Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-09-02

tors - critical times ootesS children, guilel into health,
cat mint and pennyroya, through his last communca
ton IN all The confusion Of diSordeFed Imagination fhis
sann9 be those Of extreme tOure he has made them for
himself and therefore is his worst enemy Really the
tell0wp seems TO he in bad FIX for he signs and means
eXcfucafnely Hear him, 'Heigh no what shall lel-
low du2' You recommend to others, "simple rules and
driving TINS I" Win good mother prepare the fel
low dose"oi cat mint or " pehnyioyal: HIS rites
simple, oh very. What shall fellow do 20 Listen
now to good advice. Whenever again you are "wrting
few nes' for public joufnal-Shoud You = DREAM, even
though it be bnt little, just turn your eye TO that good
old legend Of eaven-the Bible, and ponder deliberately
over certain text therein =" Prove all things, hold fast
tint which good Ribaldry is not argument neither
"catmnin opinions conclusive poof where facts are the
nneria points in controversy. Without facts TO substanti
his position up his last and closing article, the
defamation of'' Phianihropy" is ike unto caf before
TIE wind and he must, therefore, rest content with
the course havG pursued to crh his Misrepresentation, as
vel Us TO elicit by Interrogation, his reai knowledge in
@her matters having an immediate bearing upon this con-
gOverSy.
out ofa number, q phlanhrophy' has confined himself
to the noce of one ineogaory only The rest he eyaded
- crawls Offs NUM- Did he deny call upon me for
The facts IN relation to his Misrepresentation concerning the
rather indifferent success OF our physicians in the treat
ment Of scarlet fever" No! nor could he, while the proof
stands looking him " i'll the face" On the contrary he
lodges the question: and asks with religious gravity does
my sceptcal accuser 90 upon the principle that the greater
the truth the greater the libel ~ Truth, is libel when
published from good motives and jqstfdbie ends is my prin
cipe and il entirely coucuurd in by every man, woman,
and child in the community who knows any ding of the
JIisetgod knowing to he such, with tile intent 10 defame
The Good name and concerns of another is Gbelols-and
popeiy to persist IN his offensive attitude, in other
words to crawl oi' from the ancade his
misdong and live more wise and virtuols course IN hi
ture.
Did Phiantmophy' notice any oflny inquiries respect
I the character and toms,ur the pathological condition
Of the human body, from which death is the result, in scar
let fever? No! Ignorant Of the disease in question, he
could say nothing and therefore necessarily obliged to
crawl ofH' Would lie even know scarlet fever from
measles? Doubted. How then should he know what IS
and what not proper treatment when he knows nothing
Of the nature or the distinctions ut disease? He may know
something Of one scientific profession, but not of another.
Hence the PROPHECY of every mans attending to his own ay
oCatiou.
As though there is but in life which regards
the welfare Of man. PhlantrOphy the science of
medicine for investigating the subject of animal heat But
though he may rdiCue that which he knows nothing about,
there Others regard something than the
mere swallowing" of Farenheit's thermometer. If he
heat necessary i'll the Of healthy dgeStO there
many dyspeptics who do That he knows nothing ofanma
heat, shall show by the following quotations from lis last
article. ana when we say mat The Internal should
he greatcr than the eytema heat would not plain COM
mon sense understand the meaning to be that the "mtema
should be greater, c0mpdrea ~ the hdrGt or hethy state
the HdiCiagai, chan the eXterna heat? think
viii meet with no difficulty here" think your own
common 1rH meet with difficulty here Whatever is
and caHHothe Otherwise there is no t'sHoULD about it
Comparisons therefore out of the question: The inter
nal heat OF the living body is ncdgS GREATER than the
'eXarna' let the temperature be what it may. 1t is
nnalteabe law of divine wisdom and while life exists, it
he otherwise Is not Scepcsm probably right
here for facts stubborn thinEs?"
Having thus reviewed the chief points in controversy,
now Pc ed aa. ID H.. ynH HnHg upon which q fH-
Idntropny has yentured express himselt and up
that uly-Ntre did he cyade or crawl ol;a
Presuhnng that the reader is well acquainted 'wh all
the big or common words in Walkers DiConary PHI
lanthrophys' acquaintance with common English words
be rather small We shall That form Of Nj
ire which most generally used in medical practice, is the
" spirits " tie spirits of Nitric Ether and there is
scarcely scoOlboy but that knows the fact This is the
article which Phlanthrophy" evidently meant IN his COM
muncation Of the 18th lnstand tins article has been ad
minstered in only Of scarlet fever in " our town.
during lis recent vages the Heracy of our repcctcd
docturs can be relied The nature and stage of the case
unquestiunaby demanded in the opinion Of the attending
physician and il used in combination with other me
dicna articles Doe5 Philnntnphy" question the quail
catiGns of that -peced physician: If not hcar him, as
have done, and m lis administration in the alluded 10
was demanded and I5tiiabr doubt not would be en-
ely concurrod" in by him who deaoUaccS first and
opens afterwards is upon thai unfortunate case,
am well satisfied by investigation, that " PIanrophys'
peculiar views and Interpretations are based. Why then
eyade the subject Ii thiS the real object there is moth
ing fear Why crawl orr and stand behind the barrier
ofreed SALr-PErRE Nitrate Of potash in mgdicne an
article scarcely used IN medical practice and known uni
yerspy commercial cummudity-or in the manufacture
Of gunpowder and The preservation Of meats and animal
matters in general Had " Piliantrophy' named any OF
the effects ths article upon and animal matters i'll
general he would have been saved the trouble Of quoting
from "neW" work Of no " medical authority ana II
would have been settled that when he employs the term Nj
tre,he means SatPre Of commerce. or Nitrate of Potash
IN Medicine Nevertheless his reference to Ortla ON Pol
sons page Is, equally settles that point in my mind True
it is that scientific chemist says, Nitre" la petre
nitrate o putlsh " is poisonous to unless vOmted up'
In poisonous doses Gan ounce and half mnrc) il gives
rise 10 inflammation of the stomach, and the whole train Of
symptoms which are the consequences OF such hiianma-
tion.' The question arises, is this the article which
" PhiianthOphy" meant in his communication OF the 2th
inst Does he know gifts having been used by our phy
Slcans in any solitary case or more Of scarlet eyer
challenge him the proof The article has not been used,
and mold myself ready with the testimony to substantae
The assertioA!!
BE all this as it nav and Notwithstanding the miserable
suhterlnee which ''Phanrophy has found it convenient
TO resort to, let look the neat inquiry. Is Nre-Salt
Petrentrae of Potash any It's forms and preparations
"A "coang" medicine when taken internally 1t Is nat
Why: Because increases the vital action acceeraes the
"A