Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-12-30
Communications.
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E. s3ta In your paper of the 23d
instant, Iobserve communication over
the signature Of A. c. Miller, NJ. D., in
answer to 'Bslladonna,' which is well
calculated TO excite the astonishment Of
every person who has any knowledge
of the history Of medicine. say nothing
about Allopa,hic practitioners. a. c.
Miller, NJ. D., being graduate of one
.of,he most respectable Allopa,hic Col.
leges in the U.States, ought to know that
from the days of Hippocrates,w who erect
ed medicine into science, to this. there
has been rational system of Medicine.
If he has not learned thus much in his
study ,ofAllop pathy,we are constrained to
believe that lie was not an apt student,
and an unworthy recipient of the high
honors conferred on him by that worthy
institution. l am inclined to this opin-
ion from this fact, that in his iliberal at
tack on Allopathy, to speak in the most
charitable terms fit, in place ofshow.
ing what Allopathy is in principle and
practice ut this day, and directing his as
saults against what is false in principle
and wrong in practice, he has ransacked
the remote ages of antiquity, and 10 he
has found mares nest in those musty
records. in the savings and doings Of
men, who, in the, dark and snperstitious
age in which they lived, had no reputa-
stion for tho Science which appertained
to their day, in ANY. of its branches
This is lrue Of the names of the ancients
quoted, with the exception of Galen and
Sydenham, who were an honor aud or
nament to the age in which they lived,
and tho momentum, of their intcllects
would outweigh thousand Huhncmans.
A. c. Miller, NJ. D., NJ. A. !. H., TO the
contrary, Notwithstanding. For histo'
ry of these worthy men, will refer you
70 Rushc's Sydenham and Hooper's
Medical Dictionary. As to Van Hell
mon, and the other ancienls quoted by
him, with the above exception, ! will
class ,kepS<r1h the immortal Hahne-
man, ausS1|-S of the whole posse, that
they would disgrace Medicine or Science
in any age from that of Hippocrates
down 10 A. D. 1854, And further, as
St. Paul says of certain set OF profess
;no Christians, Of his day, they went out
from us but were not Of US, so | say OF
these, they went out from US, but were
not of US, their intellect was not of the
right calibre to grasp scientific medicine;
hence they are like the welchman's bul!
in gang by himself. Why did not A.
C. Miller, Nj. D., NJ. Al. H. quote Hip.
pocra,es, Celons, Galen, Hoffman, Stahl,
Booerheaye, Cullen, and some of our
modern systematic writers on Medicine,
Forsooth it did not suit his malevolen!
purpose to mar Allopathy with foul
blotch. Now if he is ignorant of the
views Of medicine entertained by these
authors, ] will furnish him with asynop-
sis Of them.
A. C. Miller, M. D., M IA. !; f., com
ing down to later period in the history
of Medicine, cites Sir Ashley Cooper to
the stand, who says in certain diseases
ofchildren the medicine should be given
to the mother, and the child get ii thro'
the medium of her milk, for the cure
A.C. Miller, NJ. D., M. A. ]. H. chuc'
kles over this idea as if it even trans
eendsd infinitessimalism itself in its ex'
,rayarance Of infnitude. Sir Ashley
. hero simply alludes to q well-known
physiological fact, that certain substan'
ces taken into tho stomach undergo so.
luton aud are taken up by the absorb
euts aud are eliminated by the emunctu'
aries without change, aud can be detec'
led in tho secro,ions (by chemical tests
as the milk, urine, perspiration, NC
Other substances undergo digestion, aud
are assimilated and converted to the sup
mort of the animal economy; ride Baron
Lcibis's Chemistry, as applied to PLY.
siology; Williams Pathology. Now
when medicide is given in homeopathic
doses, say to the 9TH atteuua'ions Of the
most potent articles in their Nlateria
NIedica, they cannot be detected in the
same way by any known chemical agent
or test. Hero then is proof positive
that the child, in the milk, imbibed from
Tho mother. will receive more Of any
given medicine, Than it can possibly ifi'
Is administered on pure Homeopathic a.,
principles to the child itself. An illus
irativp of the truth of this well knows
law or physiological fact is seen i" milh
sickness. The COW eats some polsonou:
substance, The calf sucks her milk aud
dies of tho lremblcs. Every thing
that eats it or lhc cows milk is attacked
while the COW escapes. have treated
s,no cuses myGelf successfully OH .thl: