The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-16
HEDGED ABOUT By 4 PROSCRIPTIyE TABOO

l am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that won be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force, brilIi-
ancy aud originality even are no weapons
TO attack slave with. For many GEN.
turies the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which il, as vet.
has not survived The brand for murder
ing truth is the penalty of imbecility
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average individual-in relation to 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
hibernates in the good old DAYS of the
dark ages when it was bad form to be in
quisitiye. He still believes in bleeding.
clustering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. lie loves copious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asafotida and
calomei and carbolic acid. They are CON-
sidered Indispensable; no well regulated
family, with pigmy intellects and alb
dominsl development considers ieseIf safe
without those family lares These | do
not wish to convert; they are the Rip Van
Wrinkles that will continue to SIMMER
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 sepul-
chre. Humanity was not enriched bv
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 / wish to address myself, but to
the thinking ones. whom thought does
not throw INTO an epileptic paroxysm;
who love knowledge for its own sake: who
are wiling to investigate the truth or
lastly of any proposition. and once con-
vlnced Will stand by il through all the
grimaces of a chattering and delayed civil
featlon. To these-not the chatterers, but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for investigation. and will eluci-
GATE with pleasure any question not suf-
ncientiy clear in book, which viii be sent
Tree to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. s, 1891.
All who are afflicted in a like manner
know this: / have been nearly blind for
nfteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
ocuilsts OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye lnhrmary in Boston, but re-
celved no benefit until / commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic medicines, snce
which time my sight has been constantly
improving and / expect with the use of
little more of the medicine to be aole to
see as well as | ever did. My 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, for all of which favors, after
God, We are truly thankful 70 Dr. 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 Stx