The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-03-21
EDITORS BACK STAIRS.
The Interesting Views ofthe late
DR.. J. G. Holland.

The columns of the newspapers appear
to be flooded with proprietary medicine
advertisements. AS wecast our eye over
them, it brings to mind an article that
was published by the late DR.. Holland in
Sc11bncr's Monthly. He says: "Never-
theless, it is fact that many of the best
proprietary medicines of the day were
more successful than many physicians,
and most of them it should be remerr-
bered, were at first discovered or used in
actual medical practice. When, however,
any sllrewd person, knowing their virtue,
and foreseeing their popularity, secures
and advertises them, then, in the opinion
OF the blgoted, all virtue went out of
them"
Is not this absurd?
This great man appreciated the real
merits of popular medicines, and the alb
surdity of those that derided them be-
cause public attention was called to the
article and the evidence of their cures.
If 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 practiced medicine
| and been leader in all medical circles,
| Notwithstanding all this, if he should
presume to advertise and decline to give
| his discovery to the public, he would be
pronounced a quack and humbug, al
| though 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 oil grandmother
outside of the code, it will be pronounced
by the medicalprotesslon an ulcer of little
Importance But if treated under the
code, causing sleepless ii ghts fora month,
with the scientific treatment, viz, plas-
tiers, washes, dosing with morphine, ar
senic and other vile substances, given to
prevent blood poiso,2;ns or deaden pain,
and vet the ulcer becomes malignant, and
amputation is made necessary at last, to
get all done according to the "isns' OF
| the medical code, this is much more graf
flying 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
standard Of the medical protest. IN in re-
| gard to rem edies discovered outside Of
their special "isms." me Of the most
perplexing things Of tie da I is the popu-
larity of certain renedi S, especially of
! Warmers Safe Cure, which we find for
| sale everywhere. The physician of the
| highest standing is ready to coneede its
merits and sustain the theories the pro-
| prietors have made-that is. that it ben
/ fits in most of the ailments OF the human
system because it assists in putting the
kidneys i'll propsr condition, thereby aid
ing in throwing off the impurities OF the
blood, while others with less honesty and
experience deride, and are willing to see
their patient die scientifically, and ac-
eordirg 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 comes boldly be-
| fore the people with it's merits and pro-
claims them from door to door much
more honorablY, in our opinion, than
the physician who, perchance, may Sc
cure patient from some catastrophe,
and is permitted to set a bone of an arm
| or finger, which he does with great dig
! nifty, yet very 500 natter takes the Liberty
| to climb the EDITORS back stairs at 2
| O'Clock in the morning to have it an
| lounced in the morning paper that '.'Dr.
So-and-so was in ATTENDANCE thrs Sc
| curing for his benefit beautiful and free
advertisement.
We shall leave it to our readers to
say which is the wiser and more honora-
BILE.