Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-03-19
lotions and falso-hoods, !" ''quaoks" and

Ignoramuses. Such men are no MOI,
competent, to judge of medical scienc,
than the king Of Dahomy is competent
/, TO Judge OF Republican institutions
However learned in other things. If
The doctrines which underlie the stud,
OF disease and the employment Of
remedies, allopathic practitioners have
nothing to support them but absurd
: ties and baseless sophisms; and DIR.
Graham knows il and knowing it, he
as well as every other allopathist dares
not discuss the principles of their prac.
tlce before an enlightened public. for
they know full well that It would
prove the death knell to their system
OF medicine. They know it lives only
by fraud and violence upon the popu.
lar mind. If its own authors are to be
believed it is in direct conflict with the
laws of God, and its very aim is one Of
destruction. 1t is system of "horrid
unwarrantable murdcrous quakery"
which has destroyed more lives than
the three great scourges of the human
race, "war pestilence and famine com
oined;" that it has multiplied diseases
and increased their mortality, and
that eighty or ninety per cent Of those
who employ allopathic practitioners
would be better off WITHOUT them. the
silght good ever derived being counter
balanced by huge sum of evil; and
that 1T is not science, but shapeless
assemblage OF inaccurate ideas, puorile
spcculations, and deceptive remedies,
With allopathic literature aboundina
is such astounding admissions as the
above; amid the ghosts of slaughtered
millions and surrounded with physical
wrecks and mental imbeciles.-tbe
ruined in soul, mind and body; DIR,
Graham calls it degrading to the coli
umns OF the REVIEW to permit any
reference to the evil workings of this
gigantic fraud, which is relic of bar.
barism descended from the dark apes.
but now clothed in the ha biliments Of
science, and under the protest of heal.
ing the sick is sowing broadcast in so-
clety disease, suffering and woe. No
wonder DIR. Graham declares it de.
grading to give such practice turn
upon the threshing floor of common
sense and winnowing before the winds
OF logical investigation; for ssno culprit
ere felt the halter draw, with good
opinion of the law"
Of late years the words quack and
1uackery have been quite familiar to
the public. They are used with great
freedom by certain class-who seem
% think that these terms possess such
overwhelming argumentative force.
hat to apply them makes unnecessary
my further efforts of reason. The
most common employment of them is
'y the allopathic or self-styled regular
practitioners who make use Of these
phrases as supposed reproach to all
heir opponents as sort of annihilator
lpon all parties whose opinions these
Gentlemen do not happen to fancy.
30 well do the people understand this
esort to personalities that all honest
'e opie lnstinctively leave its use tn
ow politicians and common black
yards. If Dr. Graham wishes to ex.
lblt himself to the world as having
o better arguments and no greater
andre than that of calling names
heerfully allow him a monopoly of
nat practice. He says it is a slander
Or an outsider ia quack if you please)
, say that such is their mode of prac-
ce.
.! shades of the dark ages! A
SANDER" for one outside of the allo.
athic ranks to say what they paactice.
Islander" to show the nature and
'ndency of poisons when taken into
le human body. A Islander" to let
10 people know the principles and
'actice of class of men. who claim
medical knowledge and the exclu-
We light of the submission Of all men
their dictation. A ISLANDER" to
spute the Divine right of AlIopathy
seal the lips, still the tongue. and
ose the public press against any in
stlgation of medical science. A
lander" to. expose the hollow pre-
ntions and erroneous doctrines of
egularism, whose regularity has al
'ys consisted in opposing every i'm.
rtant discovery made in medicine.
d In prosecuting the discoyerer with
bitterness and malevolence, which
'ped at nothing short Of his destruc-
m, root and branch. Such was tbe
e OF Ambros Pare the illustrious
aryeY-the amiable Jenner-the he.
C Thompson and scores Of lesser
te, who have felt the poisoned sting
allopathic bigotry, for daring to i'm
've on their Irregular" modes of
mixing, and to-day there are but few
'ths in medicine but that allopathy
5 fought with bitterness and its
'mulgator. The cry, aquack,"
ander" etc. with which DIR. Graham