Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-02-09

ca, certain branches Of science are taught
which are indispensable 10 constitute what
called the AllOpathlc system and with the e1
ception OF few characters, who teach whatey
er tends most to their own aggrandisement, n
doubts have been entertained by any sect O
physicians for more than two centuries past
but that knowledge Of those same elements
viz; Anatomy, Physiology. Path ology, &c.
DC, was indispensable to every well qualified
practitioner Of medicine, and it is we'll
known that with few trivial exceptions, all
the knowledge Of these essential branches OBJ
tained by medical students since the formation
of this republic. has been dispensed by regular
schools Of medicine; and il the signs of the pres
ent be any index ofthe future, no other sources o
instruction will ever be likely to take their pla
ces. IT'S true. that a few temporary school,
are in progress under the names of Homopath,
ic and Electic, &c, yet in these, the same text
books are used as ia the regular colleges, ex.
cept few minor works Of practice. This be.
mg the present condition Of medical science, nc
person, however prejudiced, to the CONTRARY,
can avoid the conclusion, that whichever sys.
TEN teaches the greatest amount of these SCI
ences. which by the laws of nature, consti.
tute the essential elements Of a system, must
be entitled to the greatest confidence. That
the regular schools do teach, not only the great
est number, but all Of every science which all
parties agree are the essential elements Of ev-
cry medical system, has been already proved ;
and can be confirmed at any moment, by ref
erence TO the text books and circulars of all the
medical institutions Of our Union without
regard to sect or name. But notwlthstand4
ing this plain and palpable evidence, that all
the elementary branches essential to full and
complete knowledge Of medicine are daily
taught in the Allopathic schools we every day
hear it emblazoned forth to the community in
the public prints, the miraculous effects of GER
tain reformed systems Of medicine The Ho-
nHopathics, Eclectics Hydropathics, and Botan-
les each claim a separate system, professedly
based upon scientific nuths, which hitherto
have been concealed in the great labyrnths
Of natare and but for the erGited genius and
persevering researches Of their votares, man
kind must forever have been deprived Of the
panaceas which they have discovered yet in
the few miserable attempts which have been
made to keep alive, for time schools in which,
to teach these pretended discoveries, Allopath-
ic books are made the standard texts, with per-
haps an occasional substitution of some herb
for a mineral, used by the Allopathics or an
earnest disputation with some imaginary oppo-
nent whether the decillioneth part of grain
of calOmel would not be preferable to ten grain
doses
However conservative the community gen.
orally may be in questions of pecuniary inter-
est, no limit can be set to their credulity and
consequent confidence in the baseless and
broadcast assertions OF the charlatan and
quack. The present age is we'll versed i'll the
text, to "Try all things" but it is left for fu-
ture generations to learn the context, 'tO holt
fast that sOhich is good" The mass of people
differ in this respect very widely from indi-
viduals Men who often have been deceived,
generally grow wary and suspicious of the de-
ceiver: But for every quack nostrum that has
sunk into merited oblivion, public creduity has
SO far increased, that FIVE, or perhaps ten more
have forthwith sprung up in its stead. So that
if wealth and fame were the only incentives to
the pursuit of Medical Science, the meritorous
graduate, az he steps forth from his "Alma Ma
ter" into the world, might as we'll pause and
consider, what name he ought to assume, in or
der to wait him most speedily into popular fa-
vor, or to what nostrum he should attach his
name as the Inventor. in order that every
mountebank and vender of quack medicines
might assist in spreading his fame throughout
the land 1t is indeed mysterious, how intelli-
gent persons can be so far deluded, as to pre-
fer the accommodations Of the illiterate and
vulgar, with whom they are wholly unacquaint-
ed, to the prescriptions and advice of the SCI
entifc Physician, which are daily tested under
their own observation We think this mys-
terry may be solved, however upon the princi-
pie once explained by learned author--"that
mankind are so constituted, that when they
have been overheated, they cannot be brought
to proper temperature till they have been
overcooled." And this would seem to be the
only THsropsutical reason why the steam and
boiled corn of Thompson, are now Immediately
followed by the HydrOpathist, with liberal
Douches of cold water !!
No class Of citizens aid so much in sustain
ing :hs misplaced confidence in Empircism'
as ministers of the gospel. Every manutac'
turer of empirical remedies, intended for sale'
knowing that the delusions of the priests are