The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-03-30
Homeopohic Domestic Physician.-
By j. II, Pnhe, M. ID New York:

"A. =, Barnes &CO.
Occasionally the correspondent Of the In
dependent receives book. with request that
he will notice H. which he always does--iho'
he sometime iorgets 10 write that notice out
for The public.
But this excellent manual comes TO us ON
our friend Barnes, with note saying that we
were good Hommoparhsis. This is the irsl
knowledge that we ever had of our belief In
deed, we find il litle difficult TO stale our
medical creed difficulty, we believe. expert
enced abou' these days by nor few 10 regard
TO graver creeds
II one listens by turns 10 the asservalions OF
the schools. the Botanical the Ecectc,. The
! Hydropathic, 1--WE confess 10 very small
hobby there.) the Homeopathic, the Magnet.
ic, and the Allopathic, and believes in their in-
fallible skill and power. he will be grateful that
sickness is becoming 20 be entirely uuHeoessa-
~. With such specifics for everything, with
such bulwarks of health served by men lha, nev.
er miss in fair match with disease, sickness
must soon be regarded as great weakness. and
health almost felony. IHdeed friend even
now has lecture, for which he asks us TO Sc
cure bin an audience, entitled "Disease is SIM"
OF course death is overt uansgression. But
TO return
We have s,eadCasrly adhered to the old
school; probably from our naturally eonserva-
tive bias. New tangled notions we have always
had our own opinion Of. We have stuck,
therefore, To the good old paths OF medicine,
and refused 10 remove landmark; blister, Ian
Get. pill. bous. potion, all are yet objects of re-
verence. We have grave moral doubts as TO
this insldious. mysterious, tasteless Homeo-
pathy. IL seems not unlikely TO be part of
general tendency 10 efieminacy. which is creep
Jog in with wealth and refinement. There is
strong aroma Of Indulgence about il. II re-
quHes no exerion, no self denial. Taking
medicine, once a manly and hetoic achieve.
ment, has become mere sugar pIu m affair.
Once doctors sat around sick man like a
fleet OF ships around Gibrslter. The bombar-
ded disease, front and rear with balls and bo
luses; they pierced il, or scarifed il, or huns
upon its course with catapasm and blister at
such rate, that any man with half an eye CO d
see that one or the other must give out spesdi-
". the disease or the patient. But now our
homeopathic Chesterfield regards disease
as good natuied intruder, thai can be winked
and bowed and smiled out. Diseases are mere
calls. ready To stop al he door and leave their
cards, or to sir five minutes and he Off very
different set from the old, sury. obstinate ten.
ants, who held our bones and organs upon in
definite leases. A snuff, pellet, which il re-
quires an eye Of faith to see. mere medical
hint, as il were. is enough TO do what once oun-
This is juggery, We fear, or worse. No man
on recove.y, can look back with an applauding
conscience upon his oVn sincere eudeavors as
once he could, To sit tupiD bed. when from
head 10 heels YOU are one prolonged nausea,
with swimming eye TO descry your nurse ap-
proa ching with ukewarm SIENNA, 10 calculate
with stomach heaving arithmetic, how many
gulphs will be required; and then with every
rescOured Of your being at burning martyr
point, TO thrust the uDUterable abomiDalion
down, and with even fercer fight to keep il |
down-who, as he fell back on his newly bea
ten pillow. has not felt that no disease, with |
one particle Of self respect. would staud long
in company with such hideous medicine? One |
is proud Of his Anglo-Ssxou capacity; OF his
sacrifices and sufierngs Tor health; aud when |
health returns he feels that he has earned iiand
paid, by pain and potion, every farhing which
he violated laws Of health exacted. To get |
well was evidence that man was made OF The
slernest stuff.
But pah! We are ashamed to think how
these efleminate doctors, who carry whole
1pothecary shop in pocket book no bigger
han your hand, walk in, put three drops OF
something into two half tumb lers ofwater. Civ
ng you teaspoonful, utterly tssteless. hour
,y hour, or put upon your tongue three or
our whIte specks of milk sugar, and that he
salls medicine! Our Anglo Saxon father wo'd
have scorned to get we'll on such dainty prac-
ice. nd wou ID die like men upon good sub
'tantial medicine rather than sneak back TO life
upon such eifeminacy.
To be sure. almost every relative that we
rave, paternsi. haternal. serctal. bot not oxor-
al, has yielde to The insiduous temptation and
zone into those by and forbidden paths. We
eel like Abdiel faithful found among the iailh-
ess: and we do not mean 10 desert soon the
riends that have stood hy us in so many chilis
md fevers. so many bilious fevets, meazes,
nd chicken pox, and influenza, &c.
We are daily exhoued TO apostacy. Exam
lie and cyciopedias Of advice are iavished upon
'ui obduracy. Our friends are against US
socks have been sen, US. Oh. the cures tha;
rave been recounted We are fully impressed
rom time 10 time with the fact that our friends
n departed neiehbor would have been alive
low, II he had taken bis friends advice and sent
or Homeopathy; this child had gone down in
he car OF Allopathy 10 deaths door, hut chan
re drivers the chariot Of Homeopathy bro't
Iim back in a jiffy. This friend had sick. ,
eadsche, tooke three pills of ulsatil's. aud be-
ore she could get the bottle corked up again, ,
he was entirely cured We are assured that ,
roup is now nothing, if you only have the
leht medicine by you. Meazles are right
ood fun. teething and convusions, medical d
e ersions. Scarlet lever, that bloody horror Of Z;
he nursery. the moment he sees DR. Hahne. i
nanD, "eomes right down." Indeed the old
ed dragon is crest-fallen, srd goes around as I
ifierent from the scarlet fever OF Allopathy, as
Ted Jacket, civilized into drunkenness and in
D ditch. was from whom the whilom savages ,
tho greeted a midnight village with war
hoop, and found their way into itby the light !
{ its blazing roof.
IL one dies under this practice, we are assur-
that "al' men must die VIII en- their time ,
ONES in spite Of all medicine" And this I
GEMS rational. Bu, il j, had been Alopslhy, /,
hey woald have taken us by the button, ,schook
heir sad heads, sighed and calculated strange
5 il no excuse could be given for man who
ad died in the pale Of old school. II was evi.
emily suicide.
Then. too. there is no harm done, even ifl /,