Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-05


But we want to examine this matter
more closely and see if medicine is a
science We have SAID there must be
fundamental facts or premises upon
which all sciences must be built. Now
let us apply this test to medicine as a
science, and see if it will pass the
ordeal
The application of remedies (speak
ing of the manner of others) for the
cure of disease is all Il matter of ex
pertinent; or in other words, medi-
cine as a science is based on inductiye
reasoning. We are willing to admit
that many truths in the natural scien-
ces are based upon this kind of rea-
soning yet to reason to correct con
clusions inductive by the truths from
which we reason, must be established
| beyond doubt.
Let US now see if the facts that are
relied on to prove that medicine is a
science, are clearly established.
| Remember that s'medicine as a sci
ence'' is the leading truths in regard to
remedial agents as applied to the cure
of disease.
Let US examine these leading truths.
A person is sick; the physician comes
and administers a drug; or perhaps
many of them; and in the course of
time the patient gets well, and it is
believed that the medicine cured him.
All remedies of the Materia Medica
have been brought in use in this man
ner.
Let us now see if this constitutes
facts upon which to build a science.
The fundamental facts of science must
be unchanging; but this is not true in
regard to these facts, for the same
remedies sometimes produce directly
opposite manifestations. And it must
be clearly proved that the remedy cured
the disease before it can become a
fundamental fact upon which to build
a science But this cannot be proved,
for many persons get we'll without
any remedies and if they get well
when remedies are administered, it
must be clearly proved that the RENE
dies cured the disease, but on the con
trary, the medicine did not cure the
disease, but the life force of the pa
tient succeeded in successfully resist
ing the cause of the disease and the
remedies too.
|
the remedies cured the disease before
we can have facts upon which to build
science.
But defiantly say that no man can
prove shis; hence, Therapeutics, Mate
ria Medica and the practice of medi-
/, : cine, which are the only sciences, So
called, that properly make up the sci
, ence of medicine, having no founda
ton, truths or well established and
clearly defined premises, all conclu
sion must be equally as obscure and
untrue as the premises themselves
{ AS the premises are, SO must the con
clusions be, is the fixed law Of logic.
All remedial power is the living or
! ganization, and there being no rene
I dies for diseases, the true healing aiC
consists in placing the sick person il
normal relationship to things that ar
normal.
Remember that disease is the resul
of the use of things abnormal, or the
} abuse of things normal, and that re
u turn TO health requires a return tc
. obedience to natures laws; and wher
: this is done, the vital forces will do th
/ best they can to purify and restore tht
OESduIZdlIOu GO d uOFIudI SGdG0.
( Again, in all the established natura
science, all men of scientific attain
ments agree in regard to the fundamen
; tai facts. But among physicians ther
Il is not only diversity of opinion il
" regard to what many called the first o
70 primary truths of medicine; but ther
y is in many cases a direct opposition O
- opinions and practices in regard to tn
, first principles of medicine. And thi
l uncertainty of opinion has existe
from the days of Hypocrates unit
~ the present time.
'e And can it possibly be that afte
s thousands of years of study and exp'
a rfence, not one clearly defined prime
Z pie has been established? and are W
to accept such a jargon of confusion
u such contradictions, as a science?
. may do to impose on the ignorant an
e credulous, but those who have bee
within the temple and head the teach
u ings of Esculapias and compare thel
g with the unerring teachings of natul
as seen in the living organization, fe
, constrained to call this ancient god a
~ qafiinpostor, Il and cheat.
ol In our next we will show what Il
IT. savants of the science say about me
icine as a science.
to 1t appears that in the accounts
all tho comntroller's Office the CITY is re
a resented as having paid betwhen Jan
7rr- ary, 1868, and July, 1870, $463,Oo0
cl- Mr. G. L. Schuyler for lumber, VIII
ar Mr.. Schuyler, who is a perfectly ho