Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-08-28
INTERESTING REPLICATION.
From the .Nsre- York Esenisg Post.
SWkI,I,S pANAcrA-w. NJ,

SN AIMS PANACEA.-Ne per-
ceive b. the Philadelphia papers, that
an article has appeared in the medical
Recorder" published in that city, tend
lug 10 bring into discredit the Panacea,
discovered by Dir. Swain, for the cure
Of scrofula, and other disorders Of the
glands We are decided enemies TO all
lquackerv, whether in the politician, the
llawyer, the divine, or the medical prac-
titioner. We believe that great pro-
portion Of those calling themselves Doc
tors, who have purchased, for few
dollars, diplomas from foreign UNIVERSE
ties, arc impostors and we consids
most OF the certificates and attestations
of extraordinary cures, with which most
countries are inundated, impudent fabri-
cations, invented for the purpose of ex-
torting money from the timid and I'M
wary. But while we thus ayow our
opinions of this class ofmen, and stigma
Itize their practices and their nostrums,
we do not feel ourselves warranted to 90
all lengths with many medical practi-
TONERS, who censiderevery man aquaci
who has not gone through a course OF
| Irregular studies, and every thing he
prescribcs as useless, nay dangerous. if
| it is not sanctioned by the Faculty. We
are not 50 great strangers 20 Science IS
not to know that the Writes Of many Of
the most valuable articles used as medi
cine, were discovered by individuals who
had no pretensions to scientific know
LEDGE, and that most if not all OF them
owe much of their importance to the
clasfc names they received. Strip medi-
cine of the mystery which hangs over it,
in consequence OF its prescriptions being
couched in dead language, and we are
afraid it would no longer carry with il
that imposing character which It now
possesses.
Is we have no direct proof Of pgeju-
dice, or interested opposition in the
conductors Of the "philadelphia Ameri-
can Medical Recorder,o we shall not
impugn tie motive that induced them to
censure the use of Mr. Swaim's Pa
nacea. But as we are in possession Of
some leading facts, which show, at
least, that these writers are unacquaint-
ed with the successful application Of
the Panacea, and of the estimation in
which il is held by intelligent individu-
ais, and eminent medical professors, we
conceive it viii be doing an essential
service to the public to make these facts
generally known.
The testimony given of its particular
cures in the pamphlet Of Mr. Swain, in
which the names Of gentlemen of the
highest reputation appears, bears strong
evidence OF the invaluable character OF
his medicine. This, we presume, was
known to the conductors of the Medical
Recorder, who must also have been a.
ware, that the attestatio Is of such men
were not to be put in competition with
those obscure and yenal personages
whose certificates Of quackeries may be
procured for trihe.
Ia addition to these testimonies. the
| Panacca has been advocated by several
eminent physicians in Philadelphia, and
was compimented, during one Of the
lectures, by Professor Of the Penn
sylyania Medical College, who in mo-
ticlng the extraordinary cures which
had come under his own observation.
recommended this medicine TO lis class
as valuable and important discovery.
1t has been introduced into the Phila-
delphia Aims House and Hospital and
such were its surprising Effects in the
latter place its success after all other
medicines had failed, that the Surgeon
OF the Hospital, DR.. Vim. Price, was mdu-.
Iced to abandon lis important and high-
y respectable office, from the laudable
design of beneftting his fellow-creatures
by carrying the Panacea TO Europe. We
could enlarge on the beneyolence and
scientific attainments of this gentleman,
but his character does not stand IL
need Of cur culogy. If nothing else
were known of him than his noble ef-
forts in rearing the Philadelphia Asylum
for the Deaf and Dumb, this of Itself
iwould shield him from all suspicion Of
interested collision with The proprietor
of the Panacea. Ike is now in EnelanT.
extensively. engaged in displaying ii.
sanative influence; and as a still further
evidence of his correct appreciation OF
lis merits, we can state, from our know
ledge, that it has been introduced, thro'
lis means, into the principal hospitals il
London and Liverpool, besides having
heen administered to many private md
yiduals, and its virtues publicly acknow-
lodged by several Of the most eminent
physicians ia England.
But this is not all; Ia The city of Y.
DIRK, we have had a nun{bc- Of cures