The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-20 00:00:00

REPORT of the BRITISH COLLEGE of
lIEALTII, New-road, London.
PEOPLE OF ENGLAND,—It is with much satisfaction that we have
to announce the steady progress of the Hygeian system of medicine
throughout the world. From every quarter we continue to receive
the most satisfactory reports, proving the great truth first promul-
gated by James Morison, the Hygeist, that all diseases to which the
human frame is liable proceed from impurities in the blood, and can
therefore only be eradicated by proper vegetable purgatives. This
theory, we need not say, interferes seriously with the profits of the
medical profession, who from time immemorial have endeavoured to
promulgate the idea that diseases proceed from various causes; that
they were the only parties to judge of those
,causes; and that the
most deadly and subtle poisons were, in certain cases, necessary to
the cure of diseases. Now we are certain, from the experience of
many years, that such poisons are not necessary to the cure of any
disease ; or how is it, if they are necessary, that all diseases have
given way to the influence of the Vegetable Universal Medicine?
We contend that the whole of these poisons should at once and for
ever be banished from the pharmacopoeia and the chemist's shop,
and only used for the purpose of destroying—not of saving.
For many years the whole body of Hygeists have been actively
employed in getting up petitions to the Legislature against these
poisons most falsely held out as medicines, and one of these, signed
by upwards of 20,000 persons, was presented in 1847 to the House
of Commons by Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., the Member for Maryle-
bone. Ilygeists do conceive that if the poisons, such as arsenic,
prussic acid, strychnine, &c. &c., be necessary to the cure of dis-
eases, they must be in the wrong as regards their theory and prac-
tice ; and if such be proved to be the fact, they are ready to
retire from the field of contest; but they feel certain that such
engines of death can never do good, under any circumstances, how-
ever admistered, and therefore they protest against their use as
medicines. As to medical men holding out these poisons as mod'.
1 tines, that is net at all conclusive as to their utility, because such
a scheme throws at once the healing art into their hands, and
prevents all improvement. Well would it have been for mankind if
the deadly chemicals had never been introduced as medicines. Why
they were introduced let doctors answer. Hygeists have nothing to
do with them, and on that account their medicines are not sold in
chemists' shops, being most desirous to keep a marked distinction be-
tween what they consider an agent of life and one of death. When we
look at the chemist's shop and its contents, we cannot but reflect on the
amount of misery and crime to which it has been accessory; such shops
should be called " poison shops," not shops where life is supposed to
exist. 'typists admit that they do not understand the administra-
tion of such poisons, which are sufficient to kill when given in grains
or drops ; but they understand why a simple vegetable purgative,
which cleanses the human machine, should core—this is the differ.
ence between them and doctors.
It is now upwards of twenty years since a single individual, James
Morison, the Hygeist, backed by some of the Hygelan agents, esta-
blished the British College of Health, the object of which was to pro-
mulgate the Hygetan System of Medicine. Everything connected
with that eStablishment has been carried on above board and in the
world's light. Muth opposition it had to encounter from needy me-
dical men, who saw their trade falling off, prosecutions were had re-
course to, hut the light of truth has prevailed, and at this day the
British College of Health stands higher than ever it did, not only in
England but throughout the world.
We are, fellow countrymen, your obedient servants,
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