The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14

the huopdtns turn up tuelr hoses, WHO nave
fitted just as well as have they for their
work, on the old school basis, and who have
been just as successful as any in that system
of practice, and who, in addition to all that
the allopaths have, had a good thorough
reading in homeopathy which gives them
deeper insight into medicine than they could
have got in any other way Beyond all
others the true homeopathist understands
his medicines. No physician is as thorough
~ prepared as he may be until he has read
up well in homeopathy. A full man in medi-
cine is one who has all there is in medicine.
one-idea man is generally an allopath.
Men in their conceit have often frowned up
on their betters. They are of poor class
of men however who do it. A good, straight,
square, sound man is above such mean
thing. Bearing is character, and there is
dry of judgment in character as well as in
medicine.
well read physician who comes into
community and gets a good practice that
continues to grow year by year, who gets the
confidence of the people and holds it, who,
the better he is known he more and better
are his friends, is no quack, whatever is his
school Of medicine, nor could forty edicts
from an allopathic council make him one.
70 such a man such edicts are "a harmless
The people know what they are about, who
they want, and they soon find out what il
best for them; and no one man, or set of
men can dictate them. Each physician for
himself must win his patrons and hold them
| by the real merit there is in him, and who
ever can do this has right to what he gets.
His patrons are his patrimony, and the one
who can cure the best, do the best work in
the field, is the best physician. The world
says so, and III this the world is right.
There are virtues in the homeopathic prac-
tice. 1t has lifted the allopaths up a long
way out of the ruts of their heathenish prac-
| tees, and compelled them to come to a more
agreeable mode of cure They ought to be
more grateful for the good it has done them.
And it can do what the old practice cannot
do. 1t saves thousands of cases every year
such as the allopaths lose. II is as good in
any place, with any disease, as is allopathy,
and in very many cases it il far better. In
the treatment of children and persons of
frail constitution, i'll nervous and chronic
diseases especially, the virtues OF homeopathy
appear to the best advantage. Heavy dosing,
long continued, kills, while the lighter form
of medication helping some, saves always.
In that borrowed article these things are
well acknowledged, which is about the only
streak of honesty / find in it.
| That code of ethics makes its adherents
q machine, and an instrument of force to
the full extent of its power. That accounts
for their strange incongruities. Professional
honor must be gratified though men perish
under certain circumstances, there is no
stopping whatever results. 1t also organizes
the allopaths on the low plane of ''strike,"
which just now is everywhere so hideous. It
says to the medical fraternity, "Come to our
terms, our modes and means or be branded
as quacks, pretenders, charlatans, etc" To
the people it says, Respect our code Of
ethics, or go without our services"
A clergyman of any denomination who
will not work with the clergymen of other
denominations or who presents a hostile
bearing toward them, is justly censurable,
and in this age of boosted freedom and in
dividuality he has to take it. The same
thing is true of physicians among intelligent
people. AS among clergymen, so among
physicians. The one who has the most
| learning, who is free and the most cordial to
do what he can TO help every one, will have
the most friends.
The allopaths make great pretention of
science, boasting loudly of their system as
scientific medicine. They put from three or
four to dozen or twenty different kinds to-
gether and boast of it IA such grand pre-
scription, so many kinds of such and such
excellent medicines together! The sports
man puts handful of shot in his gun in
hopes that one at least of those shot will hit
the bird, and when the bird is got the best
that he could do would be to say, one of the
shot hit the bird. Such is allopathic pre-
scribing. This thing is still more beautifully
| illustrated by the incident of a certain one
of those scientific fellows who kept black
! Jug setting down beside his medicine case
into which he put all medicines that he had
lost the label of, or had no other use for, or
| that was returned unused, and when a case
came in that he did not understand, he adj
ministered to it out of the black Jug, and he
said in this way he had just as good success
in these cases that he did not understand, as
he did with any. Now it is not so with a
homeopathist, he studies the symptoms of
the case presented, and he knows his medi-
cines and when he prescribes it is like shoot
ing a bullet right to the point. 1t hits and
he knows what did it and how to do it again.
1T acts like charm" The cure is as if by
magic. Which of the two may best boast of
science.
The real animus of that borrowed article
is seen in what Immediately follows the
words, "When you ask him to take charge
of patient with homeopath, etc" If the
homeopath is honest, it curses him, and if
he is not honest, it curses him. 1t COM
municates the purpose of the allopath to
curse the homeopath anyway, and so ex-
plodes the boosted honor the bigot had to
begin with. That is allopathic piety! That
comparing homeopathy with mormonism
shows the utter depths of depravity into
which poor, simple man may fall.
Tho trua phvaiciaD for ono or two thiDUe
should be kind-hearted, tender in his sympa-
thies, and while he administers the healing
balm, should also do what he can to soothe
the sufferer. Because man is a doctor, is
no reason why he should be any the less
man, any the less human. He who kindly,
patiently and faithfully gives himself to his
work after having become well fitted for it,
will find what he can do, and will be also
well rewarded by the people and will have
the consolation, when his work is over, of
having done something that has been a bene
fit to those with whom he has lived.
A. w. HENDMcK, nj. d.
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