The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-16
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THOMS0NIANISM IN VERMONT
Concluded.

The same great statesman. the gentleman
has quoted, after saying what he has against
false theories, has advanced another senti-
ment directly contradictory. wiz "Error
will do no injury as long US truth is left free
10 combat it," If this sentiment was true
you might 60 on in error, support your false
theory, apply steam, and administer your
Cayenne and Hot drops as long us you
could find a weak brain 10 submit 10 our
imposition, for truth is left free 10 comba,
your error, vet you persist therein. and still
an injury is inflicted. 1t matters not though
it be done through ignorance, delusion, or
hypocracy, it is all the same TO those who
submit 10 error in case of life and DEATH
Here it will not do for you 10 adopt the
common saying that because your reme-
dies are harmless, they will do no hurt, If
they do no good" We caro- not if your
remedies are as harmless as the dust under
your feet, my assertion tina, it is dangerous
TO re ly upon these is still true. for sir you
will remember, if your practice is not direct.
ly peTnicious and destructive TO YOUR pa
tient, that you are standing in the gap, and
shutting out the means that might eveniuaie
in his recovery. For this, you are account
able, es much as If your Deighbor were
drowning, and you alone could see him saw.
ed by stepping aside and giving place 10 n
stronger arm, which if you refuse 10 DO you
would bean obstacle in the way of his SAL
walton. Unity of disease, unity of remedy"
We say is the ground work of Thomson's
theory Cold being the great enemy, of
the human family, or the direct cause of all
diseases, thus reasoning, you introduce
Heat as the great opposing agen; TO CON-
bat that enemy, whose seat is within the for
tress. or upon the internal organs OF the DO
dy, and say you, "while The external surface
of the body is burning with heat, the inter-
nal is dying with cold. Is ,hiscorrect reason.
ing Is no, the blood OF the centre as much
heated as al the surface, or is there any DIFF
ference in the quality of the blood. at the
centre, and at the cx,remilies, except the
change the blood undergoes in its circulation
through the system Certainly there is no
difference in the heat of the blood. in active
circulation, according 10 the closes! obser-
vations made with the Thermometer: How
then, can the internal organs be dying with
cold ! Rather is not the whole system, in
fever laboring under tho highest degree of
ercitement and PhlogoSis However, be
this as it may, haphazard, you go the round
of carrying your patient through what you
call course of medicine, first, by applying
your forces against the disease, Cod, you
begin with hot water, taken internally, and
water as het as can be born without scalding
externally applied, this is followed immedi.
ately by Composition p2,cderS, Cayenne, and
hot drops, TIL the system, already laboring
under the highest fibrile excitement, is over
come and exhausted, prostralion ensues, the
pulse sinks. In this way, purely by exhaus-
ton, the heat Of the system is reduced TO the
Stceating point. Now say you the patient
perspires freely. But you see sir, this is a
roundabout way of coming at your enemy,
if you get at him at all, but is direct way
many times, of coming 10 the closing scene Of
your patient. Who,we ask ever heard ofsuch
a course pursued. except BY Quacks? We
appeal TO the good sense of all who read
And who especially we ask, ever heard Of
Cayenne Pepper injections used in Accouch-
ment? And for what purpose were they u.s.
we will answers and leave the latter for those
who have used such, 10 answer. Probably
Mr.. Smith has known of such injections be-
ing used, and under lis effects, Witnessed
the expiring agoniss of patient thus shame
fully treated, but why they were thus treat
ed in Accouchmcnt, we leave 70. him TO in
form US. If such a course is an established
theory among the Thomsonian's we do say
the medical profession has undergone " an
other change, the value of which we leave
for the future TO decide" But who en-
brace such heOryl why few idle adveniu-
rers, too lazy 10 devote more than, from six
weeks, to three months study in the acquire.
ment of knowledge Of the med. profession.
This in view, we do charge the Thomso-
mans with denying the necessity of a knowl-
edge Of Anatomy. Physiology, Pathology,
etc. Your own theory condemns you, in
that it says there is but Que disease that af-
fiicts mankind, one disease, whereas Paihol-
ogy, a word derived from two Greek words,