New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-09
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Tboro ia q Doctor in st. Louis TO whom is
the name of DR.. Gilbert D'Episy; and whether
thev he Alopathic, administering heroic doses,
or Homeopathic, with infniteslmal doses OF
Thompsonian, with capscum and loDella doses
or Eclectic with a great variety OF doSeS' OF
Hydropathists, with perfect faith IN wet sheetS
and bumpers of cold water, Dr. Gilbert mas
"declared war; uncompromlslng war, upon
them all in a pamphlet of seven pages, ad-
dressed "To the Empirical Members OF All
&" the Medical Faculties of the World" In this
srou but savage bulletin DR.. DEpisy asserts
that all Doctors always excepting hmsen) are
completely ignorant, blunderers everywhere
and always, and donkeys of sublime ana
preternatural length of ear AS for tins DOCTOR,
he has no scruplcs of modesty IN sounding
self -laudatory tantara upon his own trumpet;
and no quicksilver ever more lustlly pro-
claimed from IA booth the perfection OF ms
skill and the infalbility of his nostrums. Dr.
Gilbert informs us that when young, which
WAS forty years ago, lac entered into "a solemn
cngagcmentr Che does MT say with whom)
10 picrce the obscure state of Medical Science,
Doctrine. Practice, and Concerns" and to
know what are Mature, Man. Health, Disease,
bospitals of Paris. He "hunted,' as he says,
" for knowledge" through France, Italy, Rus
sia, Germany and America, bringing mp finally
in st. Louis, where, if people will hereafter
die prematurcy it will be their own fault and
not that of DR.. Gilbert DEpisy. The result
has been that this sage is d greater HcaIer
lin his own estimation) than Hlppocrates,
EsculapiuS, Galcn and Paracelsus would be II
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they were raised from their scpulchers ana
rolled into one. He has cured over 4,OOo
cases for which the orthodox Med Fac. could
do nothing. In the course of his investiga-
tions he has bled to death or fatally poisoned
"near to 5000 ptiable animals"-a CHASTITY
fact TO which we take the liberty of calling
the attention of Mr. Henry Bergh. Dr. Gilbert
has been at different times n follower of
" Broussais, Habnemann, Raspail, and Others
but these benighted and bewildcred leaders
he has long since discarded; DR.. DEpisy now
follows nobody but DR.. D'Episy himself; ana
he mournfully declares (Which is certainly dis
couraging) that the more we learn, the more
we discover the deepness of our personal
ignOrance'-an admission which we fear
would prevent us from calling in the 1t. LOUIS
sage, in whatever bodily pain and even agony
we might be. TO be sure, having admitted
that he knows nothing, he proceeds to prove
(or at least to ASSERT that he knows great
deal: but, as he gives us no hint of the partlcu-
lar nature of his practice, it is impossible for
MS To decide whether he he learned or a
lunatic-a matter, perhaps, of no great conse-
ducnce, since, even though were in the
article of DEATH" we could MT afford to send
for him to come from st. Louis to New-YOrk
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for all mortals. And even if we could com
mand the fees, how extremely selfish would it
be for usIfto leave the citizens of ST. Louis to
perish through the absence of DR.. D'Episy, to
the great delight of the citizens of Chicago.
But it is in the enumeration of ills to which
flesh is heir, and which he alone OF all eeches
can cure. that our Doctor becomes sublimely
terrible. He expects, he owns it, to "horrlty
everybody; and we think his expectation rea-
5onablc. He avows that " the main part OF all
"thc human beings we meet with among all,
ION our way around or about, young and old,
male and female are dull, pale, detected,
miserable, worn out flesh wasted, anxious
"cOuntenance, and distressing aspect Accord
ing to the Doctor, we all creep or halt drag
ging painfully our "twisted or shortened
Limbs" painting, throbbing, and subject to
glandu'ar inflammations. We are all Giving
"corpses,r with acute, chronic, hectic fevers,
constant headache, continual dependency,
general exhaustion, disgust of life; with rheu
matte tormcnts, neuralgia fortunes, equity
anguishes, apoplectic paroxysms, hysteric
spasms, asthmatic constructions, nervous dart
ings, benumbing and convulsive tremors,
tuberculOus deposits, mature decrepitudes, and
"morbiic states and disorders of all sorts
"and natures PurpOsely, we have abridged
the Doctors appalling catalogue Far be it
from us to brighten our readers into "epileptic
" ftsm We feel, indeed, a little like contra
dieting DIR. D'Episy point blank, and offer
ing to make affidavit that we see every day n
great many men and women who seem to be
in perfect health They say so themselves,
but they may be the victims of personal delu
sion we think so, but what are we at n
diagnosis in comparison with DR.. Gilbert
D'Episy of st. Louis who AYERS that all human
beings are the unfortunate victims of their
"medica, practitioners" and are praying or
"cursng in their dolorous beds, going to their
"untimely graves, to the term of their dread
" full agony y or under damnation in luna
" tic asylums :" committing rapes, suicides"
and every kind of shuddering horror" and
all through the medical ignorance and odous
Expectations of the Doctorsn
But we have no heart to pursue the subject.
Such scolding as DR.. DE. gives to all who
write NJ ID. after their names, makes orr heart
to sing for JOY that we are not of the pill-and-
power administering profession. 40 you dolts
"and impostors " he says substantially, "you
are an uncontrolled nuisance the more You
" do for life the shorter it is you never pre-
scribe anything that is not more terrible in
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