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212 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
y ield the the most palm deep of ly knowled and philoso ge upon phicall every y ; but sub this ject need to those not mak who e it have impossible studied the for other same s sub to jects have ac The quired reall at least libera a l very -minde useful d and degree well-educated of knowled man ge who on
devotes his life to that . study , will y always retain his position , and possess , the lar question gest power at issue in ; ministering but rather to , whether the cure it of be bodies not possible . But this for the is hardl generall y the y
and well- of educated those means gentlem which an to Providence possess such has a knowled laced within of man his ' s reach constitution for the , preservation of healthas will enable him to p relieve his own ailments and
w those ith as of his much poorer success ne , ighb as ors those to a who very , thoug considerable h legally extent qualified ; and to practise perhaps medicine as apothecaries , may not always have carried their researches
always much beyond be cases the of starting incurable -point disease in their , and profession others such . Of as course to call , there forth will the utmost after all s , kill of the of the great most mass talented of disease ph , y does sician not , but seem the so successful great a mystery treatment as ,
some " In woul 1836 d , have if I us mistake suppose not . , Dr . Dickson published his conviction , that jud have there gment periods is a , unity the of type in rem all . That i disorders ssion , again recurring , of , all which disorders with ague more , _, at least intermittent or less in their regularity fever earlier , is . , sta in And ges his ,
hence advantage his simp of these le method periods of treatment remission , to which support advises and strengthen in every case the to patient take for various to postpone a successful well- or known prevent strug remedies gle the with recurrence for the fever paroxysm of the of paroxysm disorder b should y administerin it recur g , and the
. " The simple question is , ( and it is one which every man of common periodic sense can ity answer of all diseases for himself stand , ) will the test this th experience eory of the ? unity , remittency , and
" Let me ask , does not everyone on the approach of disease use some such me lan . gua I ge am so this cold : ' I and am sure chill I shall or I be ill ; I don t and t know burnin what i n rn come skin to g y
according as the hot or cold y , stage is present , and this without the least , was referen b ce as to kin the p myself eculiar this develo and pmen similar t of the uestions disorder that which I first follow convinced ? It
myself y that Dr g . Dickson ' s theory , was true q ; and , by following the advice which , some nei two hbors or three I years afel since , he that most I have kindly not gave practicall me , in favor found
nov my ice poor as I was g in the , healing may art s , that y say I have , c run any risk of killing more y than , I cured , ' although the diseases of my somewhat numerous patients have been
p ci rett pal y reason various for , and this not happy un s important uccess has in been their , that character my poor . nei But g , hbor sir , s one come prin - the me ir di soon sorders as ever This alas y are ! th e , and too o do ften not do wait before for a the li develo nto a pmen medical t of
man . They are . afraid , of the expense y . They have no messen ppyg ger to send to the distance at which he resides . The overseer is from home , and they va cannot luable get time an order is unfortunatel for the . lost ical . officer Now the their union has , and none thus of much these parson
difficulties in his way , and thus y is enabled to administer his simple remeprospect dies at the of success very earliest moment , and consequently with the best possible
. professional " Dr . Dickson visit ' s to instructions my wifeand were have giv calle en d fort dur h i great ng the th shor ankfulness t period to the ' London doctor' as thcall , himfrom moor neihbors
, ey , y pg . instruction " Where , of then the , is clergy the impossibility , especially of of the good country and great clergy results , in the from healing a _regulai such art ; *
stud or , at y ? all I events believe , of among 3 uch of our th own em as poor are at conscious home , quite of any as much aptitude as among for the a
212 Open Council.
212 OPEN COUNCIL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/68/
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