Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-09-29


now conceals. that have enriched its columns
since ~ ommencemeni.--seyen and half
years tbs IS doing big business They
probably. IKE DTs Chandler and Isham, took
their own poison.
NY An reason for rejecting IL is: Regulars
themselves do not believe their system is
worthy Of confidence MackiDiosh's Pa
biology. vol. |. page %, says: at is neecs-
sary to caution young practitioners and more
particularly those commencing the study Of
medicine. against implicitly receiving the
arbitrary doctrines Of fever. which divide
the profession in the present day" Gregg
rvs Practice of Physic, vol. |, page A, says:
"in every view, the doctrines of fever must
be considered of paramount importance, ms
they constitute the foundation Of all pafhO
logical reasoning Bot according to Mack
intosh, this foundation TO all their reasoning
we must mot implicitly believe"i What
shall we think Of their deductions when we
cannot believe their premises7 But more
than this; they have yet 10 commence Sc
rles OF experiments. 10 see If they cannot ar
rive at something certain hereafter But
beg Of them not TO try 10 kill their patients,
Tor their skill IN that is certainly manifest
enough now nor to see how much poison
they can give them and not kill them, Cor
that, a; best, is a dangerous business Chap
hams Therapeutics. vol. /. page A. says ::
10 arrive at any satisfactory conclusion re-
speeding the powers of medicine, il is inds-
pensible that experiments should be carefully
repeated BY asIslsent persons on different sa-
rents IN different diseases under different cir
cumstances." Page As, he says: I'VE must
studiously examine the phenomina Of dis
ease, and with an attention no less unbiased
observe the operation Of medicines Thus
perhaps we shall ultimately learn 10 dis.
criminate, accurately. the diversified shades
OF morbid action, and apply TO each, its ap-
propriale remedies As i is, we are plung.
ed INTO Dedalian labyrinth almost without
clue" Page 81, he says: Awaiting our
selves OF the privileges We possess. and ami
mated by the noblestimpulse. let us cordially
cooperate 10 give TO medicine nep direc.
ton, and attempt those great Improvements
which it so imperiously demands" But
les, they act as bad as their predecessors have
done, be says, (page 49,: Certainly the an
nails Of medicine nre already sufficiently
erosrded aud deforRed with the abortions OF
theory to moderate our ardor. and create in
future. some degree Of restraint and circum-
spection." When will regular physicians,
so Infatuated 10 The blind groupings Of Ho.
msr's Cycloss' in 'Dedalian labyrinth,' find
the science Of medicine2 Certainty not un-
| al they stop their blind groupings come out
| OF the labyrinth and no longer bleed nor
give poison. which instead OF killing the dis
ease. weaken. and often, very often. kill the
patient Ii they have yet to find their sci
ence, let us Thomsonians not be discouraged; 4
Tor they are so accustomed TO their blind
groupings, that the people viii discover the
science, and use it, ere they pick the scales
from their eyes, OF GO, out Of this awful lab
yrinih.'
Finally. If the testimony Of those who
know the most about the system and are its
warmrst friends. is TO be taken as evidence,
the world would be much better without this
system than with it, Then il we canno, pos
sibly biunder into more destructive system,
| am sure every man should reject it in toto
But may be asked how can SO many learned
men appear as the advocates Of a system sol
destructive 10 health and life. which spreads
desolation and mourning wherever il goes2
answer they are first taken into the 'aby
rinth' Of error, and then blindfolded until
their eyes become closed. when they are
taught the blind groupings Of Homer's Cy-
Gloss. This assertion is not peculiar to
Professor Chaplain. for says DIR Abercrom-
bic. (page 293): Mature is fighting with
disease blind man. armed with club,
that is the physician-comes to settle the
difference; he first tries to makes peace
when be cannot accomplish this, he lifts his
club and strikes at random; if he strikes
disease, be kills disease; if he strikes ma
lure, he kills nature"
DR. Anxious Veritaius. in his last eommu-
nication. has gravely decided that the burden
OF proof rests on me. have endeavored to
comply with the Doctors decision; and IL
have failed, il is not because am no. in pos
session of evidence enough. and shall plead
for a continuance.
will here suggest few ideas for the
Doctors wise consideration
When you write communication, sign
your own name; and when you are out of
sorts. write it over again.
When you are used up. you being the
champion. put your profession on trial.
When your bump OF destructiveness has
so overcome your sense that you think you
have right 10 kill three-fourths of your Gus
toners and the public have no right 10 com
plain. be born again-or be renovated and
purified by the enlivening qualities OF the
Steam and Lobelia system. The disease is
brought on by grovelling in Calomel and
Castor oil. and The too liberal use of strong
drink, the pipe, the box and the quid. The
light in passing to the brain becomes choked