New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-19

other barbarisms Alusion is also made to the gen
eral treatmen, Of diseases in the ruder and simpler
times of physic, (which shows that the science OF
Medicine has been going UNNECESSARILY backward
a couple of thousand years or SOTO the effects Oh
demonstrably powerless remedies-to the preva-
lence and success of the Expectant Systemic the
widespread employment of quack medicines,
(which the learned Reviewer makes out Infinitely
preferable TO the most scientific employment OF AL
lopathc drugs)-to Hydropathy, OF which the he
viewer speaks in the strongest terms of favor ad-
hitting il TO be perhaps the very best evidence we
possess of the curative powers OF Art'-to Mesme'
rism-and lastly 10 the actual practice OF most SCI
entiic physicians in the latter part OF their career
who have in their old age abandoned much of the
energetic and perturbing medication OF their early
practice and trusted greatly to the remedial powers
of Nature The Reviewer then quotes the saying
of venerable physician of Edinburgh who replied
when told of the marvellous cures performed by the
Homeopathsts with their intinitess2lal doses that
this was no peculiar cause for boasting as he him.
self had for the last two years been curing his pa
tents with even ess-viz. with nothing at all
Dr. Forbes is not alone among his professional
brethren in the proper appreciation OF the injurious
consequences of administering massive drugs TO
sick people To the credit of the humanity Of the
Allopathic physicians in this City We state 1t as
generally admitted truth that the quantity OF drugs
administered by them on the average IS decreasing
at about the rate of twenty-five per cent. per an
mum while many of the wisest and most success
full have nearly abandoned their altogether
The lancet has grown almost as terrible as the Bow
IL
vitality from the system and the very marrow from
the bones and the whole terrific array the odfash-
toned curatives are permitted to rest in nglorious
ease within the plethorc drawers of dismayed drug
gis,s The Faculty seem to have taken the cue
from our author. Any thing is better than taking
medicine begins to be their motto and, no longer
able 10 sheer at Homeopathy for the ridiculous
smallness Of its doses, they abandon Allopathy to
Fate and the apothecaries and cry out against all
medicines.
Our Reviewer is evidently possessed on this
point; and one of the exhibitions OF this mania s
amusing that we cannot help advertng 10 it. In
abiding TO n case of Chronic Nervous Headache
cured by DR.. Henderson with about the bionth
part of grain of Beladonna and Oyster. Shell. DR..
Forbes says
Had this case of purely nervous headache come
under the care of any OF US Allopathists, and had
we prescribed for it nervines or antspasmodics,
or arsenic, STEEL other tones, according 10 our
theories, our school, our experience our fancy,
we should have certainly gained great credit from
our patient and her friends for our wonderful cure;
and some of u.s. doubtless, would have received it
as due. Had it taken place in the practice of
jealous and ambitious doctor OF sx-and-thirty the
probability is immense that ii would have occupied
Mic a hn his of vr
crowd the weekly pages OF our cotemporaries. And
we can see no sufficient reason why Dr. Henderson
should not have his credit also Philosophers, in
deed and hard hearted skeptics like ourselves,
might demur TO the claims OF both; and might seek
for an explanation of the facts beyond the limits Of
both patticS. Headaches and other nervous ma!a-
dies do sometimes come TO an end of their own ac-
cord and such an event is certainly possible.
even Immediately after the swallowing OF new
drug, land, POSSIBLY, nI consequence Of the rery
sraLlOwing, and not the drng.) leave 1t for the
consideration and calculation of the wise, which of
these two events was most probable LIST. That the
headache might have CHANGED 10 stop of its own
cord on the very day it did, was charmed away
by the very prestige ofHomropathy acting through
the imagination or, I'd That one quadrillonth
100000 100000, 100000, 100000 100000 oooo0oH9 OF
grain of belladonna and one decionth Jour print
CIR has not nauShtS enough for this OF grain OF
the all.po,ent sepia' did the feat.-Noa noblS est
tantas."
After this specimen OF dsingenuousness and con
vulsive wit the readers Of DR.. Forbess pamphlet
will not be surprised at the other very curious things
they will meet with there-and we think ii unneces-
sary to follow him any farther. We cannot how
ever conclude without most heartily congratulating
him and especially his patients on the discovery he
has made of the perncious character of Alopathic
medicines-and OF assuring him that not only ner-
vous headaches but the severes and most threaten
ing forms of every species of disease continue daily
to chance stop Of their own accord on the very
day and sometimes within fifteen minutes of the
administering of the quadrionth or decionth of
grain of some nonsensical Homeopathic medicine.
We hope that every body will read the learned
Doctors pamphlet which, unlike his Allopathic
medicines cannot fail TO be productive OF great ad,
vantage 10 the cause Of moral and physical Good
Health.