The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-06
Vote for Lsmpssas.
Rheumatism and Aedhugs.

DALLAS, Sept. 5, 1881.
To the Editor of the Herald
have been amused at some of the COM
ments occasioned by my former communica-
ton in your columns headed "Calomel, Quir
nine and Mosquitoes" among my profession
81 brethren. 1t is a strange fact that physi.
clans are morbidly jealous Of each other, ard
so prone to do each other injustice, that no
msNer what theory one of the fac ulty may
advance, wha! truth he may eliminate fom
the grand alembic OF nature and enunci-
ate, his brethren will scott at
it until time proves II correct and the col
leges accept il, and tnen the author becomea
a demi-god in the realm Of medicine. Jen-
ner, WHO gave vaccine matter with all the
good it has wrought, and is still achieving to
the world, and Harvey, who discovered the
circulation of the blood, we're hooted at Ms
empyrics and mountebsnks by the medical
profession, not only of their own ci Giles, of
their own country, but OF the world, until
denomination established the grandeur and
the worth of their discoveries and
now no names in all tho
vslhslla Of medical Science stand higher
are more glorifed. 1t has been but few
years ago that if you had said to the most
learned and skillful of physicians aud sur.
geons that the cavity of the body could be
open and II portion of the bowles be cut off
and taken away entirely, and the bowel sew
ell back TO the stomsch and the patient live,
and have made him believe you wers los IN
idiot or inssue, yet it has been done lat.arly
for cancer Of tho stomach. The coun-
sc,orized in ridicule ard derision
who wrote to the physicians attendant upon
the president when ne Was first wounded. 10
cut him opsn and take up wbsleyer arteries
might be cut, or thereby ascertain exactly
how be waO hurt, may have told them OK.
actly what they ought TO have done. The
danger Of peretoneum, that ia inflammation
from exposure OF the cavity of the body 20
air, has been greatly, il Lot entirely overcome
by means of the carbolic acid spray, as every
well Informed physician or surgeon will tell
you, and why may not this sos
called "cpuntry d. {" have
been right in his e. ;esaJny But, Mr.. I'D.
itor, 1t is not my "a pose n this letter 10 in
dite discussion IN luis line. | simply de.
sire TO give few more thoughts of my own,
thoughts evolved of my observation and eI
perienca in the course of my practice and
crystali2ed TO conviction by my researches
and experiments. Corrosive sublmate, Mr..
Editor, which is ono of the preparations of
mercury, lie, rs every bndy, even tho most un-
learned people, knows, desdly poison.
Calomel is another preparation from mer-
curry as . base, and IL 10 prominent In the mate
rio medcs, and used more or less by oil ply
sicians in their practice, though happily not
10 tho oxten. 1t was In the Ssngrato days OF
medicine. Some physicians know it to be
true, but hundreds Of them would deny IL IL
S'ed, that calomel will decompo.e In The
human systsm and produce corrosive suhli.
mate. lfthere 10 AIRY physician or Other
person u my readers who doub's this, let
him, The has tho practical chemical knowl-
edge treat calomel with water at the tenn.
perature Of the human body ard he will dis
cover that II will slowly decompo1c, yielding
corrosive sublima,o In the pr,cc.s.
In my lat paper asserted that
mutqmIoes contained large qusu,tv of
animal Quinit, and therefore, sten they bit n
person they inj"c.cd into his systcm Nh anti
dole 10 IN ,lnria snd febrle csu-es generally.
| bad then experimental with thu musQwio
and kuOw whereof | spJkc, Md since you
kindly published my Communication | havo
captured quite number of those insecis NJ d
rnacrrs,hg theui in u mortar With alcohol
baNe BY chemical experiment, sclusly pro
cipila!ed tho sulpba,c OF quiais, or qu,uine
Of the drug stores, 70 ihe amount vt seventy
per cent, o. the mass In lhis southern lsnl
Of ours kept where ihc salt hr ,z.s imms-
dNItly ssNng tbs cStL ore freshost e. Ia the
br,ny ~svr Ia every household, u the
woods USsy from tho hshtNi ne,
arc myriad. Of ohinehes or bid busp
mr. Bushnell has SHOWN In his ~ ri
Use, Of Dark rbirgs" IN { III uh,a,c.l
ttitgs exist tvi mora ends," u d siAts, IN q
began h. dem 1ns,raliou bas b. g,nrr ~
thn; III p1,,cs thugs eiiN - pty,,cs
nd. a,l y 4 -. ,ps W n a ~ ~,
omn, pote ce, Ills innici nc.s d vi. rsrr,
never m,de sn,ihmg With 'ut purpos..
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