Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-24
APP YSICIAN's REENCE.

IA medical student in various Northerr
colleges and hospitals, the writer has otter
seen at a glance more than hundred caset
in the same ward, OF various forms and grade
OF strumous, cachectic, and other contagious
aud hereditary blood poison diseases, and hsl
watched them remaining in those wards for
a whole year, and still not cured or ever
benefited. The mercurial ana other regular
remedies had failed 10 cure tasm. 1t is ad.
mitted by our abest medical authors that
though mercury is still the shest-anchor Of
confidence in the treatment of that monster
coHtsgien which is the great parent sourcs Of
nearly all blood poison diseases known, yet
it is still considered altogether unsatisfactory
in lis results. In there convictions my OWL
experience most decidedly concur, for / have
never had in my practice any Satisfactory
results, but have more than thousand times
telt Inundated In not possessing curative
remedy for these cases.
Such facts truthfully illustrate the candid
admissions of the medical profession of to-day
that for certain contagious and pestiferous
class of blood diseases, they possess no RENE
dy with which they can assure a 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 humiliatiDg confessions
have legitimately persuaded thousands OF
medical practitiouers-whoh have traversed
and exhausted the list of professional rene
dies without a cure--to try the Swif's Sps-
cifc. They have risked their ethical stand
ing and tested this vegetable remedy, which,
like charm, has Furnished them the great
desideratum of remedy.
Now, under such hnmiliating confessions,
what apology could be demanded or expia-
nation asked for employing a remedy that
il So positively and extensively known as an
infallible and permanent cure? What act
in N au's life could be more justi6sble?
Why should doctors hesitste? They are
seeking 10 relieve afflicted humauity-to ar
rest the natural course and tendency of dis
eases-to reiustate health and promote com.
fort and happiness. Hence, they are author.
lied and empowered to use that remedy
which experience-the only guide in all
medicine-has shown 10 be efficient as cure
This obligation on the part of the physician
10 his patient, is clearly subversiye OF all
ethical restrictions. And, moreover, the
doctor Possesses the pro essional right to use
swift. Specific, from the fact that it is
strictly cfficinsl. Every ingredient compos-
ing this preparation is official in the U aiied
States dispensatory, and hence is presumed to
be known-as 10 its medical and therapeutic
properties. 1t is Dut recipe oil omc.nal
medicines, and this combination is as ethical
as any other recipe; and may not, nay can.
not be CHASED as a nostrum.
All the best remedies of to-day were en-
pirically discovered, and the SHift's Specific
does as certainly possess the qualities
claimed for it as it does quinine or opium.
This fact, time and experisDcs have sbuu-
dainty established. The doctors, Tor want of
satisfactory remedies in certain cases, have
resorted TO this Sps cifc. They have found
it sstoDi.hingly effective, and there is no
doubt of the fact from positive evidence, hat
a large proportion 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 nnost satisfactory resulls In this
they have acted right. Taey are saTiDg their
patients and their owa repu' alton, doin.
good TO su1eripg hum snity, and at the sams
time they have ibfringea no reasonable
claim OF professional elhic'. The entire
medical faculty may consistently employ
this recipe, for, 10 every reasonable sense,
it ia professional.
As TO my own professional opinion Ell this
Specific, l state truthfulIy that l consider 1t
beyond all comparison the most efficient
blood Alternative known 10 the medical
science, That, without an equal in its charm
Ing curative properties, ii becomes indispen-
sable, in that it happily meets an increasing
demand for a remedy that the leaned
medical faculty hiss failed to furnish.
J. DICKSON SMITH, MD.