The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-07
HEDGED ABOUT By A PROSCRIPTlYE TABOO

/ am not aiming to convince menta,
babies, as indeed that wou d 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
turtles the medical art was hedged about
py proscriptive taboo which it. rs vet.
mas not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty OF imbeciIitv
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average individual-in relation to medicine
ana medicine men. The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not yet 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 il was bad form TO be in
gu sitive. He still ''bel eves' in BLEEDING
blistering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. He loves copous doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asafetida and
caiomei and carbolic acid. They are con-
sldered indispensable; no well regulated
family. with pigmy intellects and All
dominal development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These I do
not wish 10 convert; they are the Rip Van
Wlnkles that will continue to sllmber
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 senul
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, it is not
TO these l wish TO address myself. but to
the thinking ones, whom 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-
Vinced Will stand by it through all the
erimacs of chattering and delayed civil
ieatlon 10 those-not the chatterers, but
the thlnkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system Tor investigation, and will eluci-
cate with pleasure any question not suf-
ncientiy clear In book, which will be sent
Tree to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 1891.
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this: 1 have been nearly blind for
nIteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
ocuiists OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye Infirmary in Boston, but re-
celved no benefit until / commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic medicines, s nee
Whicn 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-
cines 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 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 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.