The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-06
HEDGED ABOUT By A PROSCRIPTIVR TABOO

l am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that won be fruitIess
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force. briIli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
to attack slave with. For MANY CEN
turtles the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which il 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 vet dawned
upon his intellectual horizon. He. 70.
gether with his ideal medicine man still
hinernates in the good old DAYS of the
dark ages when it was bad form To ne in.
gu sitlve. He still believe in bleedino
blistering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. He loves copious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asaftetida and
calome and carOo!ic acid. They are con.
sldered lndls pensaoie; no we'll regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and an
domlna development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These | do
not wish to convert; they are the Rip Van
Wrinkles that will continue to SIMMER
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 bv
their entrance; it has lost nothing by their
exit They are driftwood on the shores of
time and doat with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphlc ancestry. No, it is not
TO these | wish to address myself. but to
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not throw into an epilepic paroxysm:
VINO love knowledge for its own sake; who
are willing to investigate the truth or
Ialsity OF any proposition. and once con-
Vlhced will stand by it through all the
grlmacs of a chattering and delayed civil
leation To those-not the chatterers, but
the thlnkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system Tor investigation, and will eluci-
cate with pleasure any question not suf-
nclentiy clear IN book, which viii be sent
Tree to any address
SEATTLE, Aug. s, 1891.
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this: / have been nearly blind for
nlteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
ocullsts OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye lnfirmary in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic med icInes, since
winch time my sight has been constantly
improving, and expect with the use of
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-
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 iavors, 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.