Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-22
A Physicians Experience.

| As q medical student in various North
! ern colleges and hospitals, the writer has
often seen at n glance more than hun
/ dred cases 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 a whole
| wear. and still not cured or even benefited.
| The mercurial and other regular remedies
| had failed TO cure them. 1t is admitted
! by our ablest 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
1 known, vet 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 a thousand times felt hui
| inflated in not possessing curative
remedy for these cases.
| Such facts truthfully illustrate the cam
| did admissions of the medical profession
of to-day. that for 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 10 assure that it will radically
! and permanently cure.
Such exceedingly humiliatingconfessiOn
/ have legitimately persuaded thousands of
| medical practitiOners-wh have travers-
| 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
| the great desideratum of a remedy.
! Now, under such humiliating confess
4 siOns, what apology could be demanded or
| explanation asked for employing remedy
! that is so positively and extensively known
as an infallible and permanent cure?
! What act in mans life could be more JUS
! tifiable?
| Why should doctors hesitate? 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 eEperience-the only guide
/ in all medicine-has shown to be efficient
as cure! This obligation on the part OF
I the physician to his patient, is clearly
| subyersive 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 officinal, Every
| ingredient composing this preparation is
/ official in the United States dispensatOry,
| and hence presumed to be knOwn--as to
! its medical and therapeutic properties.
! 1t is but a recipe of Ofticinal medicines,
and this combination is as ethical as any
other recipe; and may not, nay cannot, be
classed as nOStrum:
All the best remedies of to-day were
emDirically discovered, and the Swifts
Specific does as certainly possess the
properties claimed for it as does quinine
or opium. This fact, time and experience
have abundantly established. The doc
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 large pro-
portion of the medical profession are to-
day using this Specific in a large class of
cases for which they know outside OF this
remedy no curel They do use it and re-
port most satisfactory results. In this
they have acted right. They are saving
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 l con-
slider it beyond all comparison the most
efficient blood alteratiye known to medi-
cal science. That, without an equal in
its charming curative properties, it be-
comes Indispensable, in that it happily
meets an increasing demand for remedy
that the learned medical faculty has failed
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