The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-29
HEDGED ABOUT BIT A PROSCRIPTIYE TABOO

L am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that won d ne fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force. brill
ancy and originality even are no weapons
TO attack slave with. For many CEN
turtles the medical art was hedged about
by a proscriptiye taboo which it. as vet.
mas rot survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty OF imbecility
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average indiyidual-in relation 20 medicine
and medicine men. The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not vet dawned
upon his intellectual horizon. He. TO-
getner 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. de still "bel ewes" in bleeding.
blistering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. he loves copionx doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asafetida and
ealomei and caTpolic acid They are con-
sidered indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigny intsIlects and alb
domnal development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These I do
not wish 10 convert; they are the Rim Van
Wrinkles that will continue to siumber
through this and probably through the
next century. They play no role in the
worlds history. They live they die. No
monument marks their forg0 ten sepul-
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
their entrance; u has lost nothing by their
exit They are driftwood on the shores of
time and fioat with the ebb and tide OF
opinions they have inherited from their
anthropomoTphlc ancestry. No. 1t is not
10 these i wish 10 address myself. but TO
the thinking ones, whom a thought does
not throw INTO an epilepic paroxysm;
VINO love knowledge for its own sake: who
are willing TO investigate the truth or
lastly OF any proposition. and once con-
fihceu Will stand by it through al the
efimacs OF chattering and delayed civil
leallon To those-not the chatterrrs. but
the thlnkers-i commend the Hlstogenetic
system Tor investigation. and will eluci-
cate with pleasure any question not suf-
LclentIy clear IN book, which viii be sent
tree to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. s, 1891.
All who are afflicted in a ike manner
know this: | have been nearly blind for
nileen years. Have had the advice and
treatment OF several of the most eminent
ocullsts OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye Infrmary in Boston, but re-
celFeo no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic med clnes, nee
which time my sight has been constantly
improving. and | expect with the use OF
little more OF the medicine to be able 10
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, tor ali of which iavOrs after
God, We are truly thankful to DR.. Jordan
and his medicines. and shall never employ
any other physician when Ii is possible 10
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 Tremon. Sts