The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-11

toli0quy Reported Tor Dallas Her
aid by Rccture

..fNr l.-Dalas; Corner ol C--r ana
Us Drug store discovered ia ernest
rDmtb q brVy OF doctors. Enter two colo
gusts.
Isl. CoIIoquist. Well that leader in
!uurdnys HERALD was n spicy eA.
uyl
3D. ColIoquist. OF capsicum and
rntharadis,
Ist Doctor. Why? What? Never
saw it.
Isl Colloquist None SO blind as
pbotophobics. Why, the whole town
expected THE HERALD crowded with
lcutntions terse and strong.
ID Colloqust, The Doctors swal-
lowed it without grim, pungent Us it
was. The arguments were unan-
weable.
u Doctor. Oh read it, " Medi-
cine no Science, too contemplate to
notice.
st Colloquist. This people take your
silence for consent to its propositions.
lfmedicine is not u science, then, is it
an eupiricisn. You empirics- quacks,
charlatans.
list Doctor. Ive got to see Il patient.
Exit Doctors scalp-diagnoseinOs.
"a ColloquiSt. There's u bee in their
LoHucts.
list Colloquist. | believe surgery and
Hy-geo-A Therapeutics have rs high
claims TO he classed rs
sciences rs their collaterals--na natural
philosophy, botany, anatomy and
chemistry. But mediciue--dJWggaQA
is numbering humbug; carrying its
thousands yearly to untimely graves
and h.ightiug the health and happi'
Hess OF millions.
ID Coloquist. True, too true! Yet
what can he expected but Il ruinOus
Structure founded as medicine is upon
su,h falIacics as the m0claS Operadj
" medicines when every fool knows
that drugs have no actions. That vi
tAiJy recognizing in their presence
something inimical 10 It's normal con-
ditlon, eXpelIs them or dies in The at
tempt
LII CoIoquist. Hence so many in the
bud and prime of life, upon taking It
slight ailmeAt, would, with ordinary
nursing, plenty of pure air and water,
clean and cheerful surroundings, (and
drugs can't supply their absence,) i'll
a few days rejoice in returning health
Nud yigor, if the doctors in place Of be-
my US poet Burns says, we'll paid for
their d-nd dirt; met with the Irish"
mans gentle hint of exit. But pa.
TENTS are drugged, slight ailments
like colds, become typhoid, and ten to
one, they die; or recovering in spite
of the poisons, and i'll exact proper
tons to their quantity and virulence;
have they II lingering convalescence'
Why! There is Al, BIB and
Sd and others you know. Their
tables and shelves were covered with
poisOns "thick and slab" which in a
few days illness made a sure quietus'
ID Coloquist-All the drug schools
are alike. Their greatest blunder is III
treating diseases as M edtty-some-
thing to be puked, purGed, sweat or III
one way or another poisoned out We
must return to the doctrine Hippo
crates taught two thousand years ago,
that disease is vital effort concerning
things abnormal.
LIST Coloquist-Well, The HERALD
deserves the thanks of the community
for publishing such paper. ltwill
be but common courtesy to acknoWi-
edge our appreciation of it, and give a
hint of its effects upon our Nj. DIS.
I'd Coloquist-Yes, and such papers
produce healthy spirit of inquiry
demands for public libraries, lectures
etc, Why should there not be Sunday
morning lectures by which we work
ing men could obtain substantial brain
food sufficient to keep us in inteliec
tlal and moral strength tor the week
LIST Coloquist-And our doctors
would be the first to volunteer for th'
rostrum. AS class they are as inter
lgent rs can be found anywhere.
Enter urnwd with y bushel OF pre-
scrptioNa, and two undertakes loi
aNle-grpa,e.
Exit polloquists.