The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-21
HEDGED ABOUT By A PROSCRlPTIyE TABOO

l am not aiming to convince mental
oanies, as indeed that won be fruitIess
without the necessary cultured intellect
that MAKES logic applicable. Force, briIli-
aney and originality even are no weapons
to attack slave with. For many cen
turtles the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which it. a. vet
has not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty OF imhac;iitv
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average individual-in relation 70 medicine
and 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
hioernates in the good old days of the
dark ages when il was bad form tn he in.
gu sitive. He still bel vesp in hleedipo
blistering, vomiting, purging and sweat,
ing. he loves copious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in ssafoetida and
calomel and carbolic acid. They are CON
sldered indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pgmy inteilects and ah-
domlnai development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These I do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rip Van
Wlnkies that VIII continue to slunber
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 semi
chre. Humanity was not enriched bv
their entrance; 1t 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
anthropomorphIc ancestry. No, it is not
10 these l wish to address myself but to
the thinking ones, whom q thought does
not throw into an epileptlc paroxysm;
VINO love knowledge for its own sake: who
are willing to investigate the truth or
lastly of any proposition. and once con-
Vlnced will stand by it through all the
grimaces of a chattering and delayed civil
leatlon. To these-noE the chatterers, but
the tninkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for investigation. and will eluci-
cate with pleasure any question not suf-
nclentiy 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
bfteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
ocuilsts 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, snce
Whlcn time my sight has been constantly
improving, and | expect with the use of
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 favors. after
God, We are truly thankful to Dr. Jordan
ana 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,
>. w. Cor. Alton and fremont SITS.