The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-21
Physic 10 the,Dogs.


about taking physic-bitters, pills, pow
ders, all sorts OF patient fluid nastiness.
Two pansceas in the market involve an
genealogical absurdity, and we have
two thousand. The valetudinarian tries
one infallible remedy after another,
and never thinks that he should be
skeptical about No. 90 because the
preceding series from l 10 10 was to-
tai failure. The whole matter is mass
and mess and muddle of confusion, in.
volving the absurditY that what cured
(or it isIeaid to have cured) bronchitis
will just as infallibly cnre Brighfs
Disease. The stronghold Of quicksilver
is in that indefinite trouble call
ed General Debility, the victim
which thinks on Monday that
his liver is out Of order, is certain that
he has the consumption on Tuesday,
suspects indigestion on Wednesday.
will swear that bis brain is affected on
Thursday, settles down upon rheuma-
item on Friday, cannot get cancer out
OF his head on Saturday, ard makes up
his mind to die of epilepsy on Sunday!
Empty bottles accumulate in his closet.
The dust-bin is full OF exsusted pill
boxes. There ia an electro magnetic
machine, very much out of order, on
The ehelf. Happy be whom fortune
has led to prefer globules to goblets.
His medicine chest full OF little bottles
which in turn are full Of pretty little
pellets, is perpetual source OF amuse-
ment and OF experiments which are at
least harmless If the prescribers Tor
Themselves muSt swallow calomel, ,
opum, ipecac. rheubarb, mandrake,
ard the like, let it lie in intini;cssimaI
doses.
The last martyr r,' ......' IL the
English newspapers Na- So. n,.z beth
Benton, OF Woo!Gica. According to
the evidence, che was re-olutP ~ her
testimony against dosing 10 tn i@sf.
The Lord WAS her doctor, and che r.
fused to he treated by any minor 81"
mortal NJ. D What is to be done Il"
case like this? When children ar'
recalcitraDt against birthstone and NO
lasses, or castor oil, very slight degre'
of force reduces them to submissive
swallowing with more or lees slobber
and spa,ter; but it is impossible to
wrestie with an old lady, and it would
be an ignominious insult to hold her
nose. Yet the Coroner, who was prob>
ably Doctor himself, when called to
investigate the death OF Mrs. Benton,
was exceedingly angry with the Pecu-
liar T.. pie, and would nave been hap
py no doubt, 10 tind verdict o! IMAM
slaughter" against the whole sect. ut
is ali very we'll" eaid the outraged
lunctiouary, for the Peculiar People to
trihe with themselves, but husband lie
held responsible for Ike lie Of his wife
and 1t is his duty to see that she has
proper medical attendance.
But what is proper medical attend
ance2' Benton did call the attendant
in whom he had confidence, viz: the
Lord-called upon lis knees in q very
loud and long way. Suppose that he
had sent for homeopathic practition-
cr, or for q mesmerlst. or for botanic-
al doctor-would the Coroner have been
any better pleased? II we are to be
forced to take medicine by law, it be-
comcs a matter of serious consequence
for us TO know what kind of medicine
we are to lake. The TACT is, medicines
are 50 uncertain, medical notions are
so numerous and the question whether
the patient needs medicine or not al
ways such a doubtful one that il We at
tempt to make the treatment OF the sick
an affair OF statute regulation we shall
have to settle the sanction OF the State
to one school at the expense Of al the
others.--N Y Tribune