The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14
HEDGED ABOUT By A PROSCRIPTIVE TABOO

am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that won be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
lhat makes logic applicable Force, brilIi-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
TO attack slave with. For many CEN
turles the medical art was hedged about
by a proScriptiye 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 indlvldual-in relation TO medicine
ana medicine men. The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not vet dawned
upon MS intellectual horizon. He to-
gether with mis- ideal medicine man. still
hipernates In the good old DAYS of the
dark ages when it was bad form to be in
gu sltlVe. lie still believes" in bleeding.
clustering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. lie loves copious doses of horse
medicine. lie delights in asafetida and
caiomel and carbolic acid. They are con-
sldered indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and alb
domlnai development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These / do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rim Van
Wrinkles that will continue to slumher
through this and probably through the
next century. They play no role i'm the
worlds history. They live, they die. No
monument marks their forgotten sepuI-
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
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
anthropomorphic ancestry. No, il is not
TO these | wish TO address myself, but to
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not throw INTO an epileptlc paroxysm:
| Nlh L.. L. a e.
are willing to investigate the truth or
falsity of any proposition. and once con-
vlnced will stand by it through all the
erimaces OF a chatterlng and delayed civil
leation. To theSe-not the chatterers but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
| System for investigation, and will eluci-
date with pleasure any question not suf-
hclently clear in book, which will be sent
| free to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. s, 1891.
| All who are afflicted in a like manner
Know this: | have been nearly blind for
hfteen years. Have had the advice and
| treatment of several of the most eminent
| ocullsts OF the country. Have been treated
| at the Eye 1ntirmary in Boston, but re-
| celVed no benefit until commenced tax
| ing the Hlstogenetic med clnes, nee
| winch time my sight has been constantly
improving, and | expect with the use of q
| lttie 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 DIR. 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.