Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-09-14

mat all medicines used to assist nature in recu-
! peraton should be in harmony with and exalt
the physiological functions; that the physician
should emphatically be ''nainiSter naturae," go
ing hand in hand with nature not vasciIIating
lntermeddler between the two; not a creator OF
new diseases To overcome old ones. 1t is svs-
TEN of medicine which embraces the whole ex-
tent OF nature, which pays due respect to the
laws OF life, admits the vast superiority of nature
| and humbles itself as the servant or instrument
in the wonderful healing process, wis medica-
trix naturae. 1t takes as the basis of action the
wants and demands of morbid nature. discrimina-
ting accurately, if possible; between the symp-
toms concomitant OF disease and those growing
out OF the curative process Of nature. To illus
trate: Ii great abstraction of caoric take place
from the surface of the body, an undue quantity
OF blood will be propelled upon the brain, lungs,
or some other Vlscus; nature winds itself up to
overcome this cOngested state, free the oppressed
organs, and re-eslablish an equilibrium of the
circulation. She makes a draft upon her latent
heat. 1t is brought to the contest and fever is the
result: hence fever is the attendant symptom of
nature, to remove the morbid effects of direct or
Indirect stimulus or sedatives to the human body
"Physo-Inedical would be preferred by the lin
gust but would not be understood by the mass
es then again the sal " might be changed into
so" according to a rule of composition which
requires change in an adj active designed toe qua
MY another adjective, instead of the nouns that
follow both. "Physiologico)
Allopathic, from two Greek words, sigr living
"another affection" Allopathsts contend that
no two diseases can exist in the same system at
the same time, hence arsenic, cal0nlel, PruSSic
0ctd, etc are used to induce new diseases that
the existing disease may be thus overcome
Homeopathy, signifies ''ike affection" doc
trine which maintains that disordered actions in
the human body are to be cured by inducing 9TH
er dlsordered actions of Ike kind, and this they
profess to accomplish by giving a little less than
nothing, by administering tanciful preparations
whose remedial virtues exists only in the mag-
nations; the deciIonth part of a single leaf of
chamonlile flower is about an ordinary dose
tannenans Organon, p POI. The difference
between Allopathy and Homeopathy, practically,
Is simply, one processes to cast out Devils by
BeeIzebub, the prince of devils" the other only
makes use of little devils to overcome the orea-
ter.
The physiological or natures physician, con-
dennis the creating ofnew diseases, regards scho-
astlc systems arbitrary and altogether too cir
cumscrbed in their operations, and considers it
no sacrilege to pry into the deep arcana of nature
and gather from her great store house suchacents
as wise and bcnfcent creator has b0unntullv
distributed throughout his vast universe for the
purpose of assisting physiological laws in their
wonderful operations. Hence such agents as
his reason and experience most approves, wneth-
or used by Aopathist, Iomoepathist, Hvdropa-
thSt, Eclectlcs or Botanics, properly belong to
him. w. H. FARMER.
Southport, Sept. 7, l849.