San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-05-31
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1898
THE DOCTORS saUABBLE
Why All This Disturbance--Reg'
uIar Versus Irregular.

ular Versus Irregular.
The day is when all are regular
by virtue of their credentials, as
physicians. The day was when the
allOpathic was the only school and
assumed the name of regular. Sc
did the coach of four, who would
say that the railroad coach was IT.
regular compared to the way we
once had to travel. Medicine is a
science which has made telling
progress for good. We ought not
to be selfish, and inflated with that
bad spirit called prejudice. We
should all be liberal enough to ac-
cept the good motto: Prove all
thugs, hold fast to that which is
good, in this,the 18th century, for
in union there is strength, and a
graduate in medicine, is like a
surveyor with his compass, he can
go into any mans field, start from
the plat, tell the number of acres
it contains, and the best parts of
the same. Webster says, the term
quack or irregular, cannot be APP
piled to graduates in medicine.
Such expressions or epithets, is
SANDER. Then every educated ply
stefan of the age is reg
ular doctor, and this is
our compass to survey the
fields of medicine, and extract the
proven good, for those we are called
to treat. Prejudice is bad spirit
for an intelligent man to possess,
that is, not to reason, but to pre-
judge, that we have not investi-
gated. When DIR. Jenner discovered
the cOw-pOX virus, as prOphylac-
tic, or a protection against the
spread of smallpox, it was very
much, in principle of cure, like
much that is now condemned. He
was branded as a quack and de-
nOunced by the profession then, as
men are nowadays, but his discOv-
cry proved protection against
this dread destroyer, until today,
statistical reports show that the
death rate among nations not thus
protected was $3.50 people to the
million, while those vaccinated
number only 90 deaths to the mil
lion, and now vaccination has be-
come a fixed law of the land. 1t is
a pity that the good man could not
have lived to have seen the cloud
of prejudice driven away by the
sunlight of science, of PROV
en- good. Hahnemann was
an alOpathic physician, but he
found that medicines given
to alleviate disease, Oftentimes,
aggravated, and he began his theO-
ry by proving the effects of medi-
cine, given to the healthy, and the
effects he called disease. Then he,
like Jenner, began to reason, and
he concluded that if this or that
remedy, produced this or that,
disturbance in health, and he
found the sick with.such abnormal
action, as this, or that remedy,
produced in the healthy, that he
would employ such remedy, in
such diseased he did so with proven
results for good. He was very
much abused, by the mother
school, but his teaching lives on
and will continue. Many physi-
clans say the dose condemns but
while the prescriber can give as
large dose upon this principle of
cure, as any other, yet the aut hOr
taught, if a small dose would cure,
why give large one? Now ipecac,
will in small doses, quiet a sick
stomach, any physician knows
that. Then who will doubt that
a large dose of that drug taken in
health, will produce a sick stOm-
ach. The healthiest would not let
his prejudice lead him to the eX-
pertinent. Hahnemann saw that
mercury given in poisonous doses
produced destruction of Oneb
and muscle tissue. He saw that
Venerial poison did the same, and
recommended the use of this drug
as the remedy,and what physician
can handle Venerial diseases with
out its employment, even in this
advanced age. | refer the reader to
the life of Hahnemann by VIM
Amekes, for | am not writing in
any spirit, but that of justice and
fairness, and | am not a home
Opath, but then they haven't any.
thing in store, that l am not famil.
lar with and employ any proven
parts, wherever | find a practical
use for them. While our schOO'
has made much progress in a con
servative direction, yet it will MOI
cover all requirements, neither will
any other but to unite the proven