The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
A FrightfuI IaIatIy-SpeGialties I'm Medi-
cal ScieIlce.

The medical profession of the world owes
its best literature and its grand6st triumphs 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 spe-
cialties with which their names are honorably
identified. There is enough, certainly in any
one branch of medical science, to call into
play the highest mental endowments-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. Emulous of this well deserved
| fame, and intent on contributing something to
| the best good of humanity, in a critical inves-
| tigation of the pathology and treatment of
| Epilepsy, DIR. 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 DR.. p. has
| completely mastered the malady in all its sub
! tie and diversified forms, is attested by an
| overwhelming weight of evidence. A cloud of
| witnesses certify to the wonderful cures he
| has affected. This may seem almost fulsome
| in praise, and may provoke unkind rehec-
ton from medical cynics welded to all that is
absurd in their ethics: but the writer indiffer-
| ent alike to their praise or their censure,
| speaks for himself. in heartfelt gratitude for
| the deliverance of dear child from the terri
! BILE bondage of this disease. Mental derange-
| ment and partial paralysi were among the
| deplorable complications of this fearful ca
| lamity to our house and heart. Five years
| have elapsed. The restoration, mental and
| physical, is complete, and the cure is perma-
| nent. 1t were worth while to have lived to
! have effected one such cure-and as we read
| the grateful testimonials of hundreds, equally
! aff n w DR. Pearson
! providentially instrumental in complete re-
| storation, we feel that no poor word of ours
can add to his enduring fame as the great
master of the most terrible maladv which af-
! hicts humanity. The following named per sons
| as we happen to know, have personal know
ledge of cases he has cured. Rev. G. d. Ar
| chibald, DID, Danville, KY; Hon. Vim. j.
| May, Lebanon Junction, KY; Hon. r. d.
| Caldwell, Paris, Tenn; J. NJ. Smelser, NJ. D.,
| Fort Smith, Ark. U. E. Ewing, Al. D., Louis
vile, KY; Harvey. Keith & Co., Louisville,
| Ky; Rev. G. C. Hickman, President Hanover
! College, Hanover, Ind; Rev. c.. Mutt, Presi-
| dent Indiana State University, Bloomington,
| Ind. Hon. Conrad Baker, Ex-Governor of
| Indiana indianapolis; Gen. Thos. A. Morris,
| Indianapolis Ind. JAS c. Ferguson, Esq,
| Indianapolis John R. Childers, Esq, Indian
| apolis Hon. NJ. H. Throop, $50 Broadway,
| New York o. B. Bidwell, President First Ma
| tiOnal Bank, Freeport, Ill; Jas. w. Mill, 133
! South Halstead St., Chicago; C. G. Munhall,
| Deputy County Clerk, Watseka, Ill. Mrs. J..
/ L. Serseman, Albion, Ill. Mrs. G. A. Brook,
| st. Charles, Ill Serene Fisk, Kenosha, Wis.
! La Fdyette (I1ld) Courier.