The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-15
Some Opposition to DR..

Some Opposition to DR.. Norton.
Editor of The Tribune
Sir: As much as it is to be regretted, I am
obliged to take issue with DR.. Norton, who nd.
vocated recently in this city the tcnes Of Chris
tian Science medicine as the best remedy against
all corners.
1he subject matter OF medicine includes q
wide range of scientific knowledge and practical
skill. The doctor hates drugs US gobbler does
red rag, but he forgcts that the compound ac.
tion of drugs and herbs are the subjects of phar.
macology and tcxcology. The circumstances un.
der which the numerous articles OF matera med.
ica become remedial subject to therapeutics has
about as much to do with applied religion as the
scraping of elder bark up or down wien taken
as concoction produces vomit u purge as
the case might require. So much for the first
proposition.
Now structure is correlated to function, whether
active or dormant, and both Indispensable to
life and religion. There is no mistake about
that! And in the ultimate analysis as applied
to the ''Us'' Of the Genesis means nothing
without a prepondcrous logical correlation Of
"1lell Scraper," the great panacea OF the steam
doctors of sixty years ago.
This settles another point.
As to the "lninitc Father, Mother shining with
borrowed Light: This theory OF disease seems to
rest upon physiological disturbance Of the proto-
PIisiiilc pIaln CellS WltH more OF less leChnlCal
aduncts. engrossing difficult element of pcr.ur-
baton, deticxion or shortconling aided by virtue
of deviation from wei! balanced mind. But it
ignores entirely the .]ohnsonian system OF medi-
cine where "nlm.Cat' and ''Scrape- -Auger' were
the one.timc sovereign remedies. The pleasant
diseases of long ago such as gout, bellyaahe,
''fevcrnager,' rickets and rheumatic that were
cured by lobelia and No. G, and which were
specific for lnfa,a Corpulatl but are not equal
to the consenital deficiencies produced by the
more modern moonshiDf OF the Christian Sci.
entists called in legal parlance, lunacy.
Again, Doctor Norton says his tencts are rot
Of the shadow OF turning OF 'the orcedal solility
and worm of the DUST notions. This is the
hardest proposition OF all. 1t is almost unan.
swerable because Of its simplicity. Still h, is
at fault in his dfferential and categorical dis
course, as. John NJ Harris would say about DR..
McCosh. He assumes that he has exhausted the
catalogue of physiological diseases and that the
NJ D.s are left without any diseases to treat.
Strange how forgetful great men frequently ere!
The doctor evidently forgot hypo. lukewarmnc;s,
backsliding, shingles, itch and pmples that no
religion can cure. but requires all the world OF
matcria mcdica touched with protopllsm AMI
steamed may.applc roots or boneset cut standing
on your head.
These little disturbances have become as house.
hold gods, dear to the human heart; nmscd in
childhood: remembered and counted over in old
age around the tircsidc.
And it remains to be seer in what way ;nd
to what extent Christianity during its scientific
perambulatiois shall deprive the doctors and the
medicine man of these adjuncts lucrative alike
to what extent Christianity during its scientific
all the quacks who come to town.
Scranton, May II. &C. II. Sopor.