The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1794-01-06 00:00:00, page 4

CHRISTMAS HYMN,
Sung in the Epifa,a! Church at Claremont
on the Anniieifary of that Feflival.
December 2^b, 1 793.
HAIL ! to the joyous day.
On which our Loro was born ;
Lift high rhe vocal lay,
And sing the blirfful morn I
Tout voices raifri
To hail the morn,
On which was born
The Lo,D of GxACt,
That Sun who cheers the plains,
The seasons as they move,
Rich dewsand fertile rains,
All prove his fov'reign love:
Yowr voice; raise
To Hilf, who cheery
The fruitful years,
Be grateful praise,
He o'er the trackless waste
Qur pious fathers led ;
And, tho' in defarts plac'd,
He them with blcffings fed:
Tour voices raise
To HIM, who binds
The waves and wigds.
Be endless praife^
He crown'd fair freedom's cause,
He made our nation great;
The leader of our wars
He rais'd to rule our state :
Tour voices raise— ^—
To HlM,who brings
To Earth proud Kings,
. Be deathless praife.-^
He taughtusto discern
Bleft freedom's sacred plan ;
And Europe's kingdoms learn
Os us the rights of man :
Tour voices raise 4
To him, who broke
Oppreflion's yoke.
Be endless praise.
Inhere roam'd the savage race,
In cruelty and blood,
He form'd this sacred place,
A temple for our GOD:
four voices raise te
Let earth resound
The choral found
Offov'reign graces
Here where our savage foes
Theirdeathful warfong rung,
Sweet ,eace her olive shews.
And joy on earth is fung>
later voice increafe —' — b
Let all accord
To praise the Lord,
The Lord of peace.
When fell contagion cast
The gale of death around,
He turn'd the sickly blast,
And ruddy health was found 1
^Tbur voices raise, •
# To Christ the Son,
Who crowns his own.
With length of days.~
Has sorrow weigh'd us down,
tie gave, when death.was near,
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for THEEAGLE.
Mr, Dunham,
IAN you, or any other man,
_/ tell us how it happens,
iat, in a country like this,
here the means of information
e mevery one's power, where
good education costs but lit
e, and where so many able
len are bred to the several
arned profeffions, that
quacks, fools, and imposers, should
ineet with so great encourage
ment ?
Many of our towns have fet
tled feipedabic Clergymen a
mong them ; yet this does not
prevent noisy and light-beaded
itinerants, of various denomi^
nations, from traversing the
country, and endeavouring to
disturb the peace of well regu
lated societies. In almost eyery
town of note there are men
eminent in the profeffion of
. law; yet rascally pettifoggers a
bound, who sow ftrife, foment
quarrels,and,l seriously believe,
create more llw-fuirs, and occa
. fion more business for the at
tornics, than any ether cbfs of
men in the commurfy If
you travel through this country,
you cannot ride* many miles
without finding a regularly bred
phylician ; yet in almost every
fcttlement, there is some wife
ignorant pretender, who profeffes
a felf-taught acquaintance with
the human body, and all the
diseases to which it is incident:
who without knowing the dif
ference between soap-pills and
laudanum, dispenses them both
with the fame rash profufion ;
and who Feels not the least com
pundion for the numerous mar
tyrs, who fall victims to his ig
norance.
To show you that I am not
the only one who has taken
notice of the encouragement
which these vermin find among
us, 1 here subjoin the copy of a
letter, which I have lately fr
ceived from a friend.
fyH**** } D CC# jd, 1793.
Dear Sir,
In your lafy you requested
me to inform you whether there
was a good vacancy in this town
for your friend Dr, .1+ =•
You observe, very truly that
this is a flourishing town, and
that its inhabitants incrcale faft d
But, however great the merit
and abilities of your friend may
be, I am inclined to think that
he would not fueled here.
We are situated in a good cli
mate, and are fubjeft to few
? diseases. Besides, we have now
more than one regularly bred
physician in the town, men of
merit in their profeffion, ex
clusive of Debtor Crocus, an illify
crate quack, who, —can you be
lieve it ?—does more business
than any of them.
This fellow is one of thofc
who get their knowledge of
physic by intuition. Pofleffing
no good quality, but his impu
dence, too idle, or too wicked
to get aliving by any bonefl em
ployment, without the least ac
quaintance with medicine or
diseases, he boldly dispenses his
noffrums and his pills; and
many, who have been weak e
nough to employ him, have, by
the powerful assistance of calomel
or opium, been soon rendered
incapable of remonstrating. He
is oneof those, of whom the a
postle speaks—" Who creep in
to houses, leading captive fil
ly women." And so well has he
succeeded, by pretending to
know all the complaints of his
patients, at firft fight, by the
peculiar manner in which he
feels their pulse, sagaciously
flapping bis fingers, and rubbing
the back part of bis bands, that,
notwithstanding thefa/s 1 have
hinted at, he is now so popular
that half the old women in town
will repeat,by the hour together,
the wonderful cures performed
by Dr. Crocus.
This man's fame might have
extended to a much greater dis
tance, if its progress had not
been opposed by the increasing
reputation of a brother quack, in
a neighbouring town, who had
invented a new and ingenious
method of manufacturing cancers,
from the accidental insertion of
a small fplintcr of wood under
the skin.
Os late too, he has received
some checks in bis own town, by
the arrival of the Reverend Mr.
Brandyface ; who uniting in
his own person the double cha
racter, of spiritual and bodily
quack; being able, with one
hand,to fit his patient for heav
en, and, with the other, to fend
him there'; and moreover prac
tifing all the minutiae of polite
ness, from the oft-repeated bow
to the graceful firing of the bat :
he may, in time, become a for
midable rival to poor Crocus.
As to what knowledge in me
dicines, or acquaintance with
diseases, his revcience may pos
sess, I know only this, that
common fame has represented him
as no way inferior to his learned
brother firft mentioned^ And
were I to form an opinion of his
merit in that profeffion, from
the sample I have seen of his ;
talents in the pulpit ; instead of
telling what I thought, I should
only exclaim, " from [ucb prea
: chers, and feb physicians, good
" Loid, deliver us !"
: \ You will fee by this statement,
(much of which, I fear, would
• apply to more places than this)
f that this part of the country'
r wouldn't be an eligible fixa-
tion for your friend h unless the
joint efforts of the government;
and all good citizens, fh*H have
united to drive these pests from
among us. And the people, at
large fliall so far know their own
interest, and place so high a val
ue upon their health, as not to
encourage the growth of others.
I am, with much esteem,
Your friend, &cf
I make no comment on this
letter ; but shall close With an
extract from a sermon, written (
by a celebrated philanthopift,
whose name will ever be rever
ed by the sons of sensibility.
" There is anothers pecies of
murder, Which is seldom taken
notice of in difeourfes upon this™,
fubjeft, and yet can be reduc
ed to no other class ; —and that
is, where the life of our neigh
bor is shortened, and often ta
ken away as directly, as with a
weapon, by the imperial file of
nostrums and quack medicines,
which ignorance and avarice
blend.—The loud tongue of ig
norance impudently promises
much, and the ear of the sick
is open ; and as many of these
pretenders deal in edge tools,•
too many, I fear,perifh with the
misapplication of them. So
great are the difficulties of trac- *
iog out the hidden causes of the
evils,to which this frame of ours
is fubjed, that the most candid,
of the profeffion have ever al
lowed and lamented, how una
voidably they are in the dark.
So that the best medicines, ad
ministered with the wisest heads,
will often do the mifehiefs they «
wereintended to prevent. Iheic
are misfortunes,to which we arc
fubjeft in this state of darkness ?
but when men without Jkill, —
wifhuot education,-witbout know
ledge, either of the distemper, or
even of what they fell, make
merchandise of the miserable,
and from a dishonest principle,
[rifle with the pains of the
unfortunate— too often with
their lives, —and from the mere
motives of a dishonest gain,eve
ry such instance of a person be
reft of life,by the hand of ignor- _
ance, can be confidcred in no
other light, than as branches of
the fame root. It is murder in the „
true fepfe ; —-which, though not
cognizable by our laws, by the
laws of right, every man's own ,
mind and conscience, must ap
pear equally black and detefl^
ble." W. #
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, last Summer, a dark brown year
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off from the left Ear, and a half penny,
the under fide, the fame Ear, Any per
son giving notice where said Heifer is,
so that the owner may find her, (hall be
generoufty rewarded, and all necessary ,
charges paid, by ' '
RUSSELL FREEMAN.
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