Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — THE WITCH’S FATE. [ARTICLE]

THE WITCH’S FATE.

A Cruel Prejudice of Old Time* More Than Equalled Now. Not many decade* ago in this country the people were excited over witchcraft Persona suspected were thrown into the water; if not witches, they would drown; if they were witches, they would swim ashore and would be put to death! In any event they were doomed. Not many years ago if a person were taken sick with advanced disorder of the kidneys the physician would pronounce the disease Bright’s disease, and wnen so declared he regarded hia responsibility at an end, for medical authority admitted that the disease was incurable. When the physician found a patient thus afflicted he would sav, “Oh, a slight attack of the Kidneys; w.ll be all right in a Lttle while. ” He knew to the contrary. But if he could keep his patient on liis hands for a few mo.iths he knew he would derive a great revenue fr. m his case, and then, when the disease had progressed to a certain stage, he would state tho facts and retire, exonerated from all blame. But the error of supposing the disease incurable has swayed the publ.c mind long after the fact has ceased to be. But public opinion has been educated to the true status or the case bv those who have discounted the incurability theory, and the public recognizes and test fies to the fact that Warner’s safe cure is a specific for this disease. This has been shown with thousands of testimonials. •Upon referring to them in our files we find that $5,000 reward wiil be given to any one who can prove that so far as the manufacturers know they are not genuine, and that hundreds of thousands similar in character could be published if it were necessary. This (Audition of things is very amusing to the journalist, who looks upon all sides of every question. Proof should be accepted by all, but prejudice fights proof for many years. It seems strange that when a proprietary medicine is doing the good that Warner’s safe cure is that the physicians do not publicly indorse it. Many of them, we are told,, privately prescribe It A few years ago, as stated, when a man had Bright’s disease, the doctor boldly announced it, because he thought it relieved him of responsibility. To-day when prominent people are dying (and hundreds of thousands of common people die of the same disease), we are told that doctors dmguise the fact that it is Bright’s disease of the kidneys, and say that they die of paralysis, of apoplexy, of pneumonia, of consumption, of general debility, of rheumatism, of heart disease, of blood poisoning, or some other of the names of the direct effects of kidney disease. They are not the real disease itself. We sometimes wonder if they avoid stating the real cause of disease for fear they will drive the public into patronage of the only scientific proprietary specific for kidney diseases and the thousand and one diseases that originate in inactive kidneys. We do not believe every advertisement we read. Some people perhaps may regard this article as an advertisement and will not believe it, but we are candid enough to say that we believe the parties above mentioned” have stated their case and proved it, and under such circumstances the public is unwise if it is longer influenced by adverse prejudice.