A REMARKABLE LETTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4185, 6 August 1892, Page 3

A REMARKABLE LETTER.

(To 'Jin Editor of the New York Tribune).

Sir,-As my name and faoehaviappeared in your paper and the puMic prints lately, and as many of my pro fessional brethren are wondering at it, I feel it only just that I should like to make an explanation. Tbe statement published over my name- was made ten years ago, after long and mature investigation, and I have nevorchanged my mind as to the fac(s then stated. At that timo I said, as a physician, that Witrner'a Safe Cure was the best of all known preparations for the troubles it was advocated to cure, and I say so still, I know it is considered the proper thing for the medical profession to decry proprietary and other advertised articles; hut why should they do so 1 As the late Dr. J. G. Holland, writing ovor his own name in Scribner's Monthly, said: - "It is a fact that many of the best proprietary medicines of the day are rnoro successful than many physicians, and most of them were first discovered or used ni actual medical practice; when, however, any person knowing their virtue ami foreseeing their popularity secures and advertises them, in the option of the bigoted all virtue went out of them."

! Dr. Holland was an educated physician, an unprejudiced observer, and he spoke from a broad and unusual experience. Proprietary medicines should not be decried. The evidences of their value are overwhelming, I have seen patients recover from gravel, inflammation of tlw bladder, and Bright's Disease alter using Warner's Safe Cure, oven when all other treatment had failed. I make this frank and outspoken statement in the interests of humanity, and because J know it to be true. I trust for the s«me reason you will give it to the public. Respectfully, K. A. Gmra. 124 West 47tli-!tat, Now York, March 1.

Dr. Gunn is Dean of the United States College, New York, and Editor of the Medical Tribune.