Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-04-12
A Frightful MAlady- .Specialties In Medl-
cal ScienCe.

The medical profession of the world owes
its best literature and its grandest trlumphs to
the representative men who have devoted
years of labor and study to special depart
ments-men who, like Sir Ashley Cooper,
Gross, Mott, Dudley, Blackman, Cazeaux,
Bedford, Meigs, Trosseau, Churchill, Watson,
Tanner, Flint and Wood, have devoted their
useful lives and best attainments to the
specialities with which their names are honor
ably identified. There is enough, certainly,
in any one branch of medical science, to call
into play the highest mental en~dowments-and
it is only in concentrated application, and in
years of laborious study, that the names we
have quoted have been made illustrious in the
profession. EmuIous of this well deserved
fame, and intent on contributing something to
the best good Of humanity, in a critical inyes-
tigation of the pathology and treatment of
Epilepsy, DR.. Chas. d. Pearson, of Lafayette,
Ind, a reputable physician of long standing,
has for twenty years devoted himself. almost
without reserve, to the study of this terrible
malady. That for eighteen centuries this dis
ease should have been deemed incurable is a
reprOach to the profession. That DIR. P. has
completely mastered the malady, in all its sub
tie and diversified forms, is attested by an
overwhelming weight Of evidence. kcloud of
witnesses certify to the wonderful cures he
has effected. This may seem almost fulsome
in praise, and may provoke an unkind refec-
ton from medical cynics, welded to all that is
absurd in their ethics but the writer, indirer-
ent alike to their praise or their censure,
speaks for himself, in heartfelt gratitude for
the deliverance of a dear child from the terri
BILE bondage of this disease. Mental derange-
ment and partial paralysis were among the de-
plOrable complications of this fearful calamity
to our house and heart. Five years have elaps-
ed. The restoration, mental and physical, il
complete, and the cure is permanent. 1t were
worth while to have lived to have effected one
such cure-and ~ we read the grateful test.
monials of hundreds, equally afflicted, and to
whom DR.. Pearson has been providentially in
strumental in a complete restoration, we feel
that no poor word Of ours can add to his en-
during fame, as the great master of the most
terrible malady which afflicts humanity. The
following named persons as we happen to
know, have personal knowledge of cases he
has cured. Rev. G. d. Archibald, D D., Dan
vile, Ky; Hon. VIM. J. May, Lebanon juno.
J. NJ. Smelser, NJ. D., Fort Smith, Ark; U. Z,
Ewing, NJ. D. Louisville, Ky; Harvey, Keith 4
Co., Louisville, KY; Rev. G. G. Hickman,
President Hanover College, Hanover, Ind.
Rev. G.. Mutt, President Indiana State Univer.
sity, Bloomington, Ind; Hon. Conrad Baker,
Ex-Governor, of Indiana, Indianapolis Gen.
Thos. A. Morris, indianapolis, Ind; Jas. G.
Ferguson, Esq, Indianapolis; John R. Child
ers, Esq, Indianapolis Hon. NJ. H. Throop,
$50 Broadway, New York: o. B, Bidwell,
President First National Bank, Freeport, ILL.,
Jas. W. Mill, 1888 South Halstead st., Chicago
G. G.. Munhall, Deputy County Clerk, Watseka,
ILL.,; Mrs. L. L. Senseman, Albion, ILL.,; Mrs. @,
A. Brook, st. Charles, ILL.,; Serene Fisk, Keno
sha, Wis.-LGtayette (Ind.) CoeWier.