The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-09-16
Medical Science and Health.


Editor The Washington Herald.
The gentleman who used so much OF
The Washington HeUald's good ink in in
forming the public that Ur. Osler does use
drugs occasionally (cven IL he says they
are OF no avail iu certain Diseases must
remember that did not intend 10 quote
all DR. Osler ever said, or give the full
treatments he advises in his Principles
and Practice Of Medicine"
I did not stste.- either In that article
about his advising chloroform for all men
past sixty. as / did not think that DIT.
Osler would care To take his own medi-
cine. Where he advises using drugs /
don't agree with him. or anybody else.
I fully agree with him when he saws.
Public health service ia the United
states IS "a disgrace TO the country" The
state is committing terrible crimes
against the health Of its children, making
the child-lahor outragcs pale into insig-
nifcance by comparison!
DR. Osler also said, There IS too much
drugging.' I agree with him there. also.
7 can reduce the fever OF my critic im-
mediately by assuring him that his froth
against che new-thought" cult was all
wasted on me, as l am not of that
genera.
Yes, I do buck up against" medical
science 90. and viii continue 10 do SO
until the regular" practitioners get over
their curing l9' disease by poisoning
away us symptoms, producing other dis
eases. instead Of helping nature cure the
patient
There is no science in medicine. Il IS
one vast hUm1ug, and blinds the public
as % the true causes and real cure OF
disease, keeping them ensnared in that
greatest Of all decisions. the drug delu-
sion The science Of medicine is a
science Of guesses with adulterated
poisons, Take chronic invalid with
some organic disease TO thirty different
regular" doctors, and no two Of them
viii give him a like diagnosis or treat
ment
] am sure OF the fact that medical
science @ has increased disease and
produced thousands OF inCurable invalids,
The general reasons are. doctors study
disease and 'materia medica" too much.
and sensible hygiene and the laws OF ma
ture too little-Or not AZ all.
To DIT. Osler, I prefer DR. Felix Os-
wald, who said that every ounce Of
poison ever taken for remedial purposes
has increased the weight Of human mis-
cry" Also, DR.. r. T. Trail. in The True
Healing Art writes. 4 would reject
drugs Il there were no other remedial
agents in the universe; I would not poison
a person because he was sick
The only way for physicians to keep
the army Of sick people from leaving
them is 10 learn how 70 cure them. and
not vainly resort TO the instrumentalitv
Of law to enforce them to swallow
dope" or furnish subject for the IN
dertaker.
Is it easy 70 discover natures mis-
takes? A multitude of gravestones mark
the many mistakes Of medical science 90.
Call that 'pseud0-science." If you wish
TO.
In regard to your reference TO "stimu-
lants.' antitoxin (poisons). &C. I would
say that strength is never supported, ="
but always exhausted by them, causing
a high mortality in serious diseases. The
whip gives no strength" to the faded
horse, It only causes him to fall sooner
in the harness.
/ wish to refer my worshiper Of poisons
to 1.-THE True Science of Living" by DIT
E. H. Dewey, and for little dissertation
on 'antitOXin' TO DR.. Robert Walters
book entitled, THE Exact Science Of
Health; or, LIES Great Law" He will
find there the kind Of "pseudo-science"
which Is annihilating disease. (Dr. Wal
ter has never lost case OF diphtheria by
his drugless treatment) Now he may
roll these things over in his mind and
find a fit for them, If possible.
HARRY B. BRADFORD