The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-23
HEDGED ABOUT BY 4 PROSCRIPTIyE taboo

am not aiming to convince mental
babies. as indeed that Won be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
tnat makes logic applicable. Force, brilli-
aney and originality even are no weapons
to attack slave with. For many Gen.
turtles the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptiye taboo which it, as yet,
has not survived. The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty OF imneciiity
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average individual-in relation to medicine
and medicine men, The sun of the
Nineteenth century has not yet dawned
upon his intellectual horizon. He, to-
getaer with his ideal medicine man. still
hibernates in the good old days of the
dark ages when il was bad form 70 be in
gu sitive. He still believes" in bleeding,
olistering, vomiting. purging and sweat
ing. He loves eopious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asafetida and
calomel and carooIic acid. They are con-
sidered Indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy inteliects and abb
domlnal development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. L iese / do
not wish to convert; they are thu Rip Van
Wrinkles that will continue to siumber
sHiouSH tHiS anu proSa6iy hAIousn INC
next century. They play no role in the
worlds history. They live. they die. No
monument marks their forgotten sepul-
chre. Humanity was not enriched by
their entrance; il 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, 1t Is not
TO these / wish to address myself, but 10
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not throw into an epileptic paroxysm;
who love knowledge for its own sake; VINO
are willing to investigate the truth or
falsity of any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by II through all the
grimaces of chattering5and delayed civil
ieation. To these-not the chatterers, but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetie
System for investigation, and will eluci-
date with pleasure any question not sui
iciently clear in book, which will be sent
free to any address. >
SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 1891.
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this: / have been nearly blind for
fifteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of severalof the most eminent
oculists of the country. Have been treated
at the Eye Intrmary in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic medicines, nee
which time my sight has been constantly
improving, and expect with the use of a
little more of the medicine to be able to
see as well as l ever. did. Ny 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 ali 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,
S. w. Cor. Alton and fremont SITS.