The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-03
HEDGED ABOUT BY A PROSCRIPTIyE TABOO

/ am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that wou d be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force. brill.
ancy and originality even are no weapons
to attack a slave with. For many GEN.
turies the medical art was hedeed about
by proscriptive taboo which it. as vet.
has not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty of imbeciIitv
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
hlbernates in the good old DAYS of the
dark ages when it was bad form To be in
Gu s1tive. He still .belev in bleeding.
phsterlng, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. he loves copious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asaf,etida and
calomel and carbolic acid. They are con-
sidered indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and alb
domlnai development considers eself safe
without those family lares. These I do
not wish to convert; they are the Rim 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 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 float with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphlc ancestry No. il is not
to these / wish to address myself. but to
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not throw into an epilepic paroxysm:
who love knowledge for its own sake: who
are willing to investigate the truth or
laisitv of any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by it through all the
grimacs Of chattering and delayed civil
ieatlon. To those-not the chatterers, but
Lhe thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for investigation, and will eiuci-
GATE with pleasure any question not suf-
nclently clear In book, which will be sent
Tree to any address.
SEATTLE. Aug. 8, 1891.
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this: / have been nearly blind for
nIteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
ocuiists OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye lnfirmary in Boston, but re-
celved no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic medicines, snce
winch time my sight has been constantly
improving. and | expect with the use of a
nttie more OF the medicine to be aole to
see as well as ever did 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 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
anyother 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.