Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-12-01

eight or ten miles the spires Of the
city OF Trenton may be seen in a
clear day.
This Institution is presided over
by DR.. Trail, assisted by DR.. Ellen
Beara Harmon.
DIR. Trail is one Of the pioneers
in the health reform in this coun-
try, and who dared, in opposition
to all the influences Of the regular
profession, to pronounce the drug
system of medicine false in theory
and pernicious in praccice; and has
dared, in the face Of the frowns and
contempt of the pseudo-philoso-
phies of the drug system, and with
his pathway Illuminated by the light
drawn from the teachings of ma
ture in all her simple and thought
full operations, he announced and
has since maintained this compre-
hensive theris: "All curative pow
er is in the human organization
ITSELF"
Stop, reader, you whose mind is
not distorted by the teachings of a
false PHILOSOPHY and ponder well
the all comprehensiyeness Of this
theris.
If it is true, it at once and forever
demolishes the whole superstruction
of any drug medicine which has
been in course of erection since the
days Of hypocricies.
Indeed, IT, e aboveproposition clear
ly established, universally believ-
ed, accepted,and acted upon, would
crush in the dust the colossal er-
rors Of four thousand years, and rid
the human race of many ills to
which it is subjected on account Of
the use Of poisonous drugs. For
to assert they are poisonous is sim
ply asserting what cannot be de-
MED. And while the human sys-
tenn is maxim Q a strong effort to re-
gain its normal state by the in
stinctive efforts of the vital force
itself, another enemy to mans or
canization in the form of drugs is
sent into the vital domain, the vital
powers are'now called upon to OK
pei this new invader, for let me
say once for all, that medicine does
not act upon the system, but the
system upon the medicine.
But to return to the proposition
that all curative power is in the hu-
man system itself This is atruism
which all nature teaches. Much Of
the truth that we have ON many
subjects is discovered by analogical
reasoning; and pursuing this course
the above proposition can be as
clearly established as any other
proposition IN science, sebjected
only to moral reasoning.
Strike the axe into the hardy oak,
give it sufficient time, and if it has
sufficient life force it will heal the
wound itself. Again, by accident
from the hand or other parts Of the
body remove the skin, the lite fore
es within, will restore the lost cuti-
Gle; or be so unfortunate as to
break some of your bones, bring
the broken parts in their proper
relations again and the work of re-
cuperation begins at once and goes
on to consummation by the virtue ol
the inherent life power within the
system itself, But more OF this
another time.
DR.. Trail is a man about sixty
years Of age and has a well develop
ed head in the region Of the intel
lect while he has sufficiency OF
the lower propensities to give him
vim and drive him through the
world and leave his work wherever
he goes. He is 'ruly radical man,
especially in the medical anu neal'l
reform, and no doubt like all medi-
cal men, he entertains some views
that are erroneous. Yet he is in
advance of the age inwhich he lives
in his conversation he talks very
rapidly, so much SO that he would
not make a forccible and impress
sive public speaker.
In his lectures that l have heard
he talks equally as rapid as in com
mon conversation; and to use a
common phrase, he seems to talk
all over, for his hands and feet are
in motion while lecturing.
He does not seem to possess the
calmness of intellectual repose
which some public men possess
when lecturing or speaking IN pub
,. -.o+ nc st,.le comes from his or