Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-06-02
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}, ed pepper~box filed WITH fft
: atsbane, zinc and vitrol too,
:. a nd mercury TO physic through;
y ow this at times is what you give,
ordo your patients one half live;
~ ach butcher takes the blood TO kill,
r GU doctors do the same to heal
M AXE quick your choice which of the two
u octors or butchers the work shall do
Now Doctor. you will examine medical
authors, you will find that Hippocrates was
born in the 46lsi year Of the Christian era.
IA medical mistake Of 900 years), of the fam
ily OF Asclepiade; for his father was the
nth IN lineal descent from Escuapius. and
10 from Podalirious who dressed the wound
ed before the walls of Troy, and afterwards
reIgned over small city in Thesaly He
studied medicine under his grandfather Ne
orus and his father Heraclides and practised
medicine in Athens, at a time when plague
ragged, far more dreadful than the cholera.
which was named in 1880; and his rene.
dies were not depicting like our cholera
doctors of the present day; they were con.
genial with nature, and, like the Thomson
ans, he was very successful--he cleansed
the famous city of Minerva of plague with.
out bleeding or poisoning. The power Of
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the body, scattered the shadows of death. and
shed around him radiance Of JOY and hope,
as II an angels visit had lighted upon that
city. 10 purify the air, he caused large
fires TO be kindled in all the streets and lanes
and to relieve the suffering from the consu-
ming heat which devoured their entrails, he
placed them in warm baths TO expel the u-
fectionby the surface OF the skin; and to sup
port their weakness caused them to drink
Of the rich wines of Naxos II would BE-
equally useless and prolix. TO enlarge on the
happy experiments he made, OF the new rem.
cdies he discovered, or the prodlgies he
wrought 10 all the places honored with his
presence, especially in Thesaly. where, al.
ter long residence, he died Ut the advanced
age Of ninety-nine. The discovery of the
circulation Of the blood has since been
ascribed to Hervey. So the problem is solv.
ed without figure
Merit defines itself by its acts; il never
abused people for employing Thomsonans,
nor Perces. because he could not cure her
fits. A word TO the wise is sufficient.
'Quack a boastful pretenderto arts which
he does not understands vain, boastfnl pre. |
tender to physic. He studies, and passes a n
examination, because be has learned to an.
sweT questions by rule. Little il any atten-
ton is paid to his natural aptitude for that
particular study, and none TO those discrm-
mating powers of mind. without which he is |
totally untitled for the professional lack
which no book learning can possibly supply. |
A slip OF died sheepskin is given as token |
that his lesson has been said aud, under this
authority, he is commissioned to kill or cure
as the law directs"
And woe betide the luckless wight who
shall attempt to follow the same occupation
without the talsmanic parchment Doctor,
insist on your drawing the line where
quackery ends, and proud science begins
Says DR. Warehouse, 81 Samuel L hom
son is quack, Hippocrates and all the
Greek physicians were quacks, and all the
Jewish ones, also; and every Roman ply
stefan, not only through The entire Roman
republic, but down through all the Roman
empires, and all the first ages of Christiani
~. and down through all the dark ages, and
until long after the revival of letters in Italy
Prior to 400 there were no regular schools OF
anatomy land the science OF chemistry was I'M
known; and until the Arabians brought the
medicinal chemistry into use the arr and
practice of physic was the result of expert
ence, and was collection of facts delivered
verbally from father 10 son and from tutor to
pupil. Anterior to l745, the study and prac-
tice of physic was very little variant, If any, /
from what Samuel Thomson. the patriarch
of the Lobelia and Steam system. has, by
great pains and labor, accumulated during
more than forty years of an industrious life.
The most solid, immoyeable and valuable
portion Of our art, is derived from experience
and the best qualifications OF il is sagucity,
and the next to that is industry of which
the patriarch, Samuel Thomson, possesses
eminenily. The scientific physician follows
aud copies the rules of others. and that con-
stitutes the learned physicians; but Samuel
Thomson studies the Book OF Nature--that
is, the nature of man, and every thing about
him, as did the famous physicians among the
ancients. and some of the best among the
modcrns Samuel Thomson restricts his
means Of cure to the vegetable kingdom and
rejects entirely the mineral. one and all, ex.
cept water. | will not dispute with him.
let him stick to his system, and let us regulars
profit by it, Iconfess have learned several
things from his many experiments,
and his severe scrutiny into the nature, quail.
tiles and medicinal virtues of our own native I
plants. 1 rank Samuel Thomson among !
discoveries. and respect him as SUCH He s
is not an imposlor He has an uncommon a
stock Of natural knowledge, and enjoys the Y
benefit Of his discoveries and trials bv pa o
ent ',-B Wakeyhouse n