Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-03-21
-EDl1om.s BACK STAIRS
The Interesting Views of tho Late DR.. j.
G. Holland,

G. Holland.
The columns OF the newspapers ap
pear to be flooded with proprietary med
icine advertisements AZ we cast on
eye over them, i. brings to mind an ar
ticle that was published by the late DE-
Holland IN Scribner's Monthly. He says
Nevertheless, it is fact that many o.
The best proprietary medicines of the day
were more successful than many ply
eiciars, snd most OF them, it should be
remembered, were at first discovered or
1sed in actual medical practice. When,
however, any shrewd person, knowing
their virtue, and foreseeing their popu-
larity, secures and sdvertises them, then.
in the opinion OF the bigoted, ali virtue
vent ont OF them"
Is not this absurd?
This great man appreciated the real
merits of popular remedies, and the sb-
surdity Of those that derided them be-
cause public attention was called to the
article and the evidence of their cures.
II the most noted physician should an
nounce that he had made study OF any
certain organ or disease OF the body, or
make his sign larger than the code size,
though he may have practised medicine
end been leader in all medical counse.s,
notwithstanding all this, if he should pre-
sumo to advertise and decline to give
his discovery to the public, he would
b pronounced a quack and humbug,
although he may have spent his en-
tire life and all his available funds
in perfecting his investigations.
Again We say, ''sbsurd."
II an ulcer is found upon ones erm,
and is cured by some dear old grand
mother, outside of the code, it will be
pronounced by the profession an ulcer OF
little importance. But If treated under
the code. causing slseplsss nights for a
month, with the scientific treatment, viz,
plasters, wsshet, dosing with morphine,
arsenic and other vile substances, given
to prevent blood poisoning or dsaden
pain, and yet the ulcer becomes mslig-
nant, and amputation is made necessary
at last, to save life, yet all done accord
ing to the ''isms" OF the medical code,
this is much more gratifying to the med
ical Profession, and adds more dignity to
that distinguished order than to be cured
by the dear old grandmother's remedy.
This appears like severe arrangement,
yet We believe that it expresses the true
standing OF the medical profession in re-
gard to remedies discovered outside of
their special "isms." One of the most
perple1ing things OF the day is the pop
ularity Of certain remedies, especially
Wsrner'e Safe Cure, which we find for
esle everywhere. The ply stefan oil the
highest standing is ready to concede its
merits and sustain the theories the pro-
prietors have msde-that is, that it ben
efits in most OF the ailments OF the human
system because it assists in putting the
kidneys iu proper condition. thereby
add, z in throwing off the impurities of
the blood, while others with less honest.
and experience deride, and are willing to
see their patient die scientifically, and &C
cordipg to the code, rather than have him
cured by this great remedy.
Yet we notice that the popularity of
the medicine continues to grow year by
year. The discoverer Genes boldly
before the people with its merits, and
proc'aims them from door to door in our
opinion much more honorably than the
physician who, perchance, may secuse
patient from some catastrophe, and is
permitted to set a bone OF an arm or
finger, which he does with great dignity.
yet very soon after takes the liberty to
climb the editors back stairs at
O'clock in the morning, to have it an
nounced in the morning paper that "Dr.
So ard-so wac in attendance" thus Sc
curing for his benefit beautiful and
free advertisement.
We shall lesve it to our readers to say
which is the wiser and more honorable.