Anti-Lancet, or, The destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced : showing the principles of life and death, and the origin of all diseases with a description of the most efficacious medicines ever made known to the world for their relief and cure / by Charles Rooke.
- Rooke, Charles.
- Date:
- 1870
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Anti-Lancet, or, The destructive practice of bleeding, &c., exposed and denounced : showing the principles of life and death, and the origin of all diseases with a description of the most efficacious medicines ever made known to the world for their relief and cure / by Charles Rooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![unsettle^e^ontradt^o]yf a^^p^menterpracti^^c^no-t lay^c1aim.S *° ^ It is now necessary to say a few words relative to the Medicines recommended which aie proprietary, and prepared by myself only. They were disenvmwi off ’ v protracted hard study, in tto yL 1836; and experienced m private practice, they were made public, since which time thev have een taken by many thousands of persons, and have been of extensive use in the removal of disease—in divers cases where other means have failed; many casesoTwhShThave persona y witnessed, while a multitude of others have been communicated to me by letters from nearly every country of Europe, the Indies, Australia, and North America7 It has given me very great satisfaction to see and hear of patient after patient bein^ restored to sound health and the enjoyment of life by the aid of the medicares referred SlwTf et; ?n/’ 111 Tv7 Cases’ after Protracted afflictions and agonies from which they had expected only to have escaped by death. Since the year 1836, I attended one of the best Medical Colleges and Hospitals in ondon, and graduated in the most respectable University of Europe • hence many professional men deem me liable to some obloquy for keeping secret the mo<ffl of preparing medicines which they acknowledge have been so highly beneficial That thev ooumder mo t ameable on this ground, appears very clear from the following Son of a letter I received from a medical friend ° ponion oi efficacy of those Medicines in manveaS A o ceifiiinly seen, in my neighbourhood, the letter that your intentions are changed. In tCme^^llerniin, &c , ^ fr0m J°^ TT /See 'the registered list of “British Subjects who graduated in Medicine” at the University of Giessen, m Medical Times, July 20th, 1844.) Notwithstanding what medical men may deem to be my duty, I have chosen to depart from conventional custom, and continue to superintend the preparation of these medi¬ cines, so that the public may have them m their genuine purity; for they require so much time, labour, and chemical skill m their preparation, that were they left to be prepared by medical men in general, they would, in many cases, be very imperfect, or exorbitantly deal , and therefore all unprejudiced persons will consider me justified in adopting such a.course. With respect to the propriety of concealing the composition of a medicine, Su J. Banks very judiciously observes “ I have no doubt a medicine will be found more, beneficial to the public, in a high degree, when confined to the practice of one individual,—that it may be well prepared, of the best ingredients, and that the macera¬ tion be properly conducted: matters of vast importance to the afflicted.” . ^eturning on the liberty of all British subjects, I have ventured to express my opinion that all the medical systems hitherto promulgated in this country are entirely false, seeing that they have no fixed principles, and hence lead to fatal errors in practice. 1 do not make this bold and hasty conclusion prematurely, or without judgment in the matter; for, as far as my age extends, I have perhaps read as much in medical literature as any living man, and have, moreover, seen much of medical practice, both in hospitals and private life. In the following pages I have presented the reader, for the first tune, with a Medical System founded on the immovable principles of Nature, by which every typo of disease may be fully explained in every constitution, and in every clime where the human race is found. I am thoroughly satisfied, not only by a long course of observation, but also by many direct experiments, that DEBILITY is the CAUSE and CONSEQUENCE of every DISEASE and of DEATH. To this, the only rational theory of disease ever propounded to the world, the most obstinate of medical men must finally come. Whilst to the afflicted it must surely be a matter of no small consolation to know the cause of their diseases, and the means to be adopted for their cure, and thus have their minds set at ease on a subject that so materially concerns them: and also to get clear of a wilderness of opinions founded in error and supported by bigotry and prejudice.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3057030x_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
