NEW THEORY / 
JVtow Principles f 
NEW BOCTRINES 
Regarding the 
TREATMENT OF DISEASES- 
Can disease of any character whatever, exist without a cause ? 
Then does Medical Science consist in becoming familiar with all 
such causes! Is it the lungs, liver, kidneys, blood, bile or any fluid 
or solid of the system, that is diseased ? What are the true symp- 
toms by which each respective disease may be known ? Does 
Anatomy furnish this knowledge ? It assists us in our investigations, 
but cannot furnish the information requisite. Far greater knowledge 
is necessary for physicians, and which unfortunately for the cause of 
suffering humanity they have not hitherto- acquired. Do physician* 
know the chemical constituents of the fluids and the solids of the 
human body ? They do not 1 Do they know the changes to which 
animal matter under all circumstances can be subjected ? No ! Do 
they know how morbid matter originates in the system, its character 
and nature when there ? No !' Under such circumstances, how is it 
possible for a physician to prescribe either judiciously or correctly ? 
Must not all bis prescriptions be mere experiment, hap-hazard—like 
a blind man groping in the dark—all uncertainty and doubt ? He 
uses a medicine because somebody else has used it!—its modus 
operandi he is utterly ignorant of! He knows no other offset or 
.u-iio.. .. i.ivh |Ju/juk,c3 upuu iiic system, but that which is 
immediately visible. If it has other actions, and they are the most 
deleterious, he knows nothing about them ? Where is the difference 
between the quack and regular doctor? The quack knows his pills 
will act as a cathartic, and that is all the doctor knows about rhubarb, 
jalap, &c. 
This ignorance is the true came why disease is- treated with so 
little success by medical men—why they'have so many diseases— 
why they make a man sick to make him well—why they tear down 
the system to build it up again—why they doctor the constitution 
instead of the disease—why they treat symptoms instead of the pri- 
mary disease—why they try one medicine and then another, and 
another, with little good effect—why many of those medicines pro- 
duce good or evil effects which they did not expect or intend—and 
why they deem so many diseases incurable. 
The more fully to illustrate and explain these doctrines and principles 
Dr. J. C. KELLEY, 
Of New-York, will deliver a 
MEDICAL LECTURE, 
At the 
On; 
evening. 
At half-fct seven o’clock 
Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to attend. 
ADMISSION FREE/