A letter to the allopathic doctors of Dayton / by H. Wigand.

  • Wigand, H. (Henry)
Date:
1849
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Credit: A letter to the allopathic doctors of Dayton / by H. Wigand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    astonishment, and not knowing that the lancet has done all this mischief, and in order to do something to gratify people, they propose torturing him a little more. You put draughts to his feet, flie plasters to his neck, chest, back, abdomen, and I doubt not, would blister his very inside, lungs and brain, nafl not kind nature protected these noble organs by hard bones! And how is your patient after all these tortures!? Any betterif Better? No, and what are you going to do now? You an- swer: we have done all our rational system teaches us, we have taken him through a regular course, we tried everything, there is no help for him. The patient continues sinking, and slowly the spirit takes its flight to better regions, for he can- not inhabit a dwelling so beautifully constructed by an omni- potent father, but so horribly mutilated by the rough and un- skilful hands of an allopathic doctor. Excuse me, Gentlemen, if I dwell no longer upon this subject. It is sickening to picture all the cruelties resorted to by your ra- tional school, and would require volumes to expose, to relate all the miseries, tortures,sufferings and premature deaths caused by the wrong treatment of disease by allopathic physicians. And, in the face of all these facts, you still continue to work thus blindly in the bodies Of your fellow beings, and in those of your own children and wives! You witness the immense suf- ferings caused by your tortures without effecting any good, any radical cure of diseases; you see this destruction of hu- man life and human happiness by your hands, and you don't blush? You are not ashamed? Is that the rational treatment you boast upon? Heaven deliver us from such a rationality, deliver suffering humanity from a treatment, which indeed is worse than famine or pestilence. Do you tell me, it is a law of nature, is it rational, that, when a man is sick, feeble and exhausted the aid of an allopathic physician should be called, to increase his pains, his sufferings, his weakness by blistering, bleeding, purging, &c, No, sir, it is nature's will, that there should be no suffering no disease in this world; that men should not only die without disease, but that they should live without pain. The allopathic school, as I remarked before, has no thera- peutic law for the administration of medicines; therefore, Ueatlemen, your whole medical horizon is wrapped in dark- ness. You never can agree. Your ship is without a helm