Curative medicine, or, Purgation, directed against the cause of diseases : discovered by Doctor Pelgas, acknowledged and analyzed in this work / by Doctor Leroy ... Translated from the 12th ed., by Gabriel Paul ... To which is added, the opinion of Doctor Renard.

  • Le Roy, Louis, active 1820.
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1830
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Credit: Curative medicine, or, Purgation, directed against the cause of diseases : discovered by Doctor Pelgas, acknowledged and analyzed in this work / by Doctor Leroy ... Translated from the 12th ed., by Gabriel Paul ... To which is added, the opinion of Doctor Renard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. TO THE PEOPLE OP THE UNITED STATES, JS MjLOW-CITIZEJYS: In offering you the Curative Medicine of Doctor LEnor,. winch I have translated, at the request of many of my friends, my intention is, that it should prove eminently useful to every class of soeiety, and particularly, to those who may be lingering under the weight of bodily infirmities. Nothing but a con- viction obtained by actual experiments and constant success, could have prompt- ed me to make it public. I have scrupulously preserved the reasoning of the author, against the common, practice of the physicians of his own country; but I disclaim any allusion to our Doctors, whom I have always found disinterested, and free from that European doctoral pride, and selfishness, the source of all the persecutions to which Doctor 'jEroy has been subjected. Those persecutions raised against him during several years, by men of bis own profession, plainly show to the candid observer, that he had proclaimed a great discovery, which, showing the inefficiency and even the dangers attending the dif- ferent practices, founded upon systematical theories, wounded sensibly the pride •:nd interests of those physicians, who then opposed it, instead of seizing the means presented to them for the benefit of their patients. Had it been nonsense, and quackery, as they termed it; if the evacuants of the method, had been a poison, would not public opinion, soon have stamped the whole with the seal of reprobation? On the contrary, as soon as our author made pub- lic his Curative Medicine, millions of patients flocked under the standard of that immortal truth which had just been revealed to them, arid soon perceived, some un- fortunately too late, how easy it is for any person of common sense, to preserve hit health, cure his affections, and consequently avoid chronical infirmities. What a sight for the philanthropist, to s-ee Doctor Lehoy, dragged from court to court, from one province to another, to answer charges which a vile jealousy, sei- lishness and wounded pride, had brought against him; to see him obtain, under the acclamations of a numerous population, a complete victory over his enemies, by the very means employed against him, the testimony of hundreds of witnesses, summoned by his prosecutors, who were all uuanimous in his favor. Compelled to submit to that great regulator of the actions of men, public opin- ion, but finding the craft to be in danger, they circumvented the government, and dazzling its eyes by a long and scientific report, (founded, as it has evidently been proven, upon the most egregious errors,) not against the fundamental principles of the method of our author, which all his antagonists put together, have never been able to controvert; but against a mere compound (of seventy-five years' trial, it is true,) represented as a poison, a drastic, &c &c. but which, in fact, precluded all other doctoral ordinances, and above a)!, the fashionable leeches, lancet, calomel, bath, &c. &c. they obtained an order, prohibiting any druggist from delivering the said compound, called Leroy's Medicine, except to the order of a patented physi- cian. Such.is the turn of the human mind, that bis persecutors had no sooner trumpet- ted their victory, than every one being anxious to become acquainted with a meth- od of treatment, so sure in its efficacy, there was such a demand for his work, that several successive editions, extending to twelve thousand copies each, were scarce- ly sufficient to answer it. His son-in-law, a druggist, authorised by our author t» compound and sell the remedy, of which lis had published the recipe for the general good, was, of course, trusted alone; and alone, also, derived the profits arising from the immense quantity ordered from every quarter of the globe. Among the numerous documents contained in the other four volumes, which our author calls The Curative Medicine justified by practical facts, allow me to lay before you one of them for your own consideration. At the call of Doctor Le- roy, to silence the vituperative assertions of his enemies, every one cured or nota- bly relieved by the medicaments of his method, hastened to send him their decla- rations. Anions the rest, an inhabitant of the town of St. Arnould, requeeted, up- da his dsclarution, the affidavit of the mayor, who was bis father, and had wit-