The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-08-02

ganiztion. is wildly exemplife6 to us
daily. Go with your complaints, mi
nutely described, to ten Of the best
informed physicians and no two will
be alike in their deductions Of causes,
as well as in the advice of their rene
dies. That is the true insufficient CON
dition Of our wrongfully boastedof
science of medicine in the twentieth
century. Is it any wonder then, when
thinking people begin to loudly call for
halt?' And
lis it not strange that dogs seldom
suffer from disease, and that they are
scarcely ever afflicted with any germ
disease, as chills, typhoid fever
cholera, smallpox, measles, Group
diphtheria, consumption, etc. a? Civil
cation has not killed the instructive
power of self-preservavion of life in the
dog and in case of abnormal action
this innate power exerts itself. When
a dog is sick, he disdains all food until
he gets well in case of wounds or
fractures, he ticks the sores and, by the
application of moisture and warmth,
all wounds heal perfectly. The dog
does not need to employ physician or
surgeon, although he feeds upon filth
and most disease breeding germ carry
ing offal. No aseptic nor antiseptic pre-
cautions are needed to keep up the dog s
health. Now think of the former falla-
ciUus and long-discarded ideas of blood
letting, leeches, cupping-and the late
new fads of antitoxin, vaccination, Sc
rum, therapic The introduction of
one deadly blood poison into the sys-
TEN for the prevention Of the same
blood poison With the same right,
we should have all of our children vac
cinated with sy phillis, to prepare them
to be immune to ever catching the
dread disease or have them inoculated
with tuberculosis sputa from consump-
tives to prevent them from acquiring
this scourge; or have the children s legs
broken by force, to prevent them from
breaking their legs when grown up.
HUMBUGl Wake up, and reason fol
yourself. "
A distinguished physician of Frank
lin, KY, said while on his death bed
Il do not know that have ever cured
anyone I do not know that l evel
helped anyone, and God only knows the
harm | may have done. Conclusions
like these from men high in the medi
cal profession, men who have given thu
best part of their lives to its practice
force us to the conclusion that a sys
TEN so radically wrong as drug medica
5 ton, is one we need to make no com
= promise with.
: On the other hand, OsteOpathy offer
complete system, a system founded
e ON the everlasting truths of Anatom,
4 and Physiology. A system that seek
e the cause Of disease and attempts to re
l move it. A system that reads tn
symptoms as natures language point
= ing out the real cause. In tn
: light Of these facts, where will tn
0 combination come in? We answer
t nowhere. The combined school ha
4 been attempted DR.. Pratt of Chicago
c probably one Of the most distinguishes
g homeopathic physicians and surgeon
u in the United ssates president of
S great homeopathic school, added a,
T osteopathic department to his school
This was a failure, as have been othe
/, attempts along this line. Not that Os
teopaths discredit DR.. Pratt, for he
one of our most substantial friends, h
# having been treated for and cured c
is certain ailments that homeopathy ha
y failed to reach.
= The lines are drawn, the contest