The Portland daily press., 1871-06-19

are commanded to hate evil and therefore
sheuld and do hate medical Quackery, yet we
are commanded again to pray for our enemies;
| Let us, therefore, pray for the mealcal
quacks, especially for the poor mt$gusded DIS
caples of Hahnemann; for, strouded as they are
in mental Obscarity, with nothlng Dnt the dim
light of uncultiydted reason 10 Illuminate their
| path through blacker darkness than that oil
| nocturnal gloom, they know not what they do
Forgive them, Almighty God, for their sstper.
stitious foHy and aeickedness. and grant that
tbey. as wandering deluded men, may be con.
| Quoted back from ignorance to light, from vice
| to virtue, from pollution to holiness frem earth
| to Heaven. t1 sfitf-tI
| With ThOmpsonianism, Grahamism. Sc,
Sc, have nOthiag to do just now. Andlyet
if DR.. Seavey and his brethren-or confeder-
ates-would acknowledge the truth, we should
ma them indebted to Thompson for many val
liable suggestions, and among others, for all
they know about lObelia, and to Graham for
many Of their best notions of fdetetics-though
both were extravagant visionaries, if not some
thing worse; like Abenethy with his blue pills,
| and the believers in white mustard-seed or the
metallic tractors, or Hahnemann himself, with
his different methods of shaking bottle, the
results which he claimed being incapable of
contradiction or verifcation.
Dut, iuasunucn as all reIOrtherS are eutuuSl-
asts, like Harvey and Jenner, they often 60
too far; like man trying to clear ditch, we
| ought to make a large allowance for their
whms and eccentricit1es.
But says DIR. Seavey the foundation OF HON.
eOpathy is rotten and its doctrines and princi-
pies false and ridiculous" Granting all this
to be true, how does the gentleman know it.?
Has he ever practised Homeopathy? Has he
ever studied it? We have now here in full
practice, two gentlemen, if no more, who were
distinguished as Allopaths, before they inves-
tigated Homeopathy, and who. after long
course of patient inquiry and careful expert
ment gave up Allopathy, and with it q large
practice, and betook themselves to Homeopa-
thy, to which they have now devoted them
selves cOnscientiOusly and most successfully,
for twenty or twenty-five years. L allude to
DR.. Eliphalet Clark, and DR.. James M. Cum
mings. Are they quacks-or only toolsP Ard
we have others-Dr. Shackford, DR.. Burr, DIR.
Dodge, Dr. John Merrill, and DR.. Pudor-are
these all quacks? or knaves? or only "fools?'
But nevertheless, this man "Dr. Calvin Seavey
Of Bangor" who, of course, knO,os
nothing of the system by personal experience,
or careful experiment, declares the system to
be tine "'greatest Of huns6ugs," though, to be
sure, it is now four clock with it, as well as
the offspring Of a muck-heap, which cannot
hope to outlive the day. Is the man mad2-or
SO shamefully ignorant of hat is going on in
the world, both abraad and at home, that he
should venture to say, and to his brethren as
sembled for the occasion, that Homeopathy
has lalmost had its day? when the simple
fact is that after revolutionzing the Alopath-
10 practice, and bleeding and blstering, and
purging and puking, it is fourishing as no
new system ever did bcfore-faster indeed
than vaccination itself ever did.
And then we have slap at the clergy,
ending with 'What shall we do with q4ack-
ery9 Let it alone. 1t is too degrading for our
notice" Then why notice it? Why not let it
alone? Why all this clamorous hullabaloo?
But, says the Dr., We therefore, as MEM
bers OF great and worthy and humane pro
fession"-We apples should never deignsto
look to the right or to the left to quarrel with
our enemies, the quacks." And so he pitches
into them head frst tooth and nail. With
the rest of the rigmarole about our transcend
ant qualifications, and our science and skill, i
have nothing to do. The reader will judge for
himself, read, mark and inwardly digest-if, di-
gest he can-the intolerable nonsense and vul-
gar boasting that follows. huH'ftn
But, lest the ''poor misguided disciples Of
Hahnemann shrOuded as they are ia mental
obscurity' bobs!-"should be driven to
despair with the lamp of uncultivated reason"
sin their soperstitious folly and wickedness,"
the kind hearted DIR. Seavey threatens Ito
pray for them. II he sheuld, God help the
Homeopaths. itfsntf slszsH15if be- j. N.
P.s. Since the above was written, my at
tention has been called to the generous and
very successful efforts now in progress for the
establishment of q State Hospital-a growing
necessity for Maine, and should like toiknow
beforeha nd " neither Homeopathy, and the be-
levers in Homeopathy, who abominate the old
system, are expected to contribute to the hos 4
pital funds or to submit themselves to Alo-
pathic treatment, against all their convictions,
if they should find their way into the hospital?
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