Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-11
MEDICAL SCIENCE.
Vast Strides in its Progress-wOnderful
Cures Effected BY L.
Something which Should be Read by
Everybody.

1t must always be interesting to the hui
man race to hear of any improvement in
the means of alleviating the natural and
artificial sufferings of mankind, and any
discovery In the mysterious fields of ma
terra medica must ever be hailed with de-
light. The progress that has been made
in this field, even within a few years, Is
truly wonderful. Bold, investigating
minds, allied with powerful physical en-
durance and tenacisy, have been at work
and removed some OF the rubbish of an
cient superstition, which has so long at
tached to the science of healing. Meth
DDS Of treatment have been simpiihed,
and cures are effected now by gentle and
soothing means, no more dreamed Of hfy
years ago than steam engines, or tele-
graph lines, or ocean cables. Even
chloroform, a simple agent, which has al
le viated so much acute suffering, partie-
ularly in the late war, was unknown to
the medical fraternity until about twenty
years ago. Nitrous oxide Of gas, which
lulls the system into a sleep as sound as
death for a time, was discovered and ap-
piled only a few years ago. Who will say
that other developments equally as won
derful cannot be made in this material
and progressive sge2 We are a matter of
fact people, and every year we inquire
more for practical results than old and
valueless theories. Times have wonder
fully changed since the doctor combined
the profession of bleeding with that of he
barber, and had for his sign a striped pole.
These thoughts, which might be enlarged
upcn by the column, are partly suggested
by some facts of late date, which cannot
be accounted for upon the theories gen
orally advocated by the medical fraterni-
ty. They are a learned, intelli-
gent, thinking body, but slow to
yield up their hereditary practices and
opinions. Those who dare to take a step
in advance Of any system not laid down
in old books is often treated with dis
trust. But this matters not to the people,
few ofWhom can read a Latin prescription,
provided the progressive physician can
show practical results and den-strate
that this new mode of treatment is an
Improvement on the old and mysterious
Il which they never fully understood.
There is now in Memphis an allOpathic
physician of twenty years practice in
New York, who has effected cures of old
chronic cases, given up as hopeless by
doctors of the highest repute. To show
that these cures are genuine and perma-
nent, we will refer to some of the
patients not alive and well in this city,
who had been given up by other
doctors. One is Mrs Doctor
Burns, who resides at 81 Market
street. Her eyesight failed her some
three years ago. and b was affected with
a pulmonary disease, which confined her
to her bed in a helpless condition. She
was hopeless of recovery. Three or our
weeks g DR.. Thorpe, at the Peabody
Hotel, was called in to see her, and began
his psychological course of treatment.
She commenced to recover both her eye
sight and strength at once, and is now
able to sec to household affairs. Last
Sunday she discovered herself in a look
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and was quite taken aback by the sight.
If there be n disbeIievers they can call
and see her. Mrs. Myers, at LOO Market
street, who had been Frustrated some
years with paralysis, has been so far re-
stored under DR.. ThOrpe's treatment as to
lately walk to church twice and back. Mr..
John Kaufman, at 20 Bradford street,
had the drOpsy in his lower limbs, and
one of his feet was swollen up to an enOr-
nous size. Under DR.. Thorpe's hands a
speedy cure was effected in a few weeks,
and he is now well. Call and see him, fer
his is one of the most remarkable eases on
record. Mr.. J. ]. Owen, a railroad con-
dUctor, who is known at SIS Poplar street,
came here nearly blind, afflicted with
liver disease, white swelling and nervous
prOstratiOn. He was attended four
weeks by DIR. Thorpe, and went
back to his work a sound man. This
Is announcer eXIrdOrulDafV case when
seems almost miraculous. The wife OF
DR.. Dickinson, at 1888 jefferson street eI
tended, was cured likewise in a short time
Of a dangerous cancer. DIR. j. r. Nc
Guinness, a well known and highly re-
spectacle physician, was cured of q pain
fnI cancer by DR.. Thorpe, and freely gave
his certificate of the same to the world.
These are facts whicE can be verified.
and we commend them to the attention Of
the afflicted. DR.. ThOrpe's remedies are
natural and usually painless. He
may be consulted at room No. % in the
Peabody Hotel, a