The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-02-25
THE ORIGIN Of THE ssRstR's POST.
How the BARRIERS We're Robbed Of Great
and lucratiye Part Of their Employ.
meat By SO-Called Scieptiflc Doctors.
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into confusion and perpIexity by the
many incongruities and changes Of
the so-called science OF therapeutics.
In this brief comparison we confine
ourselves to the treatment of disease
alone, which is the only source Of d y
cord and bone Of contention among
physicians. And this we think is due
entirely to primary education and a
want Of ability on the part of come
and courage of others to Investigate
for themselves, fearing the finger Of
scorn and levity would isolate them
from their former associations and
whose societies are walled in by such
organic rules and regulations as TO
excommunicate any member who
seeks outside information in sitting
out the truth for himself. This is the
inevitable fate penalty given and
rev ard offered to those,
"Who are Thought knaye. fool, or
A bigot, plotting crime,
Who, for the advancement of his race,
Is wiser than his time.
Let US begin witt, the BARRIERS post,
striped with red, and significant to
to the youth OF q candy shop, had its
origin, rs !. few know, and a few years
since, from the old and honored prac
ulce of blood Ietting-cupping. veni-
section, and leeching, when it was so
common and thought so beneficial
and rational that the BARRIERS carried
on this process in connection with
hair cutting aud shaving.
After this barbarous !" work gave
place TO the more baneful and nefar-
ious procedure Of salvation, synchro-
nous with the introduction of mer-
curry, the destruction Of many valua-
BILE lives and ruination of thousands
of constitutions, Mr.. Barber found
himself robbed, as it were, of great
aud lucrative part of his employment
by the scientific doctors, but retain
ed the old sign as relic of his past
ssnguinary experience and . modern
signal of
TONsoRIAL ART.
Right here is the time and place
to notice little appelation that is SO
odious and distasteful to any one
making pretensions ,o.a knowledge
of medicine, and SO strikingly Illus
trative of the old saying OF one don
key calling another long cars We
mean Quack." Who are the quacks9
How did the word come into use and
where does it rightly belong !?
About the time of the introduction
of mercury by the old scheos they
were called "quicksilvcr" doctors,
in distinction Of others, and pronounc-
ed in the more broad sound Of the
Germans as 'quacksilver," and finally
for short. in speaking Of this class of
physicians, they dropped the silver
and called shenp
QUACK DOCTORS.
Now we see where it aptly belongs.
Yet who are more prone 20 cry
"quack against any physician who
will not be whipped into their line Of
educated belief, housed in as we
have seen by organized societies and
sttem pted Legislation, than the old
school doctors. Pardon this slight
depression while we take up the next
step of their science, called in coca-
mon parlance, the ''navel dividers,"
composed Of calomel and tartar =
metic, acting as puke and purge At
the same time. informing their pa
tient after the lapse of few hours
they might think of dying, although
they would feel much better after the
medicine operated. Who would not
after being drawn up into a knot.
The combination was found to be
too rash to be long lived and of prac-
tical use, and was superseded by q
kind of retrograde metamorphosis,
bleeding, puking, purging, SALIVA
ton, etc.; until to-day We find it sim
mered down to pnrging, quineism,
and paliation routineisn. A regu.
lar routine plan of treatment. This
is probably the way the old school
took the term
REGULAR.
The process of purging, depletion,
narcotism, ETC., undoing
to-day what you did yesterday, and
thus making the rounds, pursuing a
very crooked and changeable course,
without compass or helm. was found
too hazardous BY careful thinkers to
land the ship safely in the harbor; ex-
cept it be the eternal port.
They therefore sought and found
the Newton's APPLE" that gave
birth to . natural, 8 scientific, an un-
changeable law; Gods law, and the
only law for the selection of drugs