bigoted advisers al
lowed their health to depart; suffered
their constitutions to become under
mined and finally died as martyrs to
false system of treatment. There are
millions OF people filling untimely
graves who might have lived to green
old age had their original troubles been
taken in time or properly treated.
There are thousands of people to-day,
thoughtlessly enduring the first symp.
toms Of some serious malady and with>
out the slightest realization of the dan
ger that is before them. They have
occasional headaches; a lack ofappetite
one day and ravenous one the next
or an unaccountable feeling of weriness.
sometimes accompanied by nausea and
attribute all these troubles to the old
idea of "A slight cold or malaria. 1t
is high time that people awoke to
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 dis.
eases as quickly and as safely as posi-.
BILE; to maintain no other position than
that Of truth honestly ascertained, and
to endorse and recommend any remedy
that has been found useful, no matter
what its origin, there will be no more
quareling among the doctors, while
there will be great rejoicing throughout
the world"
II am well aware of the censure that
will be melted out to me for writing
this letter but l feel that / cannot be
true to my honest convictions unless
Iextend a helping hand and endorse
all that | know to be good. The ex-
tended publications for the past few
years, and graphic descriptions of differ
ent diseases of the kidneys and liver
awakened the medical profession to the
fact that these diseases are greatly in.
creasing, The treatment of the doc.
tors has been largely experimental and
many Of their patients have died while
they were casting about for a remedy
to cure them"
cit is now over two years since my
attention was first called to the use of
a most wonderful preparation in the
treatment of Bright's disease of the
kidneys. Patients had frequently
asked ME about the remedy and had
heard of remarkable cures effected by
il, but like many others l hesitated to
recommend its use. A personal friend
of mine had been in poor health for