The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . edo not liesitate to select our clothing or rurnish our homes fromthe advertised stock. Colleges (medical as well as other8)*andall institutions of learning issue their circulars and are also rep-resented in the columns of the press, yet we do not hesitate tosend our sons and daughters to their class-rooms. The famoushospitals of Eurojie are advertised, both through the commenda-tions of persons who have been benefited by the treatiiuiit therereceived, and the favorable comments of the press. The press—one of
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . edo not liesitate to select our clothing or rurnish our homes fromthe advertised stock. Colleges (medical as well as other8)*andall institutions of learning issue their circulars and are also rep-resented in the columns of the press, yet we do not hesitate tosend our sons and daughters to their class-rooms. The famoushospitals of Eurojie are advertised, both through the commenda-tions of persons who have been benefited by the treatiiuiit therereceived, and the favorable comments of the press. The press—one of the results of the great mental awakening of the six-teenth century—has been an instrument of reform. It is thenatural enemy of njysticism. Its highest purpose sliould be thecirculation of truth. Falsehood in the garb of truth niay gainan cjitrance to its columns, but we find wolves in siieeps clothingeverywhere—even in our pulpits. To brand all me<lical adver-tisements as evidences of quackery in the advertiser, is simply 852 COMJtOX SENSK -AiEDlOAT, ADVISEri. Fig. 2^ Worldi IJjspeiisary.—Oiiu of the Percolating and Filtering- Kdouis. absurd. We read the other advertisements with perfect confi-dence, accepting the assertions as expressions of perfect general reformation of thought in the sixteenth cejitury hasbeen felt in every department of our social life, but the oldinstitutions aud customs of the dark ages still live, notwithstand-ing the vigorous growth of modern ideas. Romanism erects hercathedral by the side of the Protestant church. The disciple ofHippocrates is the rival of the modern disciple of ^ former, like the ancient Roman friar, finds a peculiai- charmin ostentatious seclusion, and waits for the people to come to himto be healed. The latter, like Luther and his followers, placethe -means of self-information in the hands of the people, andpoints out the way in which they may escape or cure do you prefer,—the
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