Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-05
History, Origin aud Practice Of
Medicine.

Correspondence Of ne NEWS.
I follow my previous article on
medical botany with tue subject OF
this hsadin .A,ws ulaplus collected all
the known remedies tn use, prior 20
the time Of Hipuocrates, who llyeh
about $50 years -. G.. lie was called
the "God Of the healing art" aud
established a temple ~ a public resort
that the people might learn the
remedies FOR any disease which flesh
IA heir to. He was generous aud
noblc-hoartrd man aud proved 10 be a
public benefactor In his age aud time.
About 400 years -. G. Hippocratc',
often styled Ia history the father u
medic ne, became highly eminent Tor
his researches into the healing
art. He was man Of wonderful re-.
search and medical acumon and studied
the botany OF herbs, barks anu flower.
lie had o ftf-roaching ani penetrating
intellect which could not rest satisfied
with the realm Of thought pursued by
bis predecessors, bus which dared 10
burst the bounding lines that had
| hemned Ia the thoughts Of all others
/ prior & his time. lie was the first 90
| systemutizn medicine by reducing Il o.
n suirnce. 10 rtiiove the ruticfinge nf
] humanity WAS the ideal Of bis uniifU
/ life. Before medicine was thus reduced
| Ia modern practice, the mDderns huv.
| lug lost all system pertaining 10 ~, the
/ good John Wesley Informs Us in bis
/ writings that the nucientl would say
10 their nuighh1rs VINO were sick,
"use the Juice Of this ur that herb Ruu
it will cure your Fathers. Ia early
times, gave thcir sons Instructions
how 10 cure themselves, aud
they thus lived 10 q great age, looking
solely TO thu vegetable Kingdom Tor
healing.
Such IL the medicine Of nature.
which ~ In perfect harmony with the
laws Of life ami health. Mineral
medicines have slain their millions.
quote some OF the opinions Of DR..
Gum and others on the subject; al
| now" says DR.. Gum, "giye YOU my
opinion founded on long observation
ana reflection. that II there was not a
single physician, surgeon, apothecary,
chemist or druggist on the face of the
earth there would be Ices sickness, mud
less mortality than now takes place.
W. would depend more upon the slim
pie remedies VI nature than the dosing
anu dragging system which has oc.
casioned, more than any ono thing, 20
much dsgcneracy OF the human body
and Of tho present race
Thousands daily die victims to
medicine who might have lived TO
good old age, had they hut trusted 10
nature pud simple remedies" DR..
BOerhasvc, (who lived near Leydeu
In 1868, became Oue OF the most ccle-
bratod phyui'lnua ami anatomists to
whom people iluckod from All parts OF
tho ciEili1ed word 10 near on these
subjects, and who became rich through
his researches aud LAHORE, and the
author OF many medical works. re-
tired from the profession ami wrote u
book containing the experience OF n
life an 1 sealed it up, with instructions
that II should hn opened after his
death and before opening sold TO the
highest bidder, thu price TO be- given
TO charitable purposes. lie said
In this books keep your head
cool, your feet warm, your bowel.
] NIfh AAA AAlNW lhghIN 70 hun hukHs'
Mark, this was the experience Of a
life devoted TO medicine by this emin.
ont man.
might quote extensively from
eminent physicians on the un.
certainty Of medicine, but will
make one more quotation. The late
Sir Jonn Forbes, physician 20 her
majesty, Queen Victoria, In his famou,
work on "NstuTe and art In the cure o
disease" calls medicine u "coujeotur
al art" AMI an uncertain science anu
In speaking ON the present state o
medicine says; sit has arrived at
such condition that Il must either
mend or end"
Uuder these circumstances II 4
high time that all Glasses should con
slider these subjects Tor thomselves
After a study anu careful practice o
medical botany which, US can be wei
attested, has assIsted many, withou
charge, under the method Of gathefln,
herbs aud bRrks Ia their season, hav,
proved that mluts utr excellent "A
stonnchlc c0rrrc Or, danlclion 10