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

l am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that won q be fru;tless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force. briIli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
10 attack slave with. For MANY GEN.
turtles the medical art was hedged about
oy proscriptive taboo which ii. as vet.
mas not survived. The brand for murder.
ing truth 10 the penalty OF imbeciiity
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 ms intellectual horizon He, 10.
gether with his ideal medicine man still
nioernates in the good old days of the
dark ages when it was bad form to be in.
gu sitive. He still "bel ewes" in bleeding
blistering. vomiting. purging and sweat.
ing. He loves copious doses of horse
medicine. he delights in asafetida and
calomel ana carooic acid. They are con.
sidered Indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and alb
DONNA! development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These [ do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rip Van
Wlnkies that will continue to slumber
through this and probably through the
next century. They play no role Ia the
worlds history. They live, they die. No
monument marks their forgotten sepul.
chre. Humanity was not enriched hy
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, it is not
to these | wish to address myself but to
the thinking ones. whom a thought does
not throw into an epilepic paroxysm:
VINO love knowledge for It's own sake; who
are willing to investigate the truth or
iaisltv OF any proposition. and once con-
vlnced will stand by it through all the
grimacs OF chattering and delayed civil
ieatlon. To those-not the chatter-rs, but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for investigation, and will eluci-
cate with pleasure any question not suf-
lcientiy clear IN book, which will be sent
tree to any address.
SEATTLE. Aug. s. 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
ocullsts OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye Intirmary in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic med cines, nee
Whlcn 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-
clnes also brought me through severe
attack OF the la grippe last spring, after
my friends had weary nearly despaired of
my recovery. for all of which avors, aftrr
God, We are truly thankful to 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,
5. w. Cor. Alton and fremont SITS.