The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-10-11


The numerous cures that are daily performed by
the use of fVeget BILE Medicines are sufficient evi.
dence Of their super-sxcelert virtues PREF Ra-
Gnesqas.
MEDICAL VfLLAINY.
is time 10 call things BY their right names, and
TO speak the truth serny especially of those deeds
so foul in their nature that TO be merciful an
injustice and a crime.
Another scene of medical villainy has Just been
enacted, in New Bedford, Mass. A ThomSonian
Physician lost patient and forthwith host Of
medical leeches fastened upon ThomSonism, with
an avidity demanding more blood than is wont to
be shed by the daily use Of the lancet. The death
of Ms. Rowland was made the shameless and
wicked pretence for another offering at the shrine
of medical Molochs. Their al,ars continually be-
smeared with blood drawn from the very font of life
their haggard and emacialed victims, still yield
ing passively 10 The current of mineral poiSons and
blood-leting, which bear them onward to the faith
omleSs ocean of dealh-sufiice not for the grim De-
mon who presides in the temple of the medical fac
uliy. lie is no, yet gorged with the diseased and
dying, already inundated upon his altars-not yet
satisfied in the contemplation Of the chronic disea-
which multiply upon us, so universally pervade
the land, and of which nine tenths clearly trace
able TO this bood-cloted temple, and to those who
worship there-whose detestsbe practice consists
in giving the sick poisonous noStrums concealed in
Latin iargon-noStrums which ailict the miSera-
bic being who has partaken thereof, with some chro-
mic burden TIL death relieves him of the load. How
many of these victims daily, hourly sacrificed by
medical poisons. blood-leuing &c Are no, the
young the middle aged, and those not yet arrived
a thrap- and fan alilya cutn n1h 4
galiSed medical practice. that thwarts nature at
every point Of her operations Look in the train
of this praclice-Is it not filled with diseases of its
own producing-the dying and the dead Is not
the grave still gaping under scientific practice, and
Death on pale horse always al the heels Of the NJ
DIS But all this is not enough-Something more
is yet wanting to glut the insatate of diplom-
atIsed leeches. There are victims of another cast
10 be inundated. They are hose who have un-
masked the consecrated enormites Of scientific
quackery-rent the veil from mystery and false
hood and exhibited the medical temple unroofed
and cracked at ITS foundation, in its proper defor
mity-have proven il TO be like whited sepulchre,
beautiful outward but within full of dead mems
bones-and have proclaimed, even from its very
sanctum sanctorum that Meme Telie. Upharsin, is
concealed from vulgar eyes in all the solcmnity
sheepskin can confer-being interpreted, is MINIS
TER OF DE,TH. They have discovered its altarS
which the free use of the Lancet has bathed with
human gore, and which still reek in sangunary IN
oense from daily lbations of homicide sacrifices to
Moloch.
II is the unmasking of these scenes of medical car
mage. and pointing out the true road to health, thai
has reused the demoniac spirit OF an Infamous
league against the unmatched virtues of rhomsonism.
1t is because the Thomsonian practice is in harmony
with nature and cures where the other kills. that tn,
hatred and envy OF the latter swell against 1t as le-
gion of devils against virtue. II is because Doctor
Samuel Thomson. the student of Nature, consulting
closely her page has risen in the unclouded light OF
experience and fact and penetrated and dissolved The
medical darkness Of ages-it is because Dr. Tbom-
avoids all posons in his naierla medica, and pro-
tests most soemnly against their USE in any case
whatever that ignorance and alsehood strive with so
much zeal to beget the impression that Lobelia is
poison The charge is STALE false, and malicious.
1t has been refuted again and again, and the plant
proven to be the most powerful anti-poson in the
vegetable kingdom. Vain is the attempt TO per-
peuale the lie Soon must cease the lamcntablc
blindness of drug-deluded people, whose stiff
and incurvated limbs rotten teeth, and "all the ills
that flesh is heir to !" tell but too plainly that Mer-
curry and the Lancet like destroying angels, have
passed over the land leaving in their track an in
Vulnerable host Of victims, diseased-protrate-
dying-dead
II is computed that from three to five millions OF the
inhabitants Of the United States have adopted the
Thon,sonian system Of Medical Practice They
have adopted it, because, upon trial and fact they
have found the ThomsouiaB Matefia Medica, free
from any poisonous agent and because it cures dis
eases instead Of entang tcnfold worse malsdies up
on the patient does the scientific practice with its
deadly poisons, continually administered in oppo-
sition the universal voice Of nature II is the govern
ing principle OF Thomsonsm tina, whatever produces
diseased action, cannot it. Posons invariably,
TO greater less extent create such action-there
fore no poison ought to be used as medicine. What
will kill a well man cannot make a sick man well.
The Boston Medical aud Surgical Journal, the
mouth piece OF the faculty, says OF the scientific rem
edies that however different their action IN other
respects, " all agree in suddenly and rapidly extln-
gushing great proportion Of the vitality Of the sys
tenn" Hence it is, that the " scientific" practice Stays
its thousand, and tens Of thousands. Hence it is,
that upon comparison Of notes with the Thomso-
Man Practice, the scientific quacks appear the
scourgers and ruthless desroyers Of their -Four
thousand year. have they aounde-ed on, in eonfi-
sion worse conlonnded." and when at length new
beams Of lgh, fash upon them they seek to blot ou,
its sources, "prserrng darkness rather than light be-
cause their deeds are evil
No good can come from Nazareth was an un-
just saying Of ancieu, date How true are the
words Of DIR. Heryey, who says, BY what unac-
countable perversity. in frame does it appear,
that we set ourselves much against any thing that
Is newt Can any one behold, without scorn, such
drones Of physicians and after the space Of many
hundred yesrs or marianne. and ,...ca oC ,ha;, n,e.