Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-09-20
From the NeU York Uniuerse.
Physic and PreteasiOu.

EnJef anu tEcteHSiOus
The ignorance, the pretension. the nsolen tyranny
and the bald stupidity IF the medical men, who have
usurped title of regulars, and awed people by
name-wi be ripped up aud exposed by fearless
hands, and to public Just beginning 10 open its
eyes, To the system Of swindling which has so sue
ccsstully and for so many years been practised.
IL is fact which stand ready TO prove that of
the thousand fifteen hundred physicians in New
York, fifth of them have any knowledge
of chemistry than the higher classes OF boys in
public sclOuls. Aud OF ihOse who do understand
chemistry, aud who privileged to write III. ID.
after their name, nine Ienlhs Of them have either
abandoned the practice Of medicine in disgust, or
been driven from IT by ciiqueS, whose object is
monVpoze the practice of the community. What
will our over dosed and over drugged readers say,
when tell them that the large majority of the
cessful and popular physicians of New York, ig
norant Of the original properties of the drugs they
deal out; that all that Is taught in the Schools
certain combination--or 10 use a palmer world
certain recipe-to be sent to the apoihecaries, when
certain symptoms are apparent In the patient! Why
we wonder bow the ancients could have navigaied
the seas, without the compnssl But thOse mariners
were more at houie the trackless than
| Physicians in sick room. A set Of siereotyped
rules, learned as parrot learns TO talk, and acted
out in the same intelligent manner, with superficial
know ledge Of surgery, the and substance of
Il physicians education. The medical schools Of the
United States, are mere swindling shops. and their
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absolutely necessary for every man, who regards the
physical well being of his race, who breads the
taIlment and expansion of organic disease, to aid
exposing the titled rascals who have persisted in
pouring in posuns Hto our sysiems-never telling
how keep lce but always hand to patch up con-
sutions gradually yielding beneath the pressure Of
bad habits and doctors Prescriptions
| What have the doctors done to keep men well,
Have they united in effort 10 establish free public
baths! Have they In body warned the community
against badly ventilated dwellings, and public places
of resort! Have they urged upon all, their pa
tents well as the community at large, the neces-
sty of active exercise in the open air! Have they
acted fairly and frankly with their patients, TAX
ing each individual of disease, studying its
cause, marking It's progress, and the evil influences
which accelerate il! Have they said TO A.--yOG eat
too much; G, your habits are sedentary for you
to enjoy foil heath Not a bit of it. They are
simply at hand when the falls sick; they dose
him with poison; they patch him up, you would
| old aud rckety piece Of furniture, and then leave
him until he breaks down again.
And what do they knOa0 when you put them to the
test! Just nothing al ALL We have had an evidence
of their knowledge in their enquiries into their
ment of It. The Academy of Medicine of New York
solemnly admilted-not willingly-ther ignorance
| in this important particular
And then. too, body, they opposed TO all
progress, either from incapaciy to investigate and
understand, lazness from a fear, (most likely
the first and the last) that the world may keep pro-
gress with them, if they lead the way, and sickness
aud mortality decrease In the ratio of their adj
vance in medical knowledge. They stick. with
or two exceptions, The rules laid down thousand
years ago. They were ready TO cruelty Lady Wort
! ley Montague: they denounced the who discov-
cred the circulation of the blood 9uoc, and though
in this second they obliged to yield at last,
successive generations of doctors have seemed
with vengeful malignily, by letting that blood out
of human veins, fast possible, with their
der dealing lancets. They have stgmatized every
new discovery quackery, until they have been kicked
into recognition of n; and then they have impu-
IDENTIFY turned round and said--rhis is no new thing
I'VE have known il for years"
They owe their success to, and their plan of ope-
ratons is based upon, popular ignorance and popular
ndiferencehe inability of the people to enter upon
an intelligent investigation of the laws Of life aud
the by which they possess free, full aud Joyous
health and live a good old age,--or their unwil-
ngncss 10 study and investigate 1--WE are mai
ible," say they, "in the worlds estimation. When
sick they their bodies TO with the blind
confidence that when we are nearly done with them,
they trust their souls TO the priest. Let keep mp
| the humbug." And they have kept it up for these
many centures-but the people cutting their eye
teeth. and cutting them fast too. We are beginning
70 enquire, not bow shall get s0eH. but how we
shall keep lceA. We are beginning to look upon our
bodies as N machine well made originally and in
tended work well and harmonously. though viii
lanously and wickedly tempered with-and the great
study of intelligent is how to preserve their
health their physical and menia vigoror, in other
words, how to escape the doctors.
The charm Of physic and prctension is gone forey-
er. The infalbiliiy of the faculty openly secuted
denied and derided, and when a thick headed old
M. ID. endeavors to sustain the exploded swiudle he
lie looked upon fool not be trusted with single
life or as a knave. to show 10 whom well filled
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