Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-05-25


you must wear plaster on pour back. a III,
tie Burgundy pitch ,ou.h;ne
aDon', sport with human lie, saia inc So s.
eond black hood, gravely your ir'eeu ' ,s;s
must be careful, or he is not long lor ':'''
world. But if he will folio" my prese'iP'
TONS a..
"sIi he will follow mime interrupted me
lady with the spectaees, ''ake q ~i ,. s'' "
of Cayenne psaper and pint Oh a,.o ~ h,;,;ro
"And bySll meass put oo'hes OF o'"~s
water at your feet when you 60 10 oeo' '''u
/ Mary's mother. =,
@tAnd a aanpeI night cap said Mary.
."'Doubl. fanuel,' said the hrst olacK ho'u'
or pettiooa would Dr. better sill
CSC And pair Of stockings round your neeh'
said the second black hood
"' Woollen stockings added Mary
&c And drink during the night aooo' '"o
gallons Of boiling cider, sad spec'ac'es' So'
lemnly.
W And spoonful of tobacco tea every ten
minutes said MaN.-.
"Child,' said spec,acles, sharply, you tax
foolishly A poultice OF burdock leaves io'
the feet. A.
"'No-rye meal and cider, interrupted the
second hood :,
WNo, no-musrard seed and vinegar, said
the third eagerly remember 'ha'-.
Human patience could endure no more. !
started from my seat, mace very horf'ta
bow, and leli the house with so much precipl'
talion, :hal as passed over the steps, SUM
We'd, and nearly fell.
s"' Have you sprained yourself" said gen
rieman who was passing, 1t you haVe' take
little opodeidoc
Chemical embroca,ion,' said she with the
spee tao les, running to the door -,
"sRub IT with flannel said the hrst o'aes
hood, pressing behind her,
"Take pail full Of wheat bran,' said the
second, coming out on the steps mix II
with boiling water; stir II well with mould
candle, and
: "Take walk with me in the garden thi:
afternoon said Mary -
The experience Of every reader must testif,
that though there are here a few caricaiur'
touches, the principal outlines are true 10 INT
life, and in e, ID keeping il is worth vol
umes of serious argument, in exposing one O
the growing tbsurd,,ies Of the age, and ont
Of The wols tv arising out Of the d'tfuslo;
: of knowledge Here, at least, ignorance is bel
ter than kuov ledge the knowledge, we mean
witch can ever be derived from reading re
= spet ting human disease, a subject OF such ex
; ,reme diff, uity, hat, the mosl talented mer
! who have spent their whole lives in the study
= are frequently a, fsui To use The words OF
celebrated medical professor-(the la'e Dr.
Barclay f Edinburgh ",he most eminen
physicisn, after studying the history of dis
= ease in various authors, after frequently 90
serving it in their own practice, al er trying I
illustr ate the nature Of its symptoms by va
! rious dissections, and after the most unremit
;, Ting attention to its remote and proximale eau
n wrhs:sndins, been unable to form, in parlicu
lar cases decided prognosis, either with ret
pect to its continuance or its mode Of lermina
y. ton that many have lived, who by lhci
E prognosis, ought 10 have died, aud many hav
;. died who by their prognosis ought 10 hav
. lived" That such is the fact, their cannot be
2 doubt, and since it is SO, the utility Of sue
popular medical works, as shall propagate
, race Of America Black hoods, or Of Theodor
. Hooks Crosbies, is more Than questionable
: But II we GENE 10 such CONCLUSION on tn
4 general subject If popular medical work.
wha, are we o think # the "Book Of Health
which the author eravey informs US in his Pie
face, is "deduc ted, not from The limited .xpe
! rience Of an Individual practitioner, but "lron
1 the actual practice of the most eminent medi
cal men IF the present day." In other words
as doctors are well known to differ, the read
ing public are to be instructed in the cure O
diseases, by exhibiting The different and FIRE
quen,ly directly Opposite practice, Of" the mos
eminent medical men Of the day." IN a style, al
so "not too scientific to answer the purpose.
Like mes, promises and professions, We find
upon looking into hi. work, that the au,nor
so far from having made The slightest at,emp
10 dilute he scientific terms with The ieavrn o
{ popular phraseology, has Tumpcd up melang
of undisguised scraps firm Aberna,hy, Sir A
Cooper, Armstrong, Clu,terbuek, etc Cut GU
chiefly from The unofficial repor's of their lee
, lures in the Lancet.
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