The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-09-07
Medical.

Mr.. Editor:-I had not expected
you would publish my sayings in the
REGISTER for | thought they would be
too heterodox for those who cling to old
forms which are ready to pass away ;
which are fading before a better knowl.
edge Of the laws and powers which com.
pose the human body ; and those laws
and powers which control all material
substances in the universe. And in ex.
aiming the article which | criticized, |
cannot see why you are not responsible
for quoting into your paper the opinion
OF another, and much more so, as coming
from the Argus, a Democratic paper !
and transpiring in New Hampshire as a
democratic measure. IF we wish for
progress in the body polite or in the eth.
les or practices of mankind, we must
grant the largest liberty to freedom Of
speech and freedom of thought, when di
rected by ''order and form, which is wis.
DOM" | thank you for giving me room
in your paper to express my views Of
medical knowledge Of treating disease.
The human body has two coatipgs-
the serous and mucous surfaces-gener
sting a positivelaud negative. fluid, which,
when the person has good health, are in
equilibrium and when attacked by di,.
ease one Of those forces become a maxi
mum AMI the other a minimum force.
And now all that is necessary TO cure the
disease, is to know what will restore the
equilibrium of those two forces and to
give such medicines as will raise the
minimum force to be equal to the max
imum force instead of reducing the max.
imum down to the miniInum-equal'zing
the positive and negative forces of the sys.
tenn instead of making a counter irita.
ton. Medicines containing, or being
impregnated with, magnetism and cleo.
tricity, if they are either vegetable or
animal, or both combined, and which are
not poisonous, taken internally, so as to
be digested and assimilated by the hu.
nan stomach, will restore the equilibrium
and the diseased persons to health. Do
the allopathic, hon @paihic, or eclectic
physicians recognize these principles in
the treatment OF disease ? and are they to
be bolstered up by laws restraining those
who have not a license from some institu.
ton or otherwise, that those who do recog.
Dize those principles cannot cure diseases?
Who are the quacks, but those who deal
out Quach' silver in all its forms, aud
other minerals. iron sugar Of lead, &c.
&c, to try to cure disease 2 | am a liv.
ing witness Of such mnl.trcatmcnt.
s DAMON.
However valuable the theories of our
correspondent as to positive and mega.
tive forces" equilibrium" and all that
sort of nonsense, it will still be thought
desirable by the people generally that we
have some protection against ignorance
and rccklessness. If there is sut1icient
value in those theories to warrant il, why
not have some respectable and response.
BILE organization which might, under such
a law, take the responsibility of author.
izing such persons to p~ractias as might be
adjudged competent and worthy =? Friend
Damon should start another school OF
medicine but by all means, let his
practitioners be labeled by diplomas and
properly authorized by. licenses, SO that
those who desire the treatment Of that
school may not be imposed upon by ig.
norant %pretenders.