The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
DOCTORS FURIOUS.
At,nii n Physicinn Tell the Truth or
Net A Nice Point in Ethics.
= sensible Health omcini

| caused mere over the question as to the right
| o: a physician to certify to the merits of
| rem .dy not in the modern pharmacoppia
| llr james A ,Steuart, one of the most emf
| neht ply sicians in the South and Health
| Commissioner of this city, had analysed a
| newly-discovered article, and certified Off
| cialiy not only to its efficacy but to the fact
| That 1t replaced old-time preparations of a
| similar character which, analyses had proved,
| were aduterated and poisonous The medi-
cal and chirurgical faculty, of which he is a
| member, hell that he had violated the code
| Of medical ethics, and much public interest
| was aroused because OF the confidence
| felt both in his professional stand
! ing and official int gritty
1t was argued that to thus place a limita.
ton ON the acts OF physician and especially
OF health officer, was opposed to the spirit
| OF the age; that such reasoning might have
| been logical enough when it was to the inter-
est OF rulers or societies to invest themselves
| with supernatural halo, but now when
thought should be free and untrammeled, such
things savored of bal barism. 1t was the duty
| OF physician, especially of q health officer,
! to condemn publicly any remedy which he
| knew to be injurious, but it was not right to
| say that he should be debarred from testify
ing to the merits of anything which he knew
to be good. If this were So the world would
not receive the benefit of half the discoveries
made in art or science. Thus the people ar
| gued, while the faculty threatened expulsion
and talked of time honored customs, ethics,
professional courtesy and traditions.
But the matter soon assumed new and
| surprising phase. A few days afterward a
certificate appeared in the daily papers bear
ing the autograph signatures of Governor
| McLane, Attorney-General Roberts, Mayor
Latrobe, city postmaster Adreon, chiefs of
| State and municipal departments, judges and
| Clerks of courts, Federal officials and Con-
| gressmen, emphatically endorsing the action
| of the health commissioner, and concurring
| i'll his opinion as to the efficacy of the remedy,
asserting that they did SO from personal ex-
perience with and practical tests and obser-
vations.
There could be no gainsaying such evidence
as this, but, asif to cap the climax, shortly after
ward there appeared another certificate with
autograph signatures of leading practicfng
| physicians from all parts of the State, includ-
| ing the physicians of all the leading hospitals,
| the physician to the city fire department, the
| port physician, vaccine physician and resident
physicians of infirmaries all endorsing the
| discovery and stating that it had been tested
by them in hospitals and private practice for
! weeks with wonderful curative effect,
and that analyses had shown no trace Of
| opiates or poisons, prevalent Ill other
cough mixtures. They further stated that
! they had been induced to take tins step in
view OF the many hurtful preparations which
| contained narcotics and pOisons and of the
! dangers consequent on their use The RENE
| dy in question is Red Star Cough Cure. Such
a conclusive answer as this to the narrow ar
! guments of the few, arrayed public sentiment
on the side of the Health Commissioner, aid
it is significant that DR.. Steuart has since
been appointed to Office by the Mayor for a
| third term, and has had his appointment
unanimously confirmed by the City Council.
| Owing to the high professional reputation
| of the gentlemen who endorsed his action, as
well as to the envable standing Of the owners
of the remedy, The Charles A. Vogeler Com
pany, of this city, widespread interest has
al boon cd in ia
here, but in Philadelphia, Washington and
other neighboring cities. The feeling is
generally expressed by professional men that
Red Star Cough Cure on account of its free
dom from narcotics and poisons, inaugurates
most desirable new departure in medicine.
| This is the pronounced opinion Of authorities
! like DR.. Fawcett, who has been for
thirty-three years resident physician of the
| Union Protestant Infrmary, in this city, and
| Professor John j. Caldwell. NJ D., member
! Of medical societies of Baltimore, New Yorh
and Brooklyn, and with long experience in
| civil and military hospitals Both of these
! gentlemen together with no less than fifty
other practicing physicians of Maryland,
| have publicly put themselves on record as &c
! the evil of narcotic medicines, and the cOnse
| quent value and importance of the new dis
! Covery referred to. 1t is conceded that pub
| lie opinion has completely vindicated DIR
| Steuart in his action, and that in his whole
! course he was actuated simply by an earnesl
desire to benefit the community a. large.
GREAT BRITAIN gave last year for its for
eign service - 10000, Italy -, OOO0 $50, Spain
$1,000, 900 and the United states S325, 900.
Above all other earthly ills
hate the big, old-tashioned pills;
By slow degrees they downward wend,
And often pause or upward tend
With such discomfort are they fraught,
Their good effects amount to naught.
Now, DIR. Pierce prepares pill
That just exactly fills the bill
A Pellet, rather, that is all
A pleasant Purgative, and small;
Just try them as YOU feel their need,
You'll fad that | speak TRUTH indeed
THE desire for Egyptian curiosites has as
sumed the proportions of craze in London
The MOI ming Dress.
1t is said that lady's standing in society
can easily be determined by her dress at the
| breakfast-table; an expensive, snowy costume
indicating that the wearer has not yet learned
the properties But no one need be afraid
of being called ''shoddy' if her loveneSs i.
as apparent by daylight as at the hops.
Perfect duty is never the attendant of dis
ease; above all, of those diseases peculiar to
women, and which find ready cure in DR..
Pierces "Favorite Prescription" Price re
duced to one dollar. By druggists
HENRY IRVING says much of the mortality
Of this country is due to buckwheat cakes.
The "old reliable"--Dr. Sage Catarrb
Remedy.
"FREsH American oysters is now famil
lar sign in many places in London
"Rough on hats.
Clears out rats, mice, reaches flies, ants, bed
bugs skunks, chipmunks, gophers. l5c. Drgts
For splendid Magazine and chance for EN-.
ployment, address W. H. Thompson, Phila, Pa.
''Rough on Corns."
Ask for Wells Rough on Corns 'l5c. Com
plete cure. Hard or soft coIIls, warts bunionS
Use DIR. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water if af.
hicted with sore eyes. 25c. bottle Druggists
TYPE setting is taught in japanese prisons
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