The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-03

| good, as / thought, although I must adj
nit that my education doesn't Qualify me
to say just when / am in good health.
Oaughter) But should like to have the
right to experiment with my own body
to my hearts content. l don't care
or anybody else's. l am not particular
about that.
II noticed that the Bell bill exempts the
grandmother practitioner. Well, that Is
iust as well, for she would practice, any
how. AS matter of fact, we all know
that our population Is really divided In al
lcgiance between two schools of medicine,
the regular physicians and the grand
mothers. Q4aughter.) Now all j ask rs
the same liberty that you give to the
grandmother. The grandmother has been
practicing without license as far as the
memory of any one of us goes back, ana
on the whole, her success has been such
that the medical profession Is willing 10
have her continue in practice.
1.-THE state stands Gibraltar between
me and anybody who insists upon pre-
scribing for my soul what | don't want
20 take, and why shouldn't | have equal
liberty with regard to my body which
is of so much less concern?
wants to Retain Liberty.
''I believe we ought to retain all of our
liberties. We can't afford to throw any
of them away. They didn't come to us
in a night like Jonah's gourd, II Jonah
was the man who had a gourd. Laugh
teri The moment you start to drive any
body out of the state then you have the
same situation which existed in the Gar
den of Eden. / don't know as / heard
you were going to drive them out of the
state. but since / heard that ! haven't
been able to sleep. QAughter)
II suppose IL you do drive them out,
they will go up TO Vermont, which has
been characterized here as the garbage
ground of the profession and which,
since IL became that, has also become
one Of the heaithiest states in the Union,
and / suppose l can go up there without
much trouble. But, anyhow, II worries
me. / can conceive just how il was In
the Garden OF Eden when the Lord told
Adam he must not eat Of the forbidden
fruit, And my own opinion Is that Adam
IS unjustly criticised. / am confident that
Il any of my tribe had been in the Gar
den OF Eden when that injunction was
served they would never have eontented
themselves with just one apple. They
would have eaten the whole crop. Great
Laughter.)
Now, what I contend is that my body
IS my own, at least, / have always 50
regarded It. IL / do 1t harm through my
experimenting Il is l who suffer, not the
state. And If l indulge IN dangerous ex-
periments the state don't die. 1 attend TO
that Naughter) This disposition to ex-
pertinent is an inheritance from my
mother. She was all the time expert
menting. She bought every patent med
icine that came along. Not that she
needed 1t, but just to see what effect 1t
would have. But withal she was cautious.
She didn't try the thing herself first, nor
did she just pick out any one Of the flock
at random. She nearly always chose me.
II can remember well when the cold.
water cure was first talked about. l was
then about nine years old. and ] remem-
her how my mother used TO stand me
up naked in the back yard every morn
ing and throw buckets Of cold water on
me. just to see what effect 1t would have.
Personally. / had no curiosity upon the
subject. QIaughter) And then. when the
dousing was over, she would wrap me up
In a sheet and then wrap blankets
around that and put me into bed l never
realized that the treatment was doing
me any particular good physically. But
II purified me spiritually. For pretty soon
otter / was put into bed I would get up
a Precipitation that was something worth
seeing. Mother generally put a life pre-
server In bed with me. And when finally
che let me out and unwOund the sheet. 1
remember that II was all covered with
yellow color, but that Was only the out
pouring OF my conscience, just spiritual
outpourings. and, fortunately, II removed
an that. 80 that 1 am not troubled with
Il now.
but I am willing 20 say that some
times my mothers experiments had such
an effect upon mo that she was Obliged
20 call IN that minisferlng angel With ihe
pills 70 bring me- around And remem.