Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-04-14

your highly valuable periodical wish 10 see
It's pages directed 10 an Improbable contro-
versy; yeti am under the necessity of re.
guessing place for this Your paper of the |
l7th of February last, contained letter from
me TO DIR. J. Wright, of Montpelier; and i'll
the learned faculty have fired all their am
muniton at it, and split their muskets, they
will manifest il by keeping silent. But, Mr.
Editor, feel disposed to answer to my name
when called; and | have nothing TO fear
from domineering faculty, whose much
learning hath made them mad, and whose
senses are below the grade of the beasts; for
the beasts will not take poison, nor give it to
their ofspring-none are found dead by the
way side But the Doctors will take poison
themselves, and cram it down the throats of
their children until it produces death in their
own arms.
Now Doctor as you pity the old scientific
Doctors that have to fee from DR.. Arnold,
you may sympathize with them, for it is a
golden rule that men and women will use
such weapons as they have. And as you
got cured by Mrs b. who prescribed the
red-pepper injection-I mean the time when
you went TO Mr. b. with such an innamma-
ton in your face, which caused that break
ing out at the mouth-no doubt you thought
the pewter cylinder a powerful weapon, ii
| abated your fervor so quick; and had you
been steamed scientifically, as was Mr. Well
mans child, ii might have renovated more
completely. 1t seems Doctor, that you are
insane, by your dealing in red pepper and
steam; but don't despair,-there is hope in
your case yet. Thomsonians can cure fits,
deporable mental arrangement, fevers Of all
kinds and colors, canker.rash and measles
yes, and small pox too they can even cure
them twice running, cure them of disease
and the poison they have taken. Yes, you
can be cured with Thomsonian treatment;
but mixed or mule practice will only make
your case worse, as was the case with Drs.
Gray and Barton But doctor we are not
over anxious about small game. We have
about one hundred Of the regular NJ. ID. in
the Thomsonian ranks, who have abandon
ed your poisoning practice, who have be-
come nationally convinced Of the power and
efficacy of Doctor Thomson's system of med.
icine, among whom are professors Water
house, Robinson, Hersey, Powell, harding
Logan, Curtis and many others; which puts
your scientifcs in an awkward predicament
and like the drowning man. you catch at a
straw praying for law 10 compelthe PEG
pie TO take your poisonous drugs. o Doctor
you have had a kind of gag law. TO support
you, for fifteen years. and now you want an
other 10 protect you in your last and dying
moments.
will examine your dcpletive practice, tha
you wish TO compel me, by law, to study be
: fore cure disease Bleeding. blistering
poisoning, physicing aud starving, with sur
] gerry. constitutes the whole OF II; and, al
! your books say, it takes lifetime TO Obtain
an imperfect knowledge of it. Sydenban
e invented bleeding; and more died by tn
/; Lancet in the space of one hundred years
: than persisted by war; pestilence and famine
G He seemed aimed to stab at the heart,-h
d was deaths pioneer, who cut the veins oil tn
b people and Slapped their life; and opened
It smooth and easy way to death. He was
G traitor to all existence, 10 all life, soul SUI
G cdel determined foe of beingl Intended mul
derers' strange road. most strangel TO seek 10
r happiness. Hell's madhouse are full c
ST such,-too fierce, too furiously insane an
r desperate to range unbound niong evil spil
Il its damned Paracesus, who as relorme
n Of the system Of Galen, first introduced me
Of curry, (quickslver) anthony and opium INT
Il the Materia Medica. But be was arrogan
vain and prohigate; and after living the Ia
n, Of vagabond, died confirmed sot. II
al studied mystery; and wrapped up his know
e. edge in terms of his own invention, so as
he keep his knowledge confined to himself an
in a few of his chosen followers;-the very r
,r verse OF Thomson, who performs numbere'
if cures, making no secret OF means. III
TX cant phrase of quack, belongs TO the learn'
H. Paracelsus, but not to the mystery hath
h. Thomson who considers mystery and roui
ery offspring of the same father-the man
n sin-the old father of lies and deception
ell If Thomson be quack, he is quack s.
generis or cheat OF a wand singular elias
er In one thing every thinking man must ar
W, will agree, for it admits OF no dispute, II WI
an be admitted as an axiom, namely-tl
IS, Thomsonian practice has been dlffus'
" through New England between Is and
DIS wears, and it still maintains its credit, al
rk every year its roots strike deeper and
branches spread wider and wider. Thor
he sons system is valuable anchor, the 81
ur blem Of Hope, to which is attached mr.
nd cable that doctors have in vain tried to pr
he to oakum; but which will trust, be like t
in strongly twisted cord that binds our hap
he States together, acquiring strength by ag
ity the very reverse of the poison syste
Of which is nothing but bold and rash expe
ments. Not only Thomsonians, alrea
yn numerous, but learned individuals amo'
nd the regular faculty, and medical colleges