The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-18 00:00:00

HYGEIAN MANIFESTO.

If doctors can (as they hold out to the world) prove
that such poisons as prussic acid, arsenie, opium, &c.,
&c., can (under any circumstances) cure, or tend to
cure, any disease or malady, we will at once admit that
that medicine should only be practised by those who
know how to deal with such poisons ; but satisfied as
we are that they ',cannot prove any such thing, and,
moreover, fully believing that poisons are held out medi-
cinally to the world by doctors in order to create a
monopoly and make a trade of " advice," we deny the
right of any Legislature to force, by enactment, such a
body of men upon the public as those practising on the
organic theory, which theory admits of poisons being
held out as medicines.

Hygeists claim the medical liberty of the subject, be-
cause they believe that with what is strictly "medici-
nal "—that is, a proper vegetable purgative, all persons
can, and ought, to be their own doctors. It is, in short,
because this opinion is now become prevalent, that doc-
tors are obliged to go before Parliament for extra-
ordinary and most unjust demands—such as to compel
the public to employ them nolens volens.
The British College of Health, New-road, London,
for and on behalf of the body of Hygeists.
April 17, 1845.

DISGRACEFUL HOAX.—Wednesday morning, be-
tween two and three o'clock, the following disgraceful hoax
was played off on a lady of the name of Mitchelson, residing
in Nutford.place, Bryanston.square. At the above-men-
tioned hour several medical gentlemen arrrived in cabs,
and others on foot, at the residence of Mrs. M., for the pur-
pose of tendering their aid to her, having been requested
by two young gentlemen, who had a short time previously
called on them, to conic immediately to the residence of
Miss M., who, they stated, had attempted suicide by swal-
lowing a quantity of laudanum. On the first medical gen-
tleman arriving, he was assured that he must be labouring
under a mistake, as no such occurrence had taken place,
and he quitted. In less than five minutes afterwards no less
than four others arrived, and from the commencement to the
end upwards of a dozen, who had been dragged from their
beds, to their great inconvenience, and also annoyance of
Mrs. M. The conduct of the parties connected with the hoax
is so highly reprehensible that they merit the severest pe-
nalty of the law.

THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The Dutch steam-
ship Batavier, on her last voyage from Rotterdam, brought
a case, containing charts and maps, forwarded from the
Hague, as a present from the Dutch Government to the
New Royal Exchange, for the use of the underwriters at
Lloyd's, and application has been made to the Customs'
authorities, on behalf of his Excellency M. Dedel, the
Netherland's Minister, for the delivery of the same free of
duty, being for the use and benefit of the public service,
which has been granted.
INQUEST ON Mit. GRlEVE.—Wednesday Mr. Carter
held an inquest on the body of Mr. John Henderson Grieve,
of Blaizenlore-square, Peckham, artist, father of Messrs.
Grieve, the scene-painters, who was found lying in :the
street, and taken to the Lambeth police-station, who, itiwas
supposed, had been intoxicated; but it turned out that he
was in an apoplectic fit, and he died in a short time. It was
shown that the deceased was a remarkable abstemious man,
and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.
One of the greatest impositions practised at the
present day by shopkeepers, not only in London, but
in every City and Town throughout the Kingdom, is
that of forging the property of another, and imposing
on the Public the forged article with all the assurance
of innocence.—We allude, in the present instance, to
those admirable requisites for the Toilet, the Macassar
Oil, Kalydor, and Odonto, as prepared by the Messrs.
Rowland, and which, from their merits and reputation,
are the constant objects of fraudulent imitation. The
parties so imitating concoct some trashy compounds
resembling in appearance those of Messrs. Rowland,
and by adopting the very same names, and copying
the labels and bills, endeavour to pass off their trash
as the " genuine" articles, reckless of the injury which
they will inevitably inflict on those who are deceived
by using them. We should have imagined that an
English tradesman, whose reputation . for honour and
integrity is proverbial, would not have stooped to the
meanness of so base and paltry an action. Neverthe-
less we know for certain that such is the ease, and
we
would advise all Patrons of Messrs. Rowland's Articles
to purchase only of respectable venders—and particularly
to observe the caution in their advertisement, which
frequently appears in our paper.