Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 8, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 April 1829 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM. From the .Ve Monthlu Magazine. A LETTER OF ADVICE, rom Miss Malar Trcvilanat Padua, !o Miss Araminta ftivascur in London. Enfui, Monsirur, un homme aimablc : Wila pourquoi jc nesaurais rainier."--scribe. You tell mc you're promised a lover,. My own Araminta, next week ; Why cannot my fancy discover The line of his coat and his cheek ? ! if he look like another, .vicar, a banker, a beau, Be af to your father and mother, My own Araminta. say 'No !' Miss Line, at her Temple of fashion,

Taught us both how to siiu and to pcak, And we loed one another with passion, Before we had been there a week : You gave me a rimj for a token, 1 wear it wherever I go ; I gave you a chain is it broken ? Mv own Araminta, sav ' No !' Oil think of our favcritc cottage. And think of our dear Lalla Kookh ; tagc, How wc shared with the milk maids their potAnd drank of the stream from the brook : How fondly our loving lips faltcr'd, What farther can grandeur bestow ! My heart is the same is yours altcr'd ? My own Araminta, say 1 No !' Remember the thrilling Romances We read on the bank in the glen ; Remember the suitors our fancies Would picture for both of us then : They wore the red cross on their shoulder, ThVy had vanquish 'd and pardon'd their foe Sweet friend, are you wiser w colder ? My own Araminta, say 'No!' Von knov, when Lord Rigmarole's carriage Drove off with your cousin Justine, You wept, dearest girl, at the marriage, And whispcr'd " How base she has beeti !" You said you were sure it would kill you If ever your husband look'd so ; And you will not apostatise w ill you ? My own Araminta, say 4 No When I heard I was going abroad, Love, I thought I was going to die ; We walk'd arm-in-arm to tlie road, Love, We look'd arm-in-arm to the sky ; And I said, " When a foreign postillion Has hurried mc off to the Bo, forget not Medora Trcvilian : My own Araminta, say 1 No!' We parted! but sympathy's fetters Reach far over valley and hill ; I muse o'er your exquisite letters. And feel that your heart is mine still. And he who would share it with me, Love, The richest of treasures below Jf he's not what Orlando should be, Love, My own Araminta, say 4 No !' If he wears a top-boot in his wooing, If he comes to you riding a cob, If he talks of his baking or brewing, If he puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner. If his brow or his breeding is low. If he calls himself 4 Thompson,' or 'Skinner,' My own Araminta, say 4 No" if lie studies the news in the papers, While you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps and the vapours, While moonlight lies sott on the sea, I. he's sleepy while you are capricious, if he has not a musical 4 Oh !' '" lie does not call Werter delicious

Araminta, s v 4 No !'

.Mv own

.If iu ever sets foot in the city. Ailing the stockbrokers and Jews, Jf ho has not a heart full of pity, if he don't stand six feet in his shoes. If his lips are not rodder than roses, If his hands are not whiter than snow, If he has not the model of noses My own Araminta, say 4 No!' i he speak of a tax or a duty, If he does not look grand on his knee-, flic's blind to a landscape of beauty. Hills, vallevs, rocks, w aters and tree?. If he dotes not on desolate towers. If he likes not to hear the blast blow. If he knows not the lamruaure of flowers My own Araminta, say 4 No!' He must walk like a God of old story. Come down from the home of his rest ; He muse smile like the Sun in his glory, Oa the buds he loves ever the best ;

Ami oh. from its now nortal

Like music his soft speech must flow !

If he speak, smile, or walk, like a mortal !

Mv own Araminta. sav 4 No!'

Don't listen to tales of his bountv, L n'c hear w hat they tell of liis birth. Drift look at his seat in the countrv. Don't calculate what he is worth"; But give him a theme to write verse on, And see if he turn out his toe ; If he's only an excellent person Mv own Araminta, sav 4 No!

VAIUETY.

AN ESSAY ON BILIOUS FEYER AND CALOMEL. By Anthony Hunn, M. CH. D. , No. VII. In my former numbers I have laid before tbepublic a few only of the many existing facts, which press themselves upon the mind of an observitfg thinker, and must inevitably lead him to the conclusion, that the present medical practice is so farfrom

being beneficial, as even to create a

serious doubt, whether it be not in the

whole, detrimental and injurious to mankind. This is owing to the want of truth in all our systems of the medical science. A systemshouldeonsist of just,logical deductionsdrawn from familiar, known, indubitable and undoubted fads Instead of this, all our systems are either false conclus ions from real facts, or just conclusions from mere imaginary whims, begged principles, or mere supposi tions ; or even false conclusions from erroneous principles. All systemisers

pretend to build upon facts ; but their

facts are pressed and whipped into

their service. The doctor first spins his srstcm out of the cobweb of his

fancy, and afterwards squeezes some

facts into form resembling proots of

it, and very honestly, shuts his eyes against all such facts as are at variance

with his beloved air castle. He ere

atcs distinctions, when in Nature all

swims together. Thus Boer have. Cullen, Brown, Darwin. Stahl are all blind leaders of the blind, and the young physician, who thinks he has

in his notes and books a remedy for

every disease when he comes to the

sick bed, finds all a chaos, no rule

will apply ; lie looks in vain for the vaunted effects of hrs cure all Nos

trums, & either forsakes in disgust a

practice, which may lead him to

-m mr

Manslaughter, or.lrom experience

chalks himself out some dictionary

This is good for that or that is gooc

for this, and becomes a Quack. Foi

practice without system is the very definition of quackery. An other, c not less efficient cause of the falsity of our medical systems is the preju

diced respect, for ancient and modern celebrated Names. The most important data presented to us by modern improvements in Physiology and Anatomy the marrow of the medi cai science are bartered away for the dictaof Hippocrates, Galen, Boerhave Cullen, & Rush & thus the Lancet, or Calomel, or cold bath, or opium, or salt of Tartar all in their turn, become Panaceas cure alls with the accession of every new popular professor, and " For the King's ofTcnce the people dies." Tomer. The foregoing numbers I have

written as an introduction to my offer to the public of a new system of the medical science, which I have formed

conscientiously clear of all those impediments, and which is confirmed in its salutary effects by the experience of a life time's practice. I am a Democrat. The will ofthe public mind is the only earthly sovereign I acknowledge. But this pub lie mind aught to be well informed, else, like every other sovereignty, it plies all the horrors of iiranny. It is therefore the imperious duty of every citizen, before he dies, to communicate to his sovereign all the know ledge he hasacquired during his life, which may in any degree be beneficial to his fellow citizens, and not like a Miser, hide his treasure in the ground, or like a Misanthropist,

grudge to his surviving brothers the benefits which might result from his discoveries. Not far from my grave,

now, I come forward to pay my debts to my adopted country, and thro' it to the world. I have made important discoveries in the medical science, which I feel myself impelled to offer, and empowered to make good. But I anticipate a question, which has been put to Moses, to Socrates, to Gallilco,to Columbus to every man, that has presented the face of a Re former, and which green eyed envy never yet has failed to accompany with the sneer of detraction : IVho arc you, that you dare to presume to know more than we?" Free from that cowardly, bastard modesty, which trembles to own its competency before the scorn of Malevolence, I frankly answer as a freeman, that

rom my sixth year I was dedicated . f 1

to the sciences Dy a latner ncn

enough to give three sons besides mc, a full chance of the highest scientific education that Europe affords. At a

riper age I studied for live years

styled the United States Infirmary. for the express purpose of supplant ing the present "pernicious" practice of Physic!:, with a new and more beneficial method of cure. May the;

power of God, which is ever cm

not for half a year "off and on" ployed for the happiness of mankind,

in the celebrated Academy of Jena

in Saxony ; successively 'f heology.

Law and Medicine. The last as my

predilection, I chose for the employ

ment of mv life. I graduated as

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (as my diplomas show) in two Universi

ties on the continent, Jena Erfurt, profited afterwards by visiting the Universities of Erlang, Gottengen,

Keel, enjoyed the lectures ol a Reich,

btark, & ol the most eminent physi

cians of the present age, Jlujjland.

Then I embraced the opportunity of

the assistance of mv mother's relati-

ons in France, to attend the surgical operations in the Hotel de. Dicu in Paris, practised afterwards three

years in Amsterdam and embarked

for America, where i have had for 30 years the amplest opportunity of studying the power of God on the sick bed. Being acquainted with ancient and modern languages, I have read

till 12 every night every author of

note and made extracts and now I am near 60 years of age, and am the very man who offers his sevices to the sovereign people of America.

I have two reasons, why I offer my services to the people in general, and not to the medical faculty in partic-

cula, viz : 1. I know the reluctance with which men enter upon unlearning jalsc learning. The effects of

disappointed pride are abuse and

persecution upon him, who dares to dissipate the radiant illusion, and obstinacy in error upon the persecutor.

2. A free people ought, at least in a cartain degree, to be their own Pre

achers Lawyer?, and Physicians. A people Priest-ridden, Lawyer-ridden. Doctor-ridden could they still be free? Impossible. The medical books are so crowded with barbarous words and phrases that I defy the best english scholar to make any thing out of them, even if he could make any thing by understanding them. I purpose to teach my medical science, which is in itself simple and easy to be understood in plain english language, avoiding or translating every

latin or greek expression, so that any good english scholar of good household sense, may he able to read and understand it. In so useful an undertaking, I have every reason to

hope and expect from an intelligent,

generous people, instead of envy and detraction, applause and support.

There is not one principle in the

present medical practice that will

stand logical investigation, and the

whole world groans under the lash of

learned, or unlearned quackery ; nay, if there will be no stop put to it, the

etlects ot poison mongery on the

human frame, must become heredi

tary and the whole human species

dwindle down into Dwarfs & Idiots.

A regenerating spirit however, has

lately manifested itself not only in

Lurope, where according to late ad vices received by me, the enlightened, Princes of Saxe IVimar are pursuing measures, highly calculated to sift the medical science and practice, but also here in America, where the March ofthe Mind is without impediment.

The following extract from an advertisement, sent to me from NewYork, will rectify misconstructions and misconceptions respecting my motives in writing these numbers, & show to those "omniscient and om nipotent," Calomel and Ilatshane prophets, who oppose to superior wisdom a sneer, and to reformation abuse and detraction ; that I am not the only nose that can 4smell rottenness in Denmark." A grand institution has been established, at vast ex-

nene.es in tho Citv nf "Npiv-Vnrb

take the yellow spectacles of envv, e

the black veil of prejudice from the eyes of the people, and warm the hearts ofthe authors & supporters of so noble an institution with perseverance in the good, but arduous fight

against those-obstacles winch ever lie entrenched against the approaches of reformation The work is novel and glorious for America. Sew York June. 1S27. "For many years we have been fully convinced, both from experience and observation, that the present

practice of Phys:c and Surgcr if, is

not toimucu on correct and rational principles. The means made nee ol to restore the sick to health, are no salutary and beneficial ; but on the contrary are productive of very pernicious and, not unfrequently, fa! l effects. 4 The knife, the lancet, mercury & other minerals, are now ehicily relied upon by Physicians and Surgeons for the Removal of almost all diseases incident to the human body; the injurious consequences resulting from such practice, must, in a reateV

or les 3 degree, be obvious to all. The

unfortunate patient is doomed to undergo the most painful and dangerous operations, and thereby deprived of the use of his limbs or life, his health, lime, and substance; for the

want of such remedies as the God ot nature has placed within his reach; and should any, perchance, be cured

by the depleting system, or some of the numerous minerals or foreign

drugs in use, such violence and injury

isuoneiomc constitution ; that the

unfortunate sufierer is often compell

ed to drag out a miserable existence.

Various attempts has been made from time to time, by different indi

viduals, to rescue medicine Irom its

present degraded and lamentable state; from various causes, however, their efforts have not been fully crowned with success. But we are now happy to announce to our fellow citizens, that means commensurate with the importance of the subject have been taken, to introduce a better system of Medical and surgical practice. "A lot of ground has been procured, and a convenient and handsome edifice erected, expressly to carrv this object into effect. This institution, denominated the United States Infirmary, has been founded (from the most disinterested motives) for the treatment of diseases generally hi; a neic and improved method. The remedial sources are chiefly to be derived from the vegetable kingdom believing that the productions of outown country are sufficient to coun

teract the disorders incident to it The building is located in Elbridge street, between Grand and Broome, a central & pleasant part ofthe City. The Institution has been placed under the superintendence of a Physician who has been regularly bred to the Profession of Medicine, according to the law of the state; by which every additional benefit can be deri

ved from the present practice of medicine, at the same time a course of treatment decidedly superior, and far more efficacious, is relied upon Tht: aid and co-operation of a number of practitioners, distinguished for their skill, is also secured " To the Learned. Honest, and Honorable Physicians. Gentlemen: Apprehensive, that you might misunderstand my aim. in stepping forth so confidently in the garb of a reformer of the medical science, I feel it my duty to address a few observations to you, the (For remainder, see third page.)