Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-02

ltl'' az ~ lIfitf- ~ fftaA'i IN tt''''
lurnt OF medical science"
With he mention Of each name a
-h,lller passed through the frame of
the listener. and h" involnntarlly
shut hi- mouth and placed his hand
on his stomach.
Yes. resumed the apothrrarv. IN
answer to his own question. the
medical fraternity. or III least home
pathistS. Use all these insects. If
Won want nasty medicines YOU must
20 t. the homeopathic school to find
them. The allopaths are not nearly
81 bad"
Thereupon he removed a home
pathic pharmacopnla from the book.
ease. and opening it began to read.
In the German lharmacopCrla was
found -Munia Esyptiaca. OF Esyp-
tan mummy" quoted at 1 marks
ami 90 pfenhigS per kiloSram. There
wa, the dried ink from the cutie
fish. and "spiritus formiconum,"
which is nothing more nor less than
common ants dried and prepared;
beef gall. musk from the musk deer,
and castor from the beaver.
speaking Of nasty medicines,
interrupted the partner of the e,tab
liemnent. ''how do You like this :"
and as he spoke he thrust a bottle
under the reporters nose. the scent
of which would have stopped the
cathedral clock. it was 50 thick.
Bah" calculated the latter, as he
pushed it aside; what is the stuff
That is pepsin," said the druggist.
The mucous membrane that lines
the inner coating OF Il hogs stomach
is scraped oil. dried and prepared,
and called pcpsin. 1t aids the diges-
ton" he continued, laughing heartily
at his visitor, who still snuiled the
air su,piciously.
Pcp,in. however, is a standard
remedy the country over. and is ac-
cppted rs being of efficacy by all
medical creeds.
But to resume. There is the slime
taken from the tongue of Il newly
born tiily: the liver. heart and faces
of fox; the punSent fluid that is
extracted from Il polecat. Wv hat :
that" why. of course You kill the
polpcat first the contents Of Il small
pox possible: IL piece of the hide and
hair from the Suazoutl. or brazilian
stag. wood ants. snake and snake
POISON: the laccrta agilis. or green
lizard; the poison extracted from ii
toad by electric appliances, and an
thrucitc coal. All these things are
used by homeopathic physicians.
and some of them 10y the other schools.
"Of course" said the druggist
seriously, ''all these insects and ex
tracts lose their identity before the
patient receives them. Do you know
how they are prepared!' he asked.
\ negative answer being returned, he
continued: For instance, an ant is
being worked up and the person pre-
pairing him is working on the decimal
scale Well. he will weigh the ant
and then he will take ten parts of
alcohol to one of ant. place them in
vial. and let it stand until the whole
is thoroughly commingled. In an
other phial Is lime parts of alcohol.
TO secure what is called the first
decimal the operator drops one drop
from the first bottle into the second.
To form the second decimal. he takes
one drop from the second bottle into
a third, and SO on until he oftentimcs
reaches the four hundredth tritura-
/ ton. In other words. secure a box
that would be large enough to contain
the earth and all the bodies that
compose the solar system. and it will
not be large enough to hold the
medicine that a homeopathic doctor
will make from tablespoonful of
ordinary medicine. They give moth
ing. There's one thing about them.
though, and that is, if their medicine
does you no good. it will do you no
harm. The fact of the case is. we
would all be better off if all the drug
stores and doctors were wiped from
the face of the earth.
Il do not believe that mortality
would increase True, physicians do
good in some cases, but they Kill as
often as they cure OF all the med
ical schools 1 think the homGopath-
lists do the least harm.
I'm a European hospital. some
years ago, they took 300 cases of
pneumonia, placed 100 in the care of
allopathists, loo in the hands of the
homGopathists, and 100 they left to
the expectant treatment, that is, gave
them no medicine and expected them
to get well with careful watching. OF
these the last Jared best and the first
disposed of Jared most ILL.,
The medical profession of to day
are just contrawise to the doctors of
thirty years ago. Then the first
thing that was done to sick man
he was bled: The next thing, if he
did not get better. was to repeat the
performance. Now they give a pa
tlent medicine to make more blood.
Thirty years hence, | suppose, they
will be just rs diverse from us as we
are from those of former years. -
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.