The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-06-22
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A discovery in the treatment Of fevers,
and it started in. your paper volume 81,
Nav 4th. 1871. and / answered it, in your
volume 81, May 25th, 1871. l was look
ing for an answer, and no answer. Well,
l am still on hand, and have a few words
more to say, on that of medicine which
relates to the fever. &c, and effects incl
dent to the human body which has the
powerto produce a complication o. phrensy
and lethargy, with fever.
The laborer is worthy of his hire; but
mere selfshness should not be our motive.
Some say, if God wishes to protect me He
| can do It without medicine or caution on
my part, he who does this, shows no con-
fdence in God, but sins against Him, for
He has put those means of preservation
in our hands, and we are bound to use
Them. Let us be ike Lazarus, and not
the rich mar in hell, All, dip the tip Of
yoar ERRer in the water, once cool the
lips. and tongue, go to the sick and wait
on them, even if q hundreds sicknesses
were assailing them. What are all habit
ual desease and all devils against God,
who here pledges Himself to be pro-
tector and physician. 1t is written, He
| will give His angels charge over thee that
| they may keep thee in all thy ways they
will carry thee on their hands, lest thou
! dash thy foot against q stone. / have
seen in my profession, which often leads
! me into the abodes Of poverty and misery,
| where physical restitution Is greater than
spiritual. The rich and the great always
have nurses and attendants IN their afdic-
tons and whether it be for the sake of
, pay or not, they have the benefit, but be-
fore a rich or a great mar goes to the sick
of the poor, the case must be urgent.
Christ says; what ye do to the least OF
these my brethren, ye do unto me. A
command Of Christ A good shepherd lays
down his life for mis- sheep, but a hireling
| seeth the wolf coming and heeth. Now,
the wolf NAV be the. Fever which destroys
the people, in such unusual and chan ming
times the sick and the dying especially re-
quire religious instruction and consolation.
It often happens, that we are called in
when the sick are already in the struggle
/ of death, and lay in that state Of Frantick-
ness, unprepared TO depart, and has passed
the 18th hour and the 18th it is too late,
what do all tie Ministers and the Doctors
amount to, there is where / was dissatis-
fed. with the treatment therein adopted
! 1t appears to me that l was grabbing fol
the afmighty dollar, and the devil for the
soul. for the correct treatment to be In
stitnted in Typhoid feVers is still as OBJ
scure as the nature and pathology Of the
Affection Patients recover under the most
opposite courses of medication and ever
unasserted save by vis-medicatriK nature
Some claim that the desease a be cut
short by timely assistance DR.. Stokes in 6
recent lecture delivered before the Medica
Glass at the Meath Hospitel Dublin in.
culcated that the medical world IS aboui
awakening upon the ~propriety of tina
grand ~desideratum in the treatment o
levers. So if DR.. Stokes was right he i
no more, God has blessed me with tina
New Principle of Treatment, because
was dissatisfied with the treatment. or tn,
old, but how can ] make you believe 70
Christ could not do it how al ], ! an
born like You and if ] could then / woull
say, something is wrong. To be continued
LEl9 4Ms a. II. WEIpLER.