The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-06-07

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to nature Costive habits arc worse, and bill
ious chocs, congestons, &c, are more liable
to prevail during the more strong, attractive
periods. Blcod-let.ing is less free, weakness
more, and relieves less at such periods, &c.
When the repulsive principle prodcmin-
ates, congestive diseases, bilious cholics, &c.
yield more readily, and sometimes go off al
most spontaneously as the tendency Of ma
ture is Men more to diffusion, and to cxpel,
or cast off what is supelhuous and unhecessa
! ry. Purgative and other similar remedies,
then have their best effects, &c.
What physician, or invalied, has not found
the same remedy TO be less efficacious at one
time, than at another, and sometimes even to
seem to injure instea of beneftting? Att
sometimes, purgative remedies operate as
Iemetics-at other times emetics seem to be-
come more like purgativcs, &C., and the speci-
ic, so highly valued at first. is frequently
thrown by, us worthless or noXious, in two or
three years, (sometimes weeks, for some
other remedy, simply because, through igno-
rance, it VS. taken at a period when the ten
dency of nature was dverSe TO its intended
action.
Hon long have the crises and other peri
odical phases of sickness, been to the skilful
| physician, in his judgement of disease, almost
what the meridian altitude for his calculation
is TO the mariner at sea and yet what OBJ
security has hitherto brooded over their mpor
tant physical cause. Yet being natural effects
their cause must be involved in laws of ma
ture, and consequently within the scope of
scientific investigation; and the physician
who ridicules the idea Of a natural cause, is
an indirect advocate for occult hphHoSophy.
l am confident that no candid, intelligent
physician, can be displeased at the develop
ment of ientfc facts, SO important in refc
renee 10 diseaso--facts, which throw such i'm
portland light npon what has hitherto been so
obscure, especially as every acquisition of
true knowlcdse adds to the real dignity, and
strengthens the bulwmks of time-honored
science against assuming, supcrciliou5 iguo
.rarcc.
Nor can for nom n suppose, that any
If those individuals will feel any otner send-
ment than liberal and expanded qualification
in tbs demonstration and publ city of facts SO
universally important; who, posse sing scien
life and moral qualifications, combining phil
an hropy with honorable motives for personal
ben, fl, have from time to time stepped for
ward, or hey ond the pale Of orthodox lormu-
H. ana mae NaluAo!e auu''ohs 70 'he STOCK
0i r. meo'sl agents iof INC rel'e' oi human SUI
N'rG'g'. -, .:,
,i. nc most Simple n9SNuul' wien hueu oy
produce apparent unusal beneft-eicit ligh
approval, and even candid certificates, when
even "''IIh "eeA' "l',' me S,'nio noS'"l
"'y o' 'ASn Ni'eI 'ng 'enu, nS'[s c, ol nature
oFlV.,sJ1 - "eSion.u 'nSoc' anu .o"Iu ~ po
"o.S.isSs' Ur IIsn ia ri ',i'ui nu' M .le sSr,s
'rintuy VIII soiuon IAN - .ou I:e 'uo stle
'nsCO, II sIhu'"r 'lec''''A' coAu'''o's o' 'ne
"'IIsP"'ie' ~ :. ,,,
-,i; Ilen'o IN references 10 N"'unpG eAlI'syo
Ie,n5u'gI, !ney can Sei0on og usyu p'Iy iopg'
without oeihg '"Ael, d: PeII?us "nen nature
..nu'L9'Is oppose In1Ir ACTON anu 'nty are
'ncu uSuNl'y eoHu' Hheu IT ana 'nlo"n oy'
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