The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-03

ed abroad by paid servants adapted to
the business, and they look liIrge in
the distances; but when they come near
enough TO be distinctly seen, are found
TO be Ignorant deCeiyers, without good
character, and to have no claim what
eVeTtto the reputation they haYe acq uir-
ed through their own vain boasting,
and abe menials in their employ.
The politician is seen using many
and various ingenious devices TO place
himself before the public eye, to create
IA reputation for great political sagacIty
and wisdom, 10 which he is in no way
entitled. You will hear him talk loud
and long to gain IA reputation that will
procure him Office or power, and boast
largely OF his devoted love of pure
patriotism, and his most ardent atfec-
ton for the dear people, which affection
il sure to continue aud wax stronger
till his desired ends are accomplished.
We see any number of mounlebanks
and outside practitioners, who call
themselves physicians, aud follow in
the trail of the regular profession, shine
by its light, and become sometimes so
mixed up with it, that the public do not
distinguish those who are capable, and
labor TO save life, from those who are
mere empiFics, and labor only for the
dollar.
We see them boasting through the
press, and advertising IN every part of
the country, their wonderful skill, and
their life-saving remedies which none
hut themselves possess.
We see them on the streets with their
servants and fine livery, riding to aud
fro in hot haste, while Rstonished
crowds gaze with wonder and amaze
ment. r.-.H
We see them in their private rooms
at hotels, dressed in accordance with
Lot. 1t 4. 20
aud glasses distributed in places TO
catch the eye.
We see them in large cities, living in
palaces which they do not need, and
probably cannot own, with collections
of minerals, birds, paintings, sLatn-
ary, and such things as attract atten-
ton and excite wonder, to catch
the eye of visitors and give the impress
sion that they are men of science and
learning. We see them using every
device to deceive the people in regard
to their real merits, in order to procure
from them wide spread reputation,
wonderful praise and exhorbitant fees
After this long dlgression let us re
turn TO our more proper subject. From
PnracelsuS we pass along the success
sors of Hippocrates and Galen to the
sixteenth century, which brings us to
new era, to new epoch i'll philosophy,
i'll medicine and in literature. We there
after II bondage OF over two thousand
years cast aside the old dogmas and
tents of Socrates, of Plato, of Aristo-
tie and their cotemporaries-wel leave
the false theories and false doctrines of
HippOcrates and Galen. We there
leave the dark ages when printing was
unknown, and all written matter WINS
preserved in manuscript form.
We there leave the astrologer with his
face to the east, giving the history and
fhp fortune nf his euSIOmRF- hT GOnSnlT-
ing the sign in the zodiac that was visi-
BILE in the eastern horizon at the precise
moment the individual under consid-
Grafton was born.
We there lea we the AIchemist search
ing for the Philosophers Stone, and the
universal panacea for the cure of dis
ease.
We there leave the Conjurers with
their secret and supernatural powers.
We :here leave the lead OF the philOso-
piers, who taught that the earth stood
still, and the sun, moon and stars re-
volued around It. We there leave the
trail of medical men who taught that
the arteries carried air, and that the
pineal gland was the seat OF the soul.
AT that period philosophers threw aside
the alteration they had for so many
ages entertained for great names
turned their backs on the Growns of a
bigoted world, and adopted new prin-
NlDAGSI anu AlNh Jul OL u new ~ hGh VI
their own. Copernicus set forth the
true system OF planetary notions
Galileo proved the correctness of the
Copernican system, and WAS the first TO
discover that air had weight. He also
explained the doctrine of motion. He
exploded the dOgmas of the old school
one by. one. and left nothing standing
of them that would not bear the test OF
strict experiment.
Bacon, whose name is connected with
whatever Is great in science or dignitied
in intellect, taught the world that it was
not in the province of philosophy 10
form theories, and make the course OF
nature bend to them, but examine
facts us they present themselves in
nature, and proceed, step by step, from
the less TO the more general. from the
proXimate to the remote, till at length
some general law in nature terminated
the inquiry.
This, in fact, is the only sure method
of reasoning. This is the compass and
the chart that modern philosophers
have used with so much success, in di-
recting their course through the rounds
of scientific investigation, TO the true
and unerring laws OF nature.
1t was this that guided Copernicus to
the discovery OF the true theory of the
planetary mOlions- Ii was this that
conducted Newton to such magnificent
discoveries in optics and astronomy. 1t
WIS this that led Franklin 10 the deYel-
Opment of such wonderful truths in
electricity, and Davy and LavOisier in
chemistry, II was this that enabled
Sydenham, Boerhaave, Harvey, Hal
Ter, Hunter, Bichat and a host of others
to make such progress in Anatomy,
Pathology and Medicine. aHl
Since the days of the men who in til
tuted, and put in practice these new
principles of reasoning, the science OF
medicine has been advancing with
most rapid strides. lh3 "T
A host of good workers are all the
time in the field, aud engaged In
every department OF the profession.
Anatomy, the foundation stone of
medical science, which teaches us the
complicated structure of the human
body, the mechanism OF the machine
we are called upon to repair and keep
in order, is now pursued with every
facility for success. In early times, SUI
persIilion and prejudice prevented al
most entirely the study of the human
body. .......-
Physiology teaches the uses of all the
different parts OF the human body 1t
teaches how the machine should run
in a state of perfect health.
Pathology teaches us the changes
that take place, in the different struC-
lures of the human body, from the ac-
ton OF disease. -aaa-l
MAteria medica gives us a knowledge
of all the different substances and
agents used as medicines.
Pharmacy, aided by chemistry teach
es us how to combine, compound and
preserve medicines and prepare them
for the use of the sick. al H.r.l rs
Therapeutics teaches US how to apply
these remedial agents, these prepared
medicines, in the prevention and cure
of disease.
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