The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-16
HEDGED ABOUT BY A PROSCRIPTlVE TABOO

i am not aiming to convince mental
babies, as indeed that would be fruitless
without the necessary cultured intellect
that makes logic applicable. Force, brilli-
ancy and originality even are no weapons
to attack a slave with. For many GEN.
turtles 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 imbeciiity
stamped upon the mental caliber of the
average individual-in relation to medicine
and medicine men. The sun of the Nine
teenth century has not yet dawned upon
his intellectual horizon. He, together
with his ideal medicine man, still hiber-
mates In the good old days of thedark ages
when it was bad form to be inqusitive.
He still believes" in bleeding, blistering,
vomiting. purging and sweating. He loves
copious doses of horse medicine He de-
lights in asaf9tida and calomel and car
poiic acid. They are considered indispen-
sable; no well regulated family, with pigmy
inteilects and abdominal development con-
siders itself safe without those family
iares. These I do not wish to convert;
they are the Rip Van Wrinkles that viii
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 sepulchre. Humanity was not
enriched by their entrance; it has lost
nothing by their exit. They are driftwood
on the shores of time and fioat with the
ebb and tide of opinions they have in
herited from their anthropomorphic an
cestry. No, It 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 It's own sake; who are willing to inves-
tigate the truth or falsity of any PROPOSE
ton, and once convinced will stand by it
through all the grimaces of chattering
and delayed civilization. To those-not
the chatterers. but the thinkers-I COM
mend the Histogenetic System for investi-
gatien, and will elucidate with pleasure
any question not sufficiently clear in book,
which will be sent free to any address.
SEATTLE, Aug. s, 1891.
All who are afflicted in a like manner
know this: l 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 treat
ed at the Eye Infirmary in Boston, but re-
ceived no benefit until commenced tax
ing the Histogenetic medicines, since
which 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 q severe
attack OF the Ia grippe last spring, after my
friends had very nearly despaired of my
recovery, for all of which favors, after God,
We are truly thankful to DR.. Jordan and
his medicines and shall never employ any
other physician when il is possible to OBJ
tain treatment from him, for we are of the
opinion that he can surely accomplish
miracles. MRS EDNA A. LEWIS
8. W. Cor. Alton and fremont Sts.