The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-03-31

discover q. They have indeed cultivated and
brought TO perfection many useful arts and scen.
ces, but no intelligent, person will deny that 'the
most me 'acts and principles discovered and
disclosed by persons IN the humble walks Of lite
"Ark"rigbi, barber, inverted the spinning enny;
Watt, the philosophical instrument maker. invent
ed the steam engine; al ron.monger and Clazitr
contrived the atmospheric engine a bnrgomaster,
the air pump; an idle nobeman, the mariners
compass a merchant invented the thermometer:
a glazer, the quadrant Dr. Priss,l?, who Dis
covered oxygen gas &c. and the great minoraogist,
Harvey and Cartwright, the inventor OF the pow
er-loom, where clergymen; Rlttenhouse vas a
farmer, and entirely seli-iaught Mechanic
I Franklin was first isllow GAMBLER, then rrin-
ter Fulton, portrait painter John Hunter. who
created new era IN surgery, commenced life az
a cabinei.maker; Rennie and Telford, 10th edu-
Gated TO dress stoves, were the greatest engineers
whom the world ever saw; and Dr. Quincy Of
Cromwell, England. invented the locomotives for
common road Scarcely one of the many surpris.
Ing and beautiful inventions Of the prolific genius
OF New England has been made by persons tamil
liar with the art 10 which il is auxiliary" tSes
DIR. J. X. Mitchell, on Practical Chemistry The
declaration Of the poet concerning the learned, is
true on more subjects than morals.
Ask ofthe learned the way-the learned are blind:
This bids 10 shun, and that to serve mankind.
Let none despise the new practice for its sim
plicity. Ii is very simple thing to get SICK and
II may be, for aught physicians have yet learned,
as simple thing 10 get well again. ii is very
simple thing 10 navigate the ocean and traverse
the mountains by the power Of stean yet all the
mechanics and philosophers in the world failed to
discover the mode Of doing it, till since SAMUEL
/ THOMSON discovered and applied the medical
properties OF Lobes.
I l. is objected that the practice, though good in
itself often falls into unskiliful hands, and there
fore greatly abused. This objection holds equal
" good against the Irregular practice" Every
one knows that physicians seldom ever admins
ter remedies or nurse the patient themselves. They
give verbal or hastily written directions TO the at
PENDANTS, requiring them TO administer such or
snch medicines on the appearance Of such or such
symptoms. They expect the attendants (who are
too ignorant to be trusted with cayenne and inbe-
la bayberry and raspberry leaves, gum myrrh
and hot water , TO watch the pathology OF the dis
ease, and administer TO every symptom, according
to their scientific har-splItting, the most deadly
drugs 10 be found in the material world-drugs,
the least mistake in the use of which may endan-
ger the life Of the patient.
In their several works for the use Of familier,
physicians recommend the providing of emetics.
cathartics sudorihcs, se6atiyes the lancet, &C. 10
be used IN cases OF emergency 1t is true they
60 not very well agree in these matters: Tor The
celebrated Dr.. Cooper says, have not included
the lancet because the letting of blood calls for
skill and know ledge, both as to occasion and cuar-
tity. have omitted opium and laudanum, for they
are too dangerous TO be trusted TO unskiiul per-
sons" While the author OF "'The American Gen.
temans Medical Pocket Book" lately published
10 Phiade phia, says, page -" "A phai Of laud-
anutn should always have a corner in every trav-
eIler's trunk and tpage 80 every man should
know how to bleed. Ii IS an operation so extreme
IL easy in itself and so important in rs fleets,
that II ought TO be universally understood There
IS no difficulty or mystery IN the matter, and any
one who has the command of his fagefs and
eyes, can acquire, IN FIVE minutss that skill which
mBy enable to save many life y and the ceatle-
men is accordingly advised, page % 10 bleed
the patient at the very beginning Of .re,u milan
matory attack" He has none OF DR., Coopers
fears of danger" in trusting those means TO
"unskilful persons" But no matter how much
doctors disagree and contradict each other,
matters in which death is the result o. error.
the people bless their simple hearts believe them
all intabe, and act like the son OF the Emerald
Isle who obsilnately refused 10 consider the dan
ger Of his condition, to work at the ships pump,
otCGdSe ne iCas OHtY n plSstHgtT. 1 II sucn
are the scientific medical advisers who are so anx-
lnus to warn US 0: the danger of putting into tho
hands of every man a book carefully written, in
which the nature Of the human system, the char
ac,cr and progress of disease the curative indica-
tons, and remedies hostile only TO disease and in
perfect harmony with life, are clearly and correct
" delineated 1t is obiected 10 the Botanic Sgs-
ten, that it treats di.metricaly opposite forms Of
disease upon the same principles and with tho
same remedies. | answer, the New Practice is
not alone in this respect No symptoms can APP
pear more directly opposite than those Of cholera
and bilious fever; OF dyspepsia ard hepattis or
Inflammation OF the liver D of dvsentery and cos
tyeness the chill and the fever the scarlet fever
and the dropsy; and vet no one will derv that
mercury, in some form, is scientifically admins
tered in all these cases and might In truth say
almost every form OF disease known 10 the fscul-
ty % for inveorae is the passion for the use of
mercury in medical practice, that 1t has passed
into proverb-dcPrve physician of his nercl-
~ and his lancet, and he is like lion without
e.alcs."
( The celebrated DR.. Rush had gu, two princi
pies involved in his curative process the depict
ing and the stimulating Dr. Brown did ali by
ditfusive stimuli and Dr. Graham, the celebrated
medlco-elcctrican Of London by the stimuli of ar
omatics, of music and electricity. Let sill these
men and their numerous followers be cashiered,
before Dr. Thomson is complained OF, for curing
all diseases with steam, lobelis, gum myrrh," &c.
1t is objected to the Botanic System, tina, il il
Of low origin, and toStered only by ignorant and
the supersttous ofthe land. Ifso, then the regu-
lar faculty and their adherents are sadly degrad-
ing themselves in spending their time and using
their energies and influence, as they do, to sink it
still lower! Tho fact, however, is not So Tho
practice shuns not the light. ltrequires not tho
mystery of technlcaIites 10 sustain it, Based
upon common sense and sound philosophy, it i,
"plain, Ineligible and systematic; showing me