The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14
A REPLY TO THE REGULARS.

! Regulars That is an arrogation, an at
tempt TO usurp the premises on a rooster's
authority. The fact is, each graduate from
medical college, by his diploma, is en-
dowed with the royal honor of NJ. d., doctor
of medicine. That is what my diploma
makes me, and that is what / am. No physi-
clan, by his diploma, is made anything more
| The world for Its accommodation has divided
us into sects, and one of the great questions
in medicine yet to be settled, is as to who
are the Regulars. When an allopath
jumps upon the roost and crows Regular -
l say, come down here, sir, and we will fight
that thing out. l am as ambitious to be q
Regular as any one, and l calculate to
| vigorously contest the claim to that title.
The allopaths have again met in solemn
council and re affirmed their old code of
ethics, and with great flourish of trumpets
are heralding it to the world as if it were an
honor TO them. BY special request some
foreign thunder was exploded in the Non
THERNER, and reply solicited.
In that borrowed article, the first thing
notice is their attack upon the clergy. Those
good "men who exhort people TO maint2in
dignity of character and to he earned III the
support of the truth" it seems, do not like
that code OF ethics. That is good point
Like priest, like people" Where the clergy
are to-day, the world will be tomorrow. The
time will come when all will set the seal of
condemnation upon that code of ethics as a
''relic of barbarism" just as they have up IN
some other things, once hobbies of the
| allopaths such as physicking and salivating
and bleeding for everything. There are some
things of the allopaths that have gone under,
and there are other things of theirs that are
going under. The people would not endure
so much from calomel and the lance, and
the allopathS had to stop; and as the people
are resisting that code of ethics, the allopaths
will have to drop that. It's day of doom is
fixed.
After arraigning the clergy so furiously,
that attempt TO liken allopaths unto true
religion, looks very queer. 1t is like getting
awful pious without change of heart.
Baptist or q Methodist, or any man in the
evangelical denominations who would claim
he only was right, would be called religious
bigot, and the man who represents the spirit
of that borrowed article for the same reasons,
| is medical bigot. The three leading schools
of medicine, the allopathic, homeopathic and
eclectic, each have colleges and each believe
in a thorough fitting for the profession, and
that practitioners of each of these schools
may be, and are, trusted, just as the worthy
clergy of each of the evangelical denomna.
tons are trusted. An NJ. ID. has the right
of choice in the schools of medicine, Just as
Clergyman has right of choice in denomi-
nations. Each christian believer has right
| of choice in church membership, and who is
he who shall say that a sick man shall not
have the privilege Of choosing his physician?
We love to see the clergymen of all the vari-
Gus christian denominations friendly, social,
and at peace among themselves. 1t is Just
as important that the same relations exist
among physicians.
The next thing to be noticed is that ten
dency of the allopaths to call all who do not
agree with them, quscks, charlatans, impost-
ers, etc. II is in the article, and it is in their
every day practice. While they are practic-
ing physic they are also practcing that in
iquity, and that is the prime cause of disoord
among physicians. know a. well a. they
do that there are persons practicing medi-
cine, as well as everything else, who are not
as we'll prepared for their work AZ they ough1
| to be. But also know and so do they and
SO do tie world, that there are some of the
dullest old blockheads in the business, in the
rank, wild ranks of the allopaths; and nine
| times out of ten in case of travelling mounte-
banks and circuit-gullers they are alopaths.
Persons living in glass houses, should not
throw stones. There are good, strong men
in the profession among the allopaths, and
there are men just as good and Just az strong
in the practice of their profession who are
proud that they are not classed in that di-
rection. There are men at whom some of