Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-07-21
For the Southport Telegraph.
ALOEPATIIY AND HOMEOPATHY CON
SIDERED

SlDEkED.
That revolution is going on in the treatment
of diseases, there can be no question: that re-
Spouse is needed no one will doubt and physicians
may as we'll acknowledge the humiliating fact that
for more than two thousand years no real improve
ment has been effected in the treatment of diseases
unless it be found in the system Of Homoepathy.
In truth, it is the same now as it was in the time
Of Hippocr atcs; there may be some slight varia.
ton, yet it is essentially the same Bleeding purg-
ing, emetics, &c. &c, were employed then as now
The doctrine of disease two thousand three hund
red years ago such that the treatment was
consistent with it but in this day, the doctrine of
disease is different, much so that scarcely a YES
tige remains of the old Immoral pathology. Now,
every we'll educated and experienced physician
knows it. In making this statement, am far from
denying that practical medicine has made consd-
cradle progress since it first established as an
art or that physicians do not now cure more dis
and save lives than their foreathers did.
The truth OF the assertion, taken as general as
serion ard VIXEN tie question is regarded, in an
approximarive, not in absolute sense, is not
thereby in any respect invalidated do not deny
that medicine has made progress, or that it can
cure disease and save life; merely assert that the
superiority in the proportion of the instances in
which it does So in the present day is most lament
ably small, all things considered, when placed side
by side with the amount of any former day.
In several of our commonest and most import
ant diseases is hardly to be que STONED that the
proportion is little if at all on the side of the pro
fession and in others it is maniestly against it
The uncertainty of the practice of medicine is a
universal lamentaion throughout the entire pro-
fession, and the existence and tolerance Of quack
doctors and quack medicines is strong proof that
the public know how little reliance can be placed
in the ordinary method of treating diseases.
Therefore, a reform is loudly demanded-the
people demand il; and they right, for they have
the greatest interest at stake it is their health and
life which are concerned but we ask, How shall
| the practice of medicine be improved Must we
deneunce and rdicule every member of the pro-
esson who dares TO suggest a change in the treat
ment of diseased Shall we, in the face of the
strongest evidence 81 the fact boot down every
physician sho may declare that the administration
and repetition of large doses of drugs are injurious
to the health, and endanger life? Is it reasonable,
and will it promote the interests of the profession
for member of it 10 accuse another of hyPoc-
riSv because be pTetends TO cure the sick without
emetics and caihartics. A gain often see ply
sicans who have receiSe d their honors and degrees
at the same institutions vet merely because one
ayows his conversion to The doctrines of lIahne
man, he is denounced as a quack One of the
most common modes adopted of disposng Of his
cases is, to deny the facts as they related by
him No matte nhether the facts clearly de-
scrbed, not admitting of doubt OF their truth they
condemn them Again others fall upon the happy
expedient Of attributing them to the score of ma
ture diet, and imagination. Indeed, this may be
satisla ctorv to them but exceedingly inexplicable
n the Homeopathic What curious information
this statement affords! In the ninetee tn century
! after the painful experience of three thousand
years we have learned the welcome news that oil!
diseases can be cured by diet nature, and lmagin-
stou. nav. more, that patient who, previously IN
/ dor the most scientif treatment, placed in the
rrost favorable circumstances, ssailed by al the
drng. Of the materia medica, refused TO be cured
no sooner comes under the gen!le sway Of The He
lroeps-hist ina. health !etuTns