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

sovereign balm for every death so happen.
= ing. Ii Mrs. Rowland was poisoned, The
poison came from another source than the
;, Thomsonan Mntera Medica. The histo-
" ry of medical reformation will throw some
. light OH particular cases.
:, If all the victims who are daily falling
under " scientific" treatment, were to be o.
! pcned, what horrid butchery would be ex-
8 hbited from the use of Calomel and other
= poisons, corroding and undermining every
= thing in their course. Who but the " sci
. entfic" practitioners give arsenic TO cure
= disease ?-yet, this is one of their remedies,
and Calome is superceeding Arsenic for
: the poisoning Of rats. How many deaths
which daily occur under the practice of NJ.
Ds., if the subjects were dissecled, would
disclose the dreadful truth that death had
been mainly induced by the deadly poisons
administered. The Boston Medical and
; Surgical Journal says of the scientific
remedies" that however different their ac-
ton in other respects, " all agree in sudden
Iy and rapidly extinguishing a large pro-
portion of the vitality of the systcm.''
If the judge who presided in the case of
Mrs. Rowland had had any knowledge of
the properties of Lobelia, perhaps, he had
never given countenance to the ignorance
and fasehood his remarks are calculated to
subscrye. II is lamentabe that the Bench
is made to bend, not to experience and fact,
but to books of an interested craft Lobe
liza, every one knows, who has "A competent
knowledge Of its virtues, is ns free of any
poisonous quality MS any plant in the vege-
table kingdom. 1t is to make buggaboo
Of Lobelia, and TO scare the people from an
innocent plant, that the present vile move
ment has been made by those who give but
t:le else than the most deadly poisous
ms remedies. Their case is desperate, aud
they know il. Thomsonism is rapidly gain
ing upon them, and they stick at nothing to
check it. They know that by having an
inquest, such verdict may be secured as
they may dictate and every one, acquain-
ted with ThomsoHan Reformation, knows
! fall well what these verdicts almost inyarla-
! bly, are. Ia these cases the law is revers-
ed for Mercury, the Lancet, and the Knife,
are permitted to bear testimony touching
that in which their all is at stake. In the |
ratio Of the rise of Thomsonism, they are
prostated-yet, if a person chance to die
within the pale of Thomsonsm, because,
beyond all the agents of life, they are per-
mittcd to give evidence in these cases to
say hO,C the death was induced, though they
are the very party interested. They are
permitted virtually TO SIT in .judgment, in
asmuch, rs what they testify, is received
as paramount to all other evidence. There i
is no Justice in this, and in no other cases
is such malpractice tolerated. 1t is an ex-
elusive privilege of which Doctor-craft is
not slow to avail itself for the destruction of
a system of medical practice with which it |,
cannot fairly aud honorably compete. In
these cases this craft is the prosecutor, the
Judge, and the exccutioner; and from such
hagrant niquty and foul prostitution of
law, Thomsonians appeal to the tribunal of
Justice, and ask a just sentence from the .
voice of the people.
Thomsonism, upon fair trial, has always
superseded the regular practice; because,
in spite of prejudice aud calumny, its vastly
superior efficacy has triumphantlv silenced
all cavillng. The regular practice consists
in taking blood, and in giving the most poi
sonous agents to cure disease; rs if what
would Kill II well man would make a sick
man well. We need no longer wonder that
death is so prevalent under the regular prac-
tico, when to restore the afflicted, such a
gents as Mercury and other posons are en-
ploycd which but too fatally prove them
selves the assistants of lingering disease
aud dcath.-Yet, if one of those luckess
wiehts who has been drugeed with these
scientific poisons I'LL he totters on the verge
of the grave, should seek relief from Thom-
sonian practice, but, being beyond all aid, /
he finally dies then an Cnvious and dead |
IL craft seize upon aud cut up the body, .
aud report death by Lobeia. Judgment and
execution follow accordingly, and n large
proportion of the community seem not to
consider the fact, that the party who SO re-
port, is the priviedged and most interested
party in the case, and that the medical sys
TEN they would destroy, is rapidly supplan- |
ting the deadly mineral practice which con- I
tnually entails numberleSs diseases upon .
mortas, aud which packs off daily, u count
less number to Z" that bourne whence no
traveller returns and scarce murmer of
disapprobaton is heard.
Something may be learnt of the rapid cX- .
tension of Ihomsonlsm, from the fact that
of late many of the NJ. Ds have rcnounced I
the old, for the new school of medicine. /
DIR. Nardiu of Charleston, :. c., has sold .
upwards of seven thousand five hundred of
Thomson's Family Rights, and it has late
ly becu nScertaned from gentleman from
that quarter, that the scientific quackery is
almost wholly supcrccedcd by Thomsonisn,
in :. Carolina. Indeed, its rapid extension
throughout the Southern, Middle, and Wcs- /
tern States, cannot but be ominous to the I
the medical combination, wherever they .
have foothod. Already they have the
presentiment of breakers which are to dash .
Them in pieces-hence their rage aud their
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