The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-14
MEDICINES VS.. NOsTRUMs,
Proprietary Remedies from the Visw-
point of Modern Medical Sciencs.

point of Modern Medical Sciencs.
GAMES R. THOMPSON IN AMERICAN
JOURNAL OF HEALTH }
The time is past when members of
the medical fraternity, who would
speak with authority on matters per
tanning to their profession, can deny
that curative agents Of real efficacy are
to be found among proprietary 1eme-
dies. Physicians belonging to what
may be most aptly termed the "old eogy
type have been repeatedly chagrined
at viewing the wonderful cures effected
by proprietary medicine, after they
had, in sweeping terms, denounced the
use of all specifies of the class under
discu >siou as fraught with the graveSt
meuaccs to physical welfare. AS ma
tural consequence of this fact the mum.
Der of those among the medical profes-
sion who still administer universal arG
unqualified condemnation to proprietary
rrmedieS as class is very small and IS
constau,ly on the Gane, both as regards
numerical strength and ii respect to
character aud ability. The Journal OF
Health IN this matter, as in al! others
which belong to the field it occupies.
has always euGeavored to bring view
into complete harm ny with The facts
that presented themselves to its j,,dg,
mcnt; aud it has never attempted 10
warp facts in such way as to make
them fit into is precouceived views
For while the former spirit is iudica
tive of an enlightened aud reasoning
progress, the latter is an unmistakable
sign of intellectual stagnancy. Ap-
plying these remark Ks to the subject OF
proprietary medicines. We would indi
cate our attitude in this regard about
as follows: While dealing out to the
impostures so extensively prevalent in
this line the most uncquivocal and out
spoken censure, We do not hesitate to
bestow words Of commendalion on such
specifics as have shown by actual trla
before our hygicnic staff that they are
remedies of undoubtcd therapeutic vir-
tue. 4 medicine which has fulfilled our
must exac,ing demands in this respect,
aud one which therefore we feel jusli
Ted in recommending to our readers,
is Life for the Liver and Kidneys,
offered by the Life Medicine Company
of Spartauburg, South Carolina 1t
has demonstrated to us, so conclusive
ly as to leave no room for doubt even
on the part of the most skepti;al, that
it is a thorough curative agent in all
cases Of dyspepsia, ind gestion, constipa-
,ion, blllousness, Brlght's disease.
dropsy, gravel. rheumatism and all dis
orders arising from diseased condition
Of the liver, kidneys and urinary orgons.
In order TO show how completely
free from every nou-judicial coasldera
tion our investigations are, we shall
indicate briefly the manDer in which
the examination of the remedy uaJer
discussion Was conducted 4 repre-
sentative was sent from our Office to
collect testimony in regard to Life
for the Liver aud Kidneys" He was
himself an entirely dlsinterestcd party,
and the inquiry which he pursued was
conducted in su:h secret manner that
no one commercially connected with
the article in question had any means
Of knowing that its merits were being
made the subject Of investigation By a
hygiepic authority. Those who had
used the remedy fer the maladies in
which it claims to bring relief were in
terrogated in regard to the effect it had
exercised in their own cases. The
answers which were received were
characterized by an astonishing uuani-
nifty. Every person who was visited
and questioned with respect to 'Life
for the Liver and Kidneys" replied
that he had found in it a most eficaci-
GUS cure. This fact was ascertained 70
be true not only in cases Of ordinary
severity, but even in those instances
which had successfully withstood the
skill OF physicians as we'll as the cura-
tive powers Of other proprietary reuc-
dies.
Having prosecuted our examination
Of the medicine in question in man
ncr that could not fail to detect any
harmful attributes that might belong
to i,-for our examination extended to
all classes and to almost all ages-we feel
that simple regard for the precepts Of
equity, as we'll as the health-demands OF
our readers, calls for an editorial reeog-
milton of the genuine ,peutic vir
tues of Life for the Liver and Kid