Show HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF MEDICINE 1 in my last I 1 touched on the history ol of medicine and shall continue the subject both from sacred and profane sources in the first century or when christ was 12 years old there were physicians living among whom jesus moved woo who were astonished at his wisdom and who were likely very un like a learned professor ot of the united states who stated that jesus was agnor ant and knew far less than the pro of the nineteenth century in the ath chapter of mark verses 25 26 we read of a woman who was sick nick 12 suffered much through the treatment of physicians who had bad got from her all her living this Is not the 0 ly instance in which doctors have taken away the very sus us necessary to sustain the bodies of their patients we read that those physicians continued to render the woman woree and worse by their malpractice that there was a class of physicians who were bene roial to mankind in jenuss day does not admit of doubty we read of luke the he beloved physician as all one of that class in section 31 doctrine and covenants thomas B marsh was appointed physician to the church I 1 quote behold I 1 say unto you that you shall be a physician unto the church but not unto the world for they will not receive you s from the expression in the new testament which reads that the pharisees Pharis ees paid tithes of mint and rue and all manner of herbs we would infer that they must have known something of medical botany about the time of Chril chrimes itys birth there were sume borne noted physicians tin in the world one named colons celsus was styled by the romans my socrates po crates after h him I 1 m came cam e galen gale n iwho who accomplished great ahinga in mod med loins loine and wrote some treatises thereon after him came a falling off from the church of god and the world of medicine felt fell its ita effects leoto ef as the apostolic church had done much for the growth of medical science throughout the world pettigrew say gayb s in his work on OD medical superstitions of the time ol of henry vill VIII that the practice ol of medic ve ce was wag confined exclusively to the catholic church from the ath to the century the priests and monks may te lie said to have held undivided away sway as physicians throughout europe they took possel slun ot of every portion of the human frame external and intern alana they were det determined erminea to refuse refuge even the smallest emal leat part to any others othera care As long ionic as mens mena eyes were blinded to their imposture they could without danger of detection coullias confine the whole practice i f medicine to themselves and prior to the d tion of our monasteries during the reigo reign of henry vill VIII we hatt had no medical fedt corporations the reason reasons of this was wae lecause medicine like ulvin ity was the control of the catholic church harrison Harr laon in his big history of london tells us ue that a company ot of barbers was waa incorporated and that an act WM was passed in 1512 to prevent any but barbers practicing the art of nf surgery within the city of london and seven miles round the company was called babber surgeons P 1 six years yean after in 1518 the first college ol of was waa founded and muri men he be gan to feel it was time tu to break off the Ca catholic holc yoke that they had bad been bound with for ages in medicine etc luther the great reformer did much not in religion only but it had the effect of producing freedom in medical practice also up to the time ot or the settlement of america by the pilgrim fathers the double of cd prest preat and doctor were combined in one individual the rev samuel puller fuller after the death of his fattier father filed both betl offices drawing from the voge vegetable kingdom metals aud mineral remedies were not known at the time in englan i but since his bis time many medical theories have arisen homeopathy blistering leeching beeching lee ching bleeding etc poisons that will kill instead of cure as well as mesmerism magnetism galvanism cold and hot water cures all without the use of useful herbs and patent no strums without end with all this confused practice no wonder people almost lose their senses in the application of medicine to disease Is in it a wonder medicine la in yet called the mysterious art and that names fir diseases are multiplying samuel thomson the great naturalist was born in now new hampshire ta 1769 his hie father wasa was a plain farmer the boy when quite young became acquainted with a mrs benton a midwife who took him to the fields with her to gather herbs and instiller instill eJ into his bin mind a love jove for plants and herbs and when he was only ten years old the people joked him aud called him the young doctor although he was a farmer on arriving at manhood he married and had a family who had bad several times been sick and were finally given up to die by the doctors says thomson 1 I exercised my own judgment following after the doctors and relieved them every time after finding a general i principle respecting fevers and reducing it to practice I 1 t f und it sure in all disease when there was any nature to build upon and during three years yeara practice I 1 never lost a patient I 1 attended all forms forma of fevers and soon eoon began to give information to the people which convinced them that they might as certainly relieve themselves of their diseases as aa of their hunger this greatly disturbed the d choro who laid plans lor for my overthrow and had me imprisoned but when heard I 1 was honorably released s he conti continues nuee 1 I have found that the learned doctors are wrong in consider ing fever a disease or enemy fever Is a friend cold an enemy dr skelton in his bis family medical adviser says the thomson cure con elsts of an enema or injection for the purpose of relieving the bo welsa vapor bath for promoting the circulation and throwing off disease by the skin a lobelia emetic tor for relieving the stomach ana system of all impurities it must be self evident to all who can reflect that the poison obstruction or morbid matter once removed there can be nothing left to retard the patients patient Js recovery and however much some men way may attempt to sneer down this simple practice being based ar ae it is upon plain common sense it ever must stand the test of opposition and examination injections are not always necessary nor are vapor baths nor emetics but they must be regulated by circumstances governing the condi tion and progress of the disease strength of the patient e etc I 1 have broken hp up a fever with a pint of yarrow tea and a teaspoonful teaspoon tul of black pepper and a vapor bath in a few hours hour the greatest and foremost remedy for the sick latter day saint to is to send for the elders who shall shad administer the ordinance of anointing with oil and laying on banas and the prayer of faith shall mau save gave the sick now INOW the next remedy and one which should be ad ministered where the parties do not have faith in christ is in to nourish with useful herbs these herbs abound io in this territory and every person in the church should acquaint himself or herself with thele vai vait dable table properties as all have not noi faith in the ordinance when herbs are in full bloom they have the highest healing virtue gather when in full bloom and bryin dry in the shade yours for humanity THOMAS C MILD prof medical botany |