Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-03-26
VOL. XII-NO. 40.
Henry Ward Beccher on Homeopathy
and AllOPaIhy.

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Independent receives book with request tina,
he will notice it, which he always does, though
he sometimes fUrgcts to write that notice out for
the public.
But this excellent manuel comes to us from
our friend Barnes with note, saying, that the
request TO notice proceeded upon the understand
ing that we were good HomGopalhstS. This is
the first knowledge that we ever had of our be-
lief Indeed, we find it little difficult to state
our medical creed a difficulty, we believe, ex-
perenced about these days by not a few in re-
gard TO graver creeds.
If one listens by turns TO the reservations of
the schools, the Botanical, the Eclectic the lIy-
drOpathlc Eve confess to a small hobby therr)
the Homeopathic, the Magnetic, and the Allo-
pathic, and be!iererS in their infalNbe skill and
power, he will be grateful that sickness is com
ing TO be entirely unnecessary. With such spe-
cihcs for everything, with such buiw3rhs of
health served by men that never miss in fair
match with disease, sickness must soon be re-
garded as a great weakness and death almost a
felony. Indeed, friend even now has u ltct-
ure, for which he asks us to secure him an au-
dence, entitled Disease is Sin" OF course,
death is overt transgression. But to return.
We have steadiastly adhered to the old school;
probably from our naturally conservative bias.
New tangled notions we always have had our
own opinion of. We have stuck therefore TO the
good old paths of medicine, and refused to re-
move landmark blister, lancet, pill tolns To-
tus, potion, all are yet objects OF respectful rev.
erence We have grave moral doubts as TO this
insdious mysterious, tasteess Homeopathy. 1t
seems not unlikely which is creeping in with
wealth, and refinement. There is strong aro-
ma of Incidence about it. 1t requires no cxortion,
no self-denal Taking medicine, once a manly
and heroic achievement, has become Il mere su-
gar-plum affair.
Once doctors sat around a sick man like a
fleet of ships about Gibraltar They lombard
ed disease front and rear, with balls and boluses;
they pierced, or scarihed it, or hung upon its
course with Cataplasm and blister ut such rate,
that any man with half an eye could see that one
or the other must give ont spcedily-the disease
or the patient But now our homeopathic
Chesterfield regards disease as Il good natured
intruder, that can be winked and bowed and sm-
ed out. Diseases are mere callers, ready to stop
at the door and leave their cards, or to sit five
minutes and be off "a very different set from
the old, surly, obstinate tenants, who held our
bones and organs upon indefinite leases.
sniff, pellet, which it requires an eye OF faith
to see, mere medical hint as it were, is enough
to do what once ounces, pounds and quarts
could scarcely effect. This is jugglery, we fear,
or worse. No man on recovery, can look back
with al applaudlng conscience upon his own
sincere endCavOrs, as once he could. To sit up
in bed, when from hair to heels you are but one
prolonged nausea, with swimming eye TO deScry
your nurse approaching with lukewarm SIENNA
to calculate with mountaineering arithmetic,
how many gups will be required; and then
with every resource of your being at burning
martyTpoint, to thrust the unuttcruble ab0mna-
ton down, and with ever fiercer fight to keep IT
down-who, as he fell back on his newly beaten.
up pillow, has not felt that no disease with one
particle OF self respect would long stand in com
pany with such hideous medicine ? One is proud
OF his Anglo-SaXon capacity Of his sacrifices
and sutferings for health; and when health re-
turns, he feels that he has earned il, and paid,
by pain and potion, every farthing which the vi
olated laws of health cXactcd. 10 Get we'll was
evidence that man was made of the stcrncst
stuff
Bnt, Pah We are ashamed to think how these
elcminate doctors. who carry a whole apotheca-
ry shop III pocket book no bigger than your
hand, walk in, put three drops of something
into two half tumblerS Of water, giving YOU a
tea spoonful, utterly tasteless, hour by hour
or put upon your tongue three or four white
speCks of mllksugar, and that he calls med-
cine! Our Anglo-SaXon torctatIcrs would have
scorned to get we'll upon such dainty practice,
and would Gle like men upon substantial med.
cine rather than sneak back to life upon such eff
ieminancy.
To be sure, almost every relative that we have
paternal, fraterual, sororal, but not uxornl, has
yielded 10 the nsidious temptation and gone into
these bye and forbidden paths. We feel like Az
dicl, faithful found among the taithess; and we
do not mean soon to desert the friends that have
stood by US in so many clills and fevcrs 50 many
bilious fevers, and measles, and chiCbcn-poX,
and nfuenzas, &c, &c.
We are daily cXhorted to apostacy. Example
and cyClopcdas of advice are laviohed upon orr
obduracy Our friends are against us Book,
have been sent us. Oh, the cures that have
been .ecounted We are duly impressed from
time to time with the fact that our departed
ncighbor would have been alive now, if lie had
taken bis friends advice and sent for a Ilomno-
paihy this child had gone down in the car Of
Al.opathy to deaths door, but changing drivers
the chariot Of Homeopathy brought him back in
Itfy. This friend had a sick headache, took
three pills Of pulsatlla, and before she could get
the bottle corked up again she was entirely cur
ed. We are assured that Group is now nothing,
II you only have the right medicine BY you--
Measles are right down good fun, and teething
and commissions medical diversions. Scarlet tc-
yer, that bloody horror Of the nursery, the mo-
mcnt he sees DR.. IInhnemann, comes right
down." indeed the old red dragon is cresttal-
len, and goes about a. different from the scarlet
fever Of Allopathy as Red Jacket, cyiZ d into
drunkenness and into ditch, va, from the wifi
leon sava1es who greeted midnight village
with a warwhoop, and found their way into it BY
the light of its blazing roofs
II one dies under this practice, we are assured
That "alI men must die when their time comes,
in spite Of all medicine" Ard this seems m
tional. Bat had been AIIopa'hy, they wcuid
have taken rs by the button, shook their sad
heads sighed, and CALCULATED, ",trange.' as if no
excuse could be given for a man who died IN
the pale of the old school. twas evidently SUI
eide.
Then, too, there is no harm done even If there
is no good, we are told Pa and ma are afraid
of strong medicine! BIZ, these darling little
dainties, these pills for f4ires. You may take any
number without danger Indeed, their power
IS .nversely as their number Three are better
than tour, two better than three, one better than
two, and none at all better than--but We ulllnot
say that
But we have observed how much more mcdi-
cine Is taken By many Of our kind friends Of this
school than by Us To be sure, stout blue
Pill. is q mountain BY the side Of their HomCopa
thic dust Bot then we only take such once
year Now medicine 50 harmless as those dear
little uhials contain is a very tcnpiai0n