Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-11-25
For the Moaongdiia Mirror,
HOMEOPATHY.
A. c. MILLER: NJ. D

Mcssrs. Editors:-I was aboutto say
that was surprised at the tone Of the
communication of Belladonna," in
your last Mirror but after what have
heard and seen Of the course pursued by
certain Allopathic gentlement "in our
midst" | cannot say so with as much Of
truth in the declaration as is practicable.
The tone of that article is indecorous,
ungentlemanly and uncalled for, and its
meanness is only surpassed by its total
falsity of assertion and impudence of
insinuation. So far as it relates to DR..
NIiller's practice, he is tho proper per-
son to deal with those Wanting asser-
,ions, and | pass them over to his mer-
cy, and shall only notice such of the
writer's remarks US apply to the friends
of Homeopathy, whom he has seen fit,
in his wisdom, to s,igmatize as the a.
bettors Of humbuggery, &c.
The writer, swollen to all the pro-
portions and invested with all the dig
nifty of dispenser Of quack nos,rums,
exclaims, "the greatest humbug we
have yet had in our midst is this model
practice of medicine, and l am sorry in
deed to see an intelligent community
made subsorvient to the wishes Of the a.
gent Of this grand humbug." And,
pray, most profound disciple of Escula-
Plus, how learned you that Homeopa.
Thy is humbug, and what soothing in
Auencc, gentle as the zephyr that sports
among the roses, touched your atiec-
tons and moved upon the great deep
of your philanthropy alpitating heart,
to retard its noble pulsations and clothe
your inner man in the habilamen,s of
sorrow for an intelligent community in
such state of humbug danger as you
conceived this to be. when that 'intclli.
gent community aforesaid only seeks
redress from tho ills Of medical cmpiri.
cism, and turns an investigating mind
and enquiring oye to the light of Sci
ence and the laws of Nature, to ascer'
tain if there be not law of cure which
is at least less dangerous than the dis
ease sought to be cured
Most precocious knight of the scalpel
you have ascerlained that Homeopathy
is humbug-and in what SCHOOL,
"Why Dr. A.. curses it as ID
humbug!" DR.. B mado a long
string Of figure O's on the wall the othe
evening, and demonstrated to my salts
faction that there is nothing in HomGo
pathy! DR.. Co.. says he has no faitl
init, hence it is an imposition! DR.. =
says that the infnitcssimals Of tho Ho
meopath possess no virtue in curing dis
easel" And taking these prejudicet
Allopathic ipsi airits, formed under thu
Blue Mass, Morphiu, Opium and Ian
Get auspices, added to the ideas you hav'
g,herod forming aMateria Medica com
prisable between the covers of" jayne
Medical Almanac" you denounce Ho
: meopathy as humbug. Now, who i
the humbuggod, and where is tho cham
pion of arrant humbuggcryl You do
nounce without knowing what you dc
nounce, for tho very article of Bella
donna" be.rays the most pitiable ignol
anco Of even the first principles of Flo
muopathy! You denounce system
which has stood tho approval of fit.
years practice with success that al
lopathy cannot command, and attomp
to write down its independent and eff
cient practitioners, whose success emit
: tics !hom to public confidence, merel.
because your prejudiced vision an'
jaundiced Judgment cunnot embrace tn
law, "siMilia sim,lib@ cmaator.
You arc "sorry to see an intelligen
community made subservient to tn
wishes Of tho agent Of this grand hum
bug "--and whyl Because when Al
Intelligent community" begins to in
ves,iga,e Homeopathy, that intelligence
ceases to "subscrvc " the ends of Allo
pa,hy, aud will not allow its posscssor t
become portable apothecary's chop