Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — “DOCTORING OLD TIME." [ARTICLE]

“DOCTORING OLD TIME."

!A • Striking Picture —A Revival of Old Time Simplicities. In one of Harper’s issues is given a very fine illustration of Robert’s .celebrated painting, 4 know as “Doctoring Old Time.” It represents a typical oldtimer, with his bellows, blowing the dust from an ancient clock# with its cords and weights carefully secured. One of these clocks in this generation is appreciated only as a rare relic. The suggestive name, “Doctoring Old Time,” brings to our mind another "version of the title, used for another purpose,—“Old Time Doctoring.”.. "

We learn through a reliable source, that one of the enterprising proprietary medicine firms of the country, has been for years investigating the formulas and medical preparations used in the beginning of this century, and even before, with a view of ascertaining why people in our great-grandfathers’”time enjoyed a health and physical vigor so seldom found in the present generation. They now think they have secured the 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 kfid. 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 as 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 .he 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. It 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 the title of Warner’s Log Cabin remedies, as popular as they were at its beginning. Although they come in the form of proprietary medicines, yet they will be none the less welcome, for suffering humanity has become tired of modern doctoring and the public has great confidence in any remedies put up by the 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. These 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 oT succbssT