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

hoycd Dr. w. Is. Hire OF Amherst, wit u
full success---fvom 1901 10 June 1908, DR..
NJ n was employed, under whose medical
government the complaints were colds and
head aches with slight ieyer-which our
doctor bv the dint orbark, black snake root,
campfire and such things, raised To the
last or mortal point, and eight, OF whom
nve were prime workers, were rescued
from this toilsome life, and sent 10 the
world OF spirits.
' lie /t51Wc a son ASPECT cest cjdHge en- bLeurigie
Et parim Ia DugrGine est 5eeaiot o5renes;e"
Only these lines are much older than our
doctor, YOU would Der he was the man.
With uneXanpied patience did Mrs
N'i gy Of Amhers', for twelve months fol-
low this man advice-the wear being out,
our doctor made a violent exertion, and di-
re ctcd thus Z" To lose pint of blood
twice week" the command being with
out condition, the remedy was tried with
perfect conviction that following this adj
vice for one week would be decisive. He
then consulted his library and bro't forth
tins marin | use his own words, " that as
bleeding had almost kiiI'd her, salvation
would cure her" At it he went, but pro-
WAS he unable TO produce it, and then he
tAlrly gave up The field. / was astoniehed
20 find II one of those cases the old women
cure with nails in cider, steel dust and Bit
ters-i pre- scribed to the same effect and
she got well.
This case was the reverse ocfever, and
had our doctor stimulated in it he would
have cured the patient. My friends in
AIbcGlarie viii excuse me Cor making any
remarks, as Irtended merely to state d
few cases among our neighbours. Out Of
a number that would ill a volume, let us
mention that If Milly at Alr. Ri sn's,
Warren. This patient had large col
lection of matlerin Observation-Disclosures
lecli"n vas torming-on PRESSING between
the RIBS matter as pushed upby the mouth
by the proper use oG mercury, the whole
was cured together, and she has been well
tor two yesrs-wheo nearly recovered Nr
Morrison made it his business to inform
Mr., R--tson all we had done for hvr was
wrong, and ciie she must, unless she took
roCooN ROOT. Mir R-tson not sus.
p@ttiDg improperly in any respect. aud
TO quiet the Doctors anxialv GOOD mar)
She did not die-0ur Decor has insisted
ever since, this IS the third case cf con
sumption he has cured BY the use 81 po-
c0on--it is admitted The rcverses. or in
plain English, the deaths under its u.s.
have been nanv-.but whstuf that? Change
the form and il viii 90 as well as ever and
II the Lord spares him, or the arrival OF
the great elastic rem bag-he iuiends
administering it through that medium
A'0Ong Tie variety OF salshoods refer
red 70 by :. Shelton aud Dr. Morrison IS
the fallowing--tha' out of twenty patients
IN fever which attic III winter 1908, on
ly few recovered. Among these they
name some which Dr. M--n attended in
person and in $ Shelton's daily view, who
Of course died--and ] neither saw nor
hear@ IF them i'll dead.
] defy hem - shew any case stated an
then!ically, wherein | attended thai wes
not managed properly. pretend
not 10 inGllhiiitv, but the faGt is that
ann seldom or ever called only in cases
that are dremed higllv dangerous, and IL
an hundred and more cases If fever at
tended IL 1898. ther. IS orIy one which
Hlt lHl' ~ Wtii--a'O ll'S cas-. was cNd-
mined more han one by physician Of
character, who noted fh- particulars in
wri'inp-and has been referred To the best
living practitioners and writers-and the
opinion is "that the treatment was cor.
rect"
On this case atcciaNv ! am ready 20 So
tisiy any nerson.--TEe late John Lewis
being buried or of the world, was never
uudeceiy,d as to these stories BIZ DR.. W.
and his hrother---it is a truth, that ! al
tended his family since 1885, with com
p'ete succeSs-to sev we ever had any dis
pute isa gasehood Of apiece with the res -
Dr. Ms PROPER, it is presumed, had
one--f.nr Of his family being seized With
a fever-on employing Or. NJ two died.
the other two were redeemed by a Young
gentleman who had been reading mt deal
books near VIZ. is for some time-he
bed. &c. aud these two recoveries induced
Nr LIS when he himself vas seized
with a feyer I'D violentiunnmualion of tive
bowels, g, employ The same Young gentle
man, AMI under is direction Mr.. T-s
meGdcd.-- But by the most uraccountable
fatality, they persuaded Him to send for