The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-06-07
For the Peoples Press.
TO THOMSONIANS IN VERMONT.

DEAR FRIENDS: Seing in a former
number of the Press that some rude hanc
has snatched your light from you, and left
you in total Darkness, without an clue tc
guide you back from your wanderings
we thought we would give YOU the follow.
ing light and experience from the pen of
one of our prominet medical authors it is
an extract from the lectures of N. Chapman
NJ ID Prof of the institutes and practice OF
Medicin in the university of Pennsylvania,
he thus discourses on the use of one of our
souvrenest remidies Calomel
"Gentlemen, if you could see what oil
most daily see in my private practice in
this city, Persons from the south in the
very last stages of a wrecked existenc, E.
maciated to a skeleton; with both tables of
the skull almost completely perforated in
many places; the nos half gone, with rot
tin jaws, liberated threats, Breaths more
pestiferous, more intolerable than the pi-
sonous upas, limbs racked with the pains
of the inqulsition, minds as imbecile as the
pulling babe, grevious burden to them
selves and disgusting spectacle to others,
you would exclaim, as | have done, o. the
lamentable want of science that dictates
the abuse of that noxious drug, Calomel,
in the southern statesl it is quackry, horrid,
unwarranted, murderous, quackery, what
merit do gentlemen of the south hatter
themselves that they posses, by being able
to salivate PATIENT cannot the veriest foil
in christendom salivate-giv calomel but
| will ask another question: Who is it
that can stop the career of mercury, at will
after he has taken the reins in his own des-
tructive and ungovernable hands, he who
for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of
his patient to mercury, is vile enemy to
the SICK and if he is tolerable popular, will
in one successful season have paved the
way for the business for life; for he has G.
nough to do ever afterw ards to stop the
mercurial breach of the constitution of his
delapidated patients, he has thrown him
self in fearful proximity to death, and has
now to fight him at arms length as long as
the patient maintains miserable existence,
and n friend the Tomsonians as this is
solely for your benefit, to enlighten you,
as you are the only ignoret creatures there
is except the heather, you may place the
utmost confidenc in the above extract, for
it is science and cannot be gainsayed, some
may raise objections to the loss OF their
jaws and teeth, their limbs drawn out of
shape and constitutions ruined, we would
say to such that art can amend the mutlla-
tions of for you mist know that we have
men that can put in teeth better than ma
ture and we have got machine to straight
en- your limbs when twisted and as for the
constitution it is of little consequence at
any rate you wont want any after your
dead, and now friends if the above concid-
erationS fail to bring you back we must
for if that humbug of thomsonsism contin-
mes to increase as fast for ten years to come
rs it has for ten years past we shall be I'M
der the painful necessity of getting a large
pair of saddlebags and and fill them with
lobelia and cascum for our patient or loose
our practice unless we can get the legisla-
ture to make law to force you to take pl-
son whittier you will or not but we don't
think the vermont Legislature is enlighten-
ed enough for that as yet for the day was
when we had such laws in all the states
then it was grand times for%s but alass
they have been repealed in many of the
states and soon will be in all and the peo-
pie be left to choose the most successful
doctor and we left to work or starve.
SCIENTIFIC.
P.S. we guess you can get the Adlson
Co NJ. S. to grant the privelage of publish
ing the above.