The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-02-15

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10 enaaerate, namely: the Ecleotics, who be
lieve that irrita Jon, fever and infamaton NJ
disease, that I'll diseases are produced by one O
Two causes, namely; koino masmata or vegeta
ole mai ARIA, producing intermittsnts; ;.and idio
missrAata or animal malaria, producing hoid
Hence, they prescribe the various narcotics, bu
partially reject blsters, mercury, bleeding, dc.
+ The Woter-cure, Or Hydrapathists, who be
.lieve that disease is disturbance of the equi
librlum, or balance of power in the system, a
few er, Gan error, that whatever causes this dis
turbance, is cause Of disease, (right), that tn
vital fierce offers a perpetual resistance to al
causes Of disturbances fright again). Hence
! they use water at various temperatures as thei
remedial The Physo Medicalists, who belsy
that irritation, fever and; inhamation-te
used to signify increased deranged, obstructec
or accumulated vital action in the nervous
vascular systems of disease; that they are not t.
be directly subdusd, but always aided in thei
ultimate design and intention in removing OBJ
'tructions and restoring the nervous and cir
culatng equilibrium,
Hence, they claim thatit is the duty Of th
tpractitioner to reject every medicinal agent
which has been known to have directly destroy
ed life, or permanently injured the tissue, o.
dcranged the physiological action, and to us,
those only which have direct tendency to ail
the vital organs in the removal of canses of dis
ease, and the restoration of health and vigor.
I 1t is upon the principals of the last named
class, that wish to offer sew suggestions OF
Typhoid fever.
The great object of the Physio. Medical sci
enee, is "to aid the operations fthe vital force; I;
or in other words, our aim is to restore the tis
cues of the body to their natural standard, sc
that the different organs may be able to perform
their duties in regular manner. It is at once
plain that the tissues will require to be infuen,
ced IN different ways, according to the manner
in which they have departed from the health
standard; or that the vital force needs different
kind of"aid" under different circumstances.
One mistake that all classes of medical men
are liable to fall into, is the attempt to plan
some specific practice for each form of disease
If some regular formula can be devised for dye.
entary, bilious fever, dypthsria, inflammation Of
the lungs, and every other malady by name,
then has medical practice been made so simple
that child need only learn the name of the
afflction, and then prescribe the established
course of treatment The temptation to settle
epon this kind of specific treatment, is very
strong; for such mode would save this close
reading and thinking which are necessary to
meet the requirements Of the sick room But
this is impossible in science; for, in the very
labor ot study and thought to devise measures
to suit each patient, lies the difference between
science and empiricism. Experience daily
shows that no two patients. having what is re-
ally called the same malsdy. will present e1
aetly the same conditions; and that no one form
Of disease remains the same from its commence
ment to its termination. How absurd then, is
any attempt to establish routine method for
treating each disease by name. Where the con
ditions are constantly changing it is imrossi-
BILE to meet these changes and differences by the
every circumstance, by measures that were
suitable to her wants only under one set Of
circumstances. When certain states or condi-
tions exist, the system requires assistance uuita.
BILE to these conditions but when the condition,
change, the former kind of treatment is inap.
proprate.
The application ofmedical science. therefore
consists, first, in learning the particular condi.
ton of each organ; second, from this knowledge
of the conditions to decide what kind and what
amount Of assistance each organ requires; and
third, to select and Use those articles which
meet those particular requirements. This il
genuine and demonstrable science; and every
thing less than this, is empiricism mere reck
less method of prescribing. without any princi.
piles for deciding why this is given, or why the
other is Withheld. One reason why Allopathy'
Homeopathy. &C. are so utterly futile, ia the
fact that they prescribe for disease by name
seeking ever for specifics to meet the disease but
1alllnp 10 lou tne cOnultlonb 'nOt tne naulek) Oe
eide their prescriptions One great source o.
superiority in the Ppysio-M Medical system. lies il
its doctrines pointing out the necessity of "aid
iing nature" by employing those agents which
will meet the particular wants in each individ
uar case, without reference to arbitrary names
We say that fever is an effort of nature, thro
the circulation, to overcome distractions. We
seek to "ctre" fever, not BY lsssening the power
of the heart, (as other systems do by bleeding
antimony, digitalis, veratrum, etc y but by Civ
ing the frame thSt assistance which will help il
remove those obstrilctions. This aid must b,
given to the part Distracted, to the organs la
boring to overcome the obstruction. and to th'
organs that have suffered in consequence ofthest
distractions. If the diffic ulty lie in the liver
or the kidneys, or the akin or all these together
they must be restored to that condition which
will most likely help them to tie natural per
formance Of their functions. Ifthe heart, arter
les and smaller blood vessels are striving to re
move the difficulty thsv must he helped in