Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-03-29
..EDTToH,s RACTz 80
The Interesting Views of the Late DE-. j.
G. Holland


The columns Of the newspapers ap-
pear TO be flooded with proprietary med
icine advertisements. As we cast our
eye over them, it brings to mind an ar
ticle that YVES published by the late DR..
Holland IN ScTibnerS Monthly. Hs says:
Nevertheless, it is a fact that many Of
the best proprietary medicines Of the day
were more successful than many ply
siciaps, and most Of them, it should be
remembered, were at first discovered or
used in actual medical practice. When,
however, any shreWd person, knowing
their virtue, and fOreseeing their POpu-
larity, secures and advertises 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 ab-
surditv Of those that derided them bs-
cause public attention was called to the
article and the evidence Of their cures.
If the most noted physician should an
nOunce that ne had made a 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
and been a leader in all medical cOunseIs,
Notwithstanding all this, if he should pre-
sumo to advertise and decline to give
his discovery to the public, ne would
be 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, ''absurd.'
If an ulcer is found upon ones arm.
and is cured by some dear old grand
mother, outside OF the code, it viii be
pronounced by the profession an ulcer Of
little Importance. But if treated under
the code, causing sleepless nights for a
month, with the scientific treatment, viz,
plasters, washes, dosing with morphine,
araenic and other vile substances, given
to prevent blood poisoning or deaden
pain, and yet the ulcer becomes malig-
nant, and amputRtion is made necessary
at last, to save life, yet all done accOrd-
ing TO the ''iems" 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 Arrangements,
! 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
perplexing things Of the day is the pop
ularity of certain remedies, especially
t Warmers Safe Cure, which we find for
| sale everywhere. The physician OF the
highest standing is ready to ooncede its
merits and sustain the theories the pro-
/ prietOrs have mRde-that is, that st ben
/ efts in most of the ailments of the human
! system bee Uss it assists in putting the
kidneys in proper condition, thereby
aiding 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 &C
cOrding 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
before the people with its merits, and
procIaims them from door to door in our
! opinion much more hOnorably than the
! physician who, perchance, may secure q
patient from some catastrophe, and Is
permitted TO set q bone Of an arm or q
finger, which he does with great dignity,
yet very. soon after takes the liberty to
| climb the editors back stairs at 9
O'Clock in the morning, to have it an
nounced in the morning paper that ''Dr.
| So Rnd-so was in attendance" thus Sc
curing for his benefit beautiful and
free advertisement.
We shall leave it to our readers to say
which IL the wiser and more honorable.