The Hartford herald., 1879-07-02

quest. Will you grant itl" "Yes, massa
anything you ask I'll do" "Take the old
wooden jug to the spring back Of the barn,
fill it with cold water, and bring 1t to me,
quick" "Oh, massa, massa! anything else
you ask I'll do; you know what missus and
doctor said: mo water, no water" "Abe,
you go; If you don't and | live, I'll shoot
you dead" After celebrating for moment,
he says: "Massa, CO." 1t was brought
him. He drank his fill. BY morning every
drop was gone. The fever broke. He fell
health. And not until then was any one told
what cured him. 81. III =. ~
! Such examples as these finally changed the
present system of treating fevers. In this
specific disease common sense is at last master
of the situation. But how about the entire
catalogue of nearly every other disease known
such as bilious disorders, liver complaints
dyspepsia, female weakness, pains in the side,
stomach, back, shoulders and muscles, period
ical and lifelong sick headaches, constipation,
bilious diarrhea, bilious collie, neuralgia,
rheumatism, kidney difficulties, paralysis, ir-
regular action of the heart, nervousness, liver
coughs-often taken for consumption-period
ical drunkenness and more especially the
dreaded scourge, malaria, such as intermt-
tent, remttent, bilious, typhoid and scarlet
fevers, fever and ague, ague cake, malarial
fever, and the yearly visitation of yellow fever
in the South still more violent form of
malaria.
The above embraces long list, and the
unrehecting mind would naturally be slow IN
accepting all these as proceeding from the
great cause-stomach and liver.
We ask the question: "Do you remember
of ever suffering with any of the above
named symptoms while you had a sound
stomach and liver?" Ask your neighbor the
same question.
But little change or advancement in the old
practice has been shown during the last 200
years in the treatment of all these diseases,
which are, with the rarest exceptions, the
outgrowth of deceased stomach and a torpid
liver, the last being a consequence of the
first. Yet they are all treated specially, as if
they were distinct diseases proceeding from
some other cause than those | have just
named. These are generally treated with
some of the following so-called medicines:
Mercury or calomel-a deadly aud insidious
poison, which has filled the world with hu-
man wrecks once taken into tie system it
never ceases to rack and poison the sufferer
until death steps in to relieve him. Arsenic
"a deadly mineral poison. but often used.
Strychnine--one-sixth of grain will kill a
dog in half a minute, and one grain will in
stantly destroy human life; think of admins
tering such a medicine as that for fever
and ague and biliousness. 1t is done daily,
however. Bismuth = this corrosive metal
poison is becoming favorite for the treat
ment of disease. 1t deposits itself in the
bones as lead does, and entails permanent
symptoms of poisoning. Quinine-this drug
is much relied on by the profession. But we
deny that it has curative powers. 1t excites
al. ,N-l s....s. II
helps to resist the shock for the time being.
1t helps the patient over a bad spell, but it
will not eradicate poison.
The curse of quinine is, you all know,
that its continued use establishes an abnormal
condition of the liver, kidneys, and stomach,
tending to congestion, irritation, torpidity, en-
gorgement and final positive impairment.
Who that has ever used this drug freely did
not find an increased quantity needed for each
succeeding dayl As consequence, deafness
and want of memory fastened in the system
also feelings of horror and wretchedness, but
little short Of misery personi6ed. Such prac-
tice is discreditable to the medical faculty.
The theory of poison to cure poison is falla-
cious, and can not be borne out in any illus
tration in nature. As well might we say ben
zine is an antidote of fire; {; or another bite OF
the dog will cure hydrophobia-not the hair
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also that green apples are good for the stom-
ach, etc.
Doctors disagree. II we examine further
the recorded opinions of physicians, eminent
in their profession, we will often find one
claiming that the very remedies used by
others as specifics are the causes of the
diseases they are employed to cure. Thus
DR.. Stahl attributes the frequency of consump.
ton to the introduction of Peruvian bark,
while DIR. Morton considers the bark an ef.
fectual cure for the disease. DIR. Reed as
cribes the frequency Of this disease to the use
of mercury, while DIR. Brillonet asserts that ii
is only curable by mercury. DIR. Rush says
consumption is an inAammatory disease, and
should be treated by bleeding, purging, cool.
ing medicine and starvation; while Salvador
says it is a disease of debility, and should be
treated by tonics, stimulating medicines and
a generous diet.
Galen recommends vinegar as the bes,
preventive to consumption. Dissault and
others assert that this disease is often brought
on by a common practice of young people
taking vinegar to prevent obesity. DIR. Bed
does recommends foxglove as a specific in
consumption, while DIR. Pan found foxglovs
more injurious in the practice than beneficial
! In the face of such contradictory statements
: is it not time to think and act for yourselves
: And this, my hearers, brings US to the vita
: question What is it that causes most of the
suffering and disease found at this time in the
human systeml And why is it that most o.
the medicines given for cure give anything
but satisfaction to the patientf As before
stated, most physicians treat every i'll or pair
! specifically, while they are only each part
of the great whole, proceeding from or grow
ing out of fundamental cause; first, the
stomach second, the liver.
REGULATE THESE Two ORGANS,
especiallv the first SO thev ne rform their func