The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-24

w AphhhIo ZINE IhEh OOhDlAL.-
Hear the bitter cries borne on every breeze. 1t
is the voice of your sick mother, your dying
father, or perishing children; their bodies are
suffering the burning hell-fres Of poisonous
doses. Calomel, Autmony, Copper, Zinc,
Arsenic, Arsenious Acid, stramonium, Fox
glove, Morphia, Belladonna, Henbane, Opium,
Nux Vomoa, and Narcotne. See the dim lamp
of life as it hickers. Nature stands up to the
fight as tried warrior and commands his SOL
diers to come up to the struggle. The Stomach
answers, have received ball of arsenic from
the DOCTORS gun; it was his last shot; 1t has
dissolved itself within me; it feels like liquid
fire; every avenue through which gastric juice
would flow is obstruoted by Inflammation from
the dreadful charge. ''Come, Liver, l can
depend on you to send life, and blood, and
vitality to every part of the system" The
Liver answers, 81 know the viotsry of the day
depended upon my effort although was very
sick, and salivated by the last dose received,
yet-when saw my kindred-the nerves-that
had fed for years, trembling and fainting for
the want of pure food, rallied myself to un-
lock the stOrehouse of pure blood, and just at
that moment l received a bombshell from
deaths gun. 1t was charged with a dose
of Calomel, and my rich blood was turned to
burning water. l can give no assistance, for l
am myself slaughtered by poison" "Ol
Lungs, do not thou fail in this day of battle,
or great man will perish, and go down to the
grave. Do you not see him He is gasping-
he is gasping for breath. Come oh come
quickly, or all is lost" The Lungs answer,
81 can do nothing, for have been contracted
for the last five days. Every air passage within
me has been poisoned, and the mucous lining
taken of, leaving me no vitality to act upon.
am chained to the car of death by that dread
enemy, Antimony." At this critical moment
the doctor arrived. The weeping wife and
helpless children gather around him, with
bitter tears and cries. They ask, "Can there
not be change of medicine We would like
to try Doctor Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cor
dial; we have heard of its great popularity to
cure when all hope seemed to be gone, in cases
of Consumption, Liver Complaint, and Dyspep-
sia; and, doctor, we have thought if you would
give your consent, we would send for the Pine
Tree Tar Cordial at once; it may save the life
of my husband" "No," says the doctor, 81
am not willing to give the case up yet. will
give one more dose-it shall be Belladonna." +"
And it was given. The fort was stormed, and
it yielded-all was lost by the poisonous dose.
He made his last call, and he attempted to
comfort and quiet the broken hearted widow
and fatherless and helpless children by telling
them of the shortness of human life, and re-
minding them of the fact that all men must
die. And thus the work of death goes on.
Parents are bereft of their children, children
are left orphans, families are destroyed, so
ciety deprived of her noblest citizens, and the
earth filed with misery and poverty, in con-
sequence of poisonous medication.
Oh fathers and mothers of the millions o.
families Of America, stand for one hour upon
the summit of intelligence, unshackled from
the chain of prejudice of the selfstyled regu
lar practitioner, and see the destruction o.
human life, of men and women of robust con
stitution, of youths with the fires of health
shining through their beaming cheeks, and o
the little babe laughing and dancing, full o
life, upon its mothers knee. They are attacked
with the most simple disease, but for fear o
some danger lurking within, the doctor il
sent for, the dose is given, and in the shor
space of one week funeral procession is seel
moving from your doors. We ask, is Their
not something wrong is there not something
wantingf some change in the practice of me
dicine There has been great advancement
in all other scienoesj why not in medicine
The old stage has been given up for the quicl
travel of the railway Car. The tiresome worl
Of sewing by hand for the rapid sewing
machine. From the slow soythe to cut tn
grass to the wonderful moving machine. Fro1
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