The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1852-04-08
D9C.U2S AND THEIR PRE-
tRIprIONS.
LY HENRY WARD RtLCnLR.

We have stcadfaslly adhered To-
the old school probably from our
naturally conservative bias. New
tangled notions VIC have always had
our own olinion Of. We have stuck
therefore to the good old paths Of
medicine, aid refused to remove II
landmark blister, lancet, pill, bolus,
lotion, potion, al are yet ohjecis Of
respectful reverence. We have
grave moral doubts as to this insii-
ious, mysterious, tastcless llomro-
pathy. 1t seems hot unlikely to be
part of general tendency to c(cni
macy which is cree ins III with wealth
and refinement. There is q strong
aroma Of iado,encc about it. It re-
quires no eYertion, no self denial. -
Taking medicine. once q manly AMI
heroic achievement. has become a
mere sugar plum affair.
Once doctors sat down around a
sick man like feet Of ships about
Gibraltar. They bombar'led q dis
ease front aud rear, with balls and
boluscs they pierced it, or sacrificed
it, hung upon its course with clta-
piasm aud blister at sueh rate, that
any man with half ON eye could see
that one or the other must give up
speedily-the disease or the patient.
Bu, now our Homeopathic Chester.
field regards a disease as a goodna-
tnrcd intruder, that can he walked
and bowed and smiled ont. Diseases
are mere callers, ready to stop at the
dorr and leave their card, Or to stop
five minutes and be off "a very dit.
tcrent set from the Old sur!y obstinate
tenants, who held our bones and or
cans upon indefinite leases. a sn'h,
"a pellet which 1t requires an eye OF
faith to see, Il mere medical hint AS it
were, is enough to do what once oun'
ccs. pounds AMI quarts could scarcely
effect. This is jugglcry, we icar,and
worse. No man on recovery eau look
back viii, an appland'ng conscience
upon h's own sincere endeavors, as
once he could, 70 :itup in bed, when
from hair to heels you are but one
prolonoc, nausea; with swimming eyes
to descry your nurse approaching viii
lukcwarrn scna to calculate viii
stomach -heaving arithmetic how many
sulps will be required and thcn'wi,l
every resource Of your being at burn
Ing martyr.point, to thrust the unusser
able abomination down, and with even
ficrcer fight to Keep it down who as
he fell back upon his newly beaten ul
pillow, has not felt that no disease
With one particle Of self respect wonlc
long stand in company with such bid
eous medicine? One is proud Of hi
Anglo Saxon capacity Of lis sacrlf
ces and sufferings for health (; ant
when health returns be feels tina. h'
has earned it, and paid, by pain anc
potion, every farthins which thc Sio'
lated laws Of health exacted. To &c
wei WAS evidence that man wa
made Of the stcrnest stuff
i But, bah. We are ashamed T.
think how these ciieininate doctors
who carry a whole aFothecary shol
in a poke, book no bigger than you
, hand, walk in. put thrse drops o
something into two half tumblers Q
water. giving you .easpooniuI, utter
/. ly ,astcless. hour by hoar or put o'
your tongue three or four white sPeck
Of milk sugar. AMI that he calls medI
' cinel Our Anglo,Saxon foretaiher
would have scorncd u get we'll uro'
such 4 dainty practice, a1d would d.'
like men upon substantial mcdicin
rather sian sneak back to life upoI
. such eHeminaey.
: To he sure, almost every re aiy
e that we haze, paierra. ffateIpal, Sc
rgral. bn. not uxorid has Welded {,
- the insiduous temptation and gone in
10 these bye AMI frlhiIen pa,h.-
We feel ike Atofei. faithful foam
among ihe fa.tl.ess ami &C DO -
, mean son 70 iesef, the ficnl- tia
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