Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03
A Lecture on the Theory and Practice
of Medicine.
The Success of a Famous Physician
Explained.
The Science OF Medicine.
Medication Simpliied.
Hope for tho Victims of CONSUMPTION, BrighFs
Disease, Dyspepsia, Constipation,
serOfula, Catarrh, Etc


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 incurabie
| disease. He will leave behind him
| throughout the State a 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 il is really astonishing the
number of cures he has made. Should
| he ever visit us again, he will find a
| 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
! cedented success as physician. The
! statements referred to have reference to
! the remedies the doctor has been using
! to effect. the wonderful cures he has be en-
| making daily since he has been among
us. II has been assumed by all that Dr.
Hartman, like other physicians, has
beenY using the ordinary drugs to be
found in our drug stores, and that his
unusual success.d depended on his peculiar
geniils 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 mostseficacious drugssto be
found In the United States dispensatEtFy,
but thejF virtues are extracted andsVoifl-
poundedap a way wholly original. When :
asked corfAsEHing these compoundsSre-
ferred to, fRa doctor made,4the folloRing
statements: FfRA A
The first tweTFssy ears of gprofes-
sional career did not differ from thatS of
any busy physician and surgeon. HaFly
in my practice, howeTer, became Nss-
satisfied with the serdinafg preparations
of drugs. 1 had gbeen sofFequently dis
appointed in theiTsaperatien that L sus-
pected it was due to'ihezERssy in which the
preparations were, made began in a
modest way to procure the medical herbs
and extract theirtyirtues in such way
that l could rely on their strength and
purity. I was astonished at the change
in my success in the treatment of disase.
In the place of my old uncertainty and
confusion in this treatment of diseases
lowing to the unreliable nature of the
preparations 1 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 l became master of the situation |
and effected a process by which could |
extract the active principals of medicinal |
plants, ahsolutel3 uniform as to strength |
and purity. / really believe that my |
success at that time, as well as at the |
present time, depends on the mode by !
which the medicines used are prepared.
There is no other way to account for the
success that thereafter attended my
practice, which soon became SO extern
sive that 1t became evident that /
should be obliged to institute a labora-
tory or mandatory to meet my neces-
sites. l did so after had been practic-
ing about twelve years, with the sole
purpose Of supplying my own patients,
which, by this time, were to be found in
many parts of the country. Wishing to
meet the demands of my private patients
ISupplied my medicines to druggists in
their vicinity, labeled with names known
only to my patients. 1 had repeated
from druggists to put Aon
each bottle printed directions as to the
use and dose, that the5 might supply the
demand for them that had sprung up
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 recomm ended, and l
also believe that their efficacy is mostly,
f not wholly, due to the peculiar mode
BY which they are prepared - They are
% be found whereverI have patients,
md l continue to prescribe them as my
principal prescriptions, scarcely ever
indIng it necessary to use ANY other
medicine.
Speaking of medicine IN general, the
loctor went on to say, there can be no
reasonable doubt that the trend OF medi- ;
al science indicates that all schools of {
Medicine have greatly overestimated the {
power of drugs to cure diseases, and it I
nay fairly be considered a mooted Ques- +
ion whether many of the acute diseases
ire in any degree benefited by the adj G
of drugs. But il is by all c
admitted that chronic diseases that show q
10 tendency toward spontaneous recoY-
ry do require for their cure medicine; q
Dut even then the number of drugs used t
~ the best physicians are gradually e
rowing less, until the few real efica- '
ious medicines can be counted on the q
myers without emitting any. This is q t
act well known to the profession, and is C
uriously contradictory OF the confusing j
rray of drugs on exhibition in the many
rngstores. Little by little science t
nd experience have combined to d
emonstrate the undonbted value &
f few drugs, which. by proper pre- +
aration and combination, are TO be o
onsidered as one of the greatest boons L
hat has ever been contributed to the {,
ZEAL of mankind. These can, believe, O
e combined into three compounds in q
UGH manner as TO retain the virtues of T
ach separate ingredient, and to present d
II of the really effective drugs in three "
nipple, harmless and effective COM Il
ounds, perfectly safe as family medi- fl
ines, and yet possessing all the virtues s.
hat can be attributed to every medicine lie