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Burlington, Iowa, July 23, 1883.
Dear Doctor.
—I have received your first number, and am delighted with it as a journal; but I am not so pleased with your advertisements. Parke, Davis & Co. have bored the physicians of the Northwest sufficiently with their ready-made prescriptions. In fact, they have taken the place of Ayer's Pectoral and Humbold's Buchu, and are patronized by all the quacks and all the patent medicine men in this country. Soon I presume you will advertise Warner's safe cure for kidney trouble. Now, I protest right here against the organ of the American Medical Association being the means of disseminating any such advertisements. I ask a place for this in your correspondent's column, and see if I am not indorsed by nine-tenths of the physicians in the land.Yours truly,