Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-06-17
For the Republican


Small Pox. nf
Mn EDIroR-Permit me, through the
medium ofyour paper. to say few words
to the public, IN order that the candid and
impartial may judge at whose door the sin
lieth. 1t is with great reluctance that at
this carly day. while my heart is filed with
sorrow by the loss of warm friend, and a
much respected and beloved fellow citizen,
that consent to notice the slanderous as
sertions of those. whom the unbiased can
easily distinguish from men who attend to
their own affairs, by their earnest desire to
fasten upon the innocent the blacklist ca
lunnies. They are so exceedingly anxious
that their benevolcnce and philanthropy
should be appreciated and understood that,
with smile upon their faces rs q token Of
their innocence. they publish the grossest
misrepresentation. while, with fiendish
pleasure. they chuckle over the unsuspect-
ing countryman's duplicity and how they
'have given il to the doctor"
One of them in orlerto give semblance
of fairness to HIS statements, and he is as
honest as .Dagon was humane, says that he
at up several nights with the deceased, and
that his mouth was very sore and discharg-
ed freely. hence he magnanimously pro
nounccs. without the slightest quiver of the
heart or nerves, that John WEIGH came
directly to his death by Calomcl, Calomcl,
Calomel and Sherman" Should you ask
him. or either of them to explain the. diff
ference between a calonel and Small
Pox sore mouth. the answer would be Cal
omei, Calo,nel. Every one that knows any
thing about the disease is aware that pa
tients who have the regular Small Pox, in
variably. or pretty nearly SO. have sore
mouths AMI threats. Ask those persons
that had the disease in the natural way, and
large majority Of them will tell you that
they had sore mouths and threats and that
they discharged freely. Would not the
charity of these very men who have pub
lished through the streets the most unfound-
ed statements in regard to the "Welch
case" the character of which they know
nothing about, and which they have taken
no pains to ascertain, forbid them asserting
those cases which were treated with "Clar-
ified Water" and other equally harmless
means could have had sore mouth from
the use Of Calomel? Yet the most Of them
had sore mouths. How is it that these
men have. "all Of a sudden" become SO
exceedingly wise and especially illumina-
ted about all the various changes in this
case. and the p,odus operondi of medicines?
May they not be influenced by some other
motive than pure regard for the deceased
or his family? They may understand how
to cut up beef. serve summons or plane
board. but because they understand all
these is il any reason why generous peo-
pie should take it for granted that they are
also well versed in the nature and progress
Of disease, or that they have Swallowed the
whole "1laterias Medica," without any m
jury to their digestion. and that therefore
they are fully prepared. without seeing the
case. to decide as to the exact nature Of the
case, prescribe the medicines to be given,
and in every instance state the cause the pa
tents death, should It occur, TO be Gallo
mel? Their prescriptions would doubtless
be "a pint of ash hooks. TO be worked off
with brick-bat'' What pity they
were not constituted board Of health for
Plymouth. ~
John Welch was taken sick about NAY
10Th. 1853. and remained quite bad until
the / 9th. at which time was called to see
him. All will admit that his general
health was very feeble and that At this time
he had not fully recovered from very So