An anti-calomel lecture : being the substance of an address written by appointment of the Medical Association of Meigs County, Ohio : to have been delivered before said society at its annual meeting held in Pomeroy, Ohio, May 20th, 1854, at 10 o'clock, A.M., but was prevented by peculiar circumstances / by William N. Hudson.
- Hudson, William N.
- Date:
- 1854
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Credit: An anti-calomel lecture : being the substance of an address written by appointment of the Medical Association of Meigs County, Ohio : to have been delivered before said society at its annual meeting held in Pomeroy, Ohio, May 20th, 1854, at 10 o'clock, A.M., but was prevented by peculiar circumstances / by William N. Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![by this POISON? The above observa-\ poisons ; prescribed quantities of these tion of Dr. C. probably slipped his \ are conveyed into the stomach, from timo memory, when, a few years since, before; to time, until the whole system is under his class, he addressed them as follows: j their influence; in other words, till the Gentlemen, if you could see what I al- whole mass of blood is poisoned. But most daily see, in private practice, in does the patient who has been swallow- this city—persons from the South, in the; ing mercury, suppose that the gums only very last stages of wretched existence, are inflamed, by this circulation ofmer- emaciated to a skeleton ; with both ta- i curialized blood through them? Does bles of the skull almost completely per- he suppose that the other organs, the forated, in many places; the nose half brain, the lungs, the kidneys, and the gone;'with rotten jaws; ulcerated throats; eyes, have a charmed life, and that they breaths most pestiferous, more intolera- are proof against all injury from the ble than poisonous upas ; limbs racked,! poisoned blood passing through the del- as it were, with the pains of the inquisi-j icate network of their tissues? What is tion; minds as imbecile as the puling I to protect the heart, the brain, the lungs, babe's; a grievous burden to themselves,! the liver, the kidneys, the stomach, and and a disgusting spectacle to others—{(especially) the bones from the same sort you would exclaim, as I have done, '0! j of irritation as that which has loosened the lamentable want of science that die- and destroyed all his teeth? And here, tates the use of this noxious drug, calo- Mr. President, let me remark, that when met, in the southern States.'- Gentle- the teeth are aifected by mercery, we men, it is a disgraceful reproach to the) have reason to believe that all the bones profession of medicine ! It is quackery, j of the body are more or less diseased, horrid, unwarranted, murderous quack- i with the same poison, and that one, if try!! What merit do gentlemen of the j not the principal' reason why the teeth south flatter themselves that they pos suffer more, extensively than the other >>ess, by being able to salivate a patient? { metallic portion of the system — the Cannot the veriest fool in Christendom j bones—is their contact with atmospheric * salivate, give calomel? Buflwill ask \ air, upon the principle that all metals another question: Who can stop its ca- j so exposed are more readily oxydized reer at will, when it has taken the reins j than if perfectly protected from the air. into its own destructive and ungovema-! Dr. Rush remarked, in a public lec- ble hand? ture: I am here incessantly led to He who, for an ordinary cause, re- make an apology for the instability of signs the fate of his patient to mercury,! the theories and practice of physic; and , is a vile enemy to the sick; and if he is {those physicians generally become the tolerably popular, will, in one season, most eminent who have emancipated have paved the way for the business of a themselves from the schools of physic.— life, for he has enough to do, ever after- Dissections daily ponvincc us of our ig- wards, to stop [or rather to endeavor to norance of disease, and cause us to blush stop] the mercurial breach of the consti-i at our prescriptions; and what mischief tutions of his dilapidated patients. He! we have done, under the belief of false has thrown himself into a fearlul prox-! theories, and false* facts; we have assis- imity to death, and has now to fight himj ted in multiplying diseases; we have at arms' length, and without weapons, done more—-we have increased their as long as the patient maintains a mise- mortality. I will not stop to'beg pardon rable existence. And now, Mr. Presi- of the faculty, for acknowledging, in this dent, permit me to ask, where is the in- public manner, the wcakness~of our pro- trinsic difference between murderous fession. I am pursuing truth, and am quackery in the south, and the east, indifferent where I am led, if she only is west, and north? j m leader. On another occasion, he Says Dr. Edward Johnson, of England,) said: The art of healing is like anun- for many years an allopathist, but now; roofed temple, uncovered at Uio top, and a hydro-druggist, [he great remedies off cracked at the foundation. the allopathic school, are medicinal' SaidBriehat: To what errors have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131053_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
