The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-28
HEDGED ABOUT BIZ 4 PROSCMPTlyE TABOO

l arm not aiming TO convince mental
babies. as indeed that won ne fruitIex.
without the necessary cultured intellect
that MAKES logic applicable. Force. briIIi-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
TO attack slave with. For manv GEN.
turtles the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which ID. as vet.
has not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the renalty OF irnbeciiitv
stamped upon the mental caiiber of the
average individual--in relation 10 medicine
ana medicine men. The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not vet daxued
upon his intellectual horizon. He. to-
gether with his ideal medicine man. still
hibernases in the good cd days of the
dark ages when il was bad form 10 be in
qu sitive. He still .'beI ewes" in bleeding
blistering, vomiting. purging and sweat
ing. de loves cOpiou. doses OF horse
medicine. He delights in asafeetida and
caioIne! and car0Oaic acid. They are con-
sldered indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigDy inteliects and an
dominal development considers ;eself safe
without those family iares These [ do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rip Van
NInkies that will continue TO slunber
through this and probably through the
next century. They play no role in the
worlds history. They live, they de. No
monument marks their forge ten SEM
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
their entrance; il has lost nothing by their
exit. They are drift1ood on the shores of
time and float with the cob and tide Of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphIc ancestry. No. il is not
10 these l wish to address myself but to
the thinking ones. whom a thought does
not throw into an epilepic paroxysTn:
who love knowledge for its own sake: who
are wiling 10 investigate the truth or
lastly OF any proposition. and once con-
vinced will stand by il through all the
ermace of a chattering and delayed civil
leatlon To those--not the chatter rs. but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system Tor invest cation, and will einci-
cate With pleasure any question not sui
Iclently clear IN book, which viii be sent
Tree to any address.
SEATTLE. Aug. 8, 1891.
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this: l have been nearly blind for
nfteen years Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
oculisfs OF the country. Have been treated
AT the Eye lnhrmary in Boston, bat re-
ceiVei no benefit until l commenced TAX
ing the Histogenetic med clnes. 5 nee
winch time my sight has been constantly
improving, and | expect with the use Of a
little more of the medicine TO be aDle 70
see as well as | ever did. Ny trouble was
paralysis OF the optic nerve. The medi-
cines also brought me through a severe
attack OF the Ia grippe last spring, after
my friends had weary nearly despaired of
my recovery, for ali OF which favors, after
God, We are truly thankful 10 DR.. 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.