Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-11-09
"PAIHlEs" RInlciu Ed

Inc article In your paper OF Nov.
4th beginning thus: more Allopafhic
B.goTy," would have appeared more
consistent II 1t had read. more "Pathy
Bigotry," without any ''AIlo" o.
homo prefixes. The article referred
TO IN the Herald OF October 25th seem
ed TO be a clear conscientious state
ment OF the author as he recognized
tie expressed idea OF his sehoo, aud
constituents. But the article OF Nov.
4th seemed conglomeration OF airy
asser lioEs and disconnected quota.
tIols In the Dog and bone fight" O.
the U. II. A. Home 1 nm not Interested
but am deeply interested in the best,
truest and surest way to relieve sui
fering humanity. Is there not n chance
that all "pathies" may have been
b.indly leading the blind with their
inexhaustible theories and experiment
al practice upon what they term dis
eases OF the body?" Can any OF the
doctors state absolutely that any drug
will at all times, and on all persons.
produce the same results, either In
large, or infinitesimal doses? Is there
an absolute law or principle estab
llshed OF the positive theraputical ac-
ton OF any so-called remedial agent?
Does moi diseases exist and death ensue
Notwithstanding all the so-called
medical science and the art OF apply
ing it? Are not the cemeteries just as
luxuriant In their wealth OF decom-
posing human bodies, and the funeral
directors" more luxuriant In their
bank accounts? Do not all authori-
ties claim that practical medicine has
been from it's conception and is today
only ''presump;ive or conjectural."
science, encum bered with. ''fallacies,
doubts, and difficulties and that its
imperfections are lost sight of only
in the overwhelming Importance OF its
object, |. g., the succor OF the living
and the rescue OF the dying? Have not
men died with every symptom of bleed
Jug to- death when not one drop OF
blood had been taken from them. and
have they not died with every symp-
tom OF arsenical poison when not even
the 1.-TWO millionth dilution' OF 1t had
been given? Has the homeopathic rule
by which ten prominent homeopathic
doctors would all prescribe the same
remedy for the same disease, lower
ed the death rate? Can they tell by
what immutable law aconite Is indi-
Gated In over one thousand symptoms
as a positive cure
Do not all doctors know that pellets
OF bread or sugar OF milk have been
given with the positive assurance oil
a certain effect. and the full theraput-
zeal action was produced as though
ii had been a drug prescriptions. 1t
matters not how learned the doctor
may be, unless he has gained the con-
fidence OF his patient his drugs will
prove a failure. DR.. Oliver Wendell
Homes might just as well let NOR
phine and sulphuric ether "go 10 the
bottom OF the sea- with the rest oil
the ''materia medical for II man
would once lose faith in them the drug
and not the man would be dead. Now
would ii not be more Christ-like TO
step down from the high pinnacle OF
professional codes and quarrels and
honestly admit the uncertainties OF
practical medicine" OF all schools and
''pathies," and turn in and help all
earnest workers In ami ont OF your
profession to solve this great prob
lem OF human life and human destiny.
May there not be higher law, posi-
tive and absolute, when once un' r.
stood, whereby disease can be avert
ed, and death the result only of time
or accident.
HONEST AIJOpATH