The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-06-19
Written for the North Iews Timer

hind the present age, and bases his thcra r
pcutic knowledge by railing out upon SOM
thing and firing his blasphemies against tl'e
lovers of truth; it being year or more.
before his digesting elements could recover
from the horrid dose. 1t is true its thera
pcwtic action might have been a little mora
spiced and almented to its cordial virtues
had the writer been better acquainted witt,
his notoriety. Therefore, looking at its his
torical waverings and its multHidious Of
a tearing dose e~the writer regrets that it has
gagged him so for ho might have know,
that man so far behind the present age ss
is represented in your columns, that il
would have taken more than year to re
cover, but he being Of a strong nerve thc
shock won't harm him; thus recovering hi
has sent his blaspheming epithets thinking
to influence the uncultivated intellect that
there is system of medicine called Eclec,
tic, composed of wagonmakers, blacksmith~
and farmers. but few notices them, and il
they do, they are in bad company; the writer
is very much mistaken or else he willfully
tells something to see how much he can dupe
the people.
There is too much Intelligence at the pre-.
sent day in this country to be so discreet as
the writer wishes them. AS the writer
states he did not know that there was an
Eclectic system until he sat down at his
table and looked over his books and after
long searching he found it somewhere i'm
in the Greek. But, there is an institution
no nation can ever feel prouder to boast
than the American people have of the
Eclectic practice of medicine. 1t is not
composed of licentious quacks. Sir, it is
composed of strong minded and honest
hearted men Of energetic minds who once
trod the path Of the Allopathic faith and
with an honest heart have swervcd from It's
principles, have hoisted the flag of liberty
and are union loving and literary men; they
have toilcd constantly night and day; they
have deviated not from truth and virtue,
though their prosecutions have been great,
they ere becoming stronger in establishing
remedies for the improvement of health, in
our country it has reared that proud en-
blem in the annals of history that will never
fade. They have taken Chemistry, Botany.
Philosophy and Therapeutics, and labored
hard to accomplish truth. Sir, they have
won mighty prize but their labors are not
yet done; they have abandoned that life
destroying clement and in it placed health,
virtue, love and truth, and with these ele-
ments life is fortune, peace to the mind,
and consolation to the universe. Their
labors has planted great reform in
this country and is working It's way into
other nations where they stand with open
arms to receive it, and more than that, az
mics are choosing surgeons from the Eclec-
tic ranks so that the soldiers will not suffer
as they have in former times, when, as
Lobstcin said, it was wore than at the can
mons mouth
The Allopathic system has stood for
many years, she had got the controlling
power and nothing to oppose her sway
but when she was found to be unsafe
Thus labor commenced working a reform
and when its virtues became known to the
world it infuriatcd those leaders and caused
them to make every malicious attempt to
crush its powerful sway they called her
names Of every unpleasant form and carried
it so far that they raised a mob which was
headed by the cruel bands to crush those
honest laborers, but all to no purpose,
though they caused her to move to another
place and there their numbers grew and the
laborers Of the institution are glittering like
! the sun. There is at this time about eight
thousand graduates; all have their fauds
full and the calls for more are increasing
every day, and why is it the co-workers for
truth should be daunted? No, their labors
has everything to prompt them to the work
Sir, | would give you history of the term
quack so frequently alluded to by tie writer
of your columns, but it might be too severe
for his history to think that such cases can
stop the thinking mind from expressing
their grievances. would say to the writer
that if you are away in the west or back in
the wild woods you will find intelligence
and ladies, and gentlemen of as glorious
minds ever tread the path of virtue and
their greatest happiness is based upon the
health Of an uncrippled form they are free
to act and are welcome visitants at the sick
couch-let the heigth and depth of your
pen set its croaking notes and croak on; its
lashing forms have long ago been like the
dog barking at the moon to stop her giving
light. You might as we'll try to stop the
waters Of Niagara by single breath as to
compel the free-thinking minds to act
against right in this country, and now when
you get time to set down to your tabl
again get some books Of later date and
see what is most needed to heal the sick.
We have works of greater Improvement
and it is your duty to study them and not
let your vanity sweep the clouds but search
for such principles as will most benefit the
health Of your fellow-men. You arc among
literary thinking men, and such as are gov
erned by principles, and when you ap-
proach them carry with you the banner OF
truth, aud then the glittering stars Of the
vaulted roof of heaven will crown you Will,
success, Danish from your mind those prin.
ciples of an unvalucd kind, and let those
sneers and sarcasms be eradicated from
your heart for it is but ignorance that plants