The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-29
HEDGED ABOUT By 4 PROSCEIpTIyE TABOO

am not aiming to convince mental
panies, as indeed that won be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force. brilli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
10 attack slave with. For many CEN
turles the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which it. as vet
mas not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty OF imbeciIity
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average lndlvidual-in relation to medicine
ana medicine men. The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not vet 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.
gu sitive. He still believes in bleeding
bilstering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. lie loves copious doses of horse
medicine He delights in asafetida and
calomel and carbolic acid. They are con-
sidered Indispensable; no we'll regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and alb
dominal development considers ieself safe
without those family lares These I do
not wish to convert; they are the Rim Van
Wrinkles that will continue To sli1mbpr
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 sepuI-
chre. Humanity was not enriched bv
their entrance; it has lost nothing by their
exit. They are driftwood on the shores of
time and iioat with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomorphic ancestry. No, it is not
TO these | wish to address myself but to
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not throw into an epileptic paroxysm:
who love knowledge for its own sake; who
are willing to investigate the truth or
Iaisity OF any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by it through all the
erilnaces of chatterlng and delayed civil
leatlon. To these--not the chatter rs but
the thlnkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for investigation, and will eluci-
GATE with pleasure any question not suf-
hclently clear in book, which viii be sent
Tree to any address
SEATTLE, Aug 8, 1891.
:. All who are afflicted in a like manner
KNOW this: l have been nearly blind for
niteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment OF several of the most eminent
oculists OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye Infrmary in Boston, but re-
celVed no benefit until | commenced TAX
ing the Histogenetic med clnes, nee
ANAi ehuS my SISnt mas 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. Ny 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 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 treatmen: 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.