The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-31
HEDGED ABOUT BY A PROSCRIPTIVE 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, brilli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
to attack slave with. For many GEN.
turies the medical art was hedged about
by proscriptive taboo which it, as yet.
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 yet 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 sltlye. He still "believes" in bleeding,
oiisterlng, vomiting, purging and sweat
ing. he loves copious 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 alb
domlnal development considers ieself safe
without those family lares. These | do
not wish TO convert; they are the Rip Van
WlnKies 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
tnelr 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
antnropomorphic ancestry. No, 1t Is not
10 these l wish to address myself, but to
the thinking ones, whom thought does
not throw into an epileptic paroxysm;
VINO love knowledge for its own sake; who
are willing to investigate the truth or
ialslty OF any proposition. and once con-
WINGED will stand by it through all the
grlmaces of chattering and delayed civil
leatlon. To these-not the chatterers, but
the thinkers-I commend the Histogenetlc
system tor investigation, and will elucl-
GATE with pleasure any question not sui
nciently clear in book, which will be sent
free to any address
SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 1901.
All who are afflicted in 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 Infirmary in Boston, but re-
celved no benefit until commenced TAX
ing the Histogenetic med cInes, nee
winch 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 I ever did. My trouble was
paralysis Of the optic nerve. The medi-
clnes 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 avors, afr
1od, We are truly thankful 10 DR.. Jordan
ana ms 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.