The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-12-12
OriDi1al.
For the Pioneer
A FEW THOUGHTS ON MEDICAL SCI
ENCE,
I Concluded from last ,pesk. !

the picture, and see if there is not soms
science in medicine--and if the Giver of
all gifts has not provided balm for all
the ills of his creatures, if men only have
good sense enough to use them Alright
The question arises, ,ohat is disease T.? aud
aohat is fever and inflammation and how
are they to be expelled ? The answer is
very simple, and within the comprehen-
sion of every one. Disease is the ina
billy of an organ to perform its proper or
healthy functions, and hence is q unit ;
fever and determination is the accumulation
If vitai aefioa, to remove Instructions,
and are synonymous terms, only one is
general. the o her local
To illustrate: a person takes cold,
which closes the capillary vessels, or
pores of the skin, causing an obstruction
to the natural, free and normal circula-
ton and action through them. Now, the
obstruction is the cause; the inability of
the organs affected to do their duty, the
disease; the tever and Inflammation is the
synptom or sign, showing where the OBJ
struction, or cause, exists. The Allo-
paths call the symptoms the disease, and
prescribe for that, and destroy the vitality
of the system, and produce another dis.
ease greater than the original one, and OF
a conharg nature, and thereby kill too
many of those that might be cured with
half the trouble and expense. The Ho-
meopathic theory, is to produce greater
disease, but Of similar nature. They
dupe the people more and poison them
less.
Now the whole business Of killing or
curing consists in changing the charac-
ter of the symptoms, by removing the
Instructions TO vital action, or the cause
of disease. Then what is the direct symp
toms of disease ((or there is but one dis
ease) !? We answer without fear Of sue
cessful contradiction, that instead of its
being an Increase of heat and vital action
Of the system, it is deficient action, and
there is a elimination Of vitality in all
forms of disease and the true definition
and effect Of all poisons, is to diminish
vitality and produce disease, and hence
their use by Alopaths and Homepaths,
and their entire rejection by US for the
same reason.
The symptoms of medicine should al
ways produce those of health, and not of
disease, and their alteration should con
stantly approach the physiological or
healthy state, by the remedies removing
distractions, and equalizing circulation
and nervous action, and restoring that OF
vitality which is lost.
The index to disease is wo-fold, name
ly: deranged, excited, or increased action
of the brain and nervous system. Thus
when fever or dallrum indicate obstruc-
tions to the circulation and nervous ac-
ton, our Al!opathic friends call this fever
and delirium, tie disease, and doctor the
symptoms and destroy the effort Of nature
to eradicate the disease, and the patient
dies. As the manifestations of disease
are in the circulation and nervous action,
they will be prominent in all violent
forms of disease, and as there can te no
without irritation, and no
without destruction of vital.
ty, and no paralysis without sus spehsion
of nervous action, therefore to equalize
circulation and nervous action and main
,ain equilibrium, is to cure all forms Of
disease.
All this may be effected by restoring
that diminished action to the system, by
he use of capsicum. ginger, pennyroyal.
or any other difusive stimu-
ants, with sudortics, nervinos and whole !
;ome food, which, with fermentation of
,ops, wormwood, tanzy, lobelia. or any
noffensive relaxing or soothing applica-
ions to the inhamed part, with the foot
" vapor.bath, in either fever Or inAam d
nation, will relax the system, and remove +
he distractions. and restore healthy 4,
ction. But should the stomach be foul, =
nd the system in morbid condition, O
hen give lobelia emetic, which instead Il
# operating from irritation, as do mineral a
,oisons, it. with its associates, operate
rom relorqti0a and stimulation, which v