Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-03-28

ever ready 10 stand Foremost in tn. service.
o. his country aud when about the are of
IS wep' against the Indians & served dur
ing the whole Of the Anericau Revolution.
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HAD my enemies even relaxed, I should
not have troubled my friends, and FAR less
me pubic. Bn' calumny scdulously pro-
pagated 10 an unlimited degree, calls for
open reply. Nr. ) ). merchant. W-rr-n.
undertook 10 behalf of his connection, D..
4. Mr. n, to use all possible means for the
destruction of my medical repute,
kno~iog if he Iaiiel, such being as DR..
VI would on his return to this county, be
scarcely thought of. In full compliance
With this ne!arirus compa9, Nv S. S. has
preached daily at his store in W ~ n tn this
purpose. The DrStor has been equally
rnrcm'tting-his most successful efforts
have been at cour,houses-where, in
kind of official capacity, ne attends to prove
wi,js-but more especially at religious
meetings.. where, apparently with much
"eluctance, and in whining Methudis.i-
cal tonc'he propagates these tales, which
an al all tunes ready to prove, he and
ms proper ). :. & CO. knew to be per.
Ie6tlv Ease and forged Giva us leave
first 10 view this very worthy geulemar's
medical explojts--'hen we vii! not cbiecl
TO compare notes.
In 1907 many attended his ;nocu!at,rg
hospital IN Amherst-,nese delud.d oro.
pie were from month 10 month detained
without prospect of receiving the small
poX-and 70 return without IL was not a
safe orapDrnved measure.-Upwtne thing
terminated ! cannot exactly sav-but this
know, that there we're about one thou.
sand efforts in vain 20 give the disease du-
ring the twod's. ca.npeigns-aud SO slow
was our doctors Improvement, that tho
the number of patients the third cam
Daign was eight, it took something ike an
hundred trials on them-SUli me same
scene was epc9red ia Big hon. In this ore
neral calamity ). :. with ms family we're
sufferers, and loudly did accomplishments
in compliance wl.h the object Of agree
mcot, this Identical :. 8. & co,now cones
forward III his daily sermons, and tells rs
with great gravity, what mighty ply
stefan IS my brother Or. r. VI rr-n"-ln
re0,v, his nights acknowledged, Tor Dy
him have the mighty beenlaidlow Were
we disposed 10 dispute the Doctors pow
ers, the flowing SIX tch mi GIT throw light
on the subject. Suppose we begin with
old 3. " ID OF B-k-gm His family is in
all between twenty and thirty in number
some we're taken i'll Of common fever
DR.. M. atlended-Mr. Eds wife and
daughter soon died. two or three NOR of
his children Immediately followed, and
these were followed by an equal number
of servants-F.-d himself got sick, being
growing daily worse and worse, he al last
applied to another physician, who cured
him in twenty four hours. +. p tt-sn Of
Bg-hm, had two different cases of fever.
cured by two different doctors. The
disease continuing he applied to our
DOCTOR r. M.r-sn of course; three died
almost Immediately; and as old Mrs
e ttrsl observed, % the fourth would have
died too, but he quit taking the means"
AS early as 1894, our doctor was led 20 ab
Jure the successful mode Of treat ng fever
(Which constitutes every case we have, *
almost all those we are about to men
tion)--he bled in the chill, but more
particularly he bled when fever WAS going
off; having invariably adopted the rule not
to bleed when the fever was high-This
remedy is certainly pernjciouso on the chill;
but at the end Of the fit Of fever it is NOR
tai add to this the blood taken az either
Of these periods, shews no appearance OF
fever or Inflammation and from the blood
(abstracledly) you would conclude the dis.
ease to be rather the reverse Of fever
This distinguished physician declared a
patient at G VI u re, Big Inn, to be past
hope yet by one single dose Of medicine
from another physician was he cured, and
remains well to this day.--In NJ. WI sn's
case, he declared IT useless to give any
thing. bit to the glsry Of the cause, by
Zone single dose Of castor-oil and a warm
bath, direl-d by Dr.. G-b-t Of Amherst,
was ne got well, and continues 81.
T.. A. moved to Is k-gm in 1897; hi,
! family was in all about seventy attend
! cd them 20 1907, and lost not patient
From l797 to 1900 thcy we're under the
care Of an ingenious young gentleman,
who bad then commenced practice is
Justice to say, that IN fall 1899 and begin
ming of 500, he had sky Of them III of a
bad fever-,hey all recovered IT. A. him