The New York herald., 1867-04-19


habited districts, to conduct or form part of an
expedition Of this kind, and we think their
services would be Of infinite value. If the
undertaking is carried out at all, 1t should be
done in the most complete manner, in order
to insure satisfactory result.
Trouble Among tho Doctors-The Pathies In
Stew.
We print in another column report Of an
agreeable entertainment given at the hydro
pathic establishment OF DR.. Schieferdecker, in
Fourteenth street-a compliment from the
Doctors patients in view Of his proposed de-
parture for Europe. The worthy disciple Of
Preissnitz evidently does not restrict his
patients to faith in the virtue Of water, mas
much as the entertainment included charm
ing concert, distracting oration and sump-
tuous supper
The grafton was very notable feature Of
the entertainment, in view Of its subject. 1t
dealt with the great question Of the pathies.
It treated them, to be sure, in a peculiar way;
for the orator, like tho last man drowned by
the deluge, looked at things from hydro
pathic standpoint That, If not strictly just,
was at least natural and polite. How could
be do otherwise at the table Of hydropathyi
The guest Of hydropathy, smiled upon and SYM
pathized with by ladies whose smiles he was,
perhaps, compelled to regard as evidences Of
the success Of the system--could he criBcise
his hostf could he say, 0 most horrible of
the pathies! you have washed the very life
out Of millions; you have "packe% other
millions into their early graves, and Of all the
isms you are the one most liable to abuse and
the most dangerous when abusedl Gould he
use such terms as these Perish the thought
And thus stopped at one quarter, he broke out
the more fercely in others, and slashed with
his iavorite fervor into that poor old cc,rocious
system of medicines that lis enemies s have
called 'ailopathy;" and the poor old system,
perhaps can stand it
sTWhat is truth :" said jesting Pilate, and
there were none to answer But II you ask
can get more answers than are daily given to
the thirty-six columns Of HERALD advertise
ments. More can answer the question than
argue it; for ignorance Is selfsuficient, blata
abusive and always ready to decide, while
they whose opinions are Of weight ore
slow to give them. Allopathy, so called,
homeopathy and hydropathy constitute
world sharing its favors. Hydropathy will
see nothing in tho world but water and If
they who urge this method could have their
way we might all become either fish, on the
one hand, or Croton pipes, on the other. Your
hydropathist regards nothing in life with
such disgust as dry sheets. Commend him
only to the luxury Of comfortable slumber in
bedclothes unwrung from the pump, with the
thermometer at zero. What are cholera, fever,
Inflammation to him and his great agent?
Is it not strange that men and women will be
such simpletons as to die in their prime, with
water cure establishments, perhaps, around
the corner Faulty Of mortalsl
Homeopathy might use water under some
circumstances one were drowning, perhaps.
Infinitessimal doses and the theory Of symp-
toms are its great points. Many things In its
theory and practice are laughable enough;
but there Is one immensely in its favor
the patient often has o chance to
get well. His constitution is apt to have
fair play, and he d less likely to be killed by
the doctor. For what could the pelting Of
those pellets accomplish In ten thousand
made Of pure sugar one made Of medicine has
probably been shaken. That ono gives effect
to the rest Mayhap an ordinary constitution
could hold out against such drugging. II is
true that man might die Here and there for
the default Of medicine but the vast majority
would be the other way. And We are In fAvor
Of giving homeopathy cholera hospital; II
would be test to . certain degree. In .
cholera season they would be sure TO got chol-
era cases-a certain proportion Of cholera
cases will die under ordinary circumstances
and II homeopathy can reduce the proportion,
let us know 1t. Repressivs measures cannot
assist truth.
Allopathy, a. our orator has shown, Il
guilty Of two capital crimes-it uses instru-
ments and II writes its prescriptions In Latin.
We are mot informed whether the victims die
by torture or from curiosity. Such are the
prominent schools Of medicine before the
world. There Is Q wilderness Of minor
pathies; for, as the clown in the Twelfth Night
has shown, no trade Is so extensively followed
as that of doctoring. Every man you meet
has o cure for your malady-infallible. Of
course. Radcliffe went into practice "with
twenty remedies for every disease" and went
out with "twenty diseases for which he had no
remedy" The world knows well that there
are fools enough in all the schools-and that
Is the trouble. Satirists dcclaim against sys-
TENS for faults that are not theirs, but are due
simply to ignorance, deeper. perhaps. than
that Of the satirst