The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-11-28


ble." DR.. Thatcher call it "Me disease,
and Thomson says the same of fever and
inflammation and they all agree in LAY
ing, that they know nothing of the nature
of fever, and that inflammation is still a
problem in medical science. Permit me
here to remark that our Allopathic friends
claim all the knowledge there is in the
theory and practice Of medicine, and that
all reformers in this particular science are
quacks. especially if they advance ideas
contrary to their theory; and let them be
asked the questions, what are diseases
and what is fever and inflammation
they will answer that .tevsr and inqom-
nation are disease, and that there is an
increase Of heat and action in the whole
System, which must be subdued. The
syhip;oms OF inflammation are an increase
of the pulse and heat in the part, (or sur
face N te'cr), with redness, pain and
owcllns.
NV to change these symptoms, their
books recommend bleeding, starving and
purg,ng, to diminish the heat of the Sys-
tenn and lessen the pulse. This destroys
the utalay of the system in the same ra-
ito that it diminishes the circulation.
They cup, leech and apply sugar of lead,
&c., to remove the heat and swelling, and
thus diminish the vital action in the part,
and increase the disease.
They give opium, morphine, &C., to
relieve pain, which is effected by its stu
pelying and deadening effects upon The
nerves. 1t neter removes disease, but
deransss the whole nervous system, and
produces neuralgia, insanity, &c,, and
Prof. Eberle says, it is "most heach-
eroms palliative" Blisters are applied to
change the excitement to some other
part, which often produces sore they can
not heal, or stranguary they cannot cure.
Calomel is given and various other mne-
raj poisons, TO produce onother morbid
condition of the system of its otgn much
greater than that of the original disease,
for this is the effects it has in reduced
constitutions. No wonder Prof. Chap
man exclaimed, ooh, the lamentable
ignorance which dictates the use Of that
noxious drug, calomel. 1t is disgrace
full reproach to the profession of medi-
cine--it is quackery--horrid, unwarrant-
able, murderous quackery p Well might
Prof. Whiting say, most medical theo-
res were never established. They are,
and always were false. and the superstruc-
lures built upon them were as the base
less fabric Of vision" Prof. Bicla,
says Of medicine, ait is an incoherent
assemblage of incoherent ideas. 1t is not
a subject for methodical mind" Need
we be surprised under this poison treat
ment as above, that Doctors Sydenham
and Gregory should say, " that two thirds
of all mankind die of fever in some of its
acute forms, and two-thlds of the re-
mainder die of its chronic FORMS" And
that Dr.. Rush should say, that their
want OF success was owing to their ignor-
oncs of the disease, and their ignorance of
d suitable remedy" and also that t" they
had assisted in multiplying disease and in
creased its mortality
Well might DR.. Samuel Thomson ex-
claim III his humorous way, "that, &C
cordlns 10 Alopatnic theory, they have
Is many kinds OF heat as they do names
of fevers, viz the bilious heat, the yellow
heat. the spotted heat, the hectic heat, the
nervous heat &c, &c, and, strange to
say, one poor patient will have many or
all these different kinds OF heat, and final.
ly die for s0ant of heat" Prof. Lobstcin,
however, says, " that without blood there
is no heat, no motion in the system. In
the blood is the life he that takes blood
from his patient takes away not only an
organ Of life, but part of life itself" Now
my Allopathic friends not only take blood
from their patients, but they give calomel,
opium. morphine arsenic, antimony, digi-
tails, nitre, croton oil. stfichnine, &C.,
&C., which destroys digestion, absorption,
assimilation and nutrition, and deranges
or destroys the whole physical and nerv-
Gus system; and what but disease and
pre- enlature death could be expected from
such treatment. And is it any wonder
that Dr.. Robinson should exclaim in the
height of his indignation and imagination