Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1885 — Some Frank Confessions! [ARTICLE]

Some Frank Confessions!

“Our remedies are unreliable.” —Dr. Valentine Mott. “We have multiplied diseases.’*—Dr. Bush, Philadelphia. "Thousands are annually slaughtered in the sick-room.”—Dr. Frank. "The'science of medicine is founded on conjecture, improved by murder.” —Sir Astley Cooper, M. D. "The medical practice of the present day is leither philosophical nor common sense.” —Dr. Evans, Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Dio Lewis, who abhors drugs as a rule and practices hygiene, is frank enough, however, to say over his signature, “If I found myself the victim of a serious kidney trouble, I should use Warner’s safe cure because I am satisfied it is not injurious. The medical profession stands helpless in the presence of more than one such malady.” An old proverb says: If a person dies without the services of a doctor, then a coroner must be called in and a jury impaneled to inquire and determine upon the cause of death, but if a doctor attended the case, then no coroner and jury are needed, as everyoody knows why the person died!— Medical Herald.