The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-15
HEDGED ABOUT BY A PROSCRIPTIVE TABOO

I am not aiming to convince mental
babies. as indeed that wou be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force, brilli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
to attack slave with. For many CEN
taries 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 imbecility
stamped upon the mental caliber 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
gu sitive. He still believes" in bleeding,
biistering. vomiting. purging and sweat
ing. He loves copious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asaf9tida and
calomel and carbolic acid. They are con-
sldered indispensable; no well regulated
family, with. pigmy intellects and abb
ooinlnai development considers ieself safe
without those family lares These | do
not wish to convert; they are the Rip Van
Winkies that will continue to slumber
through this and probably through the
next century. They play no role in the
worlds history. They live, they die. No
monument marks their forgotten sepul-
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
their entrance; it has lost nothing by their
exit They are driftwood on the shores of
time and Goat with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphic ancestry. No, il is not
to these | wish to address myself but to
the thinking ones. whom a thought does
not throw into an epileptic paroxysm;
who love knowledge for its own sake: who
are wiling to investigate the truth or
falsity of any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by it through all the
grimaces OF a chattering and delayed civil
ieatIon. To these-not the chatterers, but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
System for investigation, and will eluci-
date with pleasure any question not suf-
hciently clear in book, which will be sent
free to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. s. 1891.
All who are afflicted in a like manner
know this: l 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 Infirmary in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until l commenced TAX
ing the Histogenetic medicines, snce
which time my sight has been constantly
improving, and expect with the use of a
little more of the medicine TO be able to
see as well as | ever did. My trouble was
paralysis of the optic nerve. The medi-
cines also brought me through q severe
attack of the la grippe last spring. after
my friends had weary nearly despaired of
my recovery, for all of which favors, after
God, We are truly thankful TO DIR. 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.