The Washington critic., 1886-05-28
AN UNJUST CODE.
Justice Where it is Due.


1t is high time that some Of the dis
tinguished members of the medical
profession, with broad sense of honor
and individuality, should throw aside
their code ethics and render only
what is simply due to one of the great
est discoveries of the nineteenth cen
tury. The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co.,
Baltimore, Md, have always submitted
their Dufry's pure malt whiskey to
analysis in support of their claim that
1t contains no fusel oil or other poison
GUS ingredients, and 1t has already been
analysed by the most eminent chemists
of the country, and they offer every
opportunity for investigation. Yet,
because 1t happens to be proprietary
article, which they have advertised for
the relief of human suffering, the pro-
fession, although using it extensively,
have not given 1t such public endorse
ment as 1t deserves, and which
they accord to it privately.
But there are, nevertheless,
many marked exceptions to this
rule, and the following sincere express
sion of opinion upon its merits from
one of the most learned physicians in
the country, speaks for itself in rebuke
of those who halt in a strict line of
duty in Difference to these ethics. DR..
J. G. Hoffman, Nj. D., Jefferson, Wis
consin, Alumnus of the Julio Maxi
milan University, Bavaria; of the Uni
versity Vienna, Austria; Of the Berlin
Charlie, the Allgemeines Krankenhaus,
Vienna; graduate Of the Rush Medical
College, Chicago; late physician of the
Illinois State Insane Asylum; late of
the United States Navy, author of
works on the "Theory of Chronic
Diseases" "The Opium Habit and its
Cure" writes as follows:
jefferson, Wis, March 10, 1885.
The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co., Baltimore, Nd
Gentlemen-It is year or so that sent
for large supply of your whiskey. since
| purchased large amounts from my drug.
| gists In Chicago. | have made most care
| full test Of the medicinal qualities OF your
whiskey, which, in word, implies simply
its purity, for in my practice an adulter-
| ated, spurious article would be injurious to
a high degree. had tried every brand
| could purchase and money herein was no
| object to me. My patients (altogether
| opium eaters) who require nerve food more
than any other disease demands, as the
chronic poisoning with so powerfully de-
letcrious narcotic us opium, or its aka
loids, has shattered the entire nervous sys-
TEN, requiring a building-up de moro, on
| the purest and strongest nerve food. 1 had
despaired OF whiskey as an adjunct to my
| treatment, for ia no instance could | de-
| pend on the absence OF fusel oil, particu
larly injurious to my patients shattered
| systems. But after years trial | hesitate
no longer, for In all the many trials not a
single test could be made to reveal that
dangerous fusel oil in It, You have my
thanks for this great and faithful assistant
| in my work OF redeemiug opium eaters,
and since adding your whiskey to my treat,
ment find no trouble In readily curing the
worst cases. | have never experienced
| that dreaded reaction that always followed
the application OF other WHISTLES in l2 or
"a hours, doing actual injury and inter
fering with the recuperation Of the nerve
forces, aimed at by my treatment. | have
| long hesitated in this statement to you OF
my experience with your whiskey, as am
reticent I'm giving any testimony whatever
| | have been careful to test your whiskey In
over thousand cases of opium. addiction,
| or rather In its "after treatment,n and al.
| lowed years time to test the permancncy
| OF its actions, and to-day fairness and
| honor bid me to thank you for the invarable
purity Of your Duify's Pure Malt Whiskey.
Respectfully yours, etc,