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a job, wThat would you say of him? Would you not say that they were both frauds alike ? You could not say anything else. If he should tell you that your machine had just turned into something else since he began to work at it, and that you can look out for the worst, after two or three weeks working on it ; what would you say then 9 Henry Ward Beecher said there was no reason why any person who is once healthy should not live to be a hundred years old. Botanical Doctor Wm. M. Starr says that if all doctors were what they ought to be or what their friends take them to be ; no children who were once in good health would die under a good old age, from 80 to 100 years or more. He further says that no young person once in good health would die, without a gross violation of the laws of nature, either by those who have them in charge or of themselves. The body best taken care of will last the longest, the same as with a machine or anything else. 41 The people can do without any monoply in doc- tors or hi any other business. To pass a law to give any class of men the exclusive right to practice medicine means human speculation and murder. It means to destroy, to kill, without any regard to law. It means human destruction, to pass a law to grant to any one school of medicine the whole right to practice exclusively. Force bills passed into laws by the States, to stop all doctors from making any medicines or to practice, except the graduates of certain schools which commend the use of poisons is an outrage on humanity. A law to give the whole practice to any one class is an abomination. Look at Pitts- burg, Pa. in March, 1891 ; fifty per cent of all La Grippe cases died. Look at Chicago the same month; nine hundred in one week. Look at New York City ; still worse. That those who make any improvement in medi- cines, or that men who have positive cures, shall be driven out of practice, because they do not believe in using poison as a medicine, or because they believe entirely in the Botanical remedies, home-made on scientific principals, is a violation of human liberty and human rights and human safety, and destroys the very principles of invention and prosperity. The people can do without Force Bills but they can't do without the farmers. They are the producers and 42 feed us all. The farmers are the noblest men on earth. Were I to select a board of the greatest men on earth I would go to the largest farmers to choose them, because they are the best. And were I to select doctors I would choose them of those who made their own medicines from the raw herbs, fresh from the farms and wdods. I have analyzed wheat, rye, corn, oats, barley, beans, po- tatoes, rice, meats, and milk, and then the human body, which are all composed of purely vegetable matter. You cannot live without vegetables. This fact being true, then who is right? The doctors who gather their medical cures from the vegetable kingdom for a vegetable body, or the doctors who use mineral medicines for a vegetable body ? Ap- ply common sense and you have the answer. You mast have vegetables to live on and Botanical cures are right. If the human body can't live without mineral food then the mineral doctors are right.. The idea that the human body must be treated with minerals and other poisons for any of its dis- eases is an impossibility, mere speculation. It is an historical and important fact, that in the Gulf Cities south in Yellow Fever seasons, all the people become alarmed, doctors and all. Why is all this ? It is because the doctors have no cure for it, and have no confidence in themselves, in fact the doctors die the same as the common people, so- 43 •all hopes for cure are lost and all have to await for the frost. This is positive proof that in a hundred years experiments these doctors know less what to do with Yellow Fever than they did an hundred ' years ago. In fact they don't know anything about it at all, only to run from it and quarantine against and trust to Providence for an early frost. Yet they say we have no right to make any improve- ment in medicines or to practise medicine, even if we have sure cures. . They pretend that they know it all and are the only doctors that do know it all. It was still a little worse in the city of Washington D. C, during the first four months in the year 1891, there were more deaths from La Grippe than •ever died in New Orleans in any four months in history, from any disease. Why was this ? La Grippe is an easy disease to cure. In Pittsburg, Pa., it was still worse. In Chicago it was worse than Yellow Fever ever was in Xew Orleans. What is the matter ? These diseases are cureable. Is there no Balm of Gilead or is there no man to gather it. I say there is a positive cure and a pos- itive preventative in the vegetable kingdom. Bo- tanical medicines are the only positive and safe cures on earth. A little improvement in medicine would harm no one. All doctors can have the benefit of my Botan- ical medicines, and their patients as well, if they 44 choose to do so. Then why object to have any im- provement in medicines ? Is it possible that the present medical profession now in charge have come to a halt in science and invention and to a point where there is no sure cure for any disease ? It looks very much as if it had come to this point when there are from 160 to 200 deaths per week 2n "Washington, D. C. Now the people are looking^ or relief from a change of weather, &c. If the death rates over those of births were to continue a& they did during the months of February, March, April, and May, 1891, it would take only twenty years to exterminate the entire population of Wash- ington, New York, Chicago, and Pittsburg. .Statistics in the Health Office of Washington show that there were about one-third more deaths than births during the first six months of 189 1* How long would it take to exterminate the popula- tion, if there was no emigration? Are the doctors who had charge of those cities the same doctors who had those force bills passed in the cities and states, to prevent any doctors out side from practicing, selling, or making any new improvements whatsoever in medicines? That they must dictate what the people shall or what they shall not use? Dictate that a class of men shall monopolize the whole practice of medicine, who- have not a single sure cure for any disease in hu- 45 man life. They lost 800 children in two months of cholera infantum in the year 1890, and still more in 1891, this has become alarming. It was worse in Chicago in 1891 than the yellow fever ever was in any one year in New Orleans. La Grippe is a eureable disease and can be very •easily cured. I had during the first two weeks in April, 1891, 104 cases of La Grippe and lost none. I used only pure Botanical medicines. I have also analyzed every part of the human body and find it & purely vegetable body, a perfect composition of vegetable matter and I find that Botanical medi- cines are the only medicines that will agree with this pure vegetable body. This is as true as truth •can be. I commend the following article to my readers, taken from the works of the late eminent Botanical Physician, Dr. C. L Coffin, of London, England.: " In presenting this wrork to the public, we do not seek to obtain any of those flattering encomiums which are often purchased at the expense of truth. We know that the science of Medical Botany will, •ere long, produce a complete revolution in the medical world, and as we shall, in animadverting on the errors of the ignorant excite the envy of 46 some, and awaken the hatred of other interested individvals, it will be our consolation to know that our reputation is now so fully established whenever our lectures have been heard and our practice has become known, that wTe neither have to fear the one, nor shrink from the consequences of the other. Doubtless the faculty will denounce us in the most ungenerous terms for having dared to arraign their practice before the bar of public opinion ; for this too we are prepared; so as we can summon to* our aid such evidence as will not only establish our principles, but silence effectually those who oppose us. Though we live in an age remarkable for its im- provements, and wonderful in its resources, science having given development to powers as incredible as they are astonishing ; yet, in the midst of all these advantages, selfishness steps in and proclaims aloud that none — save the Diplomatised — are com- petant to cure the sick, or minister to the afflicted,, when every day's history proves the folly of such a vain and egotistical policy. Why the medical world should arrogate to itself the prescriptive right of killing or curing at pleasure, is a problem we are not learned enough to solve; or why a man should be esteemed a clever physician because he has been educated in a college,, we are at a loss to* AT divine. Education is proper for all men. We would that all men were better educated than they are ; but education either means something or noth- ing— and if it be a reality, why should a physic- ian seek his diploma in a college ? Certainly not, but in the cottage where human nature lies suffer- ing on its couch of pain. Will a shred of parch- ment confer ability upon its possessor? Certainly not; it is a delusion to suppose it. An acre of parchment, a thousand books, or a \ ead stored with bad Latin, will not even make a shoemaker; what an absurdity then to suppose such things capable of making a physician. At this particular time when the schools are di- vided upon first principles, it is somewhat amusing to find the faculty not only disagreeing amongst themeslves, but positively denouncing each other as quacks, L e., ignorant pretenders in a work en- titled " Fallacies of the Faculty" we have abundant proof of this. The author ridicules, and justly too, the use of the lancet and the dissecting-knife ; what sensible man can admire the policy of cutting up a body after death in order to ascertain the nature of the malady of which the patient died? This ab^ surdity is only equalled by that of the philosopher who cut the bellows open to find out where the wind came from, and there is certainly as much philosophy in one case as in the other. 48 Indulgent nature provides a fitting remedy for every ill that flesh is heir to. Man in his igno- rance, too frequently rejects the boon that nature offers, and seeks in artificial aid an anodyne for ill. And so long as monoply in medicine is countenan- ced and applauded, so long must this state of things continue to exist; what better proof can we ask than that a man who undertakes to cure the sick, should be able to ascertain the cause of sickness, to know where to find a remedy and how it should be applied ? A physician should be taught that disease is a problem which it is his duty to solve. He should know that heat is the source of life — its absence death ; that a change of temperture wTill produce a change in the animal economy; food is only administered for the purpose of creating blood, which, when distributed through every artery and veir, imparts health to the nerves, vigor to the muscles, and strength to the limbs; to preserve health we must regulate the temperature of the body and above all things avoid such irregularities as may lead to decay. After all, even though we succeed in proving more than was ever previously attempted by any other man, we know the faculty will not admit us, neither can we expect any favor at their hands nor will their practices receive much from us, we shall show that a knowledge of nature is not indigenous 49 to college life, but must be sought for in the woods and forests ; each sun-lit vale or verdant meadow, contains some agent of a remedial kind. A green herb is worth more than a latin phrase. Nature has a college of her own — in it we have studied, our sensibilities have been extremlv pained, when we beheld the young and beautiful cut down like the cedar which bends before the blast, when fever scosched the veins, or consumption dried up their crimson rivulets, and we beheld them carried to "that bourne from whence no traveller returns.' We reasoned thus with nature, "Is there no balm in Gile&d — no aim to save from death — no respite from the grave?'' The voice of nature breathed within our soul. We sought the woods, the fields, and the forests of our native land; from verdant banks we gathered healing herbs. We sought the sufferer on his bed of pain, we raised his drooping head, we bade him drink and live — nature revived within him, his languid eyes unclosed, his feeble arm again grew strong, his wife and children bless- ed us with their tears. This nerved our heart with hope. When the hot pestilence rained dowTn its firey ruin, we planted health where death had else beeni found. Amidst the fair fields of America we left a germ of knowledge richer far than stories of treas- ured gold; and providence has spread its sacred 50 wings around our daily path, and the grateful prayers of sufferers saved from pain are our reward. Thus our diploma is seen in the success which heaven hath thrown around us. Mortality. On account of violating the laws of nature, man is degenerating in the length of life, strength and durability every century. When he used nature's remedies for medicines and lived according to the laws of nature, he lived to the age of from one hun- dred to nine hundred years. The average at that time was one hundred and seventy-seven years. After he commenced to use artificial medicine he decreased in lei Jjth of life. Two thousand years ago the average length of man's life was one hun- dred and seventy-seven years, now it is only sixteen years and ten months. Fifteen hundred years ago down to eight hundred years ago the average stood at .three score and ten — seventy years. In eight hundred years the average has fallen from seventy to sixteen years and ten months. Why is this ? I will give to my dear readers just one starting point and they can work it out themselves and can then see why this is all so. In the summer of 1890 in two months eight hun- 51 dred children died under five years of age in Wash- ington, D. C; the average age being about one year and one month. Those who died under sixteen years and ten months during the same two months aver- aged about >even years. At What Age Do Most People Die? This question is often asked without any answer. I will answer it correctly to my readers. The high- est number of deaths are from the birth of the child to its first year ; the next highest is from the first to the second year ; next is from the second to the third year and so on it gradually decreases up to a hundred years. The average age of mankind is sixteen years and ten months. There are sixty - nine thousand deaths under one year of age to one between ninety-nine and one hundred years. There are sixty -nine thousand more deaths be- tween one and two years of age than there are be- tween ninet^-ei^ht and ninety-nine years; there are fifty-four-more deaths between the age two and three than'there are between ninety-seven and ninety-eight. This is the way it runs and it comes to an average of a little under seventeen years. This table may be denied; if it is let the one who 52 denies it make out a table himself and show where this one is not correct. My headquarters are failing to control my king- dom ; my picket guard cannot guard my constitu- tion, it is gone. I have no laws to go by. My ■stomach is my government ; my teeth are my pick- et guards; my brain is my headquarters. I know that I have failed to keep a strict guard against the enemy of my government. In fact they have the balance of power over my head. They lead me in- to all sorts of vice and woe, but it is never to late to do good, so I will ally with another kingdom, known as the kingdom of good sense, and fight them again on this line and I will not let anything pass through my picket line unless I am perfectly satisfied that it is in full harmony with my consti- tution. Let it be food, drink