The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-29
Hard on the Doctors.

The Minnesota Valley Medical AssociC.
ton, like all other associations. conventions,
and combinations of men ha> ing an eye to
self-protection, have come and gone: but the
echo of that convention rebounded in the
columns of the last Mankato FREE Pass,
Astounding in kindly words 10 the profession,
reminding its members of their knowledge
and wisdom In hygiene, their human and self
sacrificing natures in Ininistering to the sick !;
In evidence of which the Governor of Illinois
WAS made to speak aifii1natively; should
further evidence of allOpathic generosity be
needed DIR. Bliss and Agncw will furnish il.
Newspapers have lent their praises in aug
mentation of these gatherings; men have
opened wide the door Of hospitality and lnosed
their purse strings to foster this the oldest
school Of medicine using poisons for the cure
Of disease; Legislative bodies have favored it
against the encruachments of other and
younger schools; partly on account of the
general Judgement that age IL honor
able, and partly on account of its large pre-
teItions and usurpations'
Age is indeed honorable IL accompanied by
good works; and ccrtainly il could be IL good
work, and perhaps the one most needed at the
hands of council of physicians, to enlighten
the minds of the people us To how poison
cures. How a sO-called medicinal dose of Il
poison can produce health. by what physio-
logical process opium or acconite, arsenic or
antimony, vcratrum or strychninc, calomel
or bistmuth, Or any other poison whatever
can act bcneticialIy on the human constitu
ton, or lie prOmotive of health. II does not
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reader for them to reply that II patient re-
covers after being dosed with poison, for it
does not follow that the so-called remedy
effected the cure; for years ago, thousands
recovered after being Dled almost to death.
and now the physicians say that the bleeding
was injurious, and the recovery was in spite
of the remedy and the disease too.
In view of the many and costly benefits
conferred upon this system of ''contraries''
would not honesty and fair dealing suggest
that they open their store house of learning
enough at least, to meet this modest and hui
man requirement. But instead, Opine, the
legislature at st. Paul will be asked this
winter, Us heretofore, to protect the people,
alias the doctors. against cmpyrcsm, by
competing schools with flood of
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and his two sons.
These Legislative enactments are SD mani
pulated by the old school doctors as to make
umpires as to what shall be legis-
lated upon in the matter of making and
popular sentiment on the subject
of health and disease; always leaving ont of
sight the countless thousands of lives lost
by their distinctive agents, these
failures generally being charged up to the
Lord with deep pathetic eloquence.
Indeed 1t is not unfrequent to hear prayers
made for the sick, as in the case of Garfield,
asking & Ud to restore to health the patient
while he is being dosed with every vile poison
that the perverted intellect of man can devise.
To restore such one to health under such
would be no less Il miracle
than to make another man out of another
lump OF clay; the oracle of God being true,
miracles have long since ceased. You ask
and receive not" says Il diviuely inspired
apostle, and so believe. TO illustrate. plant
Il field Of corn, leaye it to the ravagcs of
beasts, and without cultivation. then ask God
to give you II boun'ifil harvest. Give your
child the pOsons of alI"pathy, Homeopathy or
eclecticism and all the prayers of the Saints
and Sinners in the universe will not keep
your child from the graxe, nor give you II
crop of corn, he their prayers ever SO loud, or
so indefinitely continued.
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