The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-03
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stance, upon which you could lay your hands
on, but all to no purpose but, dear breth-
rem, be careful that you do not inhale the
vapor that rises from our calendar-if you
do, it will undoubtedly crack them brass
sculls of yours, and let out that immoral and
tyrannical principle, and undoubtedly it will
give room for little moral principles for the
future. We are very sorry that our cause
has frustrated you to that degree that you have
neglected that little narrow contracted plat
form of yours, that your science is incapable
of repairing it. After you become fully sat-
isfed that it was out of your art and science
to repair it, what was your next ungentle-
man request from our government, begging
assistance to repair that unwarantable plat
form of yours ?--what were your sentence
but to return home and defend your own rot
ten platform, or it may sink in everlasting
darkness. We are aware that your pillars
and posts is so badly decayed that saltpetre
won't save them. You are bound to fall,
and great will be thy fall, and horrible will
be thy condition. You had better never been
born or one-half of your patients that you
have mercurialized to death, were hung
around your necks and you were cast into
the midst of the sea. | would advise YOU
for the future to come out more openly and
manly with your base careers, and no longer
follow the modes of the ring tail monkey,
sneak behind Eastwood stump or dung
hill and give yowl, and then make your
escape for the bushes for fear of being discov-
cred. Were we as guilty as you are in vio-
lating the laws of nature with your poison
Gus drugs, we would forever hold our peace
Have you not seen your patients laboring
under the life fe-destroying effects of your min
eral poisons? We undoubtedly think you
have. What does our modern writers say
on the subject? DR.. Richard Reese of Lon
: don We know not, says he, whether we
have most reason to hail the discovery of
mercury as blessing, or regard it as curse,
since the diseases it entails are as numerous
as those which it cures.
In the United States Dispensatory, the
: highest authority on the materia medica, 4th
edition, page 354, we find the following of
r the modus operandi of mercury We know
nothing except that it probably acts through
the medium of the circulation, and that it
: possesses peculiar Alternative power over
the vital functions which enables it in many
: cases to subvert diseased actions by substitu-
i ting its own in their stead.
Prof J. P. Harrison, in lecture on the
D diseases induced by mercury says, Medical
Essays, page 1867 Its vapors salivate whole
ships crew. Page l3l, Calomel even in large
doses has the effect of diminishing vascular
action. Page l47, Mercury in very small
quantities sometimes produces fatal effects
Page l6l, have seen another case in which
the child took several doses of calomel be-
fore the mouth became inhamed, and was
saved with the loss of nearly all the teeth of
both jaws and portion of one cheek. Page
l60, Another child of six years took six
grains of calomel and lost the whole left
cheek.
Prof. G.. E. Wilkinson, page 81, gives you
the beauties of calomel in short meter:
What hydra-headed monster
Language fails to paint or tell
Half the ills that daily cumber
Man from use of calomel.
Health destroyer, happiness spoiler,
Dropsy maker, sick mans bane
Stomach retcher misery fletcher
Blood eorrupter, source of pain;
Eruption breeder, pimple feeder,
Skin defacer, beautys foe,
Nerve unstrnger, vital stinger,
| Muscle waster, source of woe,
J. Bone upsettet, palsy getter,
Sc Ulcer causer, corruption's friend
,e Bowel trotter, liver rotter
err Pain producer without end,
le Tooth decayer, gum diseaser,
c. Palate eater canker's source,
" Tongue enlarger, saliva poisoner,