Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-05-11
COLD WATER VS.. BLUE PILLS
A Raid Upon the Doctors.

George Francis Train made speech
at the Hydropathic Institute, New York,
one day last week, in the course Of which
he said
An ancient sage says that medical,
legal and clerical professions are the
crutches on which ignorant, discordant
and diseased humanity hobble through
the world" [Laughter.] They take pos.
session of your body, your pocket and
your soul. Without them we would have
more religion, less discord, and more ripe
old age. That's so. Some other day
l will take up the legal and clerical
brothers, but to- night you ask me to talk
about the doctor laughter more es-
pecially as he is about to leave
us, loss we shall only experience when
he is far away. [Applause. Having
given the national diagnosis on financial
affairs to the gold brokers and talked
charity to the Fifth avenue arstocracy
for the Southern Relief Fund within the
week past, why not enter new field and
expose the swindling, murderous system
of the honorable faculty in poisoning
our babes with vaccine matter, shattering
the constitutions of oar wives, our daugh-
ters and our mothers by the damnable
use of the speculum, and creating drunk
ards of all our people with their alcho-
holic medicines, their quack compounds
and their fashionable Bourbon "
[Applause Hygia, the goddess of
health, has had hard work to fight the
battle with Esculapius, the god OF medi-
cine. Hippocrates and Galen were relics
of barbarism; yet they still practice at
the medical college. Paracelsus, with
his infamous calomel, still peoples the
graveyards with his legalized poison,
while Jenner still inoculates the health.
lest of our race with the seeds of death.
[Sensation Hahneman made a mar
velous leap in progress when he forced
homeopathy upon the world. The
struggle Of the contending colleges still
RACES over the death-bed of the delnded
patient The faculty had discovered
5000 medicines in 1000 years of practice,
and owned all the corner lots in all the
cities 10 mix their deadly drugs Hence,
when the advanced physician dropped
the large pill and adopted the small pill,
the revolution began; for the great
saving in human life is already opening
the eyes of the blind One step more, and
Presnitzism, Standardization will re-
move all the scales, and poor faculty
fooled humanity will be emancipated
Hydropathy is in the science of health
what the steamsphip, the locomotive, the
gas light and the telegraph are in the
science Of locomotion and progress.
[Applause Allopathy is the stage
coach, the canal boat, the mail bag and
the tallow candle system of advancing
backward. Laughter.] Sehieferdeckers
prescriptions need not be written in
Latin. Rest, regularity, recreation, diet,
exercise, pure air. pure water, early
hours, are natures physicians Ap-
plause Why is it that faculty insults
US by writing their prescriptions in Latin,
unless it is to deceive2 Why is il that
men, sensible in business matters, intel
ligent in worldly affairs, are such dupes
in relation to their health New York
is full of large-brained men, who build
blocks of houses, railways, factories,
establish banks and launch ships, who
act like fools in the presence Of their
doctor. They have decided opinions on
every thing but their health. They think
they can drink, smoke, gorge aud out
rage nature day and night for years, and
the magic of lilliputian white pill dis
solved on the end Of the tongue twice a
day will Immediately restore their ship
wrecked constitution. laughter Here
is the criminality Of the faculty. They
want chronic iRvalids, they pay better;
plenty Of selfindulgences, plenty Of
medicine and constant hattery Of
their patients is the old school doc
tors stock in trade. That's so. Schief
erdeckerism says meat once day, bread
and milk for breakfast and supper, plenty
Of water inside and out; no alcoholic
drinks, and no medicine and sleep with
four windows open. LApplause he
tells you that earth, air and sunshine are
God doctors; that cleanliness is next
to Godliness IApplause.l ] While Al
lopathy says, him that is filthy let him be
filthy still Laughter Our prisons
are peopled With better men than those
who persist, under the CLOAK OF medical
science, in destroying the vigor Of our
manhood. The medical fraternity have
done more 10 demoralize the community
than any other profession. Their entree
and exit OF our houses, our bed chambers,
is more privileged than the master Of the
house. Sepsaiion. Husband or father
has no qaesiions 10 ask. IL is only the
family doctor What has mads them
better men than ihe rest Of mankind
Remember that society is organized
bypoarisys that crime is not in
he act. but ia getting found out Sen
sation. take the money out Of lis
rocketh aid Smike "but don't break ]