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food will hold good in the great majority of cases. Food will digest quicker if a person keeps still after meals an hour or so; than it will in one who commences work immediately after meals. This fact was discovered by one of the great physiologists of Europe by taking two healthy dogs and feeding them both at the same time on the same kind of food. Shutting one up, and taking the 28 other hunting, at the end of an hour he killed bothr and took out their stomachs and examined their contents. In the one that was shut up the food had nicely digested, and in the one that went hunting the food was the same as when swallowed. Every one should rest at least one hour after 'each meal,, and should never eat between them. Hygiene is the best doctor. If a man will bathe regularly, eat regularly, and sleep regularly, and be regular in all of his habits, he will seldom ever need a doctor to dose him with pills, potions and lotions. There is a penalty that will follow the violation of each law of nature, just as sure as fire will burn if you stick your finger in it. Diseases. There are as many diseases as there are organs in our body, and I am of the firm belief that there is a remedy for every disease if it were only known, and I believe the only method that will bring these remedies into practice, is liberty and freedom of thought on the part of the various departments or schools of the medical profession, and the privilege of all to let the people try them. The allopaths have a code of ethics that restricts them from eoun- 20 selihg with any doctor, unless he is a regular, and of his own faith. Such a code only casts a shadow of bigotry and discredit on themselves. A wise man will glean knowledge from whatever source it may come ; a fool will say all are quacks but those that believe as he does. Incorporated professions may stand for a while, but when people become edu- cated to that degree that they reason from cause to effect, and think. for themselves, they will have to hoist the flag of liberty on the mast-head of their old ship called Code of Ethics, and extend the hand of friendship to all, and own that there are other men that know as well as themselves. Why Medicines are better in a Powdered Form. I extend to the public my medicines in a pow- dered form, and I will give you my reasons for so doing. I make my medicines from the fresh inner barks of trees, shrubs, roots, leaves, and flowers, of my own gathering, consequently I know they are pure, and have all their medical properties. I never use my medicines after they arrive at certain ages .from the time of gathering, from the fact that there 30 is a time when everything begins to lose its strength and force. Every farmer well knows the fact that hay and corn will finally by age get stale and unfit for use, and the horses refuse to eat it. He knows that turnips, and potatoes, and vegetables in gen- eral, after they have been gathered a certain length of time, begin to wither and shrink, and are no longer fit to be used. These are facts that are well known to everybody. The same facts are true in reference to medicine. Medicine will lose its strength and become worthless after it arrives at a certain age, and is no longer fit for use. This I know is true. I have samples of old medicines in my office, and they have so far lost their strength that you cannot tell, by their odor or smell, what they "are. Your drug stores have medicines upon their shelves that have been there ten and fifteen years. It is not reasonable to suppose that they, are as good as medicines from the fresh, green herb, bark, root or flower. I have been botanizing in the several States of the Union for the last fiftv years, gathering my own material, and having them, or making them myself, into medicines of various forms : fluid extracts, tinctures, infusions, decoc- tions, and pills; but I have learned in my career with medicine that the majority of medicines in the form of fluid extracts and tinctures that are on the market are adulterated, and are not what they are 31 ' represented to be. I do not ask you to examine them yourselves, for it would be folly in me to do so, from the fact that you never made medicine a study, consequently you do not know a good medi- cine from a bad one. Neither do I ask you to take my word alone ; but I will refer you to a statement that is reliable, and ean be called a positive fact. This statement, will be found on page 347 in the American Pharmacist Journal, published in New York, September 23, 1882. I will simply give the substance of the statement, written by Chas. B. Allaire. He says there are two principal sources from which we get all our medicines, namely ; drug millers, who buy their crude material as cheap as possible and powder it, and sell it to large buyers, — these are designated merchant millers ; and custom millers, that is, mills that any one can send their own goods and gatherings to, and get them ground and returned. Prosably nine-tenths of all goods put upon the market in this country come from these two sources. The usual mode on shipping these goods is in twenty-five and fifty pound pack- ages, or in barrels, according to the demands of the purchaser, who, if he sells them again, sells them in, or ships them in, paper packages, and here is where their identity is for ever lost. The retail dealer who thus receives them, knows nothing of their history, or who is responsible for their lackol 32 quality, or entitled to. credit if found reliable. I am glad to be able to state that there are several custom mills in the large cities where drugs may be sent for powdering, with the certainty that they will be returned to the sender in a state of absolute pur- ity ; and from this source our most careful jobbers supply themselves, sending prime good£, and receiv- ing pure, prime quality powders in return. A cheap article of drags that are important, is seldom genu- ine. The present large per centage of inferior and adulterated drugs in the market is the result of a widespread demand for cheap goods or drugs, or rather low prices. The per centage of goods in the market of an inferior character, is clearly shown by the fact that four hundred and sixteen samples, taken from various sources and examined during the past year, gave the following results : 227, or about 57 per cent., were pure, or at least no adul- teration was detected, and 189, or about 46 per cent., were adulterated so that detection was easy. From this fact I have resolved to institute a new theory, in order to know that the medicines I han- dle are pure and unadulterated. It is this : I bot- anize and gather my own material, and see it ground myself, and see that no one handles it but my trust- worthy assistants and myself, and by so doing I know7 that my medicines are pure. So I am proud to say to my fellow suffering man, that I extend to 33 you a pure medicine in a powdered formj made from the inner barks of various vegetable growths, knowing it to be a convenient form; and cheaper than the fluid extracts or tinctures that are on our markets. And knowing that the preparation has never been from under my care to get adulterated, I can most positively and conscientiously offer it to you as a new form of medicines, that of being pure, in a powdered form, made from inner barks, con- venient to take, the price of which is within the reach of the poor and all suffering humanity. Medicine. 'Medicine, in its common acceptation in the minds of the people, is a substance that cures diseases, but the truth of the matter is, medicine never cured anything. It is the natural tendency of a majority of diseases to get well within themselves, free from medical aid. Medicine, properly administered, simply assists nature to remove the cause that ob- structs her acting m a normal condition. Medicine is not a humbug. The humbug is in its improper administration. When medicine is properly ad- ministered it comes to the sufferer as a gift from God. Medicine is unjustly j udged. It is not med- icine that is at fault, but it is those who give it without the proper knowledge of its effects, and 34 when it is indicated. Medicine, when it is not properly given, proves an actual poison to the sys- tem. Botanic Materia Medica treats of herbs and vegetation in general. That is, that part of vege- tation which is known by me to have medicinal properties. They will never injure the system when conformed to according to directions given. Ail Indian Poem. We first came to this glorious land A free and happy little band.; Tradition says we crossed the strait That joins two oceans large and great. This link is called the Behring Strait By Anglo-Saxon, wise and great, Modern history truly shows By temperature we almost froze. Upou this land we lived and homed. And o'er the hills and plains wre roamed, Infidels were never known In our little band we loved and owned. You bowed the knee, — and so did we, — And worshiped God, the triune three ; You said God, and we came so near it, Instead of God we said Great Spirit. We loved our wives and firesides, too, And worshiped God as well as you, Our tribe it never run saloons Called whisk}^ shops and gambling rooms. Fire-water maddens nerve and brain. And causes bitter woe and pain, We Red Men cannot understand Why you brought it to our land. 35 God sheltered us with leaf and tree. We were so happy and so free Before, the white man crossed the sea And stole our lands and liberty. They preached us Christ, Him crucified. And then their docirine they denied, By robbing, stealing, far and wide, Parting families, groom and bride. You gave us tire-water bad. And set our warrior- raving mad, We found that you were not so true As what we first did think of you. We know that you did play a lie : AVe thought to fight till we would die ; Your favor then we chose to gain By selling you the Balm for Pain. It cures your aches, it cures your pains, And everywhere an honor gains, It surely cures, both near and fear, When made and sold by Dr. Starr. In Defence of Botany. To the People and the Medical World. Science in "Medical Botany, the great medical desideratum of the world, has at last been discov- ered by Dr. Wm. M. Starr, after fifty long years of study and practice and at an expense of over thirty thousand dollars. He has analyzed nearly every herb in the Vegetable Kingdom, and ill forty -two 36 of the leading herbs he has discovered enough medical substance to make medicines to cure every disease in human life, and every medicine is sep- arate and distinct for every different disease. No two are alike as no two diseases are alike. He compounds over sixty different* medicines from forty-two leading herbs, which will, if used correctly, cure any disease of the human Family. He be- lieves that he understands each and every disease -of the human frame and he has a cure for each and every disease in the human body. He will teach all who may wish to learn the use of his valuable remedies in Medical Botany for any disease of the man, woman or child. He will teach what herbs to gather, what time in the year to se- cure them and manufacture the medicine, and the proportion of the different herbs to make separate and distinct medicines for each and every separate disease in human afflictions. He has as many different medicines as there are diseases in human life; all in botany. It took him fifty long years, and cost over thirty thousand dollars in cash to find out these valuable medi- cines. Ever since he perfected these remedies and found out their use in every case whatsoever he has had no cause to change his medicines in any way from their original use in any disease, and can cure many old chronic cases of all kinds even where 37 the patient has been poisoned from the use of other medicines. He has a positive cure among his list of medi- cines for any disease of mankind, if it is not chronic and past curing; he cures many of these old cases. When he says sure cure or positive cure he means that the patient shall use his medicines and no other until he says stop or until the patient is cured. They must remain strictly under his medi- cines and under his rules first, last and all the time. He will teach the whole Botanical Profession from the raw herbs to this science for the sum of five hundred dollars ($500). Every student must stay one year so as to take in one summer to learn what herbs to gather and at what time to gather them, so it will take at least that time. He can make any shrewd or smart per- son a perfect Botanical Doctor in one year, just what it took him fifty years to find out. It is a perfect work and all young men and women should take this into consideration and give him a call or a bid. During the year 1890 he had nine hundred cases of La Grippe and lost none. The same year he had eight cases of scarlet fever, twenty-one cases of diphtheria, five cases of typhoid fever, thirty-one cases of bilious fever, twelve cases of St. Vitus 38 Dance, sixty-one cases of kidney disease, forty-three cases cholera infantum, twenty-two cases chills and fever and lost none. Daring the months ef Janu- ary, February, March, and April he had 307 cases of La Grippe and lost none. He also had many other diseases and lost none. No man on earth can beat these Botanical cures. They might as well do away with wheat, rye, corn, oats, barley } rice, beans, potatoes, buckwheat, meats, fruits, milk and sugars which are the necessaries of life and make flesh and blood. The human body is purely a vegetable body composed of purely vegetable matter. So he uses purely vegetable medicines for purely vegetable bodies. Botanical Doctors are the free thinkers of medicine, with the right to choose the best form of all the best Botanic theories of medicine. Liberty uncircumscribed by the teachings of fanatics. Freedom to judge for them- selves that which is best of all that you can learn of the many ideas of medical men of the world. Love to all, hatred toward none. Freedom of thought. The right to counsel with all. Un- governeci by any mean disgraceful conduct, esthics, or force bills. Give us liberty to exercise good common sense, and use that which is best to do good in the case for which it is intended. This is the true principle of Botanical practice. They are the most successful doctors on the face of the earth 3<j who believe in personal liberty as well as general liberty and that which is right, is right and best for 11 G>ccfc\ Every 4M^ on earth ought to be careful what he gives to his patients, so as not to make any mis- take at all or give any medicines that could harm any person, even if it could do no good. If he don't know what is the matter with the patient he has no business to give any medicine; and it should be made a law that no man should be allowed to experiment on any person in any case. He should know what is wrong and what to give and what to do, or quit and give it up. I hold that no doctor has any right to give medi- cines to kill or cure under any circumstances what- soever ; because if he don't know what to give first he is less fit to give the last remedy, as they call it. If he knew what to give, his patient would not come to this last remedy point. It ought not to be allowed at all. They have no moral right to give medicines to any person at guess-work or random. Suppose you had a new sewing machine all in good order and it became a little out of order and you should send for a machinist to repair it, and he would come every day and work on it and your machine kept getting worse and worse for weeks and weeks and the tinker charging you pay for every day; and at last your machine was entirely 40 destroyed. What would you say of such a machan- ic? Would you not say he was a fraud? You would be right in calling him a fraud and wholly unfit to undertake such a job. But suppose your •child was to get a little out of health and you were to call a workman in the medicine business and he was to make equally as bad