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WILLIAM J. ROBINSON, PH.G., M.D., EDITOR.

1 year, $1.00. Foreign countries, $2.00. Single copy, 25c.

Subscriptions must commence with January issue. If a copy fails to reach you by the 20th, notify us and we will mail you a duplicate copy.

The Editor of this Journal writes his own editorials. He says what he wants to say and in the way he wants to say it without reference as to what Mrs. Grundy will say or think. The Editor is responsible for his own opinions only. He always tells the Truth, or what he considers to be the Truth, but as he lays no claims to infallibility, he will be grateful to his readers if they will take the trouble to point out his errors.

It is better to make a mistake in trying to tell the truth,
Than never to tell the truth for fear of making a mistake.

Vol. V.

JANUARY 1905

No. 1.

Please do us the kindness to remit for the year 1905, without waiting for a bill. Show us that you mean what you say, when you write us during the year that you don't know how you could get along without the Critic and Guide.

What is a paltry dollar versus twelve monthly visits of the bright, interesting — yes, it is bright and interesting; no use being over modest — thought-stimulating, love-inspiring, and sham-exposing Critic and Guide?

Send us your Dollar TO-DAY; you will have it off your mind, for a year, and we shall feel pleased.

I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

To you, my medical readers, I wish better success in the treatment of your patients, and better success in the collection of your hard-earned fees. May your mind be free and open for the investigation of every new truth, may you steer clear of fads and fancies, may you possess the ability to get out of old ruts, may you be saved from falling into either of the deplorable extremes over-drugging and therapeutic nihilism.

To you, my pharmaceutical readers, I wish better prosperity in your business, and, what is more important, I pray that the coming year may bring you a bigger share of public confidence and esteem. I cannot help thinking that the salvation of pharmacy does not lie in the sale of Peruna and Pierce's Favorite Prescription at 89 cents instead of 73. .

To you my advertisers, I wish continued and uninterrupted prosperity. You all have products for which neither you nor I need blush or apologize. They all represent greater or lesser therapeutic advances, and the physician need not hesitate to use them with confidence and-discrimination. I also take this opportunity to thank you for your support, which, I know, has in many cases been given us, in spite of opposition and strong pressure.

To you, manufacturers, who tell me that you would like to be represented in the CRITIC AND GUIDE, but cannot on account of pressure brought to bear by the good people whose worthless products I exposed-some of them, you tell me, are your customers, and they would withdraw their trade if they saw your ad. in the C. and G.-I also wish prosperity and something else that you are greatly in need of, namely-BACKBONE.

To the people who are essentially good, but misinformed, and whose minds have been poisoned by our dishonest opponents, I wish that they may be permitted to see the Light during the coming year. They will then see how unjust they had been.

Last, to the active enemies of the CRITIC AND GUIDE, in other words, the enemies of Truth, Justice, Freedom and Fair Play, the unprincipled agents of darkness, who in their battles against the CRITIC AND GUIDE consider fraud, calumny, falsehood, forg ery, anonymous filth and character-assassination their most available weapons, I wish-rope enough! That's all they need.

WHO ARE THE ENEMIES ?

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The danger is always great of seeing your enemies in too black colors, of looking at them thru too dark glasses. is very hard to look calmly and impartially at people who are trying to injure you, to judge them fairly, without exaggerating their faults. But it can be done, if you are earnest and sincere in your endeavor. I have tried to do it with reference to the enemies of the CRITIC AND GUIDE, and I believe I have succeeded. But the result of this impartial contemplation is simply appalling. On a careful analysis the active enemies of the CRITIC AND GUIDE are found to belong to the lowest dregs of humanity-morally. They are nothing but moral lepers. They are utterly unprincipled animals, utterly devoid of any ideals or noble sentiments-and they have but one god, and that god is Mammon. And if you cross them in the worship of that god they lose their senses, become infuriated and roar and bellow. No means are beneath them in their fight against the man who dared to interfere with them in their worship of Mammon, in their acquisition of the filthy lucre. Every weapon is called into requisition-calumny, lies, forgery, corruption, denunciation, character-assassination, anonymous filth-everything is made use of to injure their opponents. I repeat the statement with the utmost deliberation :

The active enemies of this journal are moral lepers. They are people utterly devoid of principles, utterly devoid of conscience. There is no crime, with the exception perhaps of murder, of which they are incapable.

The enemies of the CRITIC AND GUIDE are also the enemies of Truth, Honesty and Justice, and I am proud of it for the enemies it has made.

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The note of defiance which I boldly and tauntingly threw into the face of the fakirs and scoundrels, who would befog the physician's mind, rob the druggist and endanger the lives of our patients by the launching of worthless products or well known mixtures under fanciful names, has so infuriated them that they have felt obliged to have recourse to the weapon of the cur and coward the anonymous letter. For the last few days my mail and the mail of most of our advertisers has been flooded with anonymous filth. The principal object is to discourage advertisers from patronizing the CRITIC AND GUIDE. In this object those "gentlemen" have completely failed. Oh, but what moral rottenness those "gentlemen" are displaying! The filth being anonymous, we of course have no means of knowing with absolute positiveness who is behind these attacks. We have a pretty fair idea, however.

PHENALGIN.

One ounce of Phenalgin costs exactly three (3) cents. It is sold at one dollar. Profit on this acetanilid mixture, which requires neither brains nor inventive faculty, no knowledge and no capital, 97 cents per ounce. Is it really such a crime if I make this little fact known to the medical profession? And do you understand why it is easy for the Etna Chemical Company (let the medical profession bear this fake concern in mind!) with a profit of 97 cents on each 3 cents invested, to send circulars to every physician in the country denouncing the editor of the CRITIC AND GUIDE, to send anonymous letters, to send detectives to collect "information," etc., etc. Apparently, I must have hurt the business of the fakirs very materially or they would not go to such lengths.

IT DOES NOT TALLY.

The fakirs claim that my attacks only serve to increase the sale of their goods. If this were the case they would not be sending me letters threatening to do this and do that if I continue to attack their products. They would rather encourage me to go on-would they not? Well, they are not doing it, and were I of different mettle I would have felt discouraged and disgusted and would have given up long ago. No, I don't think my exposures are doing the fakirs much good.

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