Demoine courier., 1854-11-23
For the Demoine C0urie
THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE,

HE SJiENtE UF MEDitlNE,
mat inflammation is produced by alIopathc
treatment is so well known and admitted among
| themselves, that denial of the fact would be
the strongest weapon they could make use of 10
expose and contemn their own practice. The
very principle upon which it is established in
dIcates the fact, contraria contrariis; and DIR.
siahl, an allopath, speaking on this head, Of
ms own practice, says: II am convinced that
the received method in medicine in treating
disease is completely false and absurd" From
their knowledge of this fact they dread expos
ure, and mutely and wisely submit to the i'm
parchment, for they dare not, and be consistent.
contradict the assertion. They know this to
be true; and when the frosts of many winters
bleaches their locks silvery white, and de-
Ginning years seeks for tranquil repose-for that
internal peace and consolation hidden from all
but the wise, virtuous and good-they then
make revelation of the murderous prime pies
of the nefarious system of allopathic prac-
uce--and in their expiring groan exclaim that
governments should Danish medical men or pro-
scribe their laundering art.
Now if this be true of allopathy, by which
include all those systems that compound and
administer drugs or medicines in any shape Or
form whatever, that are not similar and homo
geneal 10 the morbid arrangement; those who
theorize and speculate on external manifesto
tons, without considering the internal, dynam-
&c, immaterial principle which alone is diseas-
ed, but acts upon the material organism as its
place of development, obviously demonstrating
the points attacked and the necessary dynamic
force required 10 repel the invasive foe who
presumes to disturb the equpoise established
on the continent of health.
If all that has been said respecting the va
rious systems of medical practice is true, (and
we do not fear successful contradiction of any
one statement or sentiment advanced) the ques-
ton may be asked: Why is it, then. that those
systems continue TO exist; and what of those as
founding cures purported to have been effected
by them?
As TO the first question, it may be answered,
that there is no harder task for man to under
take to perform, than TO try to divest another of
the principles imbibed in youth; and it is no
matter how erroneous those principles may be,
our early connection and daily association with
the same installs them with the dignity of self
evident truths, and this without any examine
ton into their merits or dement's apart from uni
versal consent
This is not all. Most men have not time TO
examine, and others will not, or are too lazy 10
do so. And again, the love of life and the ago.
ny OF pain VIII cause us to submit to any i'm
position that holds out an nducement of pro-
longing the one or averting the other As an
illustration of this latter remark NAL passed
through this section of country not long since
who professed 10 charm away all diseases by
mumblins few mysterious words and passing
his hands along and down the patient: and,
strange TO say, this very fellow got more TO do
than all the physicians in the surround NJ neigh
borhood-which are not few. However, he
was as successful as all the other regular doc
tors-they did not cure any of those chronic
diseases, nor neither did he. But he had this adj
vantage over them, that in giving no medicine
he done no harm We submit TO all these things
as children 10 their parents; not because they
are natural and true, but because being so taught
we think they must be natural aud true, for Gus
tom greater power than nature, seldom fails
10 make US worship for divine that which she
once Injured us to bow 10, and hence we can i'm.
agine how, by these means, it come TO pass
that men worship the idols they have SET up
become Jealous votaries TO owls and monkeys.
to snakes and scorpions, to allopathy and other
murderous principles, as destructive to the
health of the body as the worshipng of idols
is 10 the health of the soul. c. w. BENSON.
FRO BE coNTINUED.l