Show HISTORY ORIGIN AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE I 1 follow my previous article on medical botany with the subject of this collected all the known remedies reined leg in use prior to the time of hippocrates who lived about years B C he was called the god of the healing art and established a temple as ae a public resort that the people might learn the remedies for any disease which flesh is heir to he was a generous and noble hearted man and proved to be a public benefactor in his ape age and time about years B C hippocrates otten often styled in history the father of mo medic modiene dione ne became highly eminent for hie bis researches into the healing art he was a man of wonderful research and medical acumen and studied the botany of herbs barks and flowers he had a afar far reaching and penetrating intellect which could not rest satisfied with the realm of thought pursued by his predecessors but which dared to burst the bounding lines that had hemmed in the thoughts of all others prior to his time he was the first to systematize medicine by reducing it to a science to relieve the sufferings Buffe rings of humanity was the ideal of ble bis entire life ille before medicine was thus reduced in modern practice the moderns having lost all system pertaining to it the good john wesley informs us is in his bis writings that the ancients ano lenta would say to their neighbors who were sick use the juice of this thin or that herb and it will cure you fathers in early times gave their sons instructions how bow to cure themselves and they thus lived to a great age looking solely to the vegetable kingdom fot for healing such is the medicine of nature which is in perfect harmony with th the le laws of life and health minor mineral medicines have stain slain their millions I 1 quote some of the opinions of dr cunn and others on oh the subject and I 1 now says dr gunn give you my opinion founded on long observation and rell reflection edtion that it there was not a single surgeon apothecary chemist or druggist on the face of the earth there would be less sickness and lesu elm mortality than now takes place we would depend more upon the simple remedies of nature than the dosing and drugging system which has occasioned casio ned more than any one thing so BO much degeneracy of the human body and of the present resent race thousands thousand dally daily tie die victims to medicine who might have lived to a good old age had they hut trusted to nature and simple remedies 0 O dr who lived near leyden in 1608 1868 became one of the most celebrated physicians phylo ians and anatomists to whom people fl 11 eked from all parts of the civilized world to hear on those these subjects and who became rich through his researches and labors labor bad the author ot of many medical works retired from the profession and wrote a book containing the experience of a ftfe ant sealed it up instructions that it should be opened after his bin death and before opening sold to the highest bidder the price to be given to charitable purposes he aid in this book keep your head cool your feet warm your bowel open and throw physic t the dogs doge 12 mark this was the experience of a hf eted to medicine by this eminent man I 1 might quote extensively fram eminent physicians on the he uncertainty of medicine but will mckeone make one more quotation the late sir john cirbes physician t tj her leen jeen victoria in his famous work on 41 nature and art in the cure of disease calls medicine a conjectural art aal an tia certain u science and in speaking on the present state of medicine says it has arrived at such a condition that it must either mend or end under these cir um stances nees it Is high time that all classes should con sider eider these subjects for themselves after a study and careful practice of medical botany which as can be well attested has assisted many without charge under the method of gathering derbis and barks tin in their season I 1 have proved that mints mint are excellent as correctors cor rectors danielson dan dani lelion elion tor for the kidneys and liver tansy for cure of palpitation of the heart each of these will be the better by ginger children are subject to summer complaint and diathea di arhea arnea tor for which make a medicine of oak bark rasp berry leaves leave and cayenne pepper or ginger gini eer for take rhubarb aloes al jes or senna any one of these with ringer ginger is the mildest let me urge the people to attend to diet and such simple remedies as are named hoove which are strictly in harmany barm harm my ny with nature we shall then be a healthy people as we were tony forty years ago when the few professional fess ional men in utah used to farm for a living and had bad some reason it in their practice a d prices the word of wisdom as foun I 1 in the book of doctrine and covenants embraces a system tem of diet cs ce by man the great and important promises contained therein should induce all al to practice it health la Is one of its great promises promis 49 all u refal herbs it states gud god hath bath orJa ordained Ined fr fir f r the nature use and nd constitution ot of man P arid and there can an be no doubt that this ordination of herbs for man was made prior to bib tall fall which foreknowledge fully anticipate 1 genesis 2 ob cla says that god created every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew evidently alluding to their existence in a previous state THOMAS CHILD professor of medical botany |