Show i the medical system 31 73 to the editor of the Dem D ember ueral beral al A few months a ngo ago 0 mrs S storey t orey orvy of chicago fell fel fellabick sick laick dr johnon johnson wa was called to cure hedi herbru udd ged her brn tor bra a fortnight and then ne like ilke In millions illions of other poor sufferers sh she e d died dred fed her husband well convinced that thal drugs not rheumatism m killed her has so declared to the public charging however the sad result to the reek reck recklessness of the doctor than to the destructive nature of his remedies having myself locz lo 10 father mother sisters and fou four r dear children children by the same medical science falsely so called cal cai leall and having Z fifteen years ago repudiated the tile same and kept my family of ten members secure from death since and desiring much that others may learn to do so likewise I 1 seek to publish the following propositions 1 As the faculty of chicago have avowed dr johnson is not to blame for following the usual course in his treatment of mrs storey if iff the medicine destroyed her tb tha like medicine ha has s destio destroyed jd thousands similarly afflicted and if persist persisted pd ill in will destroy thousand thousands more 2 it is if possible yet more certain that the usual and well established treatment did not cure her Is it not just as true that it will not nut cure cases like it and yet the faculty of chicago and it is i presumable su Au mahle mable elsewhere indorse it il then cases of rheumatism ake ike mrs storeys Sto reys under allopathic rule are to peris perish gil sli a 3 la Is it not a fair presumption that if the usual treatment in rheumatism fails to cure but end ends in deah deab the kime same w will 1 11 f fain u other diseases the tito faculty no nor r their books nowhere except yacu rheumatic caritis candi cardi tia taa arom from fluent list of af curable diseases if drugs cannot w m they give them cure thib this can can cau they any ily lly more surely cuie cui eother other diss diseases eases 4 hence how bow can orly any sane person in view of such stubborn facts resist the tho testimony of the eminent enteen men we quote below AMERICAN physicians our remedies are unreliable P prof valentine mott brott M D of all sciences medicine ii Is the most und une uncertain ertain prof willard parker bl D we are aie not acquainted wi th til any agent that will cure consumption 15 ws prof alonzo green M D cod liver oil has no curative power in consumption prof horace green ar M D the administering of our powerful remedies is the most fruitful source of deranged digestion prof E E R M D of the essence of disease very little is known prof S li ii 11 gross BL D mercury has made more cripple than all ali wars combined dr mcclintock EUROPEAN physicians NS I 1 c the science of medicine is founded on conj conjecture actu io improved by murder sir sin sir A cooper M P D 3 F B R 6 1 cc I have no faith whatever in 14 ou our r medi medicines elnes eines 11 dr ailey bailey JB london thousands are annually slaughtered te redin in the quiet sick room aldr dr frank every dose of medicine is a blind experiment dr bostwick ic tho the tile medical practice of the present day is neither philo philosophy phy aby nor common ense genso enso prof evans edinburgh so gross is our ignorance of the physiological character of disease that it would be better to do nothing magendie magendie Ma gendle france to all this I 1 simply add addi 5 that diseases are the natural results of violated law mostly by unhealthy foo food dand and in over quantities to dislodge this our bodies act the best they can this action we call disease as ris sneezing cou coughing gh vom tom ting purging etc fight it with a drug too often worse than the original cause and you double the task of bt expelling the foe and greatly enhance the danger of death sick people need all the elements of jbf health even more than the well hence that which will sicken a well person can never make well a sick one one dh dibease disease ease can never cure another as implies hence our attack should be not on the men nien who are erroneously taught to give given drugs but on the faise fahe system which so teaches W P of dr trails school Missouri democrat |