The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-04
HEDGED ABOUT By A PROSCRIPTIyE TABO9

! am not aiming to convince menta'
oaoies, as indeed that won d be fruitless
mi'iout the necessary cultured intellect
.nat makes logic applicable. Force, brill
ancy ahd originality even are no weapons
70 attack a slave with. For many GEN.
turtles the medical art was hedged about
Dy proscriptiye taboo which it. as vet.
mas 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
ana 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
hlbernates In the good old days of the
dark ages when it was bad form to be in
gu sltlve. He still ''bel ewes" in pleading
clustering, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. He loves copious doses of horse
medicine. He delights in asafetida and
calomel and carbolic acid. They are con-
sldered indispensable; no well regulated
Iamiiy, with pigmy intellects and alb
dominai development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These do
not wish to convert; they are the Rip Van
Wrinkles that will continue to slumber
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 by
their entrance; it has lost nothing by their
exit. They are driftwood on the shores of
time and t1oat with the ebb and tide of
opinions they have inherited from their
an thropomorphic ancestry. No il is not
to these | wish to address myself. but to
the thinking ones, whom a thought does
not throw INTO an epileptic paroxysm;
who love knowledge for its own sake; who
are willing to investigate the truth or
lastly of any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by it through all the
erimaces of chattering and delayed civil
leation. To these-not the chatters RS but
the thlnkers-I commend the Histogenetic
system for investigation, and will eluci-
GATE with pleasure any que stion not suf-
nciently clear in book, which will be sent
Tree to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. s, 1891
All who are afflicted in like manner
know this | have been nearly blind for
nfteen years. Have had the advice and
treatment of several of the most eminent
ocullsts OF the country. Have been treated
at the Eye lnhrmary in Boston, but re-
celved no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic med clnes, nee
Whlch time my sight has been constantly
Improving ana expect with the use OF a
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 ali Of which iavors, after
God, We are truly thankful to 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 SITS.