Star.
London, England, 1824-09-28 00:00:00

TO INCOGNITA.

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If eyes WI teeth, thine awn bat mid
A gawk tale of lave to me j
Had mine the pow'r too, they'd unfold

A noway from my bean to thee !
I know thee not-ftedll it doth seem

That face and form ere sow Tve met;
Thou art the spirit of some areas,
Whose sweet memorial Moms me pet !
I love thee ; could I read those epee,

And doubt the heart within sincere?
An Wide! *stark the *les,
And not believe a heaven was there!
Idolater—not Infidel--

In worship at thy shrine I bled;
Thy beauty binds me as a spell.

And colour. all I see and feel !.
Ob, this is weak ; in loving thee,
I weave, perhaps, my (utore sorrow ;
For thou an as a bird to me,

Whose wing may now the waves to-miaow !
And destiny may bid as pan t•

For ever—well, rhos, be this line
A witness, to snore thy heart
Now much, dear girl, thou had'st of mine I
J. H. P.

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Ma. EDITOR-On my return a few days ago from a
♦hit into Scotland, the following letter was put into my
hands, which had just before been inserted in,the Bath
aid Cheitezhaes Gazette, by a Clergyman in Wiltshire,
to counteract the tendency of the erroneous sentiments
to which it refers, as published in that neighbourhood.
As it is of public interest and importance, allow me
to give it further publicity, and to offer a few remarks,'
suggested by the perusal of it, through the medium of
your Paper.

To the Editor of the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette.
Sin—la your Paper of last week, as well as in some
of your brother Editors of a later date, I pet used, with
feelings of a very mingled character, an article ex-
tracted from the Lancet, and said to be part of one of Sir
Astley Cooper's last lectures. You will indulge me
with the insertion of a few remarks on the subject to
which it relers, which is, the prevalence and the cure
of Scr °frig.
It is matter of lamentable reflection that the disease
should abound as it does, and it affords a confirmation
of the truth of what Sir Astley says of its prevalence,
that " cases of Scrofula have lately come to my know-
ledge in this town and neighbourhood, till the number
now amounts to upwards of fifty." It is still more la-
mentable to reflect, that, abounding as this disease ap-
pears to do, it is on the increase—the plague is spread-
ing—but yet more lamentable would it be, it, as Sir
Astley states, there were " no specific remedy for it."
Can Sir Astley believe that there are no remedies pro-
vided in nature for that malady, by a merciful and gra-
cious GOD, as well as for others? Doubtless there are;
and such as would be found efficient, if called into use,
and duly employed. If such remedies are not known
to the medical woad, I think it behoves those whose
profession it is to seek, and those who, it is expected,
should know and properly apply them, to commence
examining what can be either discovered or effected, to
save their Cellos -creatutes from the misery and disgust,
and the community from the deplorable ravages -of a
malady, which otherwise is likely, ere many genera-
tions are past, to taint the whole mass. I well know
that by the mode of professional treatment, which, like
self-arrogated orthodoxy in divinity, has confined itself
to one imbecile system, and contented itself chiefly
ss ith exclaiming against inmainary innovations, or in
endeavouring to suppress the truth, till all wete well
nigh about to perish under their accumulated maladies,
little good has been or can be effected. I well know
that hydrargyrum, and antimony, and ablutions of salt
water to stimulate the parts affected to action, enable
them to throw off the viscid humours, and induce ab-
sorption or suppuration, have proved their inefficacy to
produce any sanative result. I well know that alkalis,
and muriates, and submuriates, and sarsaparilla, and
the like, to correct the scrofulous diathe,is, fail to do so
in ninety cases out of one hundred. I well know that
digitalis, and hyoscyamus, and such paralyzing nar-
cotics, pushed in a worse than quack-likeotanner, to
allay the morbid excitability peculiar to scrofulous
subjects, have baffled the expectations of their origi-
nators and employers. All this has been better known
to the profession for centuries, till their failures in this
disease have constituted it the opprobrium medicoruas.
But I also know, that by simple and natural means,
some hundreds, once wretched objects from scrofulous
affections and ulcerations, have been delivered from the
virus ; the alarming tumours and enlargements have been
dispersed ; the joints, hampered with advancing contrac-
tions,have been released; theexcoriations replenished with
new flesh, and healed; and instead of puckers and seams,
heists and scars, the surface has become sound and
clear, and there is scarcely any mark of disease ever
having existed ; and I have it on the testimony of a re-
gular Medical Gentleman, is corroboration of what I
myself have seen, and who, having inspected the cases
to svbich I allude, hesitates not to declare, that he be-
lieves them to be perfectly sound and good cures, that
be never saw the like before, and that it is worth the
while for any Medical Gentleman, or other persons in-
terested in such a matter, to travel five hundred miles
to see the subjects so cured. I have moreover myself
a number of patients, on whom I have expended some
scores of pounds in efforts of horn three to eighteen
months standing, by the usual means, who are now, by
a different process, in less than three months, altered in a
manner that is most gratifying, and that indicates a
rapid approach to such a state of recovery and cura-
tion, as the patients before alluded to have exhibited
and maintained, for a length of time sufficient to sal.
tisfy the most incredulous mind that is not wholly
blinded by prejudice, infatuated by party spirit, or en-
slaved by jealousy and bigotry. The means that have•
effected these cures and this change are such as assist
those parts which are the seat of the disease, to throw
it off and recover their natural tone and purpose in the
human frame; and of course by so doing, " regulate
the secretions." These are the means discovered by Mr.
Whitlow, and employed in London under the surwria.
tendence of himself an Dr. Pidduck, and by several
private individuals in different parts of the kingdom;
from a conviction of their superiority and efficiency over
everything else admitted into use by the faculty.
kis with extreme reluctance .Sir, that I obtrude my-
self in this way upon your- columns, and upon the 110.1
tice of the Public ; but when a situated as
air Auk! Cooper is, and in a to doom