Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-09-05
B:.lE vs.. B~LOCKIIEADS.

EDITOR DEDGER: We desire spac'
to reply to a.scurriious article siguet
Drs: Reilly & Freeman.
1t Gems the dog in the mango.
Succeeded in reaching those gentle,
me- and from the way in which the,
writlie in agony and slobber over
your columns NE suppose them to be
suffering from hydrophobia. The
irony of these gentlemen is frightful
and their luminosity binding. They
seem to think that a wild, needle 3,
reckless and ~uhreasoning PERSONA
assault upon us would help them by
terrifying somebody. But if the,
have sense enough TO see and feel
their condition, they on hit to hav,
sense enough not 10 have depended
ON such purriie folly. We wer,
aware before the article appeared
that they aud others of the lOng-ear
ed tribe were yiliiying us with theii
curbstone Cab. Never was their bill.
llous apparatus so riled, so active, so
noisy or So violent rs now. Why so!
Simply because we exposed theil
n~efariouS trick or rather their ign0r-
e-SN@ 81 ""o oul StO liz u" VII
public that the remedy was no secret
that it was twelve. years old, that j
was sold to them as phenol and the.
were ignorant OF the fact that pheno
and carholic acid were one and the
same thing, until we pointed GU
Wherein the dispensatory they woul'
find it.
1t was this that agitates these brain
less fools and causes them to swelte
in feverlslI anxiety to find some e
lie to dodge behind i'm order to ayOi.
the real subject Of our ..:outrOyers,
All we said in regard to the OriginH
ton, publicity, use, &c., of tho EN- :
dy still remains unuenied, undispu
ed and not even questioned. If fhpi
article contains II reiutation to q sill
gle timing we said we have failed L
discover it. They accuse me of writ
ing the article signed j. A. F.
This reckless aud malicious state
ment is of the same character as MANY
Others of the article and has about a.
much foundation, in fact, not onl
did they know we did not write tt
article, but they wei knew who die
They seek Ia excite popular stnipa
ny oS Sin'tiiihS We iIEilttB All aIldt4.
them. WI made an attack on yau.
Mr.. Editor, who we thought wrot,
the editorial, and they so state in the
of their article. but before
they write Il dozen lines they say.Dr.
F.'s motive for his attack on us was
to correct Il false statement made bN
us. This clearly shows Drs. Reilly K
Freeman to be tue writers of the edi-
torial and paid Mr.. Editor to pub
.ish it.
They think had it not been for our
arm or voice the medical fra
of Mexico would have been
Iank clear out of sight; completely
Innihilated.-, In this connection we
viii state, the only thing we know OF
hat was sunk clear u of sight was
hat $500 they paid 1or the pile rcme
ly and the only thing We know of
hat was completely auI'hilated by
.ur article, WAS those eleven patients
hat were coming frora Macon City
Or them to tread. They seem to be
disturbed aud distressed
our reputation and about our
aiming some notoriety ut their Ax-
ense. J
Gentlemen, do not let 0ur reputa-i
ION give you any trouble, We will
that auoe. They say II OF |
5 had abandoned the general praC-
ce Yes, we remember HiIen he re-
red, or rather when the practice re-
red from him. IL dates from the
of his having diagnosed "a
,rrible case OF cercbro-splnal Auenln-
tits, and after applying q ten inch
iuare blister to the back of the poor
oman hastened 10 Mexico to spread
10 news of the outbreak of the ter
bic maledy. My friend, DI. Mac
being sent Tor in a short time
rived just i'll time 40 name The baby.
Now, we know it is only necessary
order to abandon the profession to
)plt a good size blister 10 our proc-
ne the utdei par Uncr ot tn1 num-,
own oursels es in "a tso wi of wlis-
v. Evidently these gentlemen pos
IS some very sLranSt notions about
plain thing. n few years ago
lis same member of the firm went
/ after a strange god III the shape
a cancer cure; TINS he administer
| to his patients Internally, e&ter-
lily, informally ana eternaIIy III or
,r TO obtain an eter nnl lien on The
,ckets of the people. Whether the
medic. he used sent more people To
/ untinely grave than the disease 1t
as intended TO cure Is ii question
at eternity alone can solve. lie
embarked in al di%phtheritic cure,
| of which no doubt WAS the means
increasing the number OF angels
the other world, and lastly this
lie remedy which il none the less
augerOus. They say We thought
G could make something by treat
these diaeases. Well they could
they had had no desire to steal
ON the people. From $500 to
800 is a good fee Tor treating a
use of this kind. They were not
with this; 10y iaisehoOd and
they endcavor to
ltract from the pockets OF their pa
ents from $50 to $40 each. They
aim to have given diseases OF the
and anus special attention
II some time, all Oh which is untrue
nd they knew ii when they penned
@ words. We no doubt should
,ake some allo vance for their being
imposed upon by this Iowa
amp ana yet we are not
for their idi-
tic ideas about medicine, nor for
ne a of imbecillty i'll each of their
raniums. DIR. freeman purchased
ne remedy from an Iowa tramp by
anne of Center. The Doctors well
nown fendness for that article kept
4 institutions around which tramps
re prone to- lounge, especially when
he necessary ten cents can be raised,
as the means of bringing him i'll
ontact with this Iowa yankee. He
ried to obtain practice i'll his own
e~ighborhood after the Murphy's
adj furnished him a new suit, but
he good people said no, its the same
Id drunkard in a new skin. so of
@ comes to Mexico aud posts his
bills on every corner lie
physicians of Mexico TO
AXE hold of the remedy, but r~ecefs-
d in response jeers anu expressions
f contempt; they too well knew the
neil of carbolic acid. But ere his
departure he met a man after his own
eart-anotller deciple OF escuiapius
Who the people had never %appreciat-
d; another blatherskite who desired
o retire from practice, simply be-
the practice had retired from
inn noiltr fuhnra ontnnrl a i,1t,rn nfl