Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-31
OUACKERY.
Az argument in Behalf of Suffering Ha-
nanity against Proposed Legislation.

Az Argunent in Behalf of Suffering Hal
nnanfty Agatnst Proposed Legislation.
To the Editor of the Globe.
! see by the Mankato Revieto of the 25th
that the allopathic doctors are again trying to
foist upon the people that bane of human ex-
istence and human happiness, embodied in
their motto, cOntrari0, contrarus, curanter,
in plain English, the making new disease to
take the place of the oldd one, or the one
previously existing. Hence the use OF poisons.
1t is the exact counterpart OF that proscrlptlon
recorded in the book of the Acts of the Apostles,
at the fourth chapter and seventeenth and
eighteenth verses, in the language following:
Nevertheless, that it may not spread any
further among the people, let us charge them,
with the severest threats, to speak no more to
any man in this Dame. And having called
them, they charged them neither to speak nor
teach any more in the name of Jesus. But
Peter and John answering them said, whether
it be right in the sight of God to obey you
rather than God, judge you"
So says every physio- -medicatist OF the past,
and present, even from the days of Samuel
Thompson, of whom it was said by Professor
Waterhouse of the great Harvard, "He had
cured many others could not cure" 1--WE
must obey the voice of humanity rather than
you." If religious party should knock at
the door of our legislative halls and ask to be
protected in such exclusiveness, would not all
the other denominations rise to their feet and
ask for q reason for such tyrannlcal laws III a
free republic like ours? Let not the rulers OF free
Minnesota lend themselves to such arrogance,
as did the rulers in the above case, and pun
sh by fine and Imprisonment for obeying the
voice of God and humanity.
But these paragons of sympathy for suffer
ing mortslfs have Bottle Of tears to be poured
out at the death of any patient not under their
patronage, and gravely ask if they cannot be
protected in an enlightened practice, and SO
guard the good people against quackery; and
who would not wish to be guarded against
quackery in time of peril?
Every school of medicine holds every other
school Of medicine to be quackery, strongly
compounded with presumption. Then "to
the law and the testimony" ms we find it laid
down by the highest law -giVers i'll that school
asking favorsTat the capital. Old DIR. John
Forbs, of England, who was physician to the
royal family for more than half a century,
whose learning and orthodoxy has never been
called into question, speaking from the high
est allopathic standpoint ever attained, says:
"Some so or 80 per cent. of those who employ
medical practitioners would be better off with
out them" And why would they be better
off without the medical practitioners? We
will let the venerable but conscience smitten
doctor tell why He says: "Our estimate of
this kind of treatment (allopathic) must be
purely of ldamnatory character, the slight
amount of good ever derived from it being
counterbalanced by a huge sum of evils. v
Prof. Benjamin Watcrhousc, of great Harvard
university, after teaching in the
chair of Theory and Practice for twenty-one
years. said that he was sick and tired of learned
quackery." Again in letter to Prof. Mitch
ell, he said: 81 take some interest in honest,
humane, and strong minded empyricism
(quackery) for it has done more for our art
than all the colleges and all the universities in
all countries and in all the time since the days
of Charlemagne. "iRemarks of the above tenor
are quite common among the ablest teachers
in the allopathic or so-called Irregular" pro-
fession. While this school has always deemed
it heretical to question even its most unreason-
able assertion; it has ever been employed in
putting aside one set of remedies or measures,
and experimenting with another. Only by
years of sad failures would its practitioners
learn to free themselves from the blind con-
fidence instilled into them during their col
lege reading on theropeuties;and these failures
alas! too often meant untimely graves for un-
conscious patients. Three centuries ago, such
articles as skulls, claws, nevis, frogs, lizards,
bedbugs, and other vermin, were among the
prominent remedies of that profession. These
gave place to blood lettings, antimony, Gallo.
mel, the mercurials, arsenic and similar means.
At the present time, these latter agencies,
which have been the pride of allopathy for one
and two hundred years, are being pushed aside
to make room for opium, aconite, veratrum,
bromine, bismuth woorara, prusic acid, and
strychnine; to which the people of Minnesota
are invited, to take freely, and pay literally,
like good citizens. Will you do it; I venture
not one in ten will consent.
g. NJ. MORRISON.