The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-04-14
Science OF nedlctne--Opinion OF VIA.
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gendie.
On assuming the Professors chair in the
College of France, the celebrated Maeendie
thus addressed the assembled students
. Gentlemen Medicine is great hum
bug. know it is called science science,
/ indeed It's nothing like science. Doctors
/ are mere empires. when they are not charla-
tans. We are ignorant, as ignorant as men
| can be. Who knows anything in the world
about medicine? Gentlemen you have done
me the honor to come here to attend my lee
lures, and must tell you frankly nows in the
| beginning, that know nothing in the world
/ about medicine and don't know ANYBODY
who docs know anything about il. Don't
/ think for q moment that | haven't read the
\ bills advertising tho course Of lectures a,
] the Medical school | know that this man
+ teaches anatomy, that man teaches patholo.
! ", another m8n physiology, such n one
! teaches therapeutics. such another materia
! medical En- beint Ell aSpres2 What's known
about il? Why, gentlemen, at the school Of
Montpelier (Gcd knows IL was famous enough
10 It's day I thev discarded the stulv It an
0tou.y. 10 fJ3et nothing hgt the dispense
yr 2aa the daayor- educated there knew igSt
/ gs mach and were fflte a. SUecesit, as my
others J raesat A. naeelv suprs any.~
ebau ofiarn h, We aFa eatH-
4ge fp7er f 1885, BY injecting he IN
ta4t@tets4 uae ala line etus ui u dog that
+ am.taug $50 u.sa ..s.. .i4te diabetes ana
soc distinctly we are FIRST approaching the
dav when phthsis can be cured as easily as
any disease. We arc collecting facts in the
right spirit, and i dare say 10 century or SO
the accumulation Of facts may enable our
successors 70 form medical science but /
repeat II TO you, there 8 no such thing now
a, {. medical science Who can tell me how
10 cure the headache, or the govt, or disease
of the heart Nobody Oh you tell me
doctors cure people. gran; YOU, people are
cured Bus how arr they cured Gentlemen
Mature does ga0Ideal Imagination does
a good deal Doegona do -deyllish little
when they don't do harm. Lei me tell YOU
gentlemen, what | did when was the head
physician III Hotel Dleu. Some 3 or 900
patients passed through my hands every year
| divided the patients into two classes; with
one followed the lispensary, and gave them
the usuni me licines without having the least
idea WHY or wherefore; to the others | gave
, bread pills and coorei water, without, Of
course. letting them know anything about il
and occasionally, gentlemen. would make
q third division, TO whom | gave nothing
whatever These last would freta good deal:
they would feel they were neglected. sick
people always feel they are neglected unless
they are well dragged: les iadeSciies) and
they would irritate themselves until they got
really sick but nature invariably came TO
the rescue, and all the persons ia this third
class rot we'll. There was a little mortality
among those who received but bread pills
and enlared water, and the mortality WAS
greatest among those who were carefully
drugged according TO the dispensary. Yon
ask. then, what is the use of lecturng I'll
tell you. We have come here TO study ma
ture, not to spin fine theories about this and
that. and anticipate brilliant conclusions
leave that TO the Germans, gentlemen.
/ don't say these dociriadifes fail to hit oc-
/ casionally upon some briliant truth, by the
aid Of their theories--f0r have sometimes
been as,onishea by their discoyeres-but for
once they are right, they are wrong hum
dred times, and by their theories they are
I never sure 81 knowing assuredly what they
7 do know. Now what know, know. There
can be no mistake about ii. | see ID with nv
eyes. ! touch il with M fingers. / would
not give that for all the theories in the world
give me stubborn facts. That's The way.
gentlemen, we are going TO study here."
- The Newark N. J. Mercury says the
Western fever IL raging quite violently in our