Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-03-19
A ROWLAND FOR An OLIrER.

Reply to DR.. Grahams article il
the Plaindealer of March 5tb. inst. b,
S. S. Marsters.
Ed lToR REyIEw-In the Plaindta
er of March 5th appears an articl
from DR.. Graham designed AS Al
| answer to an article, which appeare,
in the REVIEW of Feb. 5th headed "a
new theory. Allopathy Tvs Prohibi
tion." After careful examination O
the doctors article, | find that he ha
cautiously avoided any allusion te
any, and every argument and PROPOSE
ton, set forth in the article which b
essayed to answer. From first to- las
he does not offer single argument
neither does he attempt even a denia
OF any its propositions in any parti,u
lar except one, and that one is. thai
"allopathic practitioners use alchoholic
stimulants and narcotics" in the treat.
ment OF disease. By denying the fact
he stultifies himself in contradictinr
all and every medical author of his
own school: He antagonizes the facts
and observations of all observing per-
sons in our country and he denies the
fact, which his ten dollars worth Of
opium and his own prescription amply
prove. His great aim, seems to be to
abuse and insult the author of the ar
ticle, and the Editor of the REVIEW.
for publishing it; also to glorify and
exalt allopathy and allopathic practi-
TONERS. The article states that the
allopathic system of medicine is based
upon the ''dogma" that one disease is
to be cured by making another disease
IN It's place; that upon this proposition
of "regularism" rests the entire use of
polsons es medicines, and allopathy
was accused of being the cause of their
introduction into medical practice; that
these poisons produce intemperance
vice and crime, wreck the physical
system, weaken, degrade and permanent
~ lnIure the mental and moral faculties.
that they were filling our land with
disease, suffering and woe; our prisons
with convlcts, our insane asylums with
and the grave with suicides
All these facts, DR.. Graham does not
ieny, neither does he intimate that
the arguments based upon then, are
false Hence SO far as the author of
hat article il. concerned, he has nothing
20 answer, for DIR. Graham has not
ouched an argument or proposition
'et forth and they therefore stand un-
haken and unquestioned. It is very
Important for truth and humanity's
AXE THAT DrGraham so cunninolv
volded every fact and principle con-
AIMED In the article which he pretended
o answer. Full well he knew that he
ould not attack them with reason. or
leet them with argument and if he de-
led them the proof would be
orth coming, and the wortblessness
that time honored system, christened
'edlcal science, would be exposed to
ne public gazein all its native ugliness.
he propositions themselves are vital
uestlons. They effect humanity in )
very department of existence, of soul
nd body, physically, mentally and
lorallY. They involve the most
acred and the most vital interests of G
ne human family; to ignore them if 4
rue, land [ will thank him who can. to
Isprove them, is to rebel against the
Valaws of Jehh and to rush into the
ws OF death. Th 20 journalist who
ouid refuse his columns to a fair and
npartIal discussion of such a momen- r
'us question would show by that re.
lsal, that he was no friend of humani.
and that hecarei nothing for the hay
;, desolation and ruin, which might 2
} brought upon human beings by a Z
'isonous medication. Bro. Bell has
chiy merited the esteem of every y
lend OF humanity, for the noble stand VI
ID moral courage which he has dis Z,
aged amid the allopathic influences %
bElch were brought to bear, to deter q .
m from opening his columns, to a - :.
scussion of these great problems of u
manlife. Allopathic physicians may :, !,
rse and rant, but God and the peo- u
will bless Bro. Bell. Dr. Graham1 s' "
gins bis TRADE of abuse, by accusing
opponent as being Ignorant of or oe ~
English composition and :
'dlcal science" In relation to or W
and English composition, ~
would have been greatly to his credit
ne had remembered the old adage; =,
hose who live in glass houses should $,
throw stones" for his article is a e.
comment upon both photography u
l English composition. In regard -
medical science, DIR. Graham is not
roper judge, for he belongs to 81
SIS OF physicians, who are STEPPED in =.
Judice and hatred, founded ON ieal- =,
'ly, OF all outside of their own ranks. -
o swear their students upon the re- !.
pit of their diplomas, to neither -
lntenance or affiliate with any irrep- e. e.,
a<nk,