The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-25
HEDGED ABOUT BY A PROSCRlPTIgE TABOO

/ am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that woa d be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable Force, brilli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
TO attack a slave with. For many CEN
turtles the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which it, as vet,
has not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty OF imbeciiity
stamped upon the mental caIiber of the
average individual--in relation TO medicine
and medicine men. The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not yet dawned
upon his intellectual horizon. He, to-
gether with his ideal medicine man, still
hibernates in the good old days of the
dark ages when it was bad form to be in
On sitive. He still 'bel eyes, in bleeding,
blistering, vomiting purging and sweat
ing. He loves copious doses of horse
medicine. lie delights in asafoetida and
calomei and carbolic acid. They are con-
sidered Indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy inteIlects and alb
dominaf development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These | do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rip Van
W mikes that Will continue to siumber
through this and probably through the
next century. They play no role in the
worlds history. They i've, they dit. No
monument marks their forgo ten sepu.-
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
their entrance; ii has lost nothing by their
exit. They are driftwood on the shores of
time and boat with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphic ancestry. No, it is not
TO these | wish to address myself, but to
the thinking ones, whom a thought does
not throw into an epiieptlc paroxysm;
who love know ledge for its own sake; who
are willing TO investigate the truth or
falsity Of any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by ii through all the
erimaces of chatterlng and delayed civil
leatlon. To these-not the chatter rs, but
the thinkers-l commend the Histogenetic
System for investigation, and will cluci-
date with pleasure any que ton not sui
Iciently clear in book, which will be sent
free TO any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 1891.
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this: | have been nearly blind for
fifteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
oculists of the country. Have been treated
at the Eye lniirmary in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until | commenced TAX
ing the Histogenetic med clnes, nee
which time my sight has been constantly
Improving anu expect With Tue use VI d
little more of the medicine to be able to
see as well as l ever did. My trouble was
paralysis of the optic nerve. The medi-
clnes also brought me through severe
attack of the la grippe last spring, after
my friends had weary nearly despaired of
my recovery. for all of which avors, aft T
God, We are truly thankful to DR.. Jordan
and his medicines. and shall never employ
any other physician when 1t is possible TO
obtain 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.