Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-03-20
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN.

Ed. JOURNAL:--There IS DOInlHt
more strange and unaccountaDl'
than the history of cures. Whoever
has lived and observed and remem
bers, knows this is so. We al
know that the regular school tol
practitioners repudiates to-day the
orthodox treatment of fifty years
ago. Ifany one doubts this Just lei
him take any great authority OF
that school, published forty years
ago, or even later, and read the
prescribed modus operandi. 1t is
bleeding and calomel, more or less oil
one or the other for every case. 80
much for that. Who does not
know of the strange and singular
remedies for diseases which often
prove to be success. Forty years
ago every case of the Homeopathic
practice was the theme of endless
ridicule. To-day the school OF
Hahneman ranks as high as any in
public esteem. Forty years ago
every case that died under that
practice was denounced as murder,
and the law was called on to inter-
fere.
Not long ago a young girl was re-
ported as curing infants Of diseases
after the physicians had given uD
the cases. She operated along the
streets and in the houses of the poor
in New York City, and by prayer
alone. So much was said that the
n. Y. Truth, an infidel paper,
sent out reporters and agents to
watch and expose. They went to
laugh and returned to pray. They
solemnly declared that the girl with
out money cured hundreds on hun
dreds of infants. For days they
walked with her. This was a
matter Of nOtoriety. So many peO.
pie were cured by the touching pro-
cess in Virginia by simple old man
that Don Piatt, the famous writer
who hao sneered at it and cited it as
a proof Of human folly, was convert
ed and declared publicly, at is
time to cease laughing and to
seriously inquire how these things
are done" 70 the writer's certain
personal knowledge an old man in
an obscure corner has cured many
cases of cancer after they had been
abandoned by eminent physicians.
He never takes n cent never sees a
patient, merely eXclaims on hearing
the name and one or two tnhing
facts, "lell him he will get we'll
that he will suffer more than ever
for II week or two, but be patient"
These are facts known to hundreds
in each neighbOrhood where the
patients have lived. Finally there
is "A peculiar, very rare case of dis
ease which causes a nervous twitch.
ing ofthe muscles around the eyes.
and the eyes to open and close in
voluntarily, No remedy has ever
been found for it except to wear in
the hat, just above the rim, the
nttles of a rattle snake. Who can
account for this? Just now Chris
tan Science is the bette noir. the
abomination of the regular profes.
sion. They have sworn eternal
vengeance against it aud are moving
IN every state to get laws made
winch indirectly aim to put an end
TO tn" practice. The wise old regu-
lar knows that there is no infallible
practices and that eccentric cures
are often made, In fact he draws
from all llsystems, Cure is his object
lie also knows that this foolish fight
is the very making Of the practice
1t is made against, the best adver.
tisement in the world.
For himself the writer feels that
when ill nothing helps him but
brandy, quinine, opium, blister and
Freely blood letting. But he does
know there are people more ethereal
whom one dose for himself would
Kill Let them he cured by impre
sion, by infnitesimal doses, bv
magnetic currents. One mans
meat is anOther's poison.