The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1889-04-26
"ED1TOR's BACK STAIRS"
The Interesting Views of the Late d
IT, g. Holland.

The Interesting Views of the Late DR.
j. G. Holland.
The columns of the newspapers appear t
be flooded with proprietary medicine adver
tisements. As we cast our eye over them, Il
brings to mind an article that was published
by the late DR.. Holland in Scrbner's Month
ly. He says: Nevertheless, 1t Is 1act ina
MANY of the best proprietary medicines OF
thc dav we're more successful than many
physicians, and most of them, it should DC
Remembered, were at first discovered or USED
in actual medical practice. When, however
any shrewd person, knowing their virtue,
and foreseeing their popularity, secures ana
advertiscs them, then, in the OPINION OF the
bigoted, all virtue went out OF them"
Is not this absurd!
This great man appreciated the real merits
of popular remedies, and the absurdlty OF
| those that derided them because pubic atten-
tion was called to the article and the evidence
| of their cures. Ii the most noted physician
| ShouLll announce that he had made study of
anv certain organ or disease of the body, or
make his sign larger than the code size,
though he may have practised medicine and
been a leader in all medical counsels, notwith-
standing all this, if he should presume to ad.
yertise and decline to give his discovery to
the public, he would be pronounced quack
and humbug, although he may have spent
his entire life and all his available funds in
perfecting his investigations.
Again we say, "absurd."
If an ulcer is found upon ones arm, and is
cured by some dear old grandmother, outside
medical profession an ulcer of little impor-
lance. But If treated under the code, causing
sleepless nights for month, with the scien-
tifc treatment. viz, plasters, washes, dosing
with morphine. arsenic and other vile SUBJ |
stances, given to prevent blood poisoning or
deaden pain, and yet the ulcer becomes ma
lignant, and amputation is made necessary ut
last. to save life, yet all done according to the
''isms" of the medical code, this is much
more gratifying to the medical profession,
and adds more dignity to that distinguished
order than to be cured by the dear old grand
mothers remedy.
This appears like severe arraignment, yet
we believe that it expresses the true standing
Of the medical profession in regard to RENE.
lies discovered outside of their special
'isms." One of the most perpleXng things
If the day is the popularity of certain RENE.
lies, especially Warmers Safe Cure, which
We find for sale everywhere. The physician
If the highest standing is ready to concede
is merits and sustain the theories the propri-
tors have made-that is. that it benefits in
most of the ailments of The human system
because it assists in putting the system in ,
proper condition, thereby aiding in throwing ,
If the impurities of the blood, while Others ,
With less honesty and experience deri1e, and
re willing to see their patient die scientifically,
nd according to the code, rather than have 8
i'm cured by this great remedy. :
Yet we notice that the popularity Of the :
Medicine continues to grow year by year. +
he dscoverer comes boldly before the peo- :
lie with its merits, and proclaims them from y
DOR to door in our opinion much more hon f
rably than the physician who. perchance, !
lay secure patient from some catastrophe, +
nd is permitted to set bone of an arm or :
niger, which he does with great dignity, yet !.
cry soon after takes the liberty to climb the y
litor's back stairs at o'clock in the morn
lg to have it announced in the morning
aper that "Dr. So-andso was in attendance,"
lus securing for his benefit beautiful and Fl
zee advertisement. il
We shall leave it to our readers to say which Il
the wiser and more honorable. "