Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — WHAT CURES? [ARTICLE]

WHAT CURES?

Editorial Difference of Opinion on an Tmportant Subject. What Is the force that ousts disease? and which is the most convenient apparatus for applying it? How far is the regular physician useful to us because we believe in him, and bow far are his pills and powders and tonics only the material representatives of his personal influence on our health? The regular doctors cure; the homoeopathic doctors cure; the Hahueniannites care; and so do the faith cures and the mind cures, and the so-called Christian scientists, and the four-dollar-and-a-balf advertising itinerants, and the patent medicine men. They all hit, and they all miss, and the great difference—cne great difference—in the result is that when the regular ductors lose a patient no one grumbles, and when the irregular doctors lose one the community stands on end and howls. Rochester Union and Advertiser. Nature cuies. but nature can be aided, hindered, or defeat ed in the curative process. And the Commercial’s contention is that It is the part of rational beings to seek and trust the advice of men of good character who havestudied the human system and learned, us far as modern science lights the way, how far they can aid Nature and how they can best avoid obstructing het.—Buffalo Commercial. It is not our purpose to consider the evils that result from employing the unscrupulous, the ignorant charlatans and quacks to prescribe for the maladies that afflict the human family. We simply declare that the physician who knows something is better than the physician who knows nothing, or very little indeed, about the structure and the conditions of the human system. Of course, “he does not know It all.”— Rochester Morning Herald. I have used Warner’s Safe Cure, and but tor Its timely use would have been, I verily believe, In my grave from what the doctors termed Bright s DLease.-D. F. Shriner, senior editor Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio, <n a letter dated June 30, 1890.