Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — WHAT CURES? [ARTICLE]

WHAT CURES?

Editorial Difference of Opinion on an Important Subject. What is the force that ousts disease; and which is the most eonvenient apparatus for applying itt How far Is the regular physician useful to us because we believe in him, and how far are his pills and powders and tonics only the material representatives of his personal influence on our The regular doctors cure; the homoeopathic doctors cure; the Hahnemannites cure: and so do the faith cures and the mind cures, and the so-called Christian Scientists, and the four-dollar-and-a-half advertising itinerants, and the patent medicine men. They all hit, and they all miss, and the great difference—one great difference—in the result is that when the regular doctors lose a patient no one grumbles, and when the irregular doctors lose one the community stands On end and hotvls.—Roohester Union and Advertiser. Nature cures, but nature can be aided, hindered or defeated in the curative pro* cess. 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 nave studied the human system and learned, as far as modern science lights the way; how far they cam aid nature and how they can best avoid obstructing her.—Buffalo Commercial. At 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 aoes not know it all.” —Rochester Morning Herald. I have used Warner’s Safe Cure and but for its timely use would, have been, I verily believe, in my grave from what the doctors termed Bright’s Disease.—D. F. Shriner. senior Editor Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio, in a letter dated June 80, 1890. All pugilists 16ok alike—or at all events they have a striking resemblance.