The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-13
HEDGED ABOUT By A PR0SCRlPTIVE TABOO

L am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that won 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, rs yet,
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 10 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
qu)sitive. He still believes" in bleeding,
blistering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. He loves cOpious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asafoetida and
calomel and carbolic acid. They are con-
sidered Indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and abb
dominai development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These [ do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rip Van
Wrinkles 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 sepu.-
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
their entrance; it has lost nothing by their
exit. They are driftwood on the shores of
time and float with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphic ancestry. No. it is not
to these l wish to address myself. but to
the thinking ones, whom a thought does
not throw INTO an epileptc paroxysm:
vi ~ TN tulo lodi for us yb,N
are wiling to investigate the truth or
ialsity of any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by 1t through all the
grlmaces OF a chatterlng and delayed civil
leatlOn. To theSe-not the chatterers, but
the thinkers-l commend the Histogenetic
System for investigation, and will eluci-
date with pleasure any question not suf-
tclently clear in book, which will be sent
free to any address.
SEATTLE. Aug. 3, 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
ocuiists Of the country. Have been treated
at the Eye lniirmarv in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until commenced tax
ing the HistOgenetic medicines, S nee
which 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 dld. My trouble was
paralysis Of the optic nerve. The medi-
cines also brought me through a severe
attack OF the la grippe last spring. after
my friends had weary nearly deSpalred of
my recovery. for ali Of which ayorS. after
God, We are truly thankful 10 DR.. Jordan
and his medicines. and shall never employ
any other physician when II is possible To
obtain treatment from him. for we are of
the opinion that he can surely accomplish
miracles MRS EDNA 4 LEWIS
,. W. Cor. Alton and fremont SITS.