Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 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, Persons suspected were thrown into the water; it not witches, they would drown; if they wero witches, they would swim ashore and would be put to death! In any evout they wero doomed. Not many years ago if a person were taken sick witli'advaneed disorder of the kidneys the physician wonld pronounce the disease Bright’s disease, and wheu so declared he regarded nis responsibility at an end, for medical authority admitted that the disease was incurable. v , Wheu the physician fonnd a patient thus afflicted ho would say, “Oil, a slight attack of the Kidneys; w.ll be ail right in a Tittle while. ” He knew to the coutrary. But if he couljl keep his patient on h s hands for a few months lie knew he would derivo a great revenue from his case, and then, wheu the disease had progressed to a ceriain stage, he would state the facta and rotiro, exonerated from all blame, But the error of supposing tho disease incurablo has swayed the public mind long after the fact has ceased to bo. But public opinion has l>een edueatod to the true status or the case by those who have discounted the incurability theory, aitd the public recognizes and test.lies to the fact that Warner’s safo cure is a specific for this discaso. This has been shown with thousands of testimonials. Upon referring to them in our silos we find that 53,000 reward will Ik> 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 bo published if it were necossary. ’ This condition of things is very amusing to the journalist, who looks upon all sides of every question. Proof should bo accepted by all, but prejudice fights proof for many years. It seems strange that when a proprietary medicine is doing ihe good that Warner’s sale cure is that the physicians do not publicly indorse it. Many of them, we are tolj, 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 disguise tho fact that it is Bright’s diseaso 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 tho names of the direct effects of kidney, disease. They are not tho real disease itself. We somotimes wonder if they avoid stating tho real cause of disease for fear they wifi drive the public into patronage of the only scientific proprietary specific for kidney disea ms and the thousand and ouo diseases that originate in inactive kidneys. We do not believe every advertisement.we read Some people perhaps may regard this article as an advertisement aud will not believo it, but we are candid enough to say that we believe the parties above mentioned have stated their case and ( roved it, and under such circumstances tho public is unwise if it is longer influenced by adverse prejudice.