The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-29
THE HEROIC TREATMENT.
Some Sensible Views From a New
York Paper.

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The heroic treatment is not always
safely to be followed and cases con-
stantly are brought to the notice of the
medical practitioner which, if he is wise,
he will not submit to such a mode.
Some patients are so constituted with
one part of their, system easily excited
and another unduly torpid, some one
function excessively feeble and another
highly sensitive to sny active medicine,
that there is great danger in dealing
with cases Slightly out OF the ordinary
lun of, and differing somewhat from
the usual normal condition of the hui
man system. And the maxims aud
precepts OF bygone age are no longer
to be followed too implicitly. Blood
letting, that used to be the common and
first resort in so many and such var
ious kinds of disease is now universal
ly condemned. All harsh methods, I'll
violent remedies, all drugs known to Of
intensely powerful effect, must not be
carelessly or generally employed any
more. in these days when the most
soothing and mildest ingredients and
products of the .Mdteria Medica, have
The strongest hold on the skilled physl
clans judgment.
To drop metaphor and come down to
the precise point upon which we have
to speak, we depreciate, as we always
have done, the measures that have of
late been undertaken to put down the
Mormons. The root and branch
SYSTEM" which has been more than
once set agoing with the avowed object
OF uprooting some political heresy or
obnoxious form Of belief, usually fails
III the full accomplishment of the pur-
pose. And if i'll other times and under
other forms of government there was
decided want of success in sucn meas
ures, we may be doubtful of them here
and now.
There may be no occasion, no special
need at this time for our remarks, and
they may be uncalIed for, perhaps.
The secular press would make it appear
that there is much i'll feeling in Salt
Lake City, and the officials of the gov
eminent on the other hand would make
us believe that they know of no cause
for uneasiness, much less for alarm.
And yet there are ugly rumors of the
sending of troops, and also vague state
ments of no uncomfortable number of
a not ill-disciplined Legion" and of
iefile that might with few resoiute
meu, might easily keep back great
iorce. All these stories and discuss
ons do not tend to promote feeling |
Of security and are by no means calcu- |
ated to inspire the mind with any |
very decided conviction that if a strug |
lie comes might and right will be on the |
anne side,
Again too, not having any personal
we are compelled to trust
o those whose experience has been &C
luired on the spot. And this unhesi-
atingly affirms that bad as the Nor
mons may be in creed and practice, the
he Gentiies, that is the Anti Mormons,
ire very generally of the class that,
O state it in the mildest form and in
ersest expression, may be called
'Scalawags." Certainly they are not
here with any idea of upholding 1.-THE
light and the good" from conscientious
While it may be true that any
itizen of the United States must be free
o live unmolested in any territory
within its bounds, it must also be re-
rendered that the territory of Utah
as at all times been the home of the
1ormous. There has been no period in
IS history when a man could go there
D ignorance of its curious notions of
eligon and morals. Whatever may be
be purpose of the Government as to
1ture dealings with the question, and
nd whatever the results OF the present
tempt to enforce the law of the land
gainst polyamy, we cannot have much 7
with those who have chosen
Or residence place where that is
eliglous tenet, insisted upon as direct =
evelation from heaven. ANY !. claim
-hich the Anti-Mormon mBy set up IL
} have his feelings and convictions
onsidered, must always be regarded !.
18th suspicion. What did he go there I
DIP The Church Standard.