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mon, .alit tlE V—MIMItKU 41.i ■a >11LLFOLE VII/T/Fi, (GA.) TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1835. [WHOLE NUMBER 349 EDITED BY j a. CPTflBERT & WILKINS HFNT. ,., 1N -published every Tuesday at THREE DOLLAK.- "M 1 in ilvante. or POUR, if not paid befoTe the end c‘ tlie 0?r ^The'ri*« I s on Wayne Street, opposite the State Bank. je» r -. nvERTlSEMENTS publislied at the usual rates. ** p Each Citation by the Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary tha >’• ' ,’n has been made for Letters of Administration, must be aplf.L. THIRTY DAYS at least. V 1 . 1 ipv Executors and Administrators for Debtors and Credi- 5’"’ter'in their accounts, must he published SIX WEEKS. :#r *nf Neemes hv Executors and Administrators must l« ad- e ! SIXTY PAYS before the day of sale. vE ^. s'of personal property (exrept negroes) of testate and tntes- ' Jsstttesky Executors and Administrators, must he advertised r* 1 ^ *,\J. 1 '.os”bv Executors, Administrators and Guardians to the MEDICAL.. ...licaiions i court' ^ ,lflS 1 ‘'.'mns bv Executors and Administrators for Letters Dismis- fS published six MONTHS. °P „ ..„i,ms for Foreclosure of Mortgages on real es'ate must be i ..riised once a month for FOUR MONTHS 11 -il >s of real estate by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, <-'be published SIXTY DAY.S before the day of sale. These '"ice must be made at the court house door between the hours of 10 .j (( , morning and 4 in the afternoon. No sale from day to day is ’V j , oiess so expressed in the ailvertisement. ul'crs of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy of the ' . or agreement) to mike titles to land, must be advertised rai.'EE MONTHS at least. sheriff’s Sales under executions regularly granted bythc courts, (10 advertised THIRTY DAYS—under mortgage executions, l\IV PAYS—Sales of perishable property under onler of Court, ' uSt ik; advertised, generally, TEN DAYS before the day of sale. All orders for Advertisements will be punctually attended to. • Ail letters directed to this Office, nr the Editors must be post- ud t® entitle them to attention. 1j ASH I N«TO V’NSHEKIF F’S S A LBS.—On . y tlie first Tuesday in May next, will, witlun the I.-sal ) |0 urs, he sold, before the court-house door, in the town of Sandersville, Washington county. Sixty-eight acres of land, more or less, on Cedar creek, Adjoining tlie property of Smith and others, in said coun- t ,. lovi-xl on as the property of Thomas Crawford, to sa- isfv a fi ft in favor of Joshua (.'aples vs. said Crawford: levied on and returned to me by n constable. One hundred acres of pine land, more or less, on the wa ters of Buckeye creek, in said county—levied on as the pro- rI y of Abram Vann, to satisfy a fi fa in favor of Baldwin Fliiker vs said Vann: levied on and returned tome by a con- ~V liund rial and fifty acres of pine land, more or less, on Neelv's creek, adjoining the land of Whitfield and others, m mud county—levied on as the property of Klijah L. Knight, to satisfy sundry fi fiw in favor of S. A. H. Jones vs. said Kni'’ht: levied on and returned to me by a constable. Two hundred acres of pine land, more or less, on Neely’s creel:, adjoining the land of Harrison arid others, in said county—levied on us the property of Jesse B Knight, to satisfy sundry fi fas in favor of Jones At Lancaster vs said KuHit and Mathew Knight: levied on and returned to me bv a constable. March 26, 1835. SHERROD SESSIONS, sheriff. MV NTEL SHERIFF’** SALE.—On the first Tuesday in May next, will, within the legal hours, he told, before the court-house door in the town of Swoinsbo- roiiffh, Emanuel county, One improved tract of land, containing three hundred acres, lying ‘>n both sides of Hnttle-Ground creek in said county; and one tract of land containing one hundred acres, lying on the Ohnopie river, in said county—levied on as the • property of John Dixson, to satisfy a ti fa in favor of Sain- 9 uel VV. Robbins. March 3, 1835. HENRY DURDEN, sheriff. POSTPONED SALES. Abo will he sold at the above time and place, On® tract of land containing three hundred acres more or less, on Canoocbie river, in said county—levied on os the 1 property of Francis Smith, to pay his lax. On® improved tract of land, containing two hundred a.-res in said county—levied on as the property of William H. 1 biniel, to satisfy one fi fa in favor ol Stephen Swain. , .March 3, 1835. { HENRY DURDEN, sheriff jJTROOLY SHERIFF SALE.—On the first Tues- ■ dav in May next, will, within the legal hours, he sokl liefore the court-house door in the town of Drayton, Dooly comity, T’wo hundred two and a half acres of land, being lot number one hundred and twenty-one in the third district of said county—levied on as the property of William Ifender- I son alias William Miles, to satisfy a fi fa in favor of L. C. , Musgroves, (Eli B. Cooper, beurer:) property pointed out : by sattl Eli B. Coo\s-r: levied on and relumed !o me hy a constable. Ix>t of land number one hundred and fifty in ih® ninlh district of said county—levied on as the rroperty of llyrom Jones, to satisfy a fi fa from a justice’s court in Warren county in favor of Thomas Jones: properly pointed out by Samuel Moore: levied on and returned to me by a consta ble. All that lot of land known as number one hundred and twenty-two in the third district of said county—levied on as the property of Francis Floyd, to satisfy a fi fa in favor of Harriet Taylor, administratrix on the th® estate of E. Tay lor. deceased: levied on and returned to me bv a constable. -March 21, 1833 K. C. Z1PPF.REB. sheriff D ek alb sheriffs sale.—On th® first Tuesday in May next, will, wilhin the legal hours, be sold, before the court-house door in the town of Decatur, DeKalb county. The undivided one fifth part of (or Morris Nichols’ inte rest in) lot of land number twenty-one in the sixteenth dis trict of originally Henry but now DeKalb county—levied on as tlie property of the said Morris Nichols, to saiisfv a , fi fu in favor of Low. Tavlor At Co. vs Morris Nichols: property pointed out by Rowliu Moore. March 31.1835. I ISAAC N. JOHNSON, sheriff, j GENERAL MEDICAL CONVENTION. | P iiYSlClANS, in this Stale, believing that some mea- I sure* ought to be adopted for th® important purpose of j ref inning professional abuses, regulating and improving the ' practice, establishing a uniform fee-bill, developing more fra ternal unanimity and liberality, and elevating the general de graded condition of the science of Medicine in oar State, are respectfully and earnestly invited to attend a Convention in Macon, on the 1st day of May. Doctors BABER, "1 WILEY, I 5. BRIGMAN, i ? M'GOLDRICK, f S FRANKLIN, j 3 LAMAR, J WOODSON,) . NEWTON. SLAPPEY & DUPREE,T WIMBERLY, I § CRAWFORD, NASH, Macon, March 19, 1835. 39 V All itiiors in the State, friendly to scientific Medicine, will please renublish the aliovc until the st of May. TIIO’TISONIAN INFIKJI4R1. Books Medicines, and Medical Practice. A CVRTISj Agent, keeps constantly, on G. street, • between Fourth and Fifth streets, (in the rear of Mann S Valentine’s store.) the genuine TI10M80YI- AN MEDICINES, F4MILY RIGHTS to the USE >f T’f EM.and the BOORS that DEVELOPS the SYSTEM. He accommodates and relieves the AFFLICTED, and gives to those who wish to become thoroughly acquainted with them both theoretical and p actical instruction in the Kystt-m, in the NA- Tl LE and 1'SE of the REMEDIES, in Botany, Na- turalJ^hilosophy and Chemistry: and free access to his Li- brarfPwhich contains many oftht best works on Ana’o- my. Physiology, Surgery, and the th-ory and practi(®i'f Medicine. A. ('• will furnish "very candid inquirer, with •he most satisfactory evitl e that, for spe®d, “innocence end efficacy in removing disease, and restoring a healthy action to the system, these remedies, judiciously administer ed, far surpass every tiling e's® ihat has yet been discover ed.” Within the last two years, he has seen the Thomsonian remedies used for cholera, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, several spe cies of haemorrhage, bilious fever, ague and fever, croup, bilious pleurisy, scarlet fever, inflammation of the eves, throat, bowels, dec., palsy, fainting, vertigo, cramp, cholick, asthma, nightmare, consumption, chronic thrush, dropsy, jaundice, suspended animation, and sundry other forms of disease, whose names he will not mention even in dead lan guages. He has n ever known them to do any harm, nor to fail to cure where they can he said to have had any thing like a fair trial. If seasonably and faithfully applied, they will surely cure the Cholera. Il® would advise those who d®sire a sure and safe mode of preserving their health, or of restoring it when lost, to call at .mre and purchase a Right and Stock of Medicines. Ilirhmond, Virginia, March 25, 1835. BOTANIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. To the Kditoi s o f the Federal Union: Gentlemen—The attempt made, during the last session of our Legislature, to tolerate, in Georgia, the practice of the Botanic System of Medicine, has, I believe, excited a strong de sire, in the people generally of the State, to know something definite of that system and learn the amount of its pretentions. As it has, like most innovations, been preceded by an evil name, justice requires that its enemies should not be its only expositors. Its friends ought to have a hearing, subject to correction, and the whole matter, untrammelled by legislative shac kles, be committed to tlie judgment of the pub lic; whose award would, whatever may be ad vanced to the reverse, he influenced alone hv utility. Can science ask a nobler inquest, or (ore, anticipate much pleasure and profit in eating it. The comparison in the mind, of the second l'ruit with the first, by which the pleasure of eating it is ascertained and partly enjoyed beforehand, is called reasoning, and the power hy which ’he comparison is made, is term tl reason, t he same terms ar ■ applied to the comparison, when the first fruit is unpalatable and injurious, ami the sight of the second deiers you from a repeiition of the offence against your palate and system The shape and color of the fruit, form “one of the distant ideas mentioned in the definition quoted: the good or bad result of eating it, the other; and the recollec'iouol the first, and the comparison bet we -ri tlie fruits through the “in termediate ideas that connect the distant.” Take another example So long as you give an infant nothing hut what is agreeable to its taste, it will eagerly seiz,- any thing you offer it to en:; all its former experience testifying that this is tlie object of it But, after you give it a medicine that is nauseous to ihe taste and sickening to the system, it will be very cautious about receiving any tiling again from th same vessel, or even the same person, i have seen a child of only a few months, manifest great ap prehensions at the sight of its physician, and willingly fly from his presence. ev®n in the arms of a stranger. St reasons thus: What 1 look from that vessel tup, or spoon, as the ease may he. hv the hand of that man. tasted very disagree able. and made me very sick. 1 will, therefore, take no inure, lest a like thing return upon rne. “The burnt child dreads the fire,” but the inexperienced will play with it The innocent child will play with the adder, and stoutly maintain that it is reasonable to fondle justice mote equitable terms? To further this objrct, I have to solicit that vou print the enclosed two Lectures, delivered, j with an object so beautiful Thai a grown person's con iast autumn, in the citv of Baltimore. T’nev ; duH ar,d masons for it, arc the very reverse of this is . . , j • r • r * ; «wing, not to any different properly of tn^ mmd, hut to hi* bpar internal evidence of emanRtin^ Iiom no acquired knowledge «»f ihe nature and character of the rep- ordinary mind. Neither mav the author, witli , 'ile, and th® consequentes ol such imprudence. reason, be accused of ignorance, be me intimate- j f , l! > lho f’ ^thousands of oilier examples that will strike 1 . ine munis of my intelligent audience, it is dearly deiuon- ly acquainted with the theory and practice ot the j Strand that Iht origin of reason is to bo Ift (iown precisely regular school, while he has had ample oppor- ' at the period of lit.', when the reason* r first compared an . . . f. ■ ■ . . . L ■ . idea or image of an external object, with another similar t- tunities of ascoitairiinjr tlie tendencies of t.:e dea or image, which had previously been fixed upon the new—nor can his sincerity, in relation to facts, ' mind, find than he rear on itself is nothing more nor less than lie suspected, his veracity and morals standing j the exercise of this comparing faculty.* . r ’ •’ Let us now attend to our Second head. iimmpeached m tlie arena of the greatest op- j The progress of Reason. position to him, and the position taken bv him Once, the most scientific and reasonable men that the • • • j- , a - . i , V i • ; world produced, supposed that the earth stoo»l still, and ihe bems m direct conflict With what would be his lnoon alul 8la ' r s revolved about it every Twenty-four personal interest could wealth seduce him into ' hours. That ihe planets, except M®rcury and Venus, went the advocacy of loner-established opinions. His *T ou i " d and El)at v *^ rat?d ,l ". P^aduliun ol a ' .. • , . r , . . , i clock, sttspentied from t ne earth, and extending sometimes a ; evidence may not however be conclusive. Kll- j little beyond, and sometimes a little short to, the distance of ! thusiasm mav have wrapped his judgment Blit, the sun. To sustain these opinions, the World was filled | - 4 • 'i i c * . l • with i'oIIk oii rolls of reasons that wer<* deemed inoontro- ■ if so. It is the aberrancy of cultivated genius, vertlhl „. ln prof ., 8s of limo the imraorta , Ptoleruv ma(le beneficently en^a{;ed :n a problem dear to the ( certain discoverits, which convinced him that th® sun was j head and sacred to the heart. j j lu ' ceii,r< ' u{ l J» P sy»t®tn, about which all th® other heaven- j „ . . . ! ly hotlies revolved. But, though he too gave his reasons, ! Be that as it may, the insertion, in your pa- I yet, because the reasons of ihis one man were opposed to ; per, of the two Lectures cannot be otherwise the reasons of all his cotemporaries, it was deemed reason it brings its to the golden rule of dutv:—“To love the Lord > my patient sets well, the fact will afford abundant evidence i sis. nor lias if ever been Ihe leosi improved by mere abstract ourtJod with all our h.-art, and our neighbor as ourselves.” 1 that ertiL-tics and sutlorilics arc good medicines in skillltl j speculation. . ,. .. la our literary pursuits, when we devote ourselves to those j hands!] ; In *»»» youth, the anthorof this System providentially flis- arts and sciences, and rnose only, which we can render the ] It is known to every out* in this assembly, who has seen covered that a certain plant possessed Ihe poWt*r to eject, ill most useful to ourselves and others. In governments, when j any cholera treatmsnt, that this is no picture of the fancy,—■ ; a s.Wt time, with very little puirt or inconvenience, ana wilft the laws are made and administered for the benefit of the j It is a very imperfect sketch, falling tar behind the reality oi i i}<* evil consequence whatever, any foreign or morbt inatiff whole, uninlluencetl by parly considerations; anil tn medi- j what man v of us have seen and heard, of medical views and j lroin the human stomuch. He uiterwarn* observed that, i -1 . _ t . .1.: ..... • whoiiMYOP thi< Iinopnliari h cine, when that science leaches us to conquer ever tiling tha; is properly called disease Let ns now examine, in detail, some of the prominent no tions in society, and see how Ibr they who advance or coun tenance (hem, are entitled to the honorable appellation—ra tional beings. 1st. It is thought impossible for a man whose education has not enabled him to profit by the experience of those wlto have lived before him, to discover natural laws, and lay down rules of science which shall be worthy of theatten- praclice whenever this operation had been thoroughly performed, “For, all Ihe various notions to relate. sickness at the stomach, headaclies, vertigo, fever, pain over Would tire ev’n Fabius with eternal prate.” and m the eyes, morbid appetite, indigestion or tyspepmir, Gould there have been greater confusion uven at the foot mentalaberiatious, nightmare, anda boatoi oilwactumauU of the Babylonian Tower? Would aiiv one imagine that ‘‘Is that flesh is heirto, took a speedy departure lroin thejor- all these diverse and opposite opinions, and empirical modes and means of practice, were learned at the footstool ol the “highly cultivated ami progressively improving science of : medicine,” which j corns lostmip in any respect “to a level with mere Charlatanism?’*! Would lie not rather conclude tion of the most profound scholars of the age. But is it j with Z, the spectator ol the above consultation, that all the more unreasonable than tliat Galileo should show the prac- j learned have vet disclosed in relation to this disease, is a tica! navigator how to traverse the ocean? that John Faust | “zeal without knowledge?”—a zeal for success in the exer- should teach the philosopher, the politician and th® divine, j rise of their profession, without the knowledge ol the pro to multiply their tracts and books ten thousand Ibid, and per mode and m®ans bv which it may be obtained? speak to all tlie world through the simple medium of the j But yonder is a different seen®. A miserable^ victim of press? That Robert Fulton should tel) all the mechanics of j cholera, cramped in the chest and 1 towels, pulseless, cold the world how to navigate the ocean by the power of steam? ! and purple at the extremities, begging for water with an un- That Whitney should discover to the planter a simple means of clearing out the seeds of his rollon, and thus to multiply the value of its products? Are not the store-houses of na ture equally open to all? Cannot one man observe a plain matter of feet nearly as well as another? And is it reason able to say that any thing is perfect, susceptible of no fur ther improvement, so long as it does not answer the end for which it was designed? It is said that Dr. Thomson was and is nn ignorant man, and, therefore, certainly unqualified to leach professors their art. Ignorant! Of what was he ignorant? Of Latin and Greek, tuid the Harm's applied to disease? Grant it. But lunate patient. The experiment was continued on others who suffered under the same maladies, and the result was uniformly the same. Il was observed, however, that, in eases where the patient was cold or the stomach acid, the operation, though in char acter the same, was inure tedious and less thorough. ’1“ obviate these difficulties, resort was had to those warming stimulants which experience, iu their use for food, Ac., bad abundantly proved to be calculated to generate heat in the stomach, and diffuse if over the hodv: and to the use of pcarlash, whose well known property is to neutralize th© ucid. In the mean time, observation had disclosed the fact, r .vim-in mi- , that certain vegetable dccoclions would detach the cold earthly voice, echoing as it. wertTfrom the long, dark vista to pM*® and » n « rbid ^"‘fr *">*»«»>« folA *.® f , 1 !^ ™“ CU “ the valley of death! But there come a dozen Thomsonian*, : wembrane ol the stomach, and thus greatly well as enhance tlie valu# 1 of the o»K?nition. These wane medicines were found to produce the same effect upon Ihe who porhaps never saw a case of cholera in th^ir lives.— The first one that touches him, calls out- ‘‘new cold.’ Wi*h . united voir®, thev rrv, “raise the heat.” “throw out the oh- ; bowels, whenev er they were disordered, st ructions,” and “tune up the system.” One asks, How is j . Experience has ever taught that no man suffers under the all this to be done? Do you profess to he a Thomsonian. j ‘“fluence of a scorching fever, while in a elate of free per- and start such question as that? A wav with such a wolf : -pirut.on- 1 he same ex(H?rience teaches that the must fa- ques. . in sheep’s do; hing. A savs, I've No. fi; B. here’s third preparation; C, I’ve cholera syrtio: Dories, Any thing that'S hot, anil he that gives it first is the best physician in the case.— There is no argument here; everv one knows what is to be of what use is Latin or Greek, in helping a mail to discover | done, and no one stands idle till all is accomplished. Tims, | perspiration. Jt only remained then I the effect of an external agent on tlie body? Olnnotaman j not onftvqiientlv, in three hours, the man is in better health , ronventmit and effectual means witness the Gyration of Lobelia, without knowing that the I Titan lie had enjoyed for a long time. °'\ f ! of t ,r,,w : ,n g ,nort,,d Doctors call this p. culiar ethet of the system emesis’* Is it ! Take another example.- • ^ not as easy to discover the effect of that which relieved a 1 Br#g into the first consultation room a violent cas® of fo- manof disease, as that which removed his hunger and thirst? : ver. Dr. A says it proceeds from cold; the patient must be And does it require a vast amount of Lann and Greek, to '< bled, to reduce the inflammatory diathesis. B save, pot a describe, in English, these operations and their causes? Can j blister to the side, to guard against pleurisv, and then give that man he called ignorant of whaif^ will relieve hunger, ! mild sndorifics, such as spirits of Nil re, die.! But C de clares lie is bilious, and must have fifteen grains of calomel, j repeated if necessary, (i. e. if this dose does not completely subdue the effort of nature to throw off th® disease—and so they go.) \\ e have span tlie above practice, where it was afterwards proved tliat th® fever did not nroc°ed from any of the causes enumerated, and of course all this cruel treat ment was wrong upon their own principles. Carry a similar case to the Thomsonian club. “He has a than desirable as a matter of information: and, as the knowledge and talent of the faculty are able to suppose that his must be unreasonable; and they were so considered and treated, till the famous Copernicus flourished. He revived this unreasonable system of Ftolemy, sufficient to delect and expose any misrepresen- I an . cJ * as • foriunaienough to prow to all too worM that lie . . 1 • , 1 j whom they had hull* rtodeemed most unreasonable, was the tations they may contain, you oufjht not, from ; most rational man of the age. The prince who was snlir.it- apprehension of consequent mischief, to ex- * ** d to purchase il copy of the first primed edition of the Bi- .1 ti i .i v; . • e ble, deemed it so imreusonable that the book could be sold elude them. Indeed, ds the .llbjcct IS one of f„ r8 oine hundreds of dollars, that the hare offer to sell it so “life and death,’ I feel assured that you will, \ low, was a sufficient reason for subjecting the seller to crirai- with alac:ity and pleasure, yield to the wish n »t process. But the true facts aud reasons of ttstronomy, ^ r J 1 J EQUITY alU ,1>e “il-mtportant truth* of the Bible are now printed who has used bread, meat, &c., for this purpose, l'or twenty years, and never known them to fail? As well may Dr. Thomson he said to be ignorant of what will cleanse the phlegm and canher from the stomach, overpower the cold, remove obstructions, and reinstate the system. For he lias been engaged in this business more than forty years, and with complete success, wherever there were faithfulness in the patient and a constitution to recruit. Can he not tell to j plain men, in a plain way, how, with v:lial means, and why i fever,” says one. “There are obstructions some where," he does this, without an acquaintance with I .at in or Greek, j cry the rest—“Raise the heat, open the pores, relax the sys- or even with the endless anil fruitless speculations of the ! lein, drive out the obstructions, and inn® him no.” learned on th® same subject, who, with all their knowledge J No sooner said than done. Soni®times a cold chili is driv- ol’each other’s errors in theory and mischiefs in practice, | en to the surface, large quantities of phlegm are-thrown from have never yet d object? The notion that those vvj^o study the longest alter a parti- ; aim pmient row all rejoice m Ins escape . cular object, will be the most sure to find it in the end. re- j thingof th® feeling with which th® traveller reviews.in tl minds us of the argument of a boy that had been angling, j morning, th® dangerous precipice along whose brow lie bad errors in theory and nuschiels m practice, i en to tne surliice, large quantities of phlegm are-thrown tram . . . discovered bow to accomplish this desirable I the stomach, a warm perspiration succeeds, and the man is perieuceliau now tom) j well. The patent doctors declare, ’tv.as only a severe eold, ! , lh ' s P laf ?’ J**™ bat those who study tlie longest after a parti- ! and patient and all rejoice in his eseape from it. with some- , P r, “ ,If “ ca “ r >’ From the Thomsonian Recorder, of Columbus, Ohio. « LECTURE On the origin, the nature, the progressive improvement, and the perfection of Reason; with the illustration ot its popu lar application in remarks on the Botanic System of Medi cine.—Delivered before the Botanic Convention hi Balti more, October 16, 1831, by Dk. A. Curtis, of Richmond, Virginia. Looking upon this vast and enlightened assembly, I al and sold so extensively, lhal lie w ho should ask more than | a j'-w cents for either, would h- deemed as unreasonable as 1 once were the philosopher and ihe printer. On the subject of number anil in-asur . however, reason : has never been chargeable wiih such fluctuations. The j reason v hy the three angles of a triangle are equal to a semi- ! circle, or to two right angles; why twelve times twelve ! make one hundred and forty-four, or why tlie area of a square is equal io the sum of the area of two other squares based upon the legs of a right-angled triangle, whose hypo- thenuse forms one side of tliai square, are precisely the most tremble at the thought that 1 am ahou: to occupy | same now that they were in the days Euclid or Diophantus. an hour ot' your precious time. Yet I am in some degree L ' c ' : — r ~-*- — 1 -»* r - L relieved of ihe awful r- sjionsibility, when I reflect that, though 1 may not conduct your attention in the best man lier through its details, 1 shall propose, for your own con templation a sub feet which yields to few, if any others, in its claims to vour regard—a subject which you may follow up at your leisure, and about which any mistakes or errors into which 1 inay fall, may serve as beacons to guard vour surer and safer passage through the ocean of thought which it o[iens to your view. Survey with ihe strictest scrutiny all the vast variety of human actions; ask every agent why From the foregoing facts, ami others of the same nature, we are warranted in the conclusion that— 1. The reasons we offor for our opinions on any subject, are correct or incorrect, according to the extent and accura cy, or the scantiness and confusion of our examinations of the whole hearing of the subject. 2. That, when we know ail that can bo known of a sub ject, and have examined it iri all its possible hearings, (its in the mathematical examples,) our reason will he perfect and permanent. 3. That we ought not to h® satisfied with our conclusions he conducts thus or so. and, though many will acknow- j on any subject, till our knowledge is as full and perfect as LAW. T HE undersigned, PRACTITIONER of LAW. will attend to business committed to him, in Hpnry and the adjacent counties. His office is in M‘Donough. March 6, 1835 -11-38 B. PETTIT. A CARD. T HU undersigned, residing in Milledgeville, and having thereby soma facilities for the transaction of business with the Executive Department of the State Govemm nt, tender their professional assistance to Claimants under the treaty of 1321, in obtaining f >r them the indemnity to which they may be entitled, founded upon the capture and de struction iff property hy the Creek Indians prior to 1892 Their cha-ge for such representation, will depend in every case upon the trouble which mav attend its adjustment. March27, 1835. HINES & HARRIS, 39-4t Attorneys nt Ijnw. The Auxai=»a Sentinel an<1 Constitutionalist, the Washington News, Athens’ Manner an.l Wliis, will give this four insertions, and forward their bills for payment. ledge ihat their aeliiiim are wrong in ihe abstract, yet, all the circumstances considered, every one will tell you he lias reasons sufficient U> justify bis course. So of their thoughts. All strenuously maintain that their peculiar opinions are based upon the most substantial reasons. Nothing is more universally claimed than reason—each supposes his own to be, if not a perfect guide, at feast the very best he can ob tain, to conduct him to the right or wrong of human motives, words and actions. He looks to it for instruction in every case of difficulty; and, supposing it to be ail inherent and almost infallible test, condemns, as unreasonable and absurd, every thing that does not si-em to tally with its dictates.— Yet w e find that different persons have diflerent reasons — One’s reason approves of w hat .another's condemns. It is very probable that there will be different opinions, in this assembly, about ninny of the imsiiiun* and arguments m the sequel of this address. VYhat some of iny auditors w ill ap prove, others will condemn; and each will say he has rea son for his i|£visoii, while the positions and arguments will be the some to all. All reasons are, therefore, not right reasons.—Of course the faculty termed reason, is not inherent ami infallible. Still, as every person’s failh and conduct nre based upoa what he calls Ins reason, and, of course, right or wrong ac cording to the character of this regulator; it is all important to ascertain what is right reason, and how fur it is capable of guiding us in our search after truth. This inquiry will had us to contemplate its origin, its nature, its progressive improvement and its perfection. First, then—Its origin and nature. Many have supposed that it is a principle, like the lamd itself, innate, implanted in the head hy the Author of our being, and intended hy liim as our best and safest guide to the rectitude of human failh and conduct, especially in regard to the doctrines and duties of morality and religion. To refute this supposition, we need only give the accepted definition of the term, and forbear even an allusion to the almost infinite variety of opinions that prevail iu relation to those doctrines and du ties. “Reason,” says Barclay, “is a faculty in man, whereby he is distinguished from beasts, consisting in deducing on* proposition from another, or finding out such intermediate ideas, as may connect two distant ones.” But w hat is a proposition? It is an assertion or a denial. What is an idea? “The form under which any thing appears to the mind’’—the image oi the object contemplated. Now, assertions or denials must have reaped to the existence, nature, form, and use of external objects, or internal sensa tions. But, until a human being has actually examined, by m®ans of some one or more of the senses, the nature and re lalions ol’external objects, no idea or form of those objects can be stamped upon the mind. Of course, there can be no “finding out such intermediate ideas as may connect two distant ones.” There is, therefore, no such innate princi- eiple or (acuity in man as that to which we apply th* term reason. The Term.—Talk to a si rang, r as long as you pi* a»r, about some new invention, atv.i g;v. linn ihe name nppli> ii by the inventor bm, so .ong you do not compare the unknown object with something ismiliar to him, h® will : -ver form i any correct idea of it. Bring hint near theory cl, and he will readily dei®rni n< whether it is round or square, trans parent or opaque, <tec. B’lt a still closer examination is ne cessary to determine its qualities and use*. When a person first comes in sight of your noble Monu ment, he will pronounce it an immense elevation of some thing, he knows not what, fit only to be gazed upon by the humble tenants of its footstool, to remind them of the Father of his country, and the affection which hi country bears him. On a nearer approach, his vision tells him it is an immense pile of solid marbl®, accessible only to the top of its basement, to any but the tenants of the liquid air; hut, w bat are his astonishment and delight, when he enters that basement, and finds himself, after taking some steps, elevat ed to a height from which lie can discover, at a glance, the general appearance and the relative situation of all the lulls and vafes of your interesting city; beholding, as removed a- bove the reach of good a: id evil influence, the busy, bustling scenes in which the never-tiring sons oi earth delight to mug!®! What must he now think of the reason of his old compan ion, who, on entering ihe city with him, reluspd to take a closer view of this noble structure, declaring it was a smooth column of marble, totally uninteresting, except to exhibit to the distant beholder the noble image at its summit! The human body is provided, at its formation, with five different modes or means of receiving the forms, or images, or qualities of external objects, and ot transmitting them to the brain, w her- they are safely fixed and long retained, by some yet unknown, it defined, and perhaps forever undefin able power, called the n.ind: Fur rxample— When you hefe.id a fruit you nrver satv before, the - ye imiuediati 1> transit its shu|te and color to the brain The longue and paiat® carry iu qualii’es; these and the touch, its hardness or softness; Ih® nose, its flavor. &c.; and itius- all that is interesting in relation to it, is noon recorded, as with a pen of iron, in that faithful register, and forms a ter- feot image, called an idea When another of ih-' same fruits is pres lit. d, you receive ami eat it or not. according ns you were pleased or displeased with the first VV hy so? You answer—I know, by th® shape and color, lhal this is the same kind of fruit, and has tlie same qualities os that 1 eat before. That was delightful to my taste and nourish ing to my body;—I conclude this will bo so too, and, there- thc nature of the subject will admit 4. That, whenever vve pronounce unreasonable any thing about w hich we have not (as in the mat it ironical cases) nad all the information that can affect our conclusions, we injure ourselves in two ways: 1st, We prevent ourselves from seeking or receiving more correct information; and, second, we expose our want of knowledge, and twhat is w orse) of mental discipline, to the pity, if not the ridicule of those who are better educated. The man A, who refused to examine minutely the “marble pillar,” as lie called it, still believes his reason a good one. while B, who ascended its winding staircase, well knows that this reason is os void of foundation as the interior of that nohle monument is of the beautiful material that appears upon its surface And, if B should at las: be pronounced superior to tas he certainly will,) it is not because of any original diff-rehce in the struc ture of his mind, but because he has been more patient and persevering in his search after truth, and especially because he never closed his mind to further information and the cor rection of his errors, by pronouncing unreasonable, what he did not know to be so. 8o much lor our reason, as a guide in physical inquiries. Let ns see whether it is any better director in moral researches. Many years ago a gentleman was arraigned at the bar of justice in Trenton, New Jersey, for horse-steafing, Arc. The witnesses were summoned, their testimony was clear, unit ed and satisfactory, not only to the court, but to the multi tudes lhai thronged the halls ol’jnstiee, to see what should become of the interesliug culprit. Respect for his known virtues and his sacred office, compassion for what all deem ed a good man fallen in an unguarded moment, and regret at the disgrace which tlie transact ion might bring tqion a cause dear to the hears of all good men—nil were in his favor; hut, alas! reason said, thai, in a case so clear, truth and jus tice, us well a» tlie interests of good order and government, demanded the sacrifice; and th® judge, with a heavy heart and a swimming eye, was about to drown a w hole assembly in tears, by merely speaking aloud the silent convictions of otery conscience, when a man and his wife, who had tra velled on footajl the way from Delaware, for the purpose of "rescuing from infamy and suffering their friend and bene factor, rushed before th® judge, nn4declared that, as the pri soner spem, at their house in Delaware, th® v®ry day on w hich he was said to have committed the crime in New Jersey, he could not Is’ ihe proper object of their 1 gal re tribution. I need not add what a joy beamed in every countenance, when reason, thus enlightened, exclaimed, “the piisoner is free!” Before civilization dawned upon the inhabitants of India, reason (all the reason they exercised) taught the Hindoos the necessity .of aiste, (that is, that every child should continue in the samp rank in society that his father occupied,) of sa crificing widows on ih® fnnpral pile pr-pared to consuin-- the d®ad hodiesof their husbands, and of offering human he- ir.i>, tli-ir children, A’c., to their wooden gods, to serpents, and ’o fishes. As civilization advances, they abandon these abomina tions, br®ak the tyranny of caste, educate aiul ch-r.'sh their daughte r,®, urn!'!.- ilifir idols in pieces,and render religious h..m:ige to tlim only to w hom it is due. And still, as be fore, they think they have a good reason for all they do. The progressive improvement of our reason, then, is always iti exact proportion to the degree and accuracy of our prac- ticnl knowledge of th® subject about which we reason, and of the skill with which we detect the relations of resem blance, and of cause and effect, he these subjects what they may. The conclusions of our reason, on physical, literary, and scientific subjects, is called judgment, and no man is blamed for want of a good judgment! These deductions we draw !r>m the consideration of moral and religions doctrines, and duties constitute what we call conscience; and we censme no one, nay, we commend every one, for acting according to th® dictates of conscience! And yet, who does not per ceive that a wrong judgm®nt and an ®rring conscience, are the effects of imperfect observation and premature decision; and, of course, just as reprehensible us laziness and rash ness? From what has been said upon the origin, the nature and the progressive im >rov®ment of reason, w® shall scarcely be at loss ;o determine in what its ft rf.-ctron consists. In the math -matieal cases alluded to. ilya p, rf.-ction has been already exhibited, in many branches of natural philosophy, ch.-niistry. Arc. we are authorized U> h«-!jpv- that it nos been nearly or qt. : te attained—as illustrated in the [>eriodical re volution of th® planets, their relative distances; the numb- r and character of the tneehanical powers, th® nniure and properties of vat ions chemical snhstances, Ac To recapitulate, th n. I observe— Hi origin of reason is the period when w® first suffer th 1 recollection of our previ ous exp rieue® t<- gov -rn, in any degree, our futur thoughrs or ad -ite. Its \ery nature con as;.-, in th-skill wuh which we distinguish resemblances in similar objects, and the true relations ! ’tween cause and effvt: and its Deduction is ihe due consideration of v. ry circumstance that can. in any conceivable J. pree, affect thp correctness of our decisions. It will be found to preside in „u r private concerns, when it directs nil our thoughts, words and anions, into that train which will best promote onr present and future hnppin ss, j ~c *■ j y n our re |;jri ous t i u i, eSi w heit and that of thus® around us. • When we speak of the reason of any thing, it is richt to anply the te-mto the comparison: hut my present obiert is to .iis.-ow-r, e.irt eefine the faculty that makes it, and the true nature of the caarparirop. A, and his brother, went on a fishing to the same brook. A went where the fish resorted—A caught many, arid soon re turned home. B ioiled hard and long to little purpose, lie- cause he fished at random; and, when ho came home, was inviied by A to partake of a nohle dish of well served fishes. But he strenuously refused, giving it as a reason that, as he had labored long and hard about the stream, and caught no thing, it was impossible that A should have provided tlie dish of which he was invited to partukp. A stranger was inform'-d that it was only fifteen minutes walk to the place he wished to find. “That can’t be true,” said lie, “for I have already walked an hour, and have not yet found it!” Dr. Thomson tells physicians that, under their very feet, grow sure and safe remedies for all diseases. That can’t be, sav ihey, for we have searched four thousand years without finding tli -in. You have searched alar for poisons, instead of antidotes,{says Thomson. But we are numerous and learned, and, therefore, must know better than you where n»id for what to search. If you prefer your blind sophistry to plain matters of fuel, take your own course, is the reply. It is said, “Grant that Dr. Thomson may have discover ed something that is good in certain forms of disease, it is unreasonable to believe that one remedy can cure all dis eases.” In the first place, wc remark, that Doctor Thomson does not pretend to cure all diseases with one remedy. lie has pointed oin more than seventy of the best articles of materia medica, and given his followers certain plain rules Ibr tl;e discovery of as many more t»s they please. But, suppose that he had said that all diseases might lie cured bj- the mi- mitifetratiun of a single article; it would riot be unreasonable, b--cause it is not impossible. Indeed, analogy proves it quite possible. \Ye well know that the single article ol' bread w ill sustain tlio life of man, and promote I lie growth of animals ox never will prod in oxen in fowls poison, Ate. Is it not, therefore, not only possible, blit even probable, that one substance may yet be found that wil! re move all the aches and iiis that, flesh i.s heir to? Would unconsciously walked the dark evening before. In another ease tlie skin would have been covered with morbid secretions; acrid bile and rotten canker would have been thrown from the stomach, &c.. without any of the chills, cold sweat or phlegm, exhibited in the first. Indeed, say the doctors, yours was a real ease of bilious obstruction. We hopethebile will be lietter employed hereafter, than in souring the stomach, or travelling through the no res to the skin. Take vour supper, tone tlie stomach, keep up the heat, and all will he well. These comparisons are hut th© simple relations of matters of feet that have come under ouroWn observation. Whether it is most reasonable to approve, because it is vurable situation to induce that condition of the liody, is im mersion in some fond of warm vapour. The boy that stows away the new made hay. or he that explores the tobacco sweat-house, always returns under the influence of a free Jr only remained thpn for art to devise the means of imitating nature’s obstructions from the pores process of discharge ing morbid matter of every character and description, front every portion ol' the system. The various mode* by which steam,either simple or medicated, is applied to the surface of the body, sufficiently answer this purjiose. In eases where disease or improper medical treatment had debilitated the system, it was observed that something more was necessary to complete a curr, than merely to rid the pa tient of disease. It was observed tliat the debilitated system was unable, without assistance, to maintain an amount of vital heat, suf ficient to sustain a free circulation; and tliat the digestive or gans needed the aid of tonics to regain their elasticity. For the former ol' these purposes, tlie most pure and wholesome stimulants were applied: and, for the latter, bitter* in va rious forms were added to the must nutriciuus diet and‘be verage. So far as it regarded tlie removal of disease from the body, and the restoration of debilitated organs to a healthy state, experience had now completed her work. I purposely omit, ’ tl notice of the branch of medical hough 1 should do injustice to the process already disclosed, did 1 not state that, by expelling till morbid matter from every portion of tlie system, it pre vents the formation of those abscesses, tumors. Ac., which, under other circumstances, afford the principal subjects for surgical operations. It now remains only to explain, for the benefit of those who have not discovered them for themselves, the nature of the human system, the principle of life, the nature and cha racter of disease, the manner in whieli it invades the body, tha proper inode and means of expelling it from the system, and of restoring to a healthy state the debilitated organs. Then, correct observation will show that the human body is an organized structure, <-oni Mining ari outer and an inner stniace, every portion of which is a network, composed of the ends or mouths of an innumerable multitude of tubes. fashionable, the course that lost the patien.s/and to reject, j because they who exercise it are said to be ignorant, that which restores them to health, or to adopt that, wherever you find if, which i.s known hv its fruits to he sure and safe, we leave every one to determine fir himself. portion of the system, and whose office it is to absorb or dis charge the various fluids that are received into, or formed in it. Into ‘his body is implanted at its formation, a principle called life, a principle which, whatever be its nature, is ac companied with an amount oru degree of heat always con siderably above tliatof the atmosphere |h which the man is destined to dwell; and, with the power to bring all the di gestive, absorbent tind secretive orgnns into action upon the food that is received for the nourishment of the body. Ex perience shows tliat any obstruction lodged in any on© or more of these absorbent or secretive organs, is » ettaao of disease, i. e. a hindrance to the full anil free exerciseof tile principle of life, in its processes of digestion and nourish- To give reasons for their practice, then, we confess we i ™. ent ;. Shook! the stomach, the l.ead and prince of all the lire altogether too ignorant. But. ignorant as we are, we d ‘S*f >ve organs, be the scat of obstrurtmm,, the amount of will give vou the reasons on which Tl.omsonians act. I viud ls proportionally lessened at the fountain, and the L In evrrv case of cholera, they find tl.® natural quantify | «»rennties become cold, the whole system is languid and of vital heat diminished. Reason says this loss should he f l? 1 V* P"™« a " d tormented with alternate chills and fevers, restored. ' fill the obstructions are removed and the heat regains it» But we are willing to compare theory as well as practice. We proved, in the beginning of this feeture, that all sound reason is the fruit of experience. Having examined the parent, we need not fear to catechise the child. What is then the opinion of physicians about the origin, the nature and the proper treatment of Cholera? We have already shown what every news reader knows, that there are few opinions on either of these points, in which any two of the \ Faculty agree. 'stem. This done, the patient is well. •!. But what is th® immediate cause? Answer.—Sudden cessation ol’powerful exeitem®nt. which carries off the vibrations must become more frequent to pass the whole through the heart in a given time. Another consequence is. an undue accumulation of blood and heat in the heart, lungs and brain, which heat presently finds its way Co the con- sueh a discovery surprise the thinking and ingenious of the : liPat faster than it is generated, till the internal preponder- aIld ■ ,r . al ! 1 ’. ' v ‘*ie.h heat presently finds its way to the con- present day, more than th® sig!:_ of a locomotive steam en - ance is lost. H.-nce, reason teaches us to restore the balance t p lcte d sk iii, where i t accumulates, looks angry, and produces gine would have surprized the dwellers upon earth a century of power, anti experience proves that reason right, agol And would they not have been as reasonable in tic- M hat nre the remote causes? elaring impossible, what our eyes now see, as we are in say- j Answer.—Too large a proportion of nitrogen in the nr- ing that it is impossible even to discover a universal remedy for all diseases? Again, it is said that tlie vast variety of diseases to which 1 the human tram® is subject, cannot he traced to the same cause. \ on are, therefore, wrong in saying that disease is • one. We answer, first—If, in this assertion, wc err. we are in company with not a few of the greatest fnen that have ever ! devoted their attention to the science of medicine. But how is tli® error proved? The Thomsonian believes ’ in the unity of disease; others believe in a great tli versity of , diseases—each arts according to his faith He with unive.r- - sal remedies; they with an endless variety of Iqcnt. What j is the result? lie cures all that are not constitutionally : dead: they lose often the most robust and promising youth. - To illus’rate.—"I doubt not," says one, “that the Thom- j sonian System is good in many cases; but it is unreasonable ' to suppose that the icy grasp of Cholera, and the scorching 1 flam’- of a bilious fever, should be met upon the same princi- j pies, or with the same remedies.” Let us see. There is a cholera patient with the premonitory syrup raosphere, combined with the lo«s of vital power, occasion ed hv obstructions in the stomach What are the several excitements? Crude food, inehria- lio.-i, fear, and severe exercise, are the principal, as every case proves. But, must not a phys'cian treat his ease according to symptoms? Certainly.- That is just tlie way Thomsonfans work. If they find the patient cold, they heat him. If feverish, they sweat him. If vomiting, they clear out the offensive matter. Ii weak, they strengthen him. H cramped, "they relax his muscles. II obstructed, tlii-v remove tha obstacles. Il hungry, they feed him, Ac. Is not this cuntluct rea sonable? But, is it not unreasonable to undertake to cure thp man before you tell him hts disease? As unreasonable as it would be, to put an eyestbne into tlio eye, before vou ex plained the peculiar nature arid form of the mote it is de nt'd to extract.. the peculiar effect denominated’lever. To expel this fever, vve supply the fountain with addition- ; al heat, apply warmth and moisture to the surface to relax the pores, and then excite to action the secretory vessels, by means of diffusive stimulants. When nil the proper evacu- ; atioris from the pores of th® surface, the stomach, &c., are . effected; that is, when ih® obstructions are removed, tho cause ol the fever is gone, the arteries and veins ticing warm ed and expanded, the blood returns through them in its usual quantity; the digestive organs being relieved, are enabled to . resume their duty; there is no more occasion for fever; the man is well. - In regard to its porosity, and the fluids it contains, the hu man system very closely resembles a sponge saturated with vvatet, Every one knows that an uudue pressure upon any part of this sponge, collapses the pores iu that part, and forc- es the water which was contained in it towards the centre of the sponge.—To make room for this, that which is near some other portion of the surface must necessarily be dia- charged, it. is evident that, if the pressure he increased and extended, the discharge will continue till no fluid remain*. So of the human system. While there is no undue loral pressure upon it, all the natural fluids remaiq in it, in hydro static equilibrium, til! they have undergone their accustomed . . There is no harm in telling hint, if you . . - . , ,. -. , , = . . . toms fairly developed, surrounded with a host of the li.-gu- ; know. But th® most important matter with him is, "to‘®et ! ‘‘hanges, mid then are discharged through their properchan- lar Faculty. A exclaims, Ah! this is a bad case. What I rid of fh® disease; then ho will be more certain what'it was. "eb, in the manner prescribed by the laws of healthy action, shall lie done? Bleed freely, says B. But this is too laic ; and converse about it with more satisfaction. whenever any undue pressure collapses the vessels of for bleeding, says A. Bleed as long as the pulse can hefelt, j “But you, Thomson inns, must sometimes do great harm, a,, y one portion ot the system, and extends itself towards says B, and then you may use blisters and other remedies by giving your medicines at random, without knowing what ot ber portions, the fluids are forced from these i® the tender- with some prospect of success. Calomel is ray sheet an- tlie disease is.” That would be true, if, like our opponents, j es: l dares egress, where they rush with violence from th© rlior, says C But the case is too fur advanced; tbs patient , we used what could do injury in any case; hut all onr me- ^ od ;'. will die before calomel will take effect.+ I have nothing dicines are in harmony with life, at war only with disease; | I’his js the true cause of all hemorrhages, and every other better, says one, but let us he cautious, and give ten grains ' and hostile to that in all its Protean forms “Now, we knovv ! “ nna tural ami excessive discharge. To illustrate:—A po- every hour till it operates. Ten grains! says another; viu- | that you are unreasonable; for that is as much as to sav that ! l * enl . wi te threatened with hemorrhage; a Botanic Physician lent eases require a f«ild practice! i give two hundred and J nil diseases are one, and that you have a universal remedy.” • vyas . immediately called; the process of raising the heat, re- fifty at once! Don't deal so rashly, says D. Dip him in a We do sav that all diseases are one, and we confidently de- having the local pressure, and discharging the obstructions elare that the wisest men that ever ranged them under dif- ! was 8trictI >’ followed, and no hemorrhage oce.ured. A sar- ferent names, have never been able to distinguish between ; ond i* ersori was threatened with the same disease, from the them, or to find n remedy that would infallibly cure one ! same cause. A learned Physician oftlieold school was call- warm bath, and give him a drop or so of camphor, and re pent. Emetics are my chief dependence, says E. Thpy'll do in the first stage, says D, but I think this paiient is too far gone. Friction, friction, says F; yes, with cayenne, says one—no, with spirits of turpentine, says another. Brandy or vinegar will do, says a third. Gastric excitement, says G; an emetic, and a blister to the whole epigastirum. Heat him, says H; give him something hot, and put hot bricks to inni, rtf' liim with hoi liniments, bottles of hot water will f.e good by his side; and, if you can’t bring him to his senses without, sear his bark with a hot noker! Immerse him in a hot hath! / think his stomach is hot pnough now, says I;— I amfiir giving him ice. Just think of that, says J. /is for cramming ice into his stomach; and yet that is tlio only part about him that is not already as cold as ice. Judge whether nny thing else is wanting to kill lorn. Kill him, says K; every thing 1 have heard proposed yet, js better calculated to kill than to cure him. Laudanum, says L, will check the disease till something else can he don®. Mustard plasters •.hould h® made immediately, says M Nitre will cool the • “ 11 l 11 uia ii iKiti (Uui t r • « ’ -mi « . - . | .. * .. _ these diseases have one common origin? We are sure that evf ‘ r y hours, till o dozen should b® taken; promising th*, we have as good reason for believing thatall natural diseases ' l 1 ” 11 ' :,t tliat * ,M ! re would he some check to the hemorrhag© spring from oru* muse, find mny 1)6 rurpd hv our remedy, as » reception ol ihe third pit*. *1 he pills wer® taken you have for believing that all the moral symptoms, as exhi- , t},e eaten, ns directed, but. instead of diminishing, the bit. .1 by the inmates of our prisons, proceed from one cause •.‘'‘"‘..rrhage inereaacd n> an alarming extent. After twenty- —the corruption of the human heart; and mav Im> cured by four hours, a botanic Physician was called. lie used heat one medicine—the blood of Christ. If the verv hairs of our ifistead 01 i,p . a,| d relaxing fluids instead of astringent me- heads are ail numbered, and it is as easy for liim who pro- ; t;d *- ,a minutes the hemorrhage was evidently ccfh- vid®d one universal remedy for the sick soul, to provide ano- ; an 'l !n ninety minutes it entirely disappeared, no ther for the body, is i> unreasonable in us to suppose tliat mor '’ to return. In a few days the patient waa as well aa He may have done it? Nay, is it not most reasonable to sup- ! usu!d - A third patient was threatened with the same dis pose ihat he has? But, you say. if so, ho w ould have told i eati fo f |0m the same cause; the regular practice wrw pursued us what th® remedy is. As well might vou undertake to i under tflP direction or several eminent physicians, and in „. .. ... prove that there is ini Gospel, because it js not revealed to thr®® w-eeks tbe patient was—dead! internal fever, savs N. Opium and camphor are my depen- • every heathen. It is not impossible that one remedy may ' . ^ ” p “ r! *- patient followed th® new practice from tit© fc©- dence.saysO. Precisely opposite says P; u stimulant with | yet lie found which will contain all the qualities which We . ? irin ' n S. a, *d no had consequences ehsueef. The second a sedative! Whatever is done, must be done quickly, sav.s j find in many, and lie s» adapted to the human system, as to commenced with the old practice, grew vvorse, resorted to ’“’ ' ' gainst disease, and in i l * ie ar *d w as soon cured. The third took th Q Rub the extremities, stiys R. This can't b? wrong, if it should not he relevant. I’ve some confidence in saline eme tics. and even saline injections into the veins, says S. 1 be lieve the serum of the blood must be restored. That’s been often tried in vain, says T, and tlie operation is tedious and troublesome. Ven. section is doubtless proner sometintes. savs V, but it is vai in this case. If you w ait much Io. r, it will be, says W. Ten grains of calomej, every hour, till it operates, ran do no harm, says X. Your theories and vour practices are all wrong, says Y. You mav lak® your own courses. [Aside. I shall imitate the Thomsonians as rlos.-lv as I can, “without appearing to countenance empiri cism,”! or to acknowledge any obligations to that arrant system of quackery. I shall give Eupatorium and Ipecac, and cover with blankets till 1 have cleansed the stomach aid it successively in a regular process ag: took the old corns© ami promoted perspiration, and finish with' a half grain of j ever been discovered, but they may be safely and success- calomel, one and a half grains of camphor and ‘ tv of cream of tartar, just to appear scientific favor of life, till the desired object bo fully accomplished. ^ r(,m ^ rsl l a *t, when death closed the scene! We leave Dr. Thomson does not pretend to have discovered such a ■ comment. single article, but he has discovered sundry different articles,) Another patient wns laboring under an unnatural dis- which, used in due succession, will do more to remove dis- charge of a different fluid. Th® prescriptions of the physi- ra.se than all th® remedies that were ever discovered before, rian ' ^ or thu* 5 weeks, seemed only to aggravate the disease, and that may! - . compounded, even hv art, as to he ®iven 1 Botanic Physician stepped in one evening, raised the at the same ii,.-..; with almost equal success. He, therefore, . threw off the pressure, discharged the obstructions, tliat has put the several remedial qualities into a'few differ- and ] rd 'h® patient entirely free from trouble, ent vegetable f.c.-n and may have made one plant con- J \ Ve do 1,01 to any skill in siiigery, but let us take tain them ail. 1 cure p.ci say he has not. and 1 w ill add, ■ a birds’-eye view of blood-letting, the extraction of luinors some plough-hoy is as likely ti. discover that plant, as a Hip- from the flesh, thedischarg® of abscesses and of morbid mat- pocrutcs, a Galen, a Sydenham, a Cullen, a Rush, ora Wa- ! ter from the deep recesses of th® body, >the reduction of ctf) tcrhoits®. Of one thing wc are certain. Tho Thomsntiian etili, Ac.) It has already been proved that bleeding - is not remedies arc not only the most valuable remedies that have required in any kind of fevers: it being necessary in the*© cases only to warm and expand the collapsed veins and ar- NOTE.—In the sequel of this discourse, xve sha” have frequent occasion to use tlie tern-. Physicians. But ve wish it to be disti,.oi ly understood tint onr warfare is against errors and not men It ha- h*-. u very t leslant to us to he acquainted with many 'iistir.- I guished men of this' profession; nud though, as among all other I classes, there an: manv narrow and prejudiced minds, and some I mean ami groveli ng hearts; yet, as a body, we esteem them as laborious and faithful in their profession: as anxious-as auv | others to relieve the sufferings of their fellow men, an*! as willing i to m ik® or adopt anv thin® which, in their opinion, can he conai- j tiered a real improvement in their art. We hope, therefore, that i noexpre- ion of ours mac give personal offence: for certainly no I such:.tin ; is intended. We behove that the '•scienceof medicine” is entirely constructed upon a false foundation, and onr .-nly oh- . iection to its supporters is. th-.t they will not open their eyes to \ the light tliat might liable them to discover their error. ♦ Dr. Clary’s letter—Thomsonian Recorder, Vol. a, page 3S5. I Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. 9, page if-’. !)r. Clary’s Lo”ct, yage 385, Thoiasoman Recorder id ten or twen- | fully administered by the hand of every man or woman who i terics, and remove the undue pressure, ic, and then, if is worthy to be counted the head of a family; and though, ^ young man was thrown from his horse and tal we have no objection to th® future discovery of the one re- senseless. lie \vt13 carried into a house, where he i taken up bjeetion to th® future discovery of the one re- seiiseiess. tie was carried into a house, where he inunedi- mp.'ly, to which we have alluded, yet w e do feel it to he one ’ JV’ - “felted. A surgeon would undoubtedly have bled of the most important duties we owe to our suffering fellow-1 . m ail, ' r *“ s recovery from syncope, but a Botanic Phy- heings, to us*, all our influence, that the knowledge of the ! sicmn entered the instant he fainted, and poured into hi* virtues and uses of those already discovered, should he uni- j mouln some very hot medicine; he instautly revived, cont- versally diffused. plained of cold, and was laid upuil a sofa end covered with blankets. The hot medicine w as repeated, a chill succeeded, : Sc®^Or. M. Burton's letter to the ettv of nirhmcn.t, after his ; the man talked at random for about half an hour; when a return from an inspection of the rhoicrj, in issi. free perspiration broke out, his reason returned, end all wad f Pf -Ti nt’ r 's ,u - In another half hour he rose and walked a mile td October, 1834, at the request of the Curators oj that insl,- gh ^ lay speech ie 8S fo r * n minutes.° A Botanic Doctor poni ed into her mouth a strong heat and an emetic—eheinunedi- The Botanic System of Medical Practice is altogether the ■ atety opened her eves and her mouth, (wiyrh had beta uttf fruit of experience Jt hud n<> part of :!s origin in hypothe. an! asl;®d what he was doing? Ho aastsfed’he/ into fha
