The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-25
EEDGED ABOUT By 4 PROSCRlPTIYE TABOO


! am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that woe q be fruitiess
without the necessary cultured intellect
thst makes logic applicable Force. brilli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
70 attack a slave with. For many CEN
turtles the medical art was hedged about
Dy proscr1ptiye taboo which it. as vet.
mas not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth IS the penalty OF irnbecilitv
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average lndividGal-in relation 70 medicine
and medicine men. The sun OF the
nineteenth century has not vet dawned
upon MS intellectual horizon. He. to-
gether with his ideal medicine man. still
nibernates in the good old davs of the
oarK ages when il vas bad form 20 be in
Gu sltIve. he still believes" in bleeding
clustering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. he loves copious doses OF horse
medicine. He delights IN asafEtida and
caiomel and carooiic acid. They are con-
sldered indispensable; no wei regulated
family, with pigmy inteliects and All
dominai development considers ie~elf ssfa
without those family lares. These ( 10
not WISH 10 convert; they are tae Rip Van
wrinkles That will continue TO slunhar
through this and probably throuyh the
next century. They play no role in the
worlds history. They live. they die. No
monument marks their forgotten sepul-
cDre. humanity vas not enriched nv
their entrance; il has lost nothing nv their
exit. They are drlitwood on the shores OF
time and float with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomoFpnic ancestry. No il il not
70 these / wish TO address myself but IN
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not tnrow INTO an epIlepic paroxysm;
VINO love knowledge for its own sake: who
are willing TO investigate the truth or
lastly OF any proposition. and once con-
Finced will stand by it through all the
erlmacs of chattering and delayed civil
ieation To those-not the chatier@rs but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for invests gation. and will eluci-
cate with pleasure any question not SUI
Hciently clear n book, which viii De sent
Zee 20 any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. g. 1891.
All who are afflicted in Ike manner
know this: | have been nearly blind for
nfteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment OF severa. Of the most eminent
ocuiists Of the country. Have been treated
al the Eye Infrmary in Boston, but re-
ceiyed no benefit until | commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic med cInes, nee
shicn time my sight has been constantly
improving. and expect with the use of 3
little more OF the medicine TO be able TO
see as well as | ever did NV 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 weary nearly despaired of
my recovery, for ali Of which fayors, after
God, We are truly thankful 10 Dr. Jordan
and his medicines. and shall never employ
any other physician when II is possible 70
OBTAIN treatment from him, for we are of
the opinion that he can surely accomplish
miracles. MRS. EDNA A. LEWIS.
5. W. Cor. Alton and Tremon. SITS.