The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-09
.WALLACH---AUDI
ALTERAM PARTEM

Editor Advertiser: I have observes
to give a respectful hearing to botl
sides of any public question. / there
, fore ask you, with confidence, to pub
lish few words in defence of tn.
relative to the much despised and
lampooned Mr.. Wallach.
Shakespeare is never more president
than when he puts in the mouth OF
one of his characters: There are
more things in heaven and earth than
are dreamed Of in your philosophy.
! 1t is as true in the twentieth as it
was in the sixteenth century.
l have not the pleasure of an ac-
quaintance with Mr.. Wallach, nor do
/ l endorse fully his claims as to the
absolute humiliation of leprosy, but
| before turning the weapons of ridicule
and abuse on his devoted head, no
| less than upon the heads of our we'll
meaning legislators, let US for mo-
ment examine into the reasonabI eness
or, if you please, the absurdity of his
claims.
I assume that his original statement
as to the composition of the remedy
is the correct one, and that his sub
sequent denial was due to the pref
udice of the community, aroused chief
ly through the assaults of the medical
profession
In the first place, one of the ingredi-
ents is said to be female rocks l Won
der if the savants of Honolulu are not
aware that the coral reefs at their
doors are composed exclusively of the
remains of insect life, or that zool-
ogists and ichthyologists agree (pos-
sibly with the exception of Professor |
HaeckeD that the individual is not BIZ |
in other words that the sexes |
are apart, and that they possess diff
ferent specific GRANTEES like the males |
and females of many other species. L |
do not for moment suppose that Mr..
would attribute to the igne-
BUS, or metamorphic. rocks a differ
of the sexes. Now with diff
serent specific GRANTEES what more
natural than that the male debris
should be segregated forming those
1ard and close-grained corals, while
he females, according to the same |
principle, the lighter and more porous
ocks? This would be upon exactly
he same principle as the California
miner pans OUT gold or constructs
n the land of the ''farthest Ind'' has
discovered that the medical constitu-
Mt residing in the female coral insect 4
as been preserved during lithifcation
nat 1t possesses wonderful curative
properties, who shall say nay without
esting it's merits u
1t may be very well for the learned Ii
nedicos to poke fun at the use of i
Forms as a. medicine. The use of
nails, angle-Worms. lizards, and toads !
4 medicine has been well-nigh. uni
ersal from the days of Hippocrates
r Galen. Besides, the physicians of |
ne present day do not discard the use
Spanish flies or leeches. Indeed for
enturies, yea, millenia, beyond the | 4
avs of those worthless, the physicians
Ancient Egypt, Chaldea, and Baby
mia utilized these as the leading rem
dies in their materia medical Shall |
re assert that all the wisdom in the
iedical art resides in the modern
,hools? The Chinese, as well as most
rlental races having civilization
eaching far back into the mists of
istant antiquity, may have discover
/ secrets in nature which we par
enus may laugh at, ridicule or abuse,
ut which may be true nevertheless.
nd all these peoples make use as
ledicines of the various organisms we
all worms.
Mr.. Wallach lays no claim to being
scientist of the modern school; he
a simple man of the people. The
Loly Scriptures say: "Out of the :
louths of babes and stockings" praise
lay be evoked
say, therefore, Mr.. Editor let us
OF be over hasty in our condemna-
on of men because at a cursory
lance their theories appear absurd.
is just barely possible our Iegisla-
,rs guided, as they admit, by the
Vox populi,' which, as every old
oman knew was t'vox dei,'' may be
ven wiser than the doctors
Yours for a square deal,