The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-03-28
STOOD THE TEST.
From the American Journal Of
Health, New York.

1IopllSlafJ heueules lEOu Lue view
Point of Modern Medical Science.
By James R. Thompson, NJ. D.
The time is past when members Of
the medical fraternity, who would
speak with authority on matters per-
tianing to their profession, can deny
that curative agents Of real eficicscy
are to be found among proprietary
remedies. Physicians belonging to
what may be most aptly termed the
"old fogy type have been repeatedly
chagrined at viewing the wonderful
cures effected by proprietary medi-
cine, after they had, in sweeping
terms, denounced the use of all
specifics of the class under discus
cussion as fraught with the gravest
menances to physical welfare. As a
natural consequence Of this fact the
number of those among the medical
profession who still administer uni
versal and unqualified condemnation
to proprietary remedies as class is
very small and is constantly on the
wane, both as regards numerical
strength and in respect to character
and ability. The Journal OF Health
in this matter, as in all others which
belong to the field it occupies, has
always endeavored to bring its views
into complete harmony with the facts
that presented themselves to its
judgment; and it has never attempt
ed to warp facts in such way as to
make them fit into its preconceived
views. For while the former spirit
is indicative of an enlightened and
reasoning progress, the latter is an
unmistakable sign of intellectual
stagnancy. Applying these remarks
to the subject Of proprietary medi-
cines, We would indicate our attitude
in this regard about as follows:
While dealing out to the impostures
so extensively prevalent in this line
the most unequivocal and outspoken
censure, We do not hesitate to be-
stow words of commendation on such
specifics as have shown by actual
trial before our hygienic staff that
there areremedies of undoubted ther-
apeutic virtue. A medicine which
has fulfilled our most exacting de-
mands in this respect, and one which
therefore We feel justified in recon-
mending to our readers, is Life for
the Liver and Kidneys" offered by
the Life Medicine Company of Spar
tanburg, South Carolina. 1t has
demonstrated to us, 80 conclusively
as to leave no room for doubt even on
the part OF the most skeptical, that
it is thorough curative agent in all
cases of dyspepsia, indigestion, con-
stipation, biliousness, Bright's dis
ease, dropsy, gravel, rheumatism and
all disorders arising from a diseased
condition of the liver, kidneys and
urinary organs.
In order to show how completely
free from every non judicial consid-
Grafton our Investigations are. We shall
indicate briefly the manner in which
the examination of the remedy under
discussion was conducted. A repre-
sentative was sent from our Office to
collect testimony in regard to "Life
for the Liver and Kidneys" He
was himself an entirely disinterested
party, and the inquiry which he pur-
sued was conducted in such secret
manner that no one commercially
connected with the article in ques-
ton had any means Of knowing that
it's merits were being made the SUBJ
iect of investigation by a hygienic
authority. Those who had used the
remedy for the maladies in which it
claims to bring relief were intsrro-
gated in regard to the effect it had
exercised in their own cases. The
answers which were received were
characterized by an astonishing una
nimity. Every person who was visit
ed and questioned with respect to
Life for the LIVER and Kidneys" re-
Piled that be had found in it most
eficacious cure. This fact was as
certained to be true not only in cases
of ordinary severity, but even in
those instances which had success
fully withstood the skill Of physicians
as we'll as the curative powers OF
other proprietary remedies.
Having prosecuted our examina-
ton of the medicine in question in a
manner that could not fail to detect
any harmful attributes that might
belong to it-for our examination ex-
tended to all classes and to almost
all ages-we feel that simple re-
gard for the precepts of equity, as
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