The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-03
WRITTEN For THE PRAIRIE NEWS
REVIEW OF HOMEOPATHY.
"An Eagle towering in his pride of place

MEssRs. EDITORS am constraine
to ask your further indulgence for thi
my last thrust at Homeopathy, or rattle
at its brave defender. / do this becaus,
t in your last issue, ! notice q most won
5 derfu efl'usion over the signature of on
CDR. John Fee" new star that ha
: lately risen in our midst, which threaten
f to eclipse, in brilliancy, all others tina
! have ever beamed upon the world. Thi
, communication is intended as reply,
suppose, to mine of an earlier date.
think it wanting both in courtesy ant
dignity of expression, but am generou,
enough to make all allowances for this
little Doct. DR.. Fee, in assailing me
does not succeed in establishing a single
point of his own, but merely contradicts
in positive manner, my assertions, with
out giving any proof more than his own
word, that what | have said is not true.
Is this the fairness, the candor about
which he PIRATES so much! | will leave
it to you, Messrs. Editors, and your in
telligent readers, to determine whether
he has made a single point or done away
with single argument | have used, or
whether he has responded in a becom-
ing manner to the courteous article he
attempts to answer.
AS to the Cholera in Cincinnati, my
statements were based upon the authority
of medical journals far more reliable than
DR.. Fee He declares that 1.-TWO Ho-
mpopathists treated more than 1000
cases at that time in this city without the
use of camphor." ! would ask the Doc
tor if he saw every dose of medicine pre-
scribed for these 1000 cases, that he is
thereby enabled to tell so emphatically
what they did or did not take, or has he
merely the word of these celebrated Ho-
mGopathists for his authority. If they
told you, Doctor, that they did not use
large doses of camphor, twas because
they thought you too young, too green
to trust with their important secrets
Since the Doctor has been so bold as to
ask who and what | am, | trust | may
be permitted to enquire who and what he
Is" where did he come from 7" &c.
should like exceedingly to have short
pedigree of "Dr. John Fee" The Doc
tor, l am told, claims to be from Virginia
wonder if she grew there ?" Virginia
is not in the habit of raising and sending
such stock so far from home. If, as he
he has come here to introduce
Homeopathy among us, he had better
take my advice and start at once back
home. If he is not wanted there, the
next best thing | would advise him is, to
go to Germany to administer his doses of
infnitesimal nothingness, and "to weep
and wall" that the world and mankind
in general, particularly about Okolona,
had not sufficient intelligence to receive
him and his teachings for immaculate
truths.
The worthy Doct. has great "pen-
chant" for writing and lecturing, especi-
ally the latter. Who attended the last
lecture of this mighty genius? What
principle was discussedl What immor-
tai truth was set forth that was calculat-
ed to instruct or benefit in any way p
Did he make a single convert by explain
ing the subject which he attempted to
elucidate Was his entire lecture any,
thing but TRADE of abuse against the
profession he opposes-the profession
which is, ever has been, and ever will be
found marching onward in the pathway
OF science, llberatlng suffering humanity
from the shackles of disease and all the
painful affections incident to the race p
Those who did not attend this lecture had
not the misfortune of witnessing the ebul-
litions and foamings of mind vitiated
by prejudice and morbid in Imagination,
as it would seem from the mighty effort
made to work upon the feelings of his
hearers by bringing up melancholy as
sociations Of the dear departed dead )"
when pointing significantly toward the
graveyard, he exclaimed: "Go read the
on yonder marble tablets,
and they will tell the mournful story,
how those within this narrow cell passed
from time to eternity, in consequence of
an overdose of Allopathic medicine =
See the wreck and ruin caused by the
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