Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-03-22


present have and do attest the beneficial and
what has come your Hospitals, your Aims Dispen-
saries. Medical colleges, Sanative regulations,
through which disease has not only been stayed,
but absolutely prevented Are they not indellible
marks of the beneficial influence of the organiza-
ton of Physicians that nothing but time can effect
Who conceive the darkness and deplorable
condition of the science Of medicine at this age.
had the world to depend on the knowledge result
ing entirels from the efforts OF life timel This
is forciby shown by the weakness and total insult
fciency of either all OF the great number of do
mestic works on medicine that have been strcwn
broadcast all over our land, serving purpose
unlike the Upds, working evil to all who have or
may consult their pages, not only for want of
knowledge, but also by procrastination.
Notwithstanding many towering intclects have
labored assiduousy amid health and disease, un-
guided by the aid Of those branches Of The science
of medicine. that Indispensable to useful
and scientific investigation, as the compass is to
the Navigator they have heard the voice of 10. here
and 10. there, until at last, through misdirccted
though, they have become entangled in their own
vascilating investigations, declared Authors a vile
humbug, on which time and experience have set
the seal ofapprobation. Say nothing of the rrecon-
cilblc of opinion, is show by the great
number Of on. shoots, as scion floating down the
murky wates of isms and Pa,lys. promising much.
yes, shining with seeming brightness that daz-
zles but TO allure like the gnus atuus encing their
followers by words that fall softly upon the car and
tickes the vanity of their hearts, until the stcalthy
moth of disease has out their constitutions and
left them physical wreck amid tfe slough of des-
pondcncy.
The acknowledged evils by various portions of
our inhabitants resulting directly from the nabil
ity and mil-use of medicine by the Charlatans and
Mountebanks who have sought to pracrice the art
of healing have called to their aid ut different times
| the arm of the lan, but the syren charm Of ease,
prefermcr.t and wealth, have been such an over
uheming induccment, and the loud and piteou>
cry, heard upon every hill top and through every
valley of persecution. connected with the fact OF
the entire inability OF the asses to Judge correct
| ly between the man who uses ignoca.ltly, smart
weed tea and white walnut pills, to cure all kind
of diseases in all their different stages, from the
man who. by long and patient investigation has
rendered himself thoroughly acquainted with every
depar urc Of the system from health, until all laws
protecting the people against the bascst imposi
tions. have long since been repealed, placing the
of curing disease upon the principle, that there
was no danger from the various isms and paths SC
long as they were left free to combat each other
Truth and science will ever remain the same, YET
this does not prevent thous slnds upon thousands
falling sacrifice every year upon the shrine of the
most glaring imposition.
While the followers Of Esculapius from his
time down the present. have been patiently and
zeaIous'y making use of every known means to as
certain the cause, the nature and symptoms of tn,
different diseases, the properties and of the
rious articles OF the mineral and vegetable king
dom<, establishing chemical labratories for tho
purpose of anayzins and determining all the diff
ferent qualities and powers Of all medicinal agents
and Hospitals. where every remedy could be care
fully tested before being introduced into genera
use. arc considerations of slight and riaing i'm
portance when compared with the instability and
transtory character ftie isms and paths Of med
icine- mongcrs of ancient and molcrn date. Where
are their colleges their hospitals or their libraries
Echo answers-Onc incxtr;cable mass of inconsis
tency. They have established manufactures where
extract Of mnllin leaves, "verbascum folia" aDC
dog fennel. and .anthcmis cotula'' arc made on al
extensive scale. They hunt up the catalogue o.
every known disease, put them in a lay-bill witt
the warrantce to all the diseases theron spcci
he'd, without once mentioning that many of tho
diseases "a different in their nature as salt i.
from sand. May it not be truly said that thci
medicine cures all diseases on the outside, but no
one by the contents of the inside Of tn bottle
Then, how do they get themselves and their med
icine before the publicl Through their in.rinsi,
worth, attested by ample experienced Or, is it no
rather through an ungenerous demand on tn,
Press, requiring to be puffcd and published a, hal
Price7 Do they. Samaritan-lke, publish the in
gradients entering into their compounds, or rather
is not secrecy the strong bond that perpctuate
their exstcncel How is it that all men who sci
Drugs have, as it of accord cons. n.ed 70
small piece of silver to not only give their medi
cine place in their stores but also TO recommcn,
them to the public! If the use and sale of poi
sonous and worthless compounds have failed, it i.
not because the recommendations would not have
blistered the tongue Of any one of Adrm's posteri
ty who has shadow of hope in the world to come
Are not the evils resulting from the numcrou,
new systems Of the practice Of medicine which
have no foundation other than ignorance and tho
avariciousness Of the pretcndcr<, assuming posi-
ton potent to do evil: Are not the news pres,
universally engaged in disseminating amoncs
their millions Of patrons the marvellous and wonder
working cures, they and their medicines have ef
fectcd' which in reality have only been consumma
ted in their morbid minds. The press has given
them wings. accompanied with certificates that
would produce, If possible, an earthquake in the
mind Of the most credulous. not but what medicine
may be administered ignorantly. and be proper al
the time and cure follow; or that through the
powers of tic constitution the sick may be rcstor
cd to health in spite Of the medicine and disease
all can fully attest. Now that our country IL full
of nosfrums that are not only worth css but abso.
luteiy injurious. floating about under as many diff
fercnt names as the mind can conceive, yet none
have asked the question: If worthless why are they
permitted7 1t is because there is no law regula-
ting the qualifications to Practice medicine. hence
a a