Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-08-31

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Why a man cart ssse %is Patient Blue Phi. or
little calomei, Sufficient TO cause slight sore.
ness If the mouth and the dropping out OF a
few teeth, without lis Doctor what do you
think of the Water Cure, wouldn't it be good
in my case, don't you think the Wet Sheet or
Sitz Bath would be just thething to take this
calomei out of my system; do You believe it was
really necessary that should have taken all
this poison; see how raw my mouth is, look at
those teeth that have come out of my Jaws,
and notice the rest hov loose they are; and
such like complaints and murmurings. Now
all of this comes from that Humbug Of Hum.
bugs, the Water Cure. 1t is really erasperatiny
to see SO many of our best citizens, favoring
and lending countenance to this absurd thing.
As for myself have done everything l could
to show them the folly and inconsistency of
sighting our well tried poisons, and taking to
so simple thing as Cold Water.
Fact is Mr.. Editor have done about every.
thing intend to do in quiet way; for the
more talk with the people and try to per.
suade them Of the dangers Of Water. and the
safety and benefit of Poisons, the more they
won't listen 10 me, but run after the Humbug,
and SO l and the rest of those in this place
who are simon pure in Medical Practice, have
come to the conclusion to have nothing to do
as a Physician, with any person who has any
thing to do with Water Cure; and in order that
nobody need complain about this our just
decision, take this opportunity of making it
public. You see Mr.. Editor We must maintain
our dignity. We must let the people know
that We can show proper recruitment and that
We are not going 10 look tamely on and see
them Sigh, the Divine Art Of Humbug.
How delightful it will be after they have
tried in vain to cure their Lung Fevers, their
Bilious Fevers, their Scarlet Feyers and Brain
Fevers with water, to see the roor wre'ches re.
turning to Truth as it is in Poisonous Drugs,
and begging us to apply the accumulated ex-
Perience of 1000 years to heir case. But we'll
give them the cold shoulder. They can get no
favors from us, for re ,poaf be imposed upon.
The time has come when the friends of
Poisons must take firm stand; and as Water
Cure is the main Humbug in the vicinity, We
must direct our efforts against it, its tendency
is to destroy Poisonous Medication root aud
branch. There arc some of the Humbugs in
Medicine that don. effect much, especially
that practice which claims to be Ec ectic vet
draws very largely on our powerful remedies
for its curative agents. You see we are all
Eclectcs, but the scientific, elect the most
Poisonous Drugs for their means OF cure,
while the so called electics sip little here aud
little there like bee gathering sweets from all
the flowers. Now this may SUIT some, but as
Tor me like to know where to find man; Ell
ther let hime come out on our side at once, and
acknow edge that he uses the Poisonous, or
else let him betake himself to the opposite
side and deny their use altogether. However
my public opinion privately expressed is that
these Eclectics,w who talk SO much about reform
in medicine, when the pinch comes with a bad
case, depend as much upon our strong Posons
as We do ourselves: We have no fear Of Eclec.
ticism; that, like everything else On the Drug
order, viii soon verge into AIlopathy but this
Water Cure We must put down. We assert
that their system of curing everything with
water, is one idea system, and they very
imprudently retort back upon us that our glo-
-ious science IS all one idea system; for say
they, although you ransack the whole animal
vegetable and mineral kingdoms of nature for
Medicinal Agents, yet the whole matter is re-
solved into zone idea which is simply, Poison,
the introduction of one evil to remove another
doing evil that good may come; suffering pres
ent pain, that we may have future ease and
pleasure. Now we know this all to be true,
but they fling itup to US as though they
thought We could not give very learned rea.
sons for it. But as have already contributed
to the good cause OF Poisonous Drug Medica.
tion, 1 isave the shrher eiucidstiou of this SUBJ
ject with my Medical brethren who are grad
yates OF the frst quality Drug Schools, and
consequently know more than |, who am only
an humble graduate Of Drug School not held
high rePute by the real simon pure in Medi
cine. s.
But Mr.. Editor, these Water Cure people not
only show that our system IS a one idea thing,
but they claim that their system takes in every
idea and thing which is good and rejects only
one hiag, which is Poison. They say that ev
erything in natures vast laboratory, which can
be rendered subservient 10 the use of man Ell
Their well or sick, belongs to the Water Cure.
1t adopts as remedies all the conditions. influ-
encies, and agents known in natures pharma-
copia; all the processes and powers which ma
ture employs in forming developing, and sus
tanning living organisms, and rejects only one
class Poisons, nature knows only in the light
OF adversares to all her operations in organi-
zed bodies; and those Poisons say they, We
must find ont and reject by the mental powers
which God has given to us. Where then, they
ask, is the one idea ysiem But ! leave my
Medical brethren who are skilled in Logic than
myself to answer this question. They can
give them scissors certain; and, as l am about
to retire from the field, and leave defense Of
OF Poisonous Drug Medication to those more