The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-21 00:00:00

City of New,York. . .
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%tete,' an attentive perusal of the memorial, what is the.
What information does it contain ? Does it.
Nee ; tosexplailf.the `efitlie and nature of-Miens 2
Dee. :t Point out to us any preventives of the disease?
tint'e,_lt hold out any remedy to cure it ? Does it teach us
Oily 07eUlapian wisdom by the experience of 20 years,uide
,1014.441itivot
liens' two hundred years, has gained any light to g
I,4Viher to prevent or cure? Have these men laboured
1.44,—:' time in 'darkness, total darkness? Is their igno-
c_as profound as at the commencement ? What have
Its e"elo doing ? Have they been experimentalising ?
llit;:fitYl in multitudes, Fallen victims to death ? Have
te, Y their charlatanry, empiricism, quackery, and mal-
ne
jl)oeseuts.sent millions to their long home?
%seas. this gentleman confess his total ignorance of this.
It -s or its antidote, and that of the 1,000 medical
ftelliZttab uses who have written on the subject ? Does he
PhretiVwn that the whole medical host of Esculapian
ease ~'°uers know nothing to aid them to prevent or
the *qe disease ? Can he and his brethren, then, have
aud •
ierli .d:ciity to come forward as instructors and guides to
jetlyr or the constituted authorities?
Nil_ e suffer the blind to lead the blind, may we not rea-
l/ Y "Peet that both will fall into the ditch ''
reig,u'twe not with horror, chilling horror, with save-
tsost seontellipt, with decided disapprobation, with the
sdvi4n:uinnaate disgust, turn from, and abandon such
tare, e„ ' Would it not be better for us to trust to na.
tore;"
to drevent aeth?nd cure, than to be bled, poisoned, and
red
°
iteo we say they may do us good? May not the most
lteptast Old woman, sailor, mechanic, or African, do as
404; Its they, and on the same principle of ignorance, ran-
thi ) Conjecture, experiment, try this, try that, try any-
', It try everything? What a pity the medical world
e4oes eo science, no sure knowledge, no fixed principles,
ke ttell established theory, no safe and efficacious medi-
Le% to be administered as preventives, or curatives, in
deeers• Were this the case, we might have some depen-
theisvOo them, some confidence in them, somed. hopeher
seliel going us good; but these areat an end. T
flint business, their whole employment,. seems to be to
Poiele.n..us, to spread alarm, terror, and dismay, among our
abatir °u. to frighten us out of our senses, to make us
t 0 !her; rezw'm and nature, that we may become a prey
ign"ance, cupidity, avarice, maltreatment, &c.
tau Must there not be a physical, predisposing, efficient
this all disease? Has the Cholera no cause 2 Does.
Itate?auste'" defy the philosophy of medicine" to investi-
etteies gl it not possible to learn and understand the
real Does Does not the Memorialist almost stumble on the
ataljT!,le? -Does he not admit that the blood universally
itess suotera patients senstitu • • .
" has been deprived of a portion of
liete.... ent principles—is deficient of water and nutrent
taste la darkscoloured, thick, tenacious, possessing neither
of
di Or
-Be."
~i,
to. "'ell that this is not a consequence, but cause
lilsti -Be." What a pity that the Doctor had not swm
lift 4 little further and found Weasel in the right road.
havehla matter of fact if properly understood, would
444'0 him and his brethren' into a knowledge of the
tie , of Cholera, but instead of discovering that cause-
-41.41 Predisposing, primary, unt
efficient one, the next
itiere:r, while groping and travelling in the dark, that he
W°", is to find the cause of Cholera in a deficient cause.
is hat can that cause be ? Nothing more nor less than
file o"xe6ei ency, or depraved condition, or combination of
fel Oen of the atmosphere." Does he think it doubt-
stter'eh ? No wonder, since he knows nothing
that of the
sor cause of cholera. Should it not seem, then,
sot %the atmosphere should be treated and regulated, and
this Patient? Hive the sons of Esculapii.is yet to learn
tad': cause, the efficient, is in ourselves, in our bodies,
Of es"' ia the Creator, or in water, air, or any other part
,etttion.
baler
t`4lol ri We review the matter of fact of the blood of
'1 dark subjects, as given by the memorialist, " that it
sals„:ooloured, thick, tenacious—deficient of water and
Ikeit• iie this condition not a consequence, but. a cause of
111°Old'ilkse•" What is to be learned from this? What
, let. the medical world learn from it ?
ueseo'bat disease is seated in, and arises from corrupt
thiell'lrSB In the blood, which change its colour, make it
2,1. ‘,,i!u give it that tenacity.
alld 'hat these bad humours retard the natural action
taspeePelattion of the blood, destroy its elasticity and
IP 4717' Choke up its passages, disorder the bile, corrupt
-ersireesansi'flui fluids, produce convulsions, spasms, Ls,
34-„,toe stomach, bowels, and whole system.
brought state
this corrupt, vitiated, acrimonious? and.
4ouph atate of the blood, and other animal juices, is
(IsY,"ettp" by slow degrees, not the work of an hour or
4itla: Pethaps of weeks and months.
tffie,e 'that these humours are the cause, the proper,
111„e etZ,,eause of Cholera, that inetead of philosophising
table sh;:Phere to find the cause there, we should be Ben-
i 6th, hthe Cathie exists within us.
is truth`,wisat are called the premonitory symptoms "are
'ull. t: he disease itself,"-she first stage of it, then the
beep4,:t ti is without delay to strike at once at the
ie„:°', source, me
and cau,e, by evacuating tirose inipuri.
lits,„'"Sof thesystem.Does the Msmorialist think those
he s'"ult su srs .' can be successfully treated ?" Dths
",,,.t/'°tyj can-Y-
tbemscured ? No. Treating and curing
,6t1:7 „different.
7bieCtsuots he not allow something predisposing, without
Yet t,,, Cholera would not attack us ? Ha, that gentleman
41),(Wee-,:tfu that those corrupt humours can easily be re-
h-tunv rhea they first begin to accumulate? Does he not
froSile",ust when they are so removed, an effect will be
tlrttlee-e", because the cause is removed ? What should
ita, letYliatsn to give advice in, or as. it relates to Cho
ti.,'). a n„,., be knows of no preventives or curatives?
ti--..a h-s'iu we in the least trouble ourselves about ny
-villeetv: Call neither prevent or remedy ? Does notch is
)it
Il
no thiutv lbolint to this • I, like a fool, speak of what I
• .
p,.a? A
to
of, and you, like fools, may follow my ad-
es,'e h .i." 3 to precautionaries, neither to prevent nor cure,
sltns are not Esculapian enough to discover any
1114 ilje wisdom in them common sense teaches any man
leastiSadeteeianl and temperance in all things are always
s \Vit-s.ve health, and are proper preventives of disease?
'at trial does that gentleman recommend animal food as
stable: proper? Does it contain more oxygen than ve:
;tre the at
fruits? Do not the latter contain the most ?
Beat 4 Y not the most wholesome? If nothing can pre
kuisleute, why change our diet and de ot living ?
t'toleedY, We believe
changing it is detrmoimental. We are
Ths tu subsist on our accustomed diet.
ttill'tstetutah:_\.7egetable Hygeian Medicinis will prevent and
th %Sate, :must Cholera, we are confident. By. keeping
hie bad, Purified and clear from the predisposing cause,
L"od sscerropt humours of the stomach, bowels, and
or! "s shall have nothing within us for the contagion
reratis That tesuPuur and be safe from the epidemic.
tie„4,.re ti-"c°,,!,, orb_ may be attacked by it may be cured,
ee'heises "otient by commencing the use of. the Hygeian
Lith stes_.`: season, or in any other stage of the Cholera,
‘lll,,etToctilrnt strengtis of doses of No. 2 Pills, the cause,
tludaet e' removed, health would be speedily restored,
k "toti proof of which is already before the public.
eu .
, Iberia,. Medical men all come out frankly, like the
i1a11t,..1,4") they would soon pull their Babel on their
‘setileit:
:and ill men
ignora wo.uld fly frm them, despising
ignorance confusion, craft,_and maltreatment.