Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-08
"DOCTORING OLD MEN"
IN StFikinE Picture-A .seviyaI of
old Time Simplicities.


In one Of Harper's issues is given a
very fne illustration Of Roberts oele-
brated painting known as "Doctoring
Old Time" 1t represents a typical
old-tImer, with his bellows blowing the
Dust from an ancient clock, with its
CORDS and weights carefully secured
one OF these clocks in this generation
is appreciated only as rare relic.
The suggestive name, "Doctoring
Old Iime," brings to our mind an
other version OF the title, used for an
other purpose,-"Old Time Doctoring."
We learn, through a reliable source,
that one Of the enterplisiug proprie-
tary medicine firms of the country,
has been for years investigating the
formulas and medical preparations
used in the beginning of this century,
and even before, with a view of ascer-
tanning why people in our great grand
fathers time enjoyed a health and ply.
seal vigor so seldom found in the
present generation. They now think
they have secured the secret of secrets.
They lind that the prevailing opinion
that then existed, that mature has a
remedy Tor every existing disorder"
was true, and acting under this be-
lief, our grandparents used the COM
mon herbs aud plants. Continual
trespass upon the forest domain, has
made these herbs less abundant and
has driven them further from civilza-
ton, until they have been discarded,
as remedi ii agents because of the dii-
fculty of obtaining them. ~.
II. III. Warner, proprietor of
Warmers sale cure and founder of the
Warner observatory, Rochester, N. Y
has been pressing Investigations in
this direction, into the annals of old
family histories, until lie has secured
some very valuable formulas, from
which his firm is now preparing med
icines, to be sold by all druggists.
Tney will, we learn, be known I'M
der the general tile of warmers Log
Cabin remedies" Among these med
icines will be a "sarssparills," for the
blood and liver, the stomach, etc.
LOG Cabin cough and consumption
remedy" Log Cabin hair tonic" "Log
Cabin extract" for internal and ex-
ternal use, and an old valuable discov-
cry Tor catarrb, called "Log Cabin
rose cream" Among the list is also a
LOG Cabin plaster" and "Log Cabin
liver pill"
From the number Of remedies, it
will be seen that they do not propose
to cure all diseases with one prepara-
ton. 1t is believed by many that
with these remedies a now era is to
dawn upon suffering humanity and
that the close of the nineteenth cen
fury will see these roots and herbs, rs
compounded under the title Of
Warmers Log Cabin remedies, as pop
uiar as they were at the beginning.
Although they come in the form of
proprietary medicines, yet they will be
none the less welcome, for suffering
humanity has become tired of mod
ern doctoring aud the public has
great confidence iii any remedies put
up by the firm of which H. H. Warner
is the head. The people have become
suspicious of the effects of doctoring
with poisonous drugs. Few realize the
injurious effects following the pre-
scriptions'of many modern physicians.
These effects of poisonous drugs, al.
ready prominent, will become more
pronounced in coming generations.
Therefore we can cordially wish the
old-tashioned new remedies the best
OF success.