The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-13
HEDiED ABOUT BY A PROSCRlPTIVE TABOO

am not aiming to convince mental
papies, as indeed that would be fruitIess
Without the necessary cultured intellect
mat MAKES logic applicable. Force, brilli-
aney and originality even are no weapons
10 attack slave with. For many GEN.
tnries the medical art was hedged about
ny proscriptive taboo which it. as vet.
mas not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty of imbecility
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average individual-in relation to1nedicine
ana medicine men. The sun of the Nine
teenth century has not vet dawned unon
his intellectual horizon. He. together
with his ideal medicine man, still hiber-
mates in the good old DAYS of thedark ages
when 1t was bad form To be inouisitive.
He still believes" in eedine. biisterinp
vomiting. purging and sweating. He loves
coplons doses of horse medicine. He de-
lgnts In asafptida and calomel and car
poic acid. They are considered indispen-
sable; no well regulated family. with pirmv
inteliects and abdominal DEVELOPMENT con-
sloers Itself safe without those family
lares. These | do not wish to convert:
they are the Rip Van Wrinkles that will
continue to siuinber through this and
probably through the next century. They
play no role in the worlds history. They
i've, they die. No monument marks their
forgotten sepulchre. Humanity was not
enriched by their entrance; It has lost
nothing by their exit. They are driftgood
on the shores of time and iioat with the
ebb and tide of opinions they have in
herited from their anthropomorphic an
cestry. No, it is not to these | wish to
address myself, but to the thinking ones.
Wnom thought does not throw into an
eplieptlc paroxysm; who love knowledge
ior It's own sake; who are willing to inves-
uSate the truth or talsity of any PROPOSE
uon, and once convinced will stand by it
through all the grimaces of chattering
ana delayed civilization. To those-not
the chatterers, but the thinkers-I COM
mend the Histogenetic System for investi-
gation, and will elucidate with pleasure
any question not sufficiently clear in book,
winch Will be sent free to any address.
an. SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 1891.
An who are afflicted in a like manner
Know this: l have been nearly blind for
nlteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment OF several of the most eminent
ocunsts OF the country. Have been treat
gu at the Eye lnfirmary in Boston, but re-
celved no benefit until commenced taxi
ing the HIstogenetic medicines, since
Mhlch time my sight has been constantly
Improving, and expect with the use of a
Ittie more of the medicine to be able to
see as well as ever did. My trouble was
paralysis OF the optic nerve. The medi-
clnes also brought me through a severe
attack OF the la grippe last spring, after my
friends had very nearly despaired of my
recovery, for all of which favors, after God,
we are truly thankful to DR.. Jordan and
has medicines, and shall never employ any
other physician when it is possible to OBJ
tam treatment from him, for we are Of the
opinion that he can surely accomplish
miracles. MRS. EDNA A. LEWIS,
S. w. Cor. Alton and fremont SITS.