The herald., 1896-02-09

uiooo VI uidRuOSluR bbemS very iupci-
feet IL comparison. I consider his regl-
men of hygiene and diet alone sutfi-
cient to keep people out of any doctors
hands IL followed from childhood. Bat
since we civilized and enlightened
Americans will over-eat, drink, smoke,
think and live at such a tearing-down
rate generally as to be continually in
need of doctor, 1 wish we might all
have its really rational treatment that
comes from a heathen land, but being
nearest nature is nearest right.
L. W. YOUNG,
244 South Broadway.
The following extracts are from a
letter recently received from physi-
clan in the east, who has been making
for some months study of the prin-
ciples underlying the Chinese system
of medicine. Living at distance, he
is unable to make personal compari-
sons and observations of cases under
treatment. But his unusual breadth OF
reasoning power and his fair and can
did spirit, which is willing to weigh
and consider, instead of blindly and
contemptuously rejecting whatever is
novel and alien, has enabled him to ar
rive at more correct and reasonable
conclusions than thousands who have
had hundred fold greater opportuni-
ties. His mind is of the judicial type,
and he derives a keen mental pleasure
from arriving at the truth. DR.. Stetson
of Providence, r. 1, the gentleman re-
ferred to, writes: "The noble idsas
buried long from the view of other ma
tions in the brains and books of the
wonderful Chinese nation. Wonder
full! Yes, I say wonderful that it has
continued so long. And it would be
still greater wonder if it had existed
30 long without any worthy knowledge
with its millions of people, has lived
and increased without any knowledge
of medicine worth permitting to be
continued on the American continent,
then it would be better to stop licens.
ing, and to pass law prohibiting all
physicians from practicing, since it
would show that nation can we'll get
along without physicians"
This letter is too long for us to quote
in full, but besides the above extract
we shall quote the following brief and
pointed remarks:
Even our American Indians had
many good ideas concerning disease,
and found valuable remedies in our
American herbs. Modern schools
have put some of these in a new style,
and call them their own. They are using
some medicines now, first made by H.
dians, and should those true, rightful
owners Of the prescriptions come into
the states that have passed bills regu-
lating the practice of medicine, they
could not use their own prescriptions.
I am not arguing now in favor of ig-
norsnce, but in favor of the right of
every person on American soil to use
his knowledge, however and wherever
he may have obtained it.
If law is on the statute books hold
ing person responsible for mal-prac-
tioe, that is sufficient to protect the
public. II a man pretends to do what
he does not do, and cannot do, he is
quack, and can be dealt with as such.
Medicine as a science is in its infancy,
and medical men are relying on men
outside of the practice to invent and
prepare medicines for them and to tell
them Of their action on the human
system"
We commend the above definition of
a ''quack" to the attention Of the edi-
tors of the Record. There is common
sense, rarest of mental qualities, in
that definition.
We conclude this series with the fol-
lowing letter from Professor Leslie R.
Mutch, the eminent human scientist,
who is too we'll known throughout
Southern California to require an eX-
tended introduction from us. Profess
sor Mutch has been making study
of this subject for several months. He
says:
"The manifest bitter unfsirness and
blind persecution recently exhibited by
certain papers and officials in South
ern California against a talented and
worthy gentleman in the person of DR..
T. Foo Yuen calls for remonstrance on
the part Of those who believe that JUS
tice should be given to the worthy in
any meritorious work.
"a close personal acquaintance with
this oriental gentleman gives me
cause to speak in emphatic terms of
his integrity and skill.
"Careful investigation into numer-
GUS cases where his treatment has
wrought marvellous cures, when
numerous regulars" Of American
education have failed, compels me to
give an approving verdict, and a wish
for unlimited opportunity in his work
of alleviating the ills Of the host of un-
fortunates who are verify without hope
if compelled to depend for recovery
upon the senseless and irrational
system of drug medication now in
vogue among the physicians Of modern
schools. The people of our land can
not afford to bs robbed by race preju.
dice Of the remarkable skill Of this
"master from the east" raise my
voice in protest against snch dog in
the manger' maliciousness. Humanity
Ill L. I'll yat1