The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
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A gentleman wishes to know what our |
ideas are relative to the chances in Law
renee for a young physician who has just
graduated, and is desirous of growing
up with the place. He, of course, de-
sires frankness on our part, and our or
ganization would preclude us from deal
ing with him in any other way.
That there viii be somesiekness in the
Territory during the spring and summer
we have no doubt. The process of ac-
climating would tend to produce disease;
but, aside from this, we have fruitful
causes in the exposure during the last
winter, and in the change of diet. The
climate has some characteristics about it
which gives to all an inordinate appetite,
which, in majority of cases, is gratifed
at the sacrifice of the health of the pio-
neer. Nature, it appears. has SO arrang-
ed our constitutions that she viii not al
low us, for any great length of time, to
eat to excess without paying the penalty
for an infraction of her laws. The liver
becomes torpid, the bowels constipated.
the complexion sallow, and the whole
system sluggish and inactive. This
unless relieved Immediately by entire abb
stinence from foods followed by dis
ease, putting on various forms, but gen.
orally of an acute type. Unless the
suggestions of nature are observed, the
prospects are that protraeted illness,
and possibly death, viii be resultant
With this view of the case our friend
will readily observe that We expeet em-
ployment for the physician and one pos
sessing all the requisites needed in the
successful practitioner viii be welcomed
among us by large number of our citi.
zens with great pleasure. That he may
be the Judge whether he is the person
possessing those qualifications, we may
be permitted to state that, in the first place,
he must eschew the use of drugs entirely
in his medicinal practice, as also the use
of the lancet, cupping-glasses, leeches,
and cauterizing iron. He must under
stand the laws of hygiene, and be capa-
BILE of teaching those laws to others. His
remedial agents must be drawn entirely
from the atmosphere, the limpid spring
or gurgling brook, and from judicious In
structions in exercise and diet. Water,
cold or warm, for allaying feyers, inham-
nations, de-, must be the principal med
tcaaaentun.
Those who have experienced the ben
efcial effects of the hydropathic treat
ment of curing disease in Kansas will
not consent to adopt any other method
Among that portion of our citizens real
want is felt for a PHYSICIAN, one who is
indeed entitled to the name. Of the al
lopathic practice there are several physi-
clans already in the place, enough-in our
opinion, to satisfy the demands of those
who adopt that system ofpraetice. They
are all excellent men, have any quantity
of friends, and it would be difficult, if
not impossible, to supplant them. There
are other locations in the Territory where
we presume physicians of that school
would meet with liberal encouragement.
We shall hope to see our friend among
us early in the season, as he will form
another in the van of freedom; but if he
adopts the drug treatment, We think his
best prospects for money making viii be
found in selecting and improving claim,
and sin making two blades of grass grow
where one grew before"