Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-05-22
4 New System of Practice.

information on such an ordinary
subject), then rhubarb pie is serving
no less benefcent purpose in pro-
longing the life of the Sage OF
Gramercy Park This is sustained
by equally unimpeachable authority,
namely. the Associated Press. The
Oregon'd" report gravely asserts
that the plant contains properties
that are believed to have q whole
some effect upon his system.
These discoveries, the one stumb-
hing upon the heels of the other,
and from such eminent sources, will
be received with JOY by suffering hui
mainly. 1t removes fully one-half
the horrors of the sick room. No
more will the doctors be received
with q sbudder, when it is known
that their presence forebodes rhu'
barb pie or plum duff with more
certainty than it does either calomel
or quinins. Physicians will accept
the new order of things with alacrity
il they are wise as that modern dis
ciple of .Esculapius, who, with a
true conception of human nature
and perfect knowledge of the crav
ings of appetite, made alcohol the
basis of prescriptions for large
proportion of his patients. He
pocketed their fees with quite as
much satisfaction as his patients
swallowed his " tonics, and his rep
utation for profound knowledge
grew apace with his practice.
1t remains with the profession to
decide whether they will profit from
the nod which Fortune seems to have
intended for their special benefit.
If they can abandon musty formula
and adopt progressive ideas, there
seems to be no reason why she may
not be their guide to safer if not
better field of pharmaceutical opera
tons. There seems to be no sound
reason why rhubarb pie may not be-
come quite as popular as the ordi-
nary form of bitters" when it can
be struggled into the stomach on q
physicians prescription, without the
risk of gourmondizing. The duties
of the doctor will be immensely sim
plifed. He will do little harm if no
good, and many of his patients will
get we'll and live long to bless him.
Tho diagnosis will be conducted by
rules as simple as an axiom. He
will have only to ascertain the pecu-
liar weakness of the patients ali
incentive glands to determine tho pre-
else dose which will be produc-
tic Of the best results. He need not
hazard a guess at the state of the
nervous system. That will resume
its normal tone soon as the effects Of
rhubarb pie, adm nistered as mild
cathartic, succumb to the medicinal
properties Of plum duff, given as an
equally essential astringeut.
1t is no surprise to one of ordinary
comprehension that the Sage is L" in-
ordinately fond of rhubarb pie" as
is so explicitly chronicled, when we
reflect upon the extraordinary
amount Of vital energy which may
be stored up between the crusts of
this very palatable bolus. We note
the circumstance with some of the
enthusiasm of a Ponce de Leon,
whose search for similar panacea
was in a very different direction.
We surely live in an age of progress.
The red, blue and green lights Of
the apothecary must give way to ap-
petizing display Of the green grocer.
The fish market, instead of occupy
ing the primitive quarters of a dry.
goods box on the curbstone will as
sumo statelief airs and its proprietor
be on speaking terms with the VEN
der Of coffee, tea and salt mackerel.
What mighty reforms owe their orr.
gin to simple means! Glover tea
and rhubarb pie will be as the myth.
ical grains Of sand set in motion pro.
ducing . train of intermediate effects
which may result in the revolution
Of q kingdom.
GEORGE w. Tyler, one of the
attorneys of Mrs. Sharon, took
Frank Pix!ey, editor of the Argonant
to task. on public street in San
Francisco, a few days ago, for some
thing said in commenting in the
Sharon divorce case. MIR. Pixley,
it seems, wearied OF the argument,
and. to cut the matter short, cody
informed Mr.. Tyler that ne was q
liar. Tyler made q poke at the