Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
A Lecture on the Theory and Practice
of Medicine.
The Success of a Famous Physician
Explained.
The Science of Medicine.
Medication Simplitied .
Hope for the Victims of Consumption, Brishts
Disease, Dyspepsia, Constipation,
serofula. Catarrh, Etc

DR.. s. B. Hartman, name that has
become q household word throughout the
State of Texas by virtue of the many re-
markable cures wrought by him while
stopping at Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin,
Waco, Houston, Galveston and San An
tonic, and afterward at all OF the princi-
pal cities OF the State of Texas, has
nearly completed his visit to this State.
He will return TO Columbus, Ohio, IN
time to .superintend the opening of his
magnificent palatial building, nearly
finished, to be occupied by the Surgical
and Medical Association Of Columbus, of
which the doctor is president and chief
surgeon. The doctor will take with him
the best wishes of hundreds who have
been cured OF some heretofore incurable
disease. He will leave behind him
throughout the State host of friends
who are enthusiastic over his remarkable
success as physician and skill as sur
geon In the short time he has been
among US it is really astonishing the
number of cures he has made. Should
he ever visit us again, he Will find q
multitude ready to greet him. In con-
versation with the doctor touching his
return to the East, he made
some important statements, which
will be received with gratitude by all
those who know of the Doctors unpre-
cedented success as a physician. The
statements referred to have reference to
the remedies the doctor has been using
to effect the wonderful cures he has been
making daily since he has been among
us. 1t has been assumed by all that Dr.
Hartman, like other physicians, has
been using the ordinary drugs to be
found in our drug stores, and that his
unusual success depended on his peculiar
genius in prescribing them. But it ap-
pears, as revealed by him, that he has
been using almost entirely three medical
compounds. These compounds are COM
posed of the most efficaeious drugs to be
found in the United States dispensatOTy,
but their virtues are extracted and COM
pounded in a way wholly original. When
asked concerning these compounds re-
ferred to, the doctor made the following
statements:
The first twelve years of my profess
sional career did not differ from that of
any busy physician and surgeon. Early
in my practice, however, L became dis
satisfied with the ordinary preparations
of drugs. l had been so frequently dis
appointed in their operation that sus-
pected it was due to the way in VI ich the
preparations were made. l begaa in a
modest way to procure the medical herbs
and extract their virtues in such away
that could rely on their strength aud
purity. I was astonished at the chaIsge
in my success in the treatment of disasN,
In the place of my old uncertainty ana
confusion in the treatment of diseases
lowing to the unreliable nature of Thea
preparations had been using) became
certain aud confident. OF course,
at first the preparation OF my
own drugs was attended with great
expense and much experiment, but
slowly 1 became master of the situation
and effected q process by which could
extract the active principals Of medicinal
plants, absolutely uniform as to strength
and purity. l really believe that my
success at that time, as well as at the
present time, depends on the mode bptI
which the medicines used are prepareas
There is no other way to account for Esse
success that thereafter attended gfy
practice, which soon became so Skten-
sive that it became evident fAat 1
should be obliged to institute i iabora-
tory or mandatory to meet my neces-
stiles. did so after had3Easn practic-
ing about twelve years EMifh the sole
VI SupplyAuS AbgSx3Wu
which, by this time, wefasto be found in
many parts of the coentry. Wishing to
meet the demands ofg private patients
supplied my mediesi1es to druggists in
their vicinity, labefed with names known
only to my patients. / had repeated
solicitations from druggists to put on
each bottle printed directions as to the
use and dose, that they might supply the
demand for thea that had sprung I'D
outside my regular patients, to which
at last consented. The enormous sale of
them that has since been made 1 believe
to be due to their efficacy in the diseases
for which they are recommended, and | |
also believe that their efficacy is mostly,
if not wholly, due to the peculiar mode |
by which they are prepared. They are !
to be found wherever have patients,
and continue to prescribe them as my
principal prescriptions, scarcely ever |
finding it necessary to use any other |
medicine.
Speaking of medicine IN general, the |
doctor went on to say, there can be no |
doubt that the trend OF medi- |
cal science indicates that all schools OF |
medicine have greatly overestimated the |
power of drugs to cure diseases, and it |
may fairly be considered a'mooted ques- |
are in any degree benefited by the adj |
of drugs. But II is by all |
that chronic diseases that show
no tendency toward spontaneous recov-
cry do require for their cure medicine; |
but even then the number Of drugs used |
by the best physicians are gradually /
growing less, until the few real efica-
cious medicines can be counted on the
fingers without emitting any. This is O
fact well known TO the profession and is
curiously contradictory of the confusing
array of drugs on exhibition in the many
Little by little science
and experience have ombined to
the undoubted value
of few drugs, which, by proper pre-
paration and com bination, are to be
considered as one OF the greatest boons I
that has ever been contributed to the
veal of mankind. These can, believe,
be combined into three compounds in
such manner as to retain the virtues of
each separate ingredient, and to present
all Of the really effective drugs in three
simple, harmless and effective COM
pounds, perfectly safe as family medi-
cines, and yet possessing all the virtues
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