Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — “DOCTORING OLD TIME.” [ARTICLE]

“DOCTORING OLD TIME.”

A Striking: Piclurf —A Revival cf Old-Time Simplicities. In one of Harper’s issues is given a very line illustration of Roberts’ celebrated painting, known as- “Doctoring Old Time." It r.-presents a typical old-timer, with his bellows, blowing the dust from an ancient clock, with its cords and weights carol unsecured. One o. these clocks in this generation is appreciated only as a rare relic. Tne suggestive name, “Doctoring Old Time," brings to our mind another version of the title, used 'or another purpose—“ Old Doctoring.” We learn, through a rel able source, that one of the enterprising proprietary medicine firms of the country has b 'on for years investigating the lormulas and medical preparations used in the beginning of this century, and oven before, with a view of ascertaining why people in our great-grand-fathers' time enjoyed a health and physical vigor so seldom found in the present generation. They now think they have secured tho secret or secrets. They find that the prevailing opinion that then existed, that “Nature has a remedy for every existing disorder," was true: and. acting under this belief, our grandparents used the common herbs and plants. Continual trespass upon the forest domain has made these herbs less abundant, and has driven them further from civilization, until they have been discarded as remedial agents, because of the difficulty of obtaining them. H. H. Warner, proprietor of Warner’s safe cure and founder of the Warner observatory, Rochester, N. Y.. has been pressing investigations in this direction, into the annals of old family histories, until he has secured some very valuable formulas, from which his firm is now preparing medicines, to be sold by all druggists. They will, we learn, be known under the general title of “Warner’s Log Cabin remedies.” Among these medicines will be a “sarsaparilla" for the blood and liver, “Log Cabin hops and buchu remedy,” for the stomach, etc., "Log Cabin cough and consumption remedy,” “Log Cabin hair tonic,” “Log Cabin extract.” for internal and external use, and an old valuable discovery for catarrh, called “Log Cabin rose cream.” Among the list is also a “Log Cabin plaster” and a “Log Cabin liver pill.” From the number of remedies, it will be seen that they do not propose to cure all diseases with one preparation. Ii; is believed by many that with these remedies a new era is to dawn upon suffering humanity, and that the close of the nineteenth century will see these roots and herbs, as compounded under tho title of Warner’s Log Cabin remedies, as popular as they wore at its beginning. Although they come In the form of proprietary medicines, yet they will be none the less welcome, for suffering humanity has berime tired of modern doctoring, and the puulic has great confidence in any remedies put up by tho firm of which H. H. Warner is the head. The people have become suspicious of the effects of doctoring with poisonous drugs. Few realize the injurious effects following the prescriptions of many modern physicians. Those effects of poisonous drugs, already prominent, will become more pronounced in coming generations. Therefore we can cordially wish the old-fashioned new remedies the best of success.