Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-09-28
oUAcK ADvERTIsRmENTs, RECEIPTS, &C.

oUACK ADVERTISEMENT, RECEIPTS, &C.
There are quite number of papers in
the land. devoted to the abolition of slave
~, and the promotion of religion, &C.,
and any one would think from looking
over their columns. that the success of
their causes depended very much upon he
number of advertisements of quack medi-
clnes their pages contain. Ii is perhaps
reasonable TO conclude, that those edit
ors of religious papers, who advertise
quack nostrums as the cureail for physlc-
al disease, are about as quacklsh In the
prescriptions they recommend ia their col
umns as the cureal, for spiritual disease
How the editor otlhe Vermont Telegraph
can devote two or three columns of his
paper. weekly, to quack advertisements,
is not well understood, since he has
knowledge of some truth in physiology,
and is aware ofthe outrageous ilnposilions
practiced upon the people by medical pre-
tenders and empires. And it is with no
little surprise that we see the Anti-Slave-
RS Standard, which contains so much that
is truthful and beautiful, Publishing re-
cipes for dishes which a decent and
healthful "porker" would turn up his
nose at, and reject with dsdain, as I'M
palata5e to pure taste, and depraving TO
a healthy system. But $50 goes the
world;' when Wilt go otherwise? When
men prefer health rather than disease.-
Health Journal.
Brother Whitmarsh Brother Whit
marsh: I'm getting out of it! Don't
you see! Look at my fourth page.
Pretty ellcleared off, Only the remains
of bad bargain there. That's all Was
led into the practice from the following
considerations The patronage of the
Telegraph would not give it competent
support without advertising. l knew the
/ people would have medicines, and thought
that such as have advertised in the Tel
egraph were less harmful than many 9TH
ers. In fact l have had evidence that
some Of them have been benefclal--and
among them Taylor's Balsam of Liver
wort, for coughs and early stages of con-
sumption. [ have no evidence that all
which are siigmatized as "quack.' medi.
cines are worse than others. The system
of medicine eating, as a whole, an most
heartily sick of. Have had little to do
with il for myself Intend to have less.
Like the old saying, that ian ounce oil
prevention is worth pound of cure.''
/ Have :or a long time discarded and alb
ijured the stupid and irrational notion tina,
sickness is matter of chance or of prov
idence. 1t comes from a violation Of nat
ural law. There is the connection O
cause and effect in the case. There il
the same connection between bad food ant
levers, that there is between alcohol AM
drunkenness. | go for prevention. Blu
when the transgression has been perpe
trated, the effects are developed. and tn,
cure is called for, am not to be tied vi
to any system by the cry of quackery
e and charlatanism" against all other sys
TENS. Abstinence is the principal thin,
with me. believe that medicines takel
: increase disease oftener than they cure o
q remove it. | believe the world is til
: worse for the practice of medicine as it
carried on. Not that practitioners gene
ally design to destroy human life. BIZ
n there has been monstrous delusion her,
o as in other departments. set down tn
: learned professions, SO called-l0w, phY
i &c and theOlogy-very much togethe
r They are ponderous mil.stones about til
'e necks of mankind. They are full
plague and perdition. They are trio
destructiv es supporting themselves at Il
{. expense OF human happiness. 1t is tim
- for the people to awake, and throw off ii
:. nightmare Of ignorance and the illusion
l. of superstition and folly. Let the
NJ learn and know themselves, the laws
e their being, and the true relation existin
il between themselves aud the great Sourt
= OF all being and all blessedness.