Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY. [ARTICLE]

THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY.

Upon a Subject of Vital Interest, AfltectIng the Welfare of AIL The following remarkable letter from one of the leading and best known scientific writers of the present day Is specially significant, and shouid be of unusual value to all readers who desire to keep pace with the march of modern discoveries and events: “A general demand for reformation is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the nineteenth century. The common people, as wed as the more enlightened and reclined, ory out with no uncertain voice to be emancipated from the slavery of conservatism and superstition which has held the masses in gross ignorance during a large portion of the world’s history, and in the time of the ‘Dark Ages’ came near obliterating the last glimmer of truth. Dogmatic assertions and blind empiiicism are losing caste among all classes of all countries. People are beginning to think for themselves, and to regard authority much less than argument. Men and women are no longer willing that a few individuals should dictate to them what must be their sentiments and opinions. They claim the right to solve for themselves the great questions of the day, and demand that the general good of humanity shall be respected. As the result of this general awakening, we see on every hand unmistakable evidences of reformatory action. People who, a few years ago, endured Buffering the most intense, in the name of duty, now realize the utter foolishness of such a course. Men who were under the bondage of bigoted advisers allowed their health to depart; suffered their constitutions to become undermined and finally died martyrs to a false system of treatment There are millions of people filling untimely .graves who might have lived to a green old age, had their original troubles been taken in time or properly treated. There are thousands of people to-day thoughtlessly enduring the first symytoms of some serious malady, and without the slightest realization of the danger that is before them. They have occasional headaches, alack cf appetite one day and a ravenous one the next, or an unaccountable feeling of weariness, sometimes accompanied by nausea, and attribute all these troubles to the old idea of ‘ a slight cold ’or malar; a It is high time that people awoke to a knowledge of the seriousness of these matters and emancipated themselves from the professional bigotry which controls them. Wheithisis done qnd when all classes of physic aus become liberal enough to excluae all dogmas, save that it is their duty to cure disease as quickly and as safely as possible; to ma ntain no other position than that of truth honestly ascertained, and to indorse and recommend any remedy that has been found useful, no matter what its origin, there will be no more quarreling among the doctors, while there will be great rejoicing throughout the worid. “I am well aware of the censure that will be meted out to me for writing this letter, but I feel that I cannot be true to my honest convictions unless I extend a helping hand and indorse all that I know to be good. The extended publications tor the past few years, and graphic descriptions of different diseases of the kidneys and liver have awakened the medical profession to the fact that these diseases are greatly increa ing. The trratment of the doctors has been largely experimental and many of their patients have died while they were casting about for a remedy t j cure them. “It is now over two years since my attention was first called to the use of a most wonderful preparation in the treatment of Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Patients had frequently asked me about the remedy and 1 had heard of remarkable cures effected by it, but like many others I hesitated to recommend its use. A personal friend of mine had been in poor health for some time and his application for insurance on his life had been rej cted on account of Bright s disease. Chemical and microscopical examinations of his urine revealed the presence of large quantities of albumen and granular tube casts, which confirmed the correctness of the diagnosis. After trying all the usual remedies, I directed him to use this preparation, and was greatly surprised to observe a decided improvement within a month, and within four months, ho tube casts could be discovered. At that time there was present only a trace of albumen; and he felt, as he expressed it, ‘perfectly well,’ and all through the influence of Warner’s Safe Cure, the remedy he used. “After this I prescribed this medicine in full doses in both acute and chronic nephritis [Bright’s disease], and with the most satisfactory results. My observations were neither small in number nor hastily made. They extended over several months and embraced a large number of cases which have proved so satisfactory to my mind, that I would.earnestly urge upon my professional brethren the importance of giving a fair and patient trial to Warner's Safe Cura In a large class of ailments where the blood is obviously in an unhealthy state, especially where glandular engorgements and inflammatory eruptions exist, indeed in many of those forms of chronic indisposition in which there is no evidence of organic milchief, but where the general health is depleted, the face sallow, the urine colored, constituting the condition in which the patient is said to be ‘bilious,’ the advantage gained by the use of this remedy is remarkable In Brights disease it seems to act as a solvent of albumen; to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes; to wash out the epithelial debris which blocks up the tubuli uriniferi, and to prevent a destructive metamorphosis of tissue “Belonging as I do to a branch of the profession that believes that no one school of medicine knows all the truth regarding the treatment of disease, and being independent enough to select any remedy that will relieve my patients, without reference to the source from whence it comes, I am 2 lad to acknowledge and commend the merits of this remedy thus frankly.

“Respectfully yours, “R. A. GUNN, M. D.” Dean and Professor of Surgery, United States Medical College of New York; editor of Medical Tribune; Author of Gunn’s New and Improved Hand-Book of Hygiene and Domestic Medicine, etc., eta