The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-06-17
WRITTEN FOR THE PRAIRIE NEWS.
HOMEOPATHY.

HOMEOPATHY.
MEssRs. EDrToRs: 1t is necessary for
me again, to solicit the medium of your
paper for the defence of Homeopathy, or
rather in behalf of my own protection
The erudite Veritas," after exhausting
all of his resources and invention in the
manufacture of quibles and sophisms, has
concluded to change his mode of warfare.
He has found out that we could repulse
him in his attacks on Homeopathy by re-
printing the slang and Misrepresentation
of persons as prcjuliced and ignorant of
the subject as himself He therefore
opens his battery On us in the expecta-
ton, suppose. by sundry shots and arti-
fees, to gain the point he has been labor
ing for, viz: to Illustrate us in estah.i h
ing Homeopathy in this community
Ihls wire-working is just what We have
been expecting and we had no doubt
from the commencement, that the object
of "Veritas" and his clique in writing
the Review was to get some pretex for
waging personal opposition. We believe
it Was not the intention of the Reviewer
to engage in a lengthy and fair discussion
of Homeopathy; for he was we'll aware
of the fact, that he was unable to sustain
Il controversy with us, owing to lis tn
tire ignorance of this system of medical
practice, he probably, being included in
that class OF persons who had never heard
OF Homeopathy, much less had seen Il
full-blooded homeopathic before our adj
vent here The Reviewer, in his last ar
ticle, makes desperate attempt to en-
list the sympathies Of the readers of the
NEWS by accusing us OF discourtesy and
personalities toward himself, and in ad.
dition to this, magnifies and comforts our
illusions to the grave yard so as to make
us appear very sacreligeous and irrever-
emf, at the same time trying to ingratiate
himself in the estimation of the refined,
by his crocodile tears and his feeling and
piOus comments. Before we further al
lude to this attempt to bore for water,
we would inform the readers of the NEWS,
and " Veritas" in particular, of his flatu-
lent panegyrics of himself, at the expense
Of a left handed compliment to the intel
ligence Of the laity in this section of the
country. He asserts, in his first article,
that there are many scientific truths in
therapeutics which require years of pro-
found study for their comprehension, by
eren the greatest intellects, which would
not be submitted with any reasonable ex-
pectation of a just verdict from the mass
of the community. But now he wants to
make the people arbiters of the discussion
after suggesting to them that they had
not sufficient calibre to appreciate his
writings. So much for aristocratic fun
merry.
AS to the charge of discourtesy, l feel
that the attentive reader of the war
among the Doctors" will exculpate me
from the imputation, unless he had as
sumed the entire responsibility of certain
statements in his articles, which he says
were copied from medical journals. On
the other hand, the sense Of the Review,
when properly translated, amounts to
this, viz: Hom9opathists are quacks,
humbugs. dishonest parasites on society,
that the practice Of Homeopathy should
be prohibited by legislation, and We crush
ed out of the community. And after all
this philippe, the lion suddenly chang
es into lamb" and assures us that he
has treated us kindly, particularly SO be-
cause We were a stranger ALI this, as
he says, may have been courtesy, but we