Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — DOCTORS FURIOUS. [ARTICLE]

DOCTORS FURIOUS.

Shall a Physician Tell the Truth or Not!—A Nice Point in Ethics. A Sensible Health Official. Baltimore, Md.-A decided stir has been caused here over the question as to the right of * physician to certify to the merits of a remedy not in the modern pharmacopoeia. Dr. James A. Steuart, one of the most eminent physicians in the South, and Health Commissioner of this city, had analyzed a newly discovered article, and certified officially, not only to its efficacy but to the fact that it replaced o'.d-time preparations of a similar character which, analyses had proved, were adulterated and poisonous. The Medical and Chirurg'cal Faculty, of which he is a member, held that he’had violated the code of medical ethics, and much public interest was aroused because of the cmfidonce felt both in his professional standing and official integrity. It was argued that to thus place a limitation on the acts of aphyaician, and especially of a health officer, was opposed to the spirit of the age; that such reasoning might have been logical enough when it was to the interest of rulers or societies to invest themeelves with a supernatural halo, but now, when thought should be free and, untrammeled, such things savored of barbarism. It was the duty of a physician, especiallyof a health officer, to condemn publicly any remedy which he knew to be injurious, but it was not right to say that he should be debarred from testifying to the merits of anything which he knew to he good. If this were so, the world would not receive the benefit of half the discoveries made in art or science. Thus the people argued, while the faculty threatened expulsion and talked of time-honored customs, ethics, professional courtesy, and traditions. But the matter soon assumed a new and surprising phase. A few days afterwards a certificate appeared in the dally papers bearing the autograph signatures of Governor McLane, Attorney General Roberts, Mayor Latrobe, City Postmaster Adreon, chiefs of State and municipal departments. Judges and Clerks of Courts, Federal officials and Congressmen, emphatically endorsing the action of the Health Commissioner, and concurring in his opinion as to the efficacy of the remedy, asserting that they did so from personal experience with it and practical tests and observations. There could be no gainsaying such evidence as this, but, as if to cap the climax, shortly afterwards there appeared another certificate with autograph signatures of leading practicing physicians from all parts of the State, including the physicians of all the leading hospitals, the physician to the City Fire Department, the port physician, vaccine physician, and resident physicians of infirmaries, all endorsing the discovery and stating that it had been tested by them in hospitals and private practice for weeks with wonderful curative effect, and that analysis had shown no trace of opiates or poisons, prevalent in other cough mixtures. They further stated that they had been induced to take this step in view of the many hurtful preparations which contained narcotics and poisons, and of the’ danger consequent on their use. The remedy in question is Red Star Cough Cure. Such a conclusive answer as this to the narrow arguments of the few, arrayed public sentiment on the side of the Health Commissioners, and it is significant that Dr. Steuart has since been appointed to office by the Mayor for a third term, and has had his appointment unanimously confirmed by the City Council. Owing to the high professional reputation of the gentlemen who endorsed his action, as .■well as the enviable standing of the owners of the remedy, The Charles A. Vogeler Company, of this city, wide-spread interest has already been created in the subject, not only here, but in Philadelphia, Washington and other neighboring cities. The ieeling is generally expressed by professional men that Red Star Cough Cure, on account of its freedom from narcotics and poisons, inaugurates a most deslrab'e new departure in medicine. This is the pronounced opinion of authorities like Dr. Fawcett, who has been for thirty-three years resident physician of the Union Protestant Infirmary, in this city, and Prof. John J. Caldwell, M. D., member of medical societies of Baltimore, New York, and Brooklyn, and with a long experience in civil and military hospitals. Both of these gentlemen, together with no lees than fifty other practicing physicians of Maryland,, have publicly put themselves on record as to the evil of narcotic medicines, and the consequent value and importance of the new discovery referred to. It is conceded that public opinion has completely vindicated Dr. Steuart in his action, and that in his whole course he was actuated simply "by an earnest desire to benefit the community at large.

The Seal of Fidelity. 'Quite recently the Canadian papers reported an anecdote of canine (fidelity which, had it been told of a Boman soldier or a Hindu nurse, would have been bruited throughout the civilized world «s an instance of humanity’s supremest devotion to duty. The story .as told to us is that when nearing Montreal (the engine-driver of a train saw a great dog standing on the track and barking furiously. The driver blew his whistle, yet the howud .did not budge, but, crouching low, was .struck by the locomotive and killed. Some pieces of white muslin on the engine attracting the driver’s notice, he stopped the train and went ‘ back. Beside the dead dog was a dead child, which, it is (supposed, had wandered on to the track and had gone to sleep. The poor watchful guardian had given its signal for the train to stop.; but, unIbeeded, had died at its post, a victim (to •duty.— Chambers’ Journal.

The Reputation of a Standard Article Iti -seldom injured by surreptitious rivalry. Imitators of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters have not only lost money by attempting underhand competition with it, but have actually contributed to enhance the estimation in which the genuine medicine is held. The public at large hae for many years been acquainted with the ear marks that distinguish the real from the epurious, and cannot be permaded that other articles sold In a somewhat similar guise are equally good. Fever and ague, constipation. dyspepsia, and HVer complaint are not curable by cheap local bitters, eye-openers, and tonics, but' the fact is too well proven and too generally known to Admit of conscientious dispute. that for these and other maladies the great household medicine fas a safe and thorough remedy. Net only in the United States, but in Mexico, South America, and the West Indies, its merits are widely reco nized and its reputation too firmly establtahed.to be shaken.

Congressmen Only the Country’s Clerks. The average Congressman considers himself a great man, but he is only a clerk after all. He is paid by the country to come here and apportion out the public funds to the running of the Government. Other men decide how much the Government needs, and they furnish the Congressmen the figures. The average member knows nothing about it, and the best member for the country perhaps is he who knows the least. We merely pay them to divide our money for us. The Government is already organized. We have all the laws we need, and the United States, if it were not for the necessity of the formality of passing the appropriations, could do better without Congress than with it. Still we have it, and we have to pay for it— “ Carp” in Cleveland Leader. Don’t hawk, and blow, and spit, but um Dr. Sage’s Catarrh fiemedy.

A Chaacellor*s Opinion. Hon. James Harlan, ex-Vice Chancellor of Louisville, Ky., a brother of Justice Harbin, U. S. Supreme (Jourt, says of St Jacobs Oil: “I use it, and I know full well whereof I speak in pronouncing it a most extraordinary cure for all that is claimed for it by its proprietors. Every family should have it * A fashionable Chinese lunch consists of little bits of cold chicken with sauce, little bits of hot chicken boiled to rags, morsels of pork with mushrooms, fragments of cold duck with some other sort of fungus, watery soup, scraps of pigs’ kidneys with boiled chestnuts, very coarse rice, pickled cucumber, garlic and cabbage, patty of preserved shrimps, all in infinitesimal portions, so that but for the plentiful supply of rice, hungry folk would find it hard to appease the inner wolf ! All these are eaten with the deceptive chopsticks, which are as easy to use as two Faber lead pencils. Tiny cups of rice wine, followed by more tea,complete the repast

It Should Be Generally Known that the multitude of diseases of a scrofulous nature generally proceed from a torpid condition of the liver. The blood becomes impure because the liver does not act property and work off the poison from the system, and the certain results arc blotches, pimples, eruptions, swellings, tumors, ulcers and kindred afftetions, or sett Ing upon the lungs and poisoning their delicate tissues, until ulceration, breaking down, and consumption is established. Dr. Pierce's “Golden Medical Discovery” will, by acting upon the liver and purifying the blood, cure all the. e diseases. “I herd,” is the way the cowboy begins’ his conversation.—Chicago Eye.

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Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. DECIDED BENEFIT. Dr. John P. Wheeler, Hudion, N. Y., says: “I have given It with decided benefit in a case of innutrition of the bruin, from abuse of alcohol. ’’ The wages of the paragrapher—his ink come.— Gouvemeur Herald. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was first prepared in liquid form only; but now it can be tent in dry forms by mail to points whore no druggist cun readily be reached, and-to-day the Compound in lozenge, and pills finds its way to the foreign climes of Europe and Asia. The scions of the tjmes—babies.— -Merchant Traveler.

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“Put up" at the Gault House. The business man or tourist will find firstclass accommodations at the low price of and £2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; ail appointments first-class. Hott & Gates, Proprietors.

“Brawn’s Bronchial Troches” are widely known as an admirable remedy for Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Coughs, and Throat troubles. Sold only in boxes. I had a severe attack of catarrh over a year ago, and became so deaf 1 could not hear common conversation. I su tiered terribly from rearing in my head. I procured a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, and in three weeks could drear as well as I ever could, and. now I can cheerfully say to all who are afflicted with the worst of diseases, catarrh and deafness, take one bottle of Ely's Cream Balm and be cured. It is worth £I,OOO to any man, woman or child sufierlng from catarrh.— A. E. Newman, Grayl.ng, Campbell Co., Mich. Any person .having a bald head and failing to sec the benefit to be derived from the great petroleum hair renewer, Carboline, as now improved and perfected, in the face of the vast number of testimonials from our very best citizens, is surely,going it blind. To restore sense of taste, smell or hearing use Ely’s Cream Bairn, it curesail cases of Catarrh, Bay Feves, Colds in the Head, Headache and Deafness. It is doing wonderful work. Do.not fad to procure a bottle, as in it lies the relief you seek. It is easily applied with the finger. Price 50 cents at druggists, 60 cents .by mail. Ely Bros., Owego. N. Y.