Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-04-29
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lvij SOW pseeeed 10 notice % they cons ~ c1cI
- ofthe remarks Of lest week,msde ~ "a 'f'eno
!. acixsec.~ much admire bis csndss and noses'
~. N scksowledessg tho imPerfectioes a"d per
pctusi cbsnRs Of medical theories for three tncos.
ssd years. yet he appears 70 think that for me 'a"'
Hfty yesrs tie science has been placed upon "''
e. besis, slabough there are many new hv'ng' ""o
lament the "peIfect Chaos" &c.
zach ono has given t0 the world some nev
truth :" The discovery may b new but the t'o'"
remains always the same: two AND Two nave %
wsys been four, and wsil remain to be, and no 90
pbsssv cen ever alter IL. because u 10 lmmusao'e
and indessrucisLIo. "ADd it is tho collecting Of
these scattered end isolated facss;" BOW the se:'
eoe WV those "isolatsd facts" have not been COL
lscsed iaso something like system, 10 oil their cos
rect theories arc osly incidental remarks. % smOh'
cred amidst tho more fascinating exhibitions o: &.
ROT that no one doctor has been sble 70 distinguish
bstwscn truth and fslse!,ood. For example: 1T
b - impossible to separate from IL the useful 'so"
tbe trivial says Lieutaud, that il wcfo better to 70.
jees il slL" ut (msdsesl science) 10 tho h'gme:'
dsgroe Of uncertainty - says Abeccsomeis -. -
Ike temple unsoofed spd esarked at the tou"oa'
sioo," says Ru,h. Nov readers what think you,
wouli il not b perfectly RATIONAL 10 conclude sns'
The practice must pastake Of tho uncertainty Of the
theory upon which il 10 based. Or would you ccn-
eiade that iisis sysiom (sies having received the
iodefatigsble attention Of many me" Of the most
,llussrioss and splendid talents with which the
world was ever blessed, and yet such mass o.
eonfusion,) had better sink into tho sand Of which
il 10 compound, and look vound for path entirely
aew. lf the science Of medicine after four thon.'
and years il only 10 i,s infancy, - 10
when will il arrive At manhood3 the mind "A'u
rally looks forward milImns Of years he"ce.-
'sWhose enr,h-bosn minds"-ihis BY - friend to
hn
The medical faculty alone, nor was il 90 intendsd
''They enlightened physician.) have neve! oP-
posed truth; just below he says (speaking Of Her
vey) 'yct oil alike sepsobste the views which he
ADVANCED" nero he includes all, even pbys'c'a"s'
wh,m We know prosecuted him when he gave 20
the wosIi his discovery Of the scirculatisn OF the
blood; some even wished to wicst the discovery
fosn him (such was their jealousy AMI luminosity
towcsds him) say ing it had been discovered before.
Here 10 pslpsble evidence Of their havin. opPo
sed the truth which NJ this day would attempt
to deny. That tho faculty have taken a very
scsivo part in psrsecu,ing oil the valuable medi-
cal di c'veres shich did not originate amsng them
(so.nci'Drs fthcy dd) 10 truth every days "b'e'-
walton will support; and the moro valuable the
dseovery-ths more important TO the afflicted. the
more deadly and bitter the persecution. Who per-
secuted J'homsonf Who thrust him into pr'soDl
And for whate because he healed those malad'es.
10 do which tho faculty had utterly failed.
Pardon them, perhaps they did no, know thcy
were opposing those truths for which they had been
% long in search. and which have dcfied and ever
will "defy tbs power ofopposit;On's bursting wave"
Yet there nre excep,ions-some that are too dig.
niGed and independent, as DR.. Wsterhouyc who
advocates the system oil Thomson. DR.. Water
house says, Samuel Thomson, like most reformcrs
has endured in our county Of Es.ex, much severe
persecution ~ ever was PerPcsrsted N il, which
" sayirg great deal, when We call TO mind the
L. - IL. -
italy indicted icr murder, BY using Lobelia. he wss
without trial. after something like ~
pscmsnd Of the Solicitor Gencml Of tho court.
hapPcass u Wsserlouse ever did persecuic
Thomson 1--WE do mot know that TO he long
since sepcntcd Of il according to "a friend oil
SCIENCE" rs many moro Of tic faculty have done.
~ Drs. Saunders and IIeisey. (he.h surgeons in|
cry, Draper, Robson. Caldwell, Ripley, ToIman.
and Bartlett, somc OF which have strcnuous'y opp
sed those truths delivered 10 The world by Thomson
hut havo "scpcnted" Of il, and are now IN the !,
Thou,sonian ranks, and these men would not ex-
change those truths or 'solased facts" collected
BY ThomsoO, fs all the facts inseparable fom my s.
t'cism and csros that four thousand years has pro-
ouced. DR.. Rush remarks, ''ihose physicians gen.
orally become the mot eminent, who have soonest
smsne'patcd themselves from the tyranny Of tbs
schools Of phys'c.
Oue <DDe Of success, confines the same writer,
70 oeQ "a by the following eauses: Ist. our IS.
nnsa1ev6Fihc disease; End, our ignorance ofa SUIT
able remedy; 3rd want Of efficacy in tho remedy.
Dissections daily convisce Of our igoosa nee 81
tho scat Of disease, and cnuse 10 10 o!ush at our
prescriptions. What miseh;efhave We done, undcsl
the belle! Of fslss facts and false iheonese We
have sssistcd in multiplying diseases; 70 have
done @ore,~ We have increased their rnortslssy.-l
Again says Rush, VI will not pause to teg pardon
II the faculty, for acknowledging in this public
manner, the weakness Of our profession. | am
pursuing truth, and sm indifferent whiherl am led,
ifshe only is my leader" J.
Fer the Richmond Palladium.
A sincere desire 10 be useful has induced me n
.pend few minutes this evening in the exsmina-
ton Of subject which has recently been broached
in tho Palladium. I allude to use Thon,sonian
principles Of medicine. Ny intention is to cmLo-