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    I owe it to myself as well as to  the reader to state,
that the many  mistakes,  in  punctuation, quotation.
and other  marks necessary to properly illustrate the
force of language, used in a controversial manner; the
same as much of my language is used; in the book, and
this supplement, arc due to the printer's carelessness,
or, what is clear in many instances, to  his persistent
determination to disregard my corrections on the proof
sheets, and get in misspelled  or altered words, as well
as marks, which materially alter or  confuse the mean-
ing intended to be conveyed.  One instance at the
bottom of page  188 in the book, in the word " lost" the
types had it "last,"  but in which I marked out the a on
two proofs sheets,  making  o plainl}*  in  the proper
place, yet, "last" in "lost children," by the persistent
determination of the printer, is placed before the read-
er   In  another place " guttural " is spelled with an e
instead  of a u.   I am sate in  stating that not one word
appeared in ray manuscript misspelled, unless by acci-
dent.  I directed that my manuscript should he placed
in  type just as I  had written it, when, in seeing it in
type, I could see the necessary change, in punctuation,
as well as the occasional  change of a word, or even sen-
tence.   Yet, and more especially with this supplement,
was it the  case, except a few  of the first pages, that an
almost entire repunctuation on the galley was required
by me, and much on the page proof sheet;  while also,
after paying in advance  for the work, and with the as-
surance that it would be done right away, it was delay-
ed at least six weeks ;  while I suspect the cause was in
consequence of the subject and  the influence which
 heir " doctor "  patrons had over them.   It is humiliat-
ing to an old man, just standing upon the threshold of
eternity, and, while spending his last energies in trying
to benefit his suffering fellowbeings, to have his efforts
crippled,  and  feelings   outraged  by such  unworthy,
and unbecoming treatment by business young men—
those to whom he had paid his money in expectation of
a fair business deal.  The  top  line on  page 36 should
be the top  lino  on page 35. 
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V 
INTRODUCTION.
   The  reader will  note the  subject of this supple-
ment refers to the  book already published, and. after
reading it, will, very likely, come  to think there is no
use of  any apology for  its publication.   He will  see
that my "doctor" reviewer has been very lavish of his
sneers at my arraignment of his profession; and accom-
panies those sneers with false quotations, and manip-
ulations of my  language in a way to make me appear the
most ridiculous, possible; while, all the time,  showing
an  absolute absence of any  ability to meet that ar-
raignment  with a reasonable,  and  just defence.  I also
think, that, in his pretended review, the reader will see
he has  given  me  an opportunity to more effectually
fasten those charges upon his profession.
   He will also see that I take occasion to meet some ob-
jections which the  Editor of  the News, in a review of
the book, makes to that "arraignment."  While I be-
lieve, and am glad to  write  it, that Mr.  Holliday jyas
not moved by unkind  feelings, but the  very reverse,
toward  me, and too, his  testimonials  of my general
character, intent, and motives in all my  acts and lan-
guage, are highly appreciated by me. Yet his sentiment,
in regard to my charges against the profession, leads me
to think that he may be so far  "under bondage to medi-
cal fetichism"—though not aware of it—as to be afraid to
protest against that kind of "fetichism"—kick against 
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it, nor allow me to do  so; but, rather, charges me with
injustice, while doing so.  Yet, I  do not agree with my
jubilant "M. D."  reviewer when he writes it a  "merci-
lessly scathing analysis"—that review of the News—but
only do consider it the kind of  a friendly scoring which
one friend deems merited by  an erring brother.   While
I feel complimented that during the twenty-one years of
the News coming of age, it has been converted to my
way of thinking in various matters, so I still  am not
without hope that it will come to my way of thinking,
that,  "medical  science"  is a  fraud  upon the  people,
robbing them  of health, life  and  money.   Indeed  Mr.
Holliday's language in some  of that "review" leads me
to believe that he is,  already,  on the "anxious seat,"
ready to be  converted; as much of his language, in the
same, appears really,  as  "kicking against the pricks."
After  reading this  supplement I  trust he will be truly
converted.  The reader will also see that there  can be
no imputation, other  than an  unselfish motive, in  all
I have written against  the pretended medical  science, in
its pretended diagnosing or  healing diseased humanity.
If he  will take time to consider and note the constant
failures,  and  mistakes, as  constantly published, and
which is of daily occurrence right under his eye,  as  it
were, or within the hearing  of his ear, he must see the
fallacy of trusting the  "doctor" to keep off a pretended
disease, or to cure it when the  same doctor pronounces
it to be upon him.  While also  knowing thesordid mind
of man, he must also know, as well as see, that that aver-
age sordidity in his doctor's mind will induce him to make
the most money possible out of his case, or while he is pre-
tending to treat a pretended  disease—while the  same
sordid mind will lead him to risk his patients' life  while
reaching after the most money. 
SUPPLEMENT.
    It was supposable that my severe arraignment of the
medical profession would provoke an attempted defense.   m
It may be admitted that the language in that arraign-
ment is, in some instances, very severe; while, also, it
may be  admitted, that, were I to rewrite that book, I
would,  in some cases,  leave  out some portions and
change others,  to  more  fitly  express the  sentiments
intended  to  be conveyed.  All writers, when they see
their productions in print, see  more or less, the imper-
fections  in  language or  sentiment, which  they  would
remedy were they to rewrite the same.   I do not admit
that I have  done injustice to the profession generally,
in all  my language,  only  I would, in some cases,  place
their fraudulent practices in different language  before
the people.
   I have said: attempted  defense.  Such a defense
has  appeared in print by one  "W. B. Clarke, M. D."
"M.  D."  follows his name,  whatever subject matter
evolves from his fruitful brain; and, getting into print,
over his name, the  initials for "Medicinas Doctor" fol-
lows it.   Of course, he intends the reader  shall know
just what he knows—that he is a "M. D."
   His practice in other matters, than the administering
of pills and pukes, may make it proper  that other letters
shall be added, to signify the "pleasantries"—to use his
own language—"he occasionally indulges in for his own
amusement at  the  fancied  expense of"—my   manu-
script. 
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    For instance—I left with Mr. Hathaway, Editor of
the Independent, an  answer to a long "diatribe," as
he would say, of his, which had appeared in that paper j
and with the promise that it would  be printed.  But,
as  it  was not, I  called to get it, when, upon its being
handed to me, I found parts of it so effectually erased
with a heavy pencil that there was no tracing the words
erased.    I  called  Mr. H.'s attention to it,  when he
admitted  that that versatile  M. D. was responsible for
the erasing.   In  that case  should  he not extend  the
cognomen  to—"maliciously—meddlesome  M. D.,"—
"M.-M. M. D.," for short.
    I  should not  refer to  the very M. D.'s tirade as a
"defense."
    He does not  attempt  a defense; but only indulges
in a tirade of sneers, false statements, garbling quotations,
erasing quotation   marks  so as to make the quoted lan-
guage appear as my own.
    The reader will see on page 221 of the book, my
quotations from  the  Philadelphia Record, beginning
thus:    "After all the cackling of army experts over
smokeless powder and noiseless guns, it is possible that
the squirt gun of  the  quack,"  etc.   Then I query, in
parenthesis, after  the  word "quack," thus :   (our Dr.
Fletcher?)  He  had  been using that squirt gun ; then
was it not proper  for me to query:  if he was one of the
Record's  quacks ? Yet the  garbler  of my  language
erases quotation  marks to make it  appear that I treat
Dr. Fletcher "contemptuously"—thus,  in his language:
"Squirt-gun of the  quack (our Dr.  Fletcher?)"    If
"quack" is the  proper appellation to be applied to the
professor of the squirt-gun,  as the Record has it, is not
our Doctor entitled  to it? Yet the  learned "M. D.,"
would mutilate a quotation  and erase quotation marks,
so  as  to  make me responsible for those words of the
Record.   The  naughty Editor  of that Record would
have a law to suppress such reckless  use of that squirt-
gun ;  while I would have  it extend to the reckless tor-
menters of the Murray boys.   Of course our Humane 
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society  will look  after  those  cruel  "doctors;" and
then, only to think! the Sheriff must serve a writ on the
Fletchers, Clarkes and Company!—All to  please the
fastidious Philadelphia Record; while John  Holliday
will have to be called to prove that such  "squirt-gun"
practice is simply negro "voodooism."
   The News,  as  the reader will see on the opposite
page, is as denunciatory as  the Record, in regard to
that same squirt gun.    The News says:  "If it came
from the plantation negro it would be called voodooism.
Coming  with the quasi-endorsement  of  learned men it
is  an insult to the intelligence of the ages," etc.  Of
course,  the  News refers to  Dr.  Fletcher as  one of
the "learned men."
   But  my  M.-D.-garbler does not attempt to mutilate
John Holliday's  language, as  I  quote  it.   Perhaps he
was of the opinion that the writer of  those  "scathing"
words  about "doctors"  had  been  looking through
John's own "little knot hole"—That, which he provided
for me to look through ; to the  avenue—"vista"—that
which leads down to New York City.
   I had formed  "conclusions"—so  says John.  Yes,
the conclusions  that  water was  the  great remedy for
fevers;  and, which, after repeated trials, "they became
convictions, immovable  and  lasting."   "And,"  con-
tinues  John, "Nothing" would  "shake" me, "no argu-
ment affect " me ; and the annoying thing to me was
that honest doctors did "not see the same way."   Just
then, in  my "gaze"—through that "little knot hole"—
toward  that famous city—I did see the  famous Baruch
with his  remedy—cold bath for fevers—for  the whole
"universe."
   Then, turning from that same John's little knot hole,
with that great Doctor's remedy—all in cold type—in
my hand, to John  H. Holliday, and in an exuberance
of joy, I handed it to him to read—the "Panacea" for
fevers in every clime.   He took it from my hand, read
it, and then voluntarily uttered these  ever to be remem-
bered words,—"It is a complete vindication for you"— 
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vindicated  my  experience and practice  in my  own
family for more than thirty years.
    Yet, when  I attempted to inform the people of my
success in treating our children with  scarlet fever,  with
the  cold  bath,  the doctors of  our city published, that
they  had discussed it in their medical society meeting,
and unanimously agreed that "cold water is not benefi-
cial but hurtful in scarlet fever."   Thus publishing a lie,
while virtually saying that I lied.
    To-day,  October  12,  it  is  published:   "At  the
present time there  are  twenty-two cases of scarlatina,
seventeen cases  of diphtheria in this city,"   About the
same information is duplicated every  week, and  the
usual amount of suffering and deaths, all the time occur;
when, would the  people not listen  to the selfish  and
unscrupulous "doctor,"  who treats  their  sick  for the
money  considerations,  instead  of to  heal them  the
quickest way possible,  by  adopting the  cold  water
remedy, there would be little suffering and no  deaths.
    The same with diphtheria; the doctors torturing and
allowing those patients to die,  when, were the  people to
treat  their  patients as we did our grand-children, as  I
have it  in  the   book,  they would have, comparatively,
little suffering and no deaths.  The doctor's, is a linger-
ing treatment,  while  applying his pretended science,
but really no treatment  at all, yet the fee bill grows all
the time of that lingering treatment,  and until death
stops its growth.
    The fasitdious  "M.  D." has along list of doctors
whom, he  claims,  I  have treated "contemptuously,"
maligned, etc.   I will notice a few of  those here,  and
may.  further  along,  notice  more of  his  garblings,
erasures, forgeries—alterings of my language, to  make a
case  of  terribly  contemptuous  treatment  of  those
whom, judging from their poor success as doctors, Presi-
dent  Jordon would term—"fools  and  frauds."   Dr.
Fletcher  addressed a  class of medical students, at the
city hospital, when  he told them that, all the medicine
he had tried for typhoid fever,  "had as little effect as 
MEDICAL SCIENCE FRAUDS.             5
 "pickled  moonshine,"  and  which language I  have
 referred to liberally; and, for thus quoting the Dr. one
 of Dr. Jordan's frauds charges me with referring to him
 as "pickled moonshine  Fletcher."   Had he told those
 students,  as  Dr. Smythe would,  to use  cold bath,
 and so save all  their patients, he would be entitled to
 the respest of all, as a humane doctor, who  desired to
 save his patients from suffering and death.  Can he now
 claim the  confidence of the sick,  as can Dr. Smythe ?
 He now receives censure from such doctors as Smythe.
   I have  no selfish motive  while thus pleading for the
 sick,  to  be saved  from suffering and death;  while all
 who denounce me, are they not following a strict obser-
 vance  of the medical ethics, without any semblance of
 quackery—according to  Prof.  Hays' advice  to those
 graduating students—for the money that  is in that long
 drawn-out treatment; and,  rather than  use cold bath
 "quackery" for the Utile money there would be in that
 quick and sure cure.
    Standing, as it were, by the bedside of the  sick, and
 while they are  pleading with him for relief, facetiously
 telling  them  that he has  found nothing better than
 pickled  moonshine for  their fever; when he knew that
 cold water was a sure remedy!
   f'Ignorant Oliver," whines out  my censor. Well,
 does he not say:   "We do  not recognize typhoid as a
 fever that can be broken up; " while Drs. Baruch and
 Smythe say that it can be broken up every time.  Then,
 if he does not know that much,  is  he not ignorant ?
 And, too, while pretending to practice medicine, is he
 not entitled to the name "Quack-Oliver?"
   And, how about "Humbug  Hays?" Is not  that the
 proper title for a pretended professor of medicine, who
 advises against the "quackery"—as he would call it—of
cold bath? while  Dr. Smythe  and others have proved it
 to be the real nature's science, and sure cure for fevers.
   Then,  my  "disgruntled" M. D. says;   "So, if Mr.
 Kingsley  persists  in  dealing  hard  knocks,  he must
in the  future expect to receive  some from the "dis- 
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gruntled,"  etc.   My "hard knocks" consist in charg-
ing the medical profession with fraud—imposition  upon
the people, by  pretending  to cure by a false  science;
so far, at least, as it applies to diseases;  and, while
condemning cold bath—calling it' 'quackery"—for fevers.
The  "hard knocks"  which  I  am  receiving from the
"disgruntled"  M. D. consists, and will continue to con-
sist in the future, in sneers, garbling, false quotations,
forgery,  etc.,  and which proves, conclusively, that he
can't  parry  my  truths—"knocks"—with fair argument
or honest explanations.
    He sneers at this, which appears on page 119 of my
book, "the  only safety  for the  child is to cause it to
vomit, to  throw  the  phlegm  off the  membrane's
approach to the lungs."  "Membraneous approaches" is
what I wrote, but which was changed by the printer. It
was fifty years next February when I saw that child die
in its mother's  arms,  which I mention on that page.
Dr. Davidson, of Madison—who will be remembered by
all  old  people  who  lived  in  or near Madison, as a
Scotchman,  as  well as celebrated as a physician—had
been  sent  for,  too late,  as he  said the phlegm had
become  so  hard that it could not be thrown off.   He
attempted  it by administering  an emetic of some sort,
after which he made that statement in my hearing.
    In mentioning  about my boy's hip case, he says of
me : "naming the doctor who attended the case."   Here
he makes a false  statement, as any one who reads my
statement will  see that  no  doctor attended  my boy.
I  mention  that,  out  of defference to  my mother's
wishes,  I called Dr. Boyd to see him and stated what I
permitted  him  to  do,  but against my judgment, and
which, after several days trial, amounted to nothing at
all, and then, when I said to him  that I would  go back
to my old  treatment, he suggested  an  addition to the
coal oil,  and which I accepted.
    Then he puts a false  statement into  Dr. Boyd's
mouth,  that "he  directed the application of the lini- 
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 ment himself, and  that he found Mr. Kingsley bathing
 the troubled region with water."
    We bathed ihe  boy's hip every day  with water, and
 which the reader of what I have published  will see that
 I advise in any treatment by that liniment.
    Dr. Boyd cannot  afford  to allow that blatant,  "dis-
 gruntled"  M.  D.  to  use  his name in any  such con-
 nection.
    Here is my  wife's statement:   "What my husband
 says  about the treatment cf  our  boy, and Dr. Boyd's
 assistance is correct —Mrs. R. J. Kingsley."
    The great   "disgruntled"  I Am, seems to be willing
 to  assign me to "the State crank  retreat just across
 White river."  And, undoubtedly, for this reason, which
 immediately follows:  "He  is very fond of  quoting
 isolated statements from the Smythe fountain;  especially
 the unfortunate one which intimates that one-fifth of the
 typhoid patients will go to their graves unless water is
 used."    Well, Dr. Baruch  in his statistics of  percent-
 ages of death, by treatment without water, mentions 21,
 24 and 26 per cent., while with water, all the way from
 7 to 1 per cent, and with no death, in 2,150 cases with
 strict cold baths,  when treated within  five  days  from
 attack.   Dr. Smythe shows a mortality in the New York
 city hospitals for about ten years to 1885, °f more  than
 41 per cent.  Yet his  statement that one fifth die without
 the water treatment is an li unfortunate" one. "Unfortu-
 nate," for one  who relies on his position as an educated
 "doctor," to hoodwink the   people into believing that
 what  he says  about  the proper treatment for fevers is
 correct; and to sneer down  such  cranks  as he would
 have them believe  I am, when I tell them of my own
 experience in my family for more than thirty years, and
 then,   to  vindicate that experience, quote from ''the
 Smythe fountain."
   Note his contemptuous  language  toward the  one
whom I refer to, as  telling  his associate doctors that he
had  saved  hundreds, and  every  one  whom  he  had
treated  with cold baths;  while he also tells them that: 
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 "No one has a  right to oppose  this treatment upon
 theoretical grounds,   He who  does so, and refuses to
 adopt it, signs the death  warrant of twenty individuals
 out of every hundred with this disease which he treats,
 and a discriminating public will hold him responsible.  This
 plan  of treatment is not an idle tale to be whistled down
 by a  breath of wind."
    Now, if I am to  be consigned to the "State crank's
 retreat" for advising the people to  adopt Dr. Smythe's
 plan  of treatment, and so save their sick from long suf-
 fering, and death  in every fifth patient, what is to pre-
 vent  my "smart,"  flippant censorious "M. D." and his
 ilk from  being   consigned  to the "State  criminal's
 retreat" at Jeffersonville or Michigan City ?
    Their own associate  in treatment of the  sick, tells
 them that if  they refuse to use cold bath they (Kill ?)
 "sign the death warrant" of one-fifth of their patients;
 while it is easily read between his  lines that  he under-
stands that, they  refuse his advice,  and follow their old
torturing treatment, for the more money there is in that,
than  in his quick and  sure treatment.
   Then  they  sign  that  death  warrant for the money
they get for doing it.    The patient  is entrusted to their
hands to  save him from  suffering, yet they allow him to
suffer and die, for the money  they get for his suffering,
rather than save  that suffering by  a quick and certain
cure in the cold bath.
    He tells them  Jiat they shall be held responsible for
those deaths—the  signing of those death warrants.
    Further, I  believe it can be read  between those
same lines, that he is quite sure that there  should  be a
law on our statute  books that will hold them responsible ;
for,  how else can  the  public  hold them responsible ?
If it  were  left to only talk about a responsibility, the
blarney Clarkes and Company would so effectually pull
the wool  over the discriminating public's eyes,  that
they would lose sight of the "Smythe fountain" entirely.
While he, Baruch, and little i,  would soon be consigned
to that crank's retreat o'er that "River." 
MEDICAL SCIENCE FHAl'DS.             U
    "Dr." Clarke has published false statements, in regard
to the language in a letter which I wrote to a Mr.
Murray,  whose boy was reported in the News, as very
low  with typhoid.    I  wrote  it in kindness, nor do I
regret writing,  and  am also sure that, had  Mr. M.
known that the doctors,  who  attended his son, could
have  saved all his  suffering by treating him as I sug-
gested that he  should  be treated, and as Dr. Smythe
would have treated him, he would have censured them
—for having  allowed the boy to suffer so long, and to
approach even  to the  confines of the  grave.   And,
unfortunately,  his  confidence  in  their science came
near to costing him his son's life ; while  it is reasonable
to believe,  nor  dare his  doctors deny that they knew
that they could have saved all  that suffering and danger
to his life,  by treating him just as Dr.  Smythe  would
have done.
    There can not be a  shadow of doubt in the mind of
of any reflecting person, after  knowing  what such doc-
tors  as  he and Baruch have done, and  published what
others have done, that that boy could have been saved
 all his suffering in the same way:
    That boy's mother or father could have put him into
 a cold pack or tub of water, when they saw that he had
 a fever,  just as well as a "doctor," and had him all right
 in  a  few hours.   But their alarm, on the appearance of
 that fever; and,  educated as  they undoubtedly were,
 that  the doctor must be consulted, led them to trust him
 to  treat  their boy ; while  the sequel  showed how near
 they treated him to his  grave.
    The disgusted "M. D." refers to  "'that curiosity/
 which Mr. Kingsley calls 'My book,'  "as a tirading
 arraignment of members of the medical profession as
 remorseless butchers of the sick, like any Kingan pig-
 sticker,  for gain alone."
    Just so.  I could not  have expressed my own mind
 as well; and from the  fact that his pen  reflects his own
 heart, the  same as a mirror  would show  him his own
 face.  Dr.  Smythe's words:  "you sign the death war- 
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 rant," signifies  the same as "a Kingan pig-sticker, for
 gain alone."
   The learned "M. D." queries: "Does Mr. Kingsley
 seriously believe that he can teach the doctors any thing
 about the  use of water  when they make hygienic sub-
 jects their life study ? "
    Why, no sir.   He does not, nor is he trying to teach
 them.   He is only arraigning them before Dr. Smythe's
 discriminating  public,   for refusing to  use it  as they
 know it should be used,  to save suffering  and  death.
 Had  they  used it as  they  knew just  how,  in  that
 Murray  boy's case, he would not have suffered one day.
 Had the Frauer family doctor  used it as  he knew it
 should  have been  used,  that  family  would  now be
 unbroken;  but  his  cupidity and sordid propensity for
 gain, allowed a half dozen  members of it to go to their
 graves.
    A "life study" is  not necessary, to learn just what
 water will do  with a fever.    I learned  it all  in three
 hours—as  I have stated it in  "my book," as the dis-
 gusted M. D. quotes it.  And which I advise every one
 to read  and learn how  to use it.    I had never tried it,
 or seen  it tried,  but I  had a suffering child,  and saw
 that  from   what  was going on every day,—children
 dying of scarlet fever in the  doctor's hands—such repre-
 sentative ones as Thompson and Woodburn,  were I to
 trust  her in their or any other's hands, they would, more
 than likely,  let her die.   So I resolved to try  the cold
 pack; and  which had  the most happy effect, she being
 rid of the fever  and sleeping quietly in one-half hour
 afcer being placed in that cold pack.
  The doctors know all about  the beneficial  effect of
 water in  fevers, but which knowledge they apply to their
 own  benefit, rather than  to  their  patients'  benefit;
 while they also know its application to their patients will
 necessitate  only one or two visits, with a net fee bill of
 4 or 5 dollars.   But should they refuse to use the water
 and so let the patient linger for weeks,  as is generally
the case, their fee bill would amount to $50 or more. 
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   This fact is why they "do not recognize typhoid as a
fever that can be  broken up," as  Dr. Oliver said to a
Journal reporter; and farther, "it takes its time, and all
our care  is, by proper treatment, to support the patient
in his battle with it."  But that is not all their care—the
fee is the all-important "care" with them.
  Just when the  doctors can prove that they are made
of a  finer and purer "dirt" than liquor sellers, tobacco-
nists or "pig-stickers," then they can claim that they do
not run their profession  "for gain alone."   Yet perhaps
I should  except one W. B.  Clarke,  "M. D." who is
supposed  to have received his inspiration from Hahne-
mann, the inventor of Homeopathy, and "of whom,"
Wm. B.   wrote,  "it may be said,  that  no man, save
Christ, has ever conferred upon his fellows such bless-
ings   as   he,"  for  we  must  confess, that,  from
some recent  literature  in the Independent,  and  the
purloining from  his desk and mutilating the  Editor's
contributor's manuscript,  it may seem that, even he has
"fallen from grace."
   In noticing the  "book,"  that which  seems to have
disturbed his digestive organs, the "M.  D." says:  "He
arraigns  the  doctor's for practicing their profession for
gain alone, utterly  regardless of life or health, and on
many other charges," etc.  I have given  my reason for
that arraignment, and  for the "many other charges,"
in that book which  he  seems to be not able to digest;
and more, the  water that is in it has thrown him  into
"convulsions," very much  the same as  the same ele-
ment  would affect the  four-legged  little  m.  ds.   His
readers can  easily  see from the way that he  treats the
water question, and those who have found it to be the
one  thing needful in treating all cases of  fever,  that he
has  the  "rabies" on him, and on him "bad."    The
very mention of that  element throws him into  "con-
vulsions."
   In his "brief history  of the water cure," the "Dr."
gives  entirely, a negative view of the water treatment;
designed,  of course, to  mislead the reader,  and  pre- 
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judice his  mind against that treatment.    His whole
course, the language he uses, and his blustering manner,
in it  all,  goes to  show that he proposes to stop any
influence  I have had, or may have, with the suffering
people; those who are sufierirg all the time,  directly  or
indirectly,  by the practice imposed upon them,  by the
fraudulent, blustering Clarkes and Company ; all by that
blubbering, and worse,  dishonest and false presentation
against me and  my book; that one which is, just now,
giving him  what   we  little   children  used  to call—
"belly ache."
   "Mr.  Kingsley" comes in for a fair share of notice
in the Clarke "brief history."   This:  Priessnitz, called
the  founder of hydropathy, at once seized on Oertel's
system—the water cure—and built up a  great practice
on  it.  He  was the  Kingsley of that time, but, unlike
his  modern  follower, left nothtng in  writing on his
method of cure."
   Here, may I  inquire if the fact  that that modern
"Priessnitz, alias Kingsley," is liable to leave something
in writing on his method of cure, as well as the method
of his "angels,"  Baruch and  Smythe,—is not the cause
of that sore feeling  in the lower stomach of the modern
Hahneman, alias Clarke ?
   "The  cold bath was first  recommended in England
by James Currie, of Liverpool, in  1797, fell into disuse
until  1868,  when  it was revived  by  Dr.   Brand,  of
Stettin,  Germany,  and  he is the man,  Mr. Kingsiey's
angels,  Dr.  Smythe  and  Baiuch are following  and
quote from."
   Such  is the  language of  the "disgruntled" Clarke;
referring  to those  real  benefactors of mankind, tho?e
men who try  to alleviate human suffering by the easiest
quickest and  only sure way, by cold bath—in language
and  manner  which he  intends  the reader shall under-
stand as his contemptible feeling toward  them ;  and
which he believes and  intends, that the reader shall"
share with him, relying  on  his great professional pre-
tentions to influence him, into that same feeling. 
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   Previously, he says :   "He has two or three angels,
however, among the doctors—men that have recently
announced their belief in the efficacy of water."
   While  his  intentions were to slur those humane
doctors,  did  he not, unintentionally, declare a  great
truth  in referring  to them as "angels"—"angels  of
mercy"—merciful  to save every one of their fevered
patients—by the cold bath !
   Suppose those angels had ministered to  Miss Gilles-
pie who  died a  few days ago, of typhoid  fever, would
she not  now  be living—a  joy to  her friends ?  And a
Mrs. Evans,  who  so recently  died undei the same tor-
turing treatment—by the code,  and by  some sneering
Clarke ?
   Had the "angel" Smythe treated her would she not
be now  living—to bless her family ?  And,  suppose the
same angel had treated the Frauer family, would it now
be all broken up ?
   That angel Smythe told the doctors of  the State,
recently assembled in our city,  that he had treated more
than 200 cases  by  cold  bath  without  the  loss of one.
Very  likely the doctor  who  treated  that  family was
present, yet very likely he, with all who heard Dr. S.,
treated  him,  the same as he told  them his advise had
hitherto  been treated—"with adverse criticism."   Just
as the blustering "M. D." is now treating me—while
my advise is ten times worse, from the fact  that I am
only a quack—for informing the people of what Dr.  S.
said to  those doctors—that they  could   cure  every
patient with cold bath.
   As the "angel" Smythe's  faith  is founded on the
success  of hundreds of cases  of his own treatment,
without  the  loss of one, can  any  honest doctor fail  to
adopt it  and establish a like faith in the same works ?
   His  sneering words  about my  angels,   who have
recently announced their belief in the efficacy of water,
is  not such language an attempt to whistle  down Dr.
Smythe's just arraignment of the profession, for signing
ihe death warrant of their patients ? 
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   He  whines about  my arraigning the  doctors for
various  "offences,"  why don't he pitch into Dr. S. for
hts severe arraignments?  Why don't he defend him-
self and  his profession  from those charges of  Dr. S.,
instead of whining about the  "isolated statements from
the Smythe  fountain, especially  the unfortunate one
which intimates that  one-fifth  of the typhoid patients
will go  to their  graves  unless water is used?"   Why
don't he deny the truth of those statistics, produced by
Dr. S. ?  Why don't  he deny  Dr. Baruch's statstics of
2,150 typhoid patients being cured by cold bath without
the loss of one ?
   That   wouldn't  suit his  purpose of  keeping his
readers  in the dark, by that little bit of sham history of
the water cure.
   Why   don't  he deny the virtue of water in fever,
instead of sneering at  my statement and my reference to
my "angels" for proof sustaining  my long experience?
   That "unfortunate statement" is very unfortunate for
demagogues and medical frauds, who prefer to risk their
patients' lives, by letting them "battle"  with typhoid
fever to  the  end,   live or die,  so that their  ledger
accounts may grow,
   They  know that  Dr.  S.'s experience in saving his
more than 200 patients without  the loss of one, would be
their own,  were they  to practice cold bath as  he did,
and  does—they  know  that  Dr. Baruch's  2,150 cases
without the loss of one would be duplicated in their own
experience were they to adopt those dootors' methods—
they know  that  there  would not  be one  death from
typhoid, scarlet  or  any  other  fever, were cold bath
properly used.
    Any one who has studied cause of disease, chills or
fevers, knows that hot or cold water applied to the body
of the patient by pack  or tub, will cause an immediate
perspiration,  bringing the disease with it, just as it was
the  case with  that  man in Memphis  who, on being
attacked with yellow  fever, had his servants put him in
cold wet blankets, and which soon caused a perspiration 
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that  colored the  blankets "yaller," as  his  servants
called it.
   My  "M. D." critic  and cold water historian says :
"None of these acknowledged experts dare  to use water
colder than 65  deg.  but  'Dr.' Kingsley says (page 357)
'the  higher the fever, the colder the water,  temperature
of 50 or 60 deg  very well.' "
   Well, but Dr. Currie  used water at a temperature of
44  deg. yet my "M. D." snarler,—I do not mean the
kind  that  have  the  "rabies,"  though such constant
snapping at my heels might alarm me were I not  so old
—sneers at my suggestion of 50 or 60, according to the
severity of the fever.
   I used it for myself, with a severe fever  after a chill,
at a temperature of 50, and, in  five hours after,  went to
the stable and milked 16 cows.   Where  is my mistake
in putting the  temperature  at  those figures, while  Dr.
Currie went 6 deg lower than my lowest?
    He  quotes a Thomas G. Shearman,  who says:  "If
we make a mistake we not only waste our own lives in
an  effort which  is  worse than useless, but we may do
incalculable injury to humanity. It is positively wrong,
therefore to devote  our energies to the service of an
apparent reform  without having put it to every reason-
able test."   But I  have not made "a mistake," nor
wasted  "our own lives," nor done "incalculable  injury
to" my own, or my family's "humanity," so he does not
mean  me,  or  my mode of saving "our own  lives."
But he evidently means the  fussy Clarkes, who did
 "make a mistake," and did "incalculable  injury to the
humanity"  of  that Murray  boy,, by letting him linger
until he reached the confines of the  grave.    Then,
"As Mr. Kingsley is not in a position to  give his hobby
a reasonable test, and never has been, he  should cease
to ride  it."
    O, what disinterested advice ! Just like Mr. Wolf's,
who  was  in the habit of eating sheep—just  "for gain
alone"—and then, when he found himself caught in
the shepherd's trap,   exclaimed:  "This  is a dangerous 
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thing.   Did you give it 'a reasonable test' before setting
it for me ? "
   Just for this very disinterested M. D's. information I
am more  than  happy to be able to inform him, that I
have been riding my "hobby" a third of a century, and
all that  time it has never stumbled, only against "doc-
tors" corns, when it has always hurt "awful bad."   The
latest  evidence of such hurt  is in this plaintive advice,
"he should cease  to  ride  it."   This hobby of  mine
never carries its rider so  near to death's door as was
that Murray boy  carried, by such frauds as those who
ride a $2  a visit  hobby.   My hobby is placed on  its
feet,  rough shod,   by my  "angels,"  the  "angels  of
mercy"—who  warrant it  to save the rider  every time;
while  the  hobby that carried that boy so near to death's
door,  is ridden  by  the  kind of angels that were thrown
over the battlements of Heaven, and who fell into h—
sheol.
    Here is a little tribute  which I should not omit to
reprint.   It seems to come  from a heart that had so
recently emitted so much  "gall"  after my hobby had
tramped on his corns; but  was  just  then so clear of
that bitter  substance as to enunciate this :
   "Mr. Kingsley  is noted in this community as a man
of quick sympathy, honest purpose, and the willingness
and ability to  do  much good;  and  his whole life is
proof of this, in deeds  as well as words.  And he knows
the milk  business  well,  and knowing  this, has always
furnished,  as   intimated  in  the  above reprint,   pure
milk—and for this  alone, as every doctor will admit,  he
well deserves  a monument, if  not  for the 'pleasantries'
he  occasionally indulges in for his own amusement at
the fancied expenge of the medical profession.   But he
may unwittingly do much harm.   His  condensed  milk
of  human  kindness is distributed  with too  lavish a
hand,  that  is the kind that is mixed with ink and vine-
gar, and perhaps I  should say gall, for he has written a
book—and this  recently published book will be a more
or less enduring monument to his memory," 
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   This  "monument," coming from one who acknow-
ledges himself to be "disgruntled" and  'unregenerated'
in consequence,  undoubtedly, of my hobby hurting his
corns, should be appreciated, and is, to the "extremist"
extent, by "Dr." Kingsley.
   Then, further along, and  seemingly, to offset my
* 'condensed milk of human kindness,"  he notices my
"book" from all points  of view—this  way,  that way
and  "t'other" way—between paroxisms of pain, in his
sore  corns,  which my "hobby" had so  "mercilessly"
tramped upon,  and then writes:  "But  I will forbear
further personal  reference  to  this curious 'book, lest I
appear 'bigoted' ahd prejudiced and will only adduce a
small portion of the evening News, book review of it—
a  mercilessly scathing analysis, which it  is safe to say
Mr.  Kingsley has not  yet reprinted and  circulated to
any  appreciable extent  in this community at least."  I
have already referred to the  News little "knot hole"
which John Holliday furnished me to look through,
and, away down to New York, where  I discovered Dr.
Baruch,  etc., and how John congratulated me, etc.
   Then  John  writes:   "Mr.  Kingsley's  grievance
when sifted  out,  seems to be  that the doctors will not
adopt his methods and admit that his remedies of water"
etc , "are  panaceas."  But he should have first stated
what he  knows  to be true—that I am backed by doc-
tors  here in Indiana, New York and all over Europe,
who sustain  my  "methods."    He  leads  his readers to
ihink that I am  alone in my "sovereign remedies of
water,"  etc.,  while he knew that Dr. Smythe told the
doctors that, if they did not use "his remedies"—cold
bath for fever,  they were responsible for the deaths of
all their  patients who died under their care.
   And, while   I  know  by  long experience, and am
backed  by   those  doctors  who have  had the same
experience,  would  it not be proper, as well as my duty
to mv God and His creatures to do just as he writes that
I do? This :    "Then,  after denouncing their narrow- 
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ness and avarice he recommends the people to accept his
theories and let the doctors go."
    "Theories"  is  out  of the question.   Did not Mr.
Holliday know  that it was, and is a demonstrated fact
established by all those doctors whom Drs. Baruch and
Smythe name? as well as by their own experience, even
to leave the "small fry,"  like  myself,  out;  but whose
experience is  worth as  much as any of those doctors
were—so far as it goes.
    "He would have the doctors take his remedies and
then have  the people attend  to their own diseases "
Here  he omits the fact that Dr. Smythe is the one who
"would have  the  doctors take 'his remedies;1  but  who
refuse,  and treat  his advice with 'adverse criticism.' "
Then he proceeds:
    "The faculty may be entirely wrong in denying or
ignoring Mr.  Kingsley's  theories,  yet that does not
prove they are irreclaimable frauds."
    But,  John,  if the  faculty denies  or ignores Drs.
Baruch and Smythe's established facts, not "theories"—
that cold  bath will cure fevers, and refuse to use it, and
thereby cause  much suffering and  many deaths,  does
not such conduct "prove they are irreclaimable frauds,"
and scoundrels, too ?
    Worse than that, because Dr. S.  says they sign the
death  warrant  of  one-fifth of their patients—that is, to
say in plain English "kill" one-fifth of them by adhering
to their code of  ethics.  Are they not then worse than
irreclaimable frauds ?  "scoundrels of the dtepest dye?"
    It  does not matter  how  much of the "Christ-like
spirit"  doctors  may pretend to  show, as Mr.  Holliday
mentions.
    He says:   "We could name names  and  multiply
instance if it were necessary.  And are such  men who
proved their  faith by their works, to be condemned as
frauds and scoundrels,  preying  upon the community,
because thev  believed that one thing was  a  remedy,
while  Mr. Kingsley believes another is ? "    "Proved
their   faith by their  works."   Well, "their works" 
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19
 were—long suffering and often death as the result of
 "their  faith"  in their  "code"  "remedy"—"that one
 hing,"  or as John puts  it: "because  they believed that
 one thing was a  remedy."   He cannot deny that long
 suffering, and  often death was, and is the result of their
 proving  "their  faith by  their  works"—while, all the
 time, pretending  that  "Christ like spirit of self sacrifice:'
 And, all this  time, "while  Mr. Kingsley believes an-
 other is"—that is : cold bath, and which he knows is ;
 and in   which  knowledge,  he  is  sustained  by  Dr.
 Smythe's words:    that there are no deaths,  while  also,
 he says  the "Christ-like" kind of doctors are responsible
 for their patients' death.
    While those  doctors  profess to  believe there is no
 remedy for  fevers,  they  know  that  cold bath is—just
 as Dr.  Smythe and little i know it is; yet,  rather than
 use that remedy to save their patients, they will call it
 "quackery" and let their patients, in the meantime, die.
 Such  men prove "their faith  by their works," in letting
 their patients  die;  while  Dr. Smythe proves his faith,
 in cold  bath,  by  his "work"  in saving every one of his
 patients.
   Then, in  John Holliday's own words, with "not"
 added,   "Are" not "such  men to be  condemned as
 frauds and scoundrels, preying upon community because
 they  only pretend to  believe  that"  nothing  is a
 "remedy" for fever,  "while Mr.  Kingsley" and Dr.
 Smythe  know that water is a remedy.
   They shut their eyes against water,  but all  the time
know  it to be a sovereign remedy.   Will Mr. Holliday
 dare say  that, they are justifiable  in refusing to  use
cold bath in  the  face of the complete success  of those
 who do  use it ?
    "It  is a monstrous  assumption," is it,  to assume
that doctors, who  refuse to treat their patients in a way
that other doctors have proved—and so told them, in
their  associated capacity—will  save  them, every time,
from  suffering and death,  shall  "be  condemned as
frauds and scoundrels, preying upon  the community?" 
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 Suppose they do show  "the  Christ-like  spirit of self
 sacrifice,  in  their daily lives,"  is  that any  justifica-
 tion  for  them in sacrificing  their  patients' lives by a
 "strict observance of their "medical ethics"—according
 to Prof. Hays—instead of using cold bath as Dr. Smythe
 advised them ?—that "semblance of  quackery,"  which
 the Prof, was so careful to advise those young doctors
 against using!
   The News published the account of the deaths in the
 Frauer  family, and mournfully queried—"Can suffering
 go farther?"  or  words to that effect.   Then, is it not
 proper for me to inquire of John Holliday :   How much
 suffering  should that  family  have  endured before the
 doctors, who  treated  those  patients by their code shall
 be ranked with  those,  in  whose cases be queries in
 reference  to my charges against the doctors ?  Thus
 '•Are (not) such men,  who proved their faith  by their
 works"—consigned their patients to their  graves—"to
 be condemned as frauds and scoundrels?"
   They preyed upon  that  family  by pretending  to
 believe  that their code  treatment  was the remedy for
 typhoid fever, while "Mr. Kingsley," Dr.  Smythe and
 many others, know it is not, but. do know th it cold bath
 wold have saved every one of them.
    And, may  not  the further query  be  mxde? this:
 Why dtd  they allow  those patients to  "battle" with
 that fever, and to die, when they had the authority of
 doctors, even  provided  that  they had not proved  its
 efficacy themselves, that cold  bath  would save them?
 Were they treating those patients with their long drawn
 out  treatment for the correspondingly long fee bill,
 rather than have  that bill cut  short by the safe and
 quick cold bath?
   But  then, in the name of  humanity, why did thev
 not show  that  real "Christ-like spirit,"  af.er all their
 "work," or rather, "theory,"  had failed, and put them
 in a bathtub  to  sive them; the  same as  Charles E.
 Kregelo's doctor did,  and so  saved  him.   Were they
such deep dyed scoundrels, that they would rather let 
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them die than resort to a  ' 'semblance" of quackery" to
save them ?
    I venture to answer Mr.  Holliday's query to cover
their case,  the doctor's, who treated G. B. Loomis, Miss
Giilispie,  Mrs. Evans, Mr.  Carpenter, of  Shelbyville
and many, many other cases : "Are such men to be con-
demned as frauds and scoundrels, preying upon the com-
munity ?"   Yes,—all because they  would not use cold
bath to save those  patients,—and so let them die.
    They would not resort to that  "quackery" for the
great one reason that it would soon make such an inroad
upon their pretended  "exact science" of medicine, as
to demoralize its  devotees,  and eventually  destroy the
influence   it  now  exerts  upon  the John   Hollidays
and  company;   as   well as  its influence over  the
people they dupe;  with the  like effect, it had, in send-
ing those,  whom  I  have mentioned, to  their graves;
while  repeating the same  "work," of their pretended
'  faith," every day, the world o'er.
    It is reasonable to  suppose that every doctor, now
practicing in this city,  has read of the success  of cold
bath in fevers; yet there is no report that one is practic-
ing it, while we have abundance of evidence that very
manv are  opposing  it, treating it  with "adverse criti-
cism" in their  medical assemblies, of course, but dis-
daining to  oppose it publicly,  or speak of it among their
patrons. Hence, shall they not  "be condemedas frauds
and scoundrels?"   And if they be frauds,  by practicing
a false science in fevers, is it for big fees ?  Eh ?  Then,
are they not equally frauds in  this general practice?
    The same dilatory,  long lingering treatment is mani-
fest in  all  other diseases, or where they  are working
up a disease to treat.
    How diligent  they were  in creating alarm all over
the country about  the coming of "La Grippe."   Those
alarming paragraphs, every day in the papers, and fur-
nished by the doctors,  were their seed time.   Yet, had
nothing been published  about that approachirg La Grippe
there  would  have  been  no alarm;  nor  would  there 
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been one hundreth part as many cases as was diagnosed.
and treated  for that "dreaded" disease, as there were.
   It was not long after that seed was sown until their
harvast came; every one who felt, or imagined he or she
felt something wrong,  called the doctor, or visited him
at his office, and was informed that "La Grippe" had his
grip upon them; while, if his grip was not  on him then,
it  was, soon after; under  the  influence of the great
"cure," but which did not cure.  And, while his small
fry, all over the  country  were gathering in their hun-
dreds or thousands, the great Knorr, the  discoverer of
the great remedy, but which did not "remedy"  the evil
among the people, was gathering in his million.   The se-
quel of that fraudulent treatment is constantly being re-
ported in the papers, of people dying of consumption,
the result of that  unnecessary scare,  and fraudulent
treatment.
   I say fraudulent, the same as in their  treatment  of
fevers, their object in that was the same as  in fevers,  to
treat for the long fee bill.
   I felt the usual  effect, a soreness, and lameness and
weak,  so that it was painful  for  me  to  move about.
Then before retiring, I took a  thorough foot bath, clear
up to my knees, and which resulted  in a great perspira-
tion.   After that, and a good nights rest, there was noth-
ing more  of it, and I walked three miles the next day.
   The honest (?) "M. D."  C,  in his exuberance  of
joy, in being able to quote the News' "mercilessly scath-
ing analysis" of my book,  did forget  to quote  the be-
ginning of one sentence, but, begins  in the middle  of
it, at  a comma, making a  whole sentence of the  hit
half, and which seems to suit his purpose of making me
feel sore over that "analysis."
   The first part of that sentence   which he "over-
looked," of course—his left eye must have  been closed
when he came to it, thinking perhaps,  that he was level-
ing his "foulin"' piece at m<—begins  thus:  "Through
prejudice, or love of mystery,  or what not, the faculty
may eschew simple  remedies which are efficacious 
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under certain conditions, or to go further, the faculty—
"Here, the very honest M. D., leaves out that first part
entirely, and takes "the faculty" with which to begin a
new sentence, thus:   "The faculty may be entirly wrong
in denying or ignoring Mr. Kingsley's theories, yet that
does not  prove them  irreclaimable frauds."  He evi-
dently saw that the  News' language tacitly admits my
correctness, in  making  those  charges  against  that
"faculty" and which he was as willing to suppress as to
publish the last half of that sentence.
    And now,  as he sees that I have reprinted and am
circulating, with my liberal  review of that "analysis,"
he may as well think that  I am not entirely knocked out
by John's "heavy weight."
    And I may as well say here that I do not think that
review will deter me in my purpose of  denouncing that
faculty, as "frauds," although perhaps  not "irreclaim-
able" ones.   Mr. Holliday  tacitly admits  those  to be
frauds,  so far  as they "eschew simple  remedies which
are efficacious  under certain conditions."  That is the
whole  gist of  the  matter.  Those  "simple remedies"
are efficacious under the "certain conditions" that they
shall be applied just as  all those  doctors recommend
that they shall be applied.  Then,  that efficacy, proved
by  their  application,  clearly proves  all those to be-
"frauds"  who refuse to apply  them, but, instead, let
their patients suffer and die.
    Mr. Holliday says:  "Mr. Kingsley is a thorougly
onesided man."  Yes,  I  am only on  the side of hu-
manity, and John  is with me, so  long as we both call
doctors frauds who  refuse to use simple means to save
their patients,  but rather let them die.
    He describes such exactly, in these words:  "There
are quacks, charlatans among them,  small  souls  de-
voured by greed, unscrupulous men. worthy of all Mr.
Kingsley can say against  them."   Now John, give me
your hand.    We are agreed that all those doctors who
refuse  cold  bath as a remedy  for fevers,  those who
treated  the Frauer family,  Miss Gillespie, G. B. Loomis, 
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the Murray boy, Mr. Carpenter, with those everywhere,
who  refuse that "simple" remedy for typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, etc., are "quacks, charlatans among them,
small souls devoured by greed"—for the $2 a visit, and
worthy of all you and I can say against them.
    We call a spade a spade, and the kind of a spade it
is may be learned by the Christ's words:    "He that is
not for me is against me.   He  that gatthereth not with
me scattereth abroad."   They  that  are for Him are the
merciful.  They "showeth mercy" by healing the sick,
not torturing them—"for the greed  of gain."  They that
are against Him, and disobey His precept, to:  Do unto
others as ye  would that them do unto you, are "devoured
of greed, unscrupulous men."
    Mr. Holliday says:   "Mr.  Kingsley has grasped this
truth," "that observation, and knowledge of ones own
system, will enable him to cure many ailments,  by sim-
ple methods—and would enforse it to the extent of hav-
ing no  doctors at  any age.  He  regards  them all as
frauds and cheats who  have no other motive than the
mercenary one  of getting money."
    Here he is mistaken,  I do not regard them all as
frauds and cheats,   I state  in  my book that I consider
many doctors honest, and would treat their patients by
those simple remedies,  but being ruled by, and with the
certainty of being disowned and cast out from, the medi-
cal societies, they dare not,  only in a  very  quiet way;
while they are  enjoined, by the  Prof.  Hayses,  to have
no "semblame  of quackery" in their practice.  A few
such  men as  Drs.  Smythe  and  Baruch have  broken
loose from the ruling "frauds  and cheats."  They are
the kind who call "a spade a spade," and Dr. Smythe
told the doctors here what "kind of a spade it is," while
the "frauds and cheats" treated his advice,  to use that
simple remedy for fever, "with adverse criticism"
     Will not Mr. Holliday apply the term  "frauds  and
cheats" to  every doctor who  refuses to use the simple
remedy?  That  which  those  doctors  informed  their 
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fellow members of their medicai societies,  had cured
thousands without the loss of one.
   And the very fact that they do not allow  such an in-
road upon their old method of  treatment,  but allow their
patients to linger for weeks, while, for their daily visits to
them they charge $2, does it not prove beyond a doubt
that  they "have no other motive  than the mercenary one
of getting money?"   If that be not their motive,  what
other one  can they  have  in refusing to save their pa-
tients by that simple remedy?
   Then my friend continues—I write  "Friend"  be
cause I  have  always considered Mr.  Holliday  as a
friend, while the words which  I  here quote  assure me
that  he  is  such,  although  his   "mercilessly scathing
analysis," as the garrulous Clarke calls his review, does
seem at first thought,  a little rough; but, and without the
intention of being irreverent, I may  perhaps conclude,
that, in proportion as he loveth a friend he would chas-
ten him.   "He scores, by name, physician  after physi-
cian from all ranks and schools."—Words cannot express
my gratification for the following sentiment—"His sin-
cerity  is  not to be questioned, and his courage in ut-
tering his convictions is to be admired, whatever  opin-
ion we may have of them.   His object is to do good,
he believes thoroughly  that he  is right,  and that the
great medical army is not only wrong, but unnecessary
and  hurtful, and,  with  the hope  that  he  may help
humanity,  he  denounces  the  doctors  in  unscathing
terms; and tells the experience of his own long life."  (I
would  inquire  of the happy  Clarke,  "M.  D.," if he
does not  think John is a  little  "Christ-like" in the
above, and following  "analysis"?)   "We give him full
credit for good motives in this assault,   do  not be-
lieve him capable of having  others.   There is no malice
in his nature; and, strange as it may seem, he means  to
be perfectly fair, and believes that he is."
   Thanks. But are  not "doctors"  public  men,  and
work on  the public?  And  is there another class that
need as close watching as they?   Do they not claim  to 
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 be consevators of the people's health, and lives?  And
 have not the people confided to  them their  health and
 lives; wh'le, do they prove to  be  the  "conservators"  of
 all that?  Do they preserve their health, or save their
 lives by the simplest and  best  methods?   Rather, do
 they not pretend to  be such conservators, by purposely
 refusing such methods as have been proven  to be both
 simple and  the  best;  and  by  determining to  continue
 their old methods; and, which do, continually,  develope
 their worthlessness in that conservation work?
    The  consequence is, they let their patients suffer
 long and die.  Then, can  they be scored too hard,  or
 too long?
    A "one-sided man" says Mr.  Holliday, Well, is not
 a true lawyer a one-sided man?  I am pleading for the
 people—my clients—against  the criminals  who sign
 their death  warrants—"for gain alone."   I am, "on the
 Lord's side," Who is  merciful, and proclaims:  "Blessed
 are the merciful for they shall obtain  mercy."
    I tried to be merciful to the children of our city, by
 publishing that I had saved our child from suffering,
 and death from scarlet fever—by putting  her in a cold
 pack.    But the "frauds and scoundrels," of the medi-
 cal society,  published that:  "cold water is not beneficial
 but hurtful  in scarlet  fever."
    "He scores,  by name, physician after physician."
 Yes, indeed; and, did  I know the names of those doctors,
 would publish them  here,  as  "frauds and liars,"  and
 whose purpose  it  was  to  deceive  those  children's
 parents—trusting to their influence to  make them be-
 lieve me to  be the liar.
    We know that children are dying  all the time in this
city, and all over the  country,  of that fever;  all in con-
sequence of that persistent  lying of  the  fraudulent
"doctors,"  who  still proclaim,  by word or act, that
water is hurtful in scarlet fever.
    In  refering to this matter, again  and  again,  as  I
have, I am  reminded  of  the dilemma which  a Doctor, 
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to whom I had sent my book,  seemed to be in,  in re-
gard to my repetitious.
   I will quote his language:  "As to your book, I am
reading it, some little at a time, as I can stand it."  Of
course he can bear but little  of  it on his stomach at  a
time.   "It is hard for me to  understand, why it  is that
you repeat, over and over again the same thing.   I am
free to admit that you say a good many things that are
correct, but I can't see why  you repeat them over so
often."
   Now,  I may as well enlighten his mind right here,
as well as the mind of other sin-sick doctors who may
be in the same quandary, this : I had in my mind, all
the time, the lawyer, who is pleading the case  of his
client, before a jury.  And I cannot illustrate my course
any better than to repeat  the language  of a friend to
whom I had read my weak-stomached  Doctor's plaint.
   His language was about this:   "Well it was said of
the great lawyer  Choate, of  Massachusetts, that  his
success before a jury was attributed to his  way  of re-
peating, over and over, his points,  in his presentations
of the case before the jury."   It did not occur to my
Dr.  friend  that my  presentation  of  my case—"The
cause of  the People, vs, Doctor Frauds," and repeating
it over and  over again was  the reason that he could
stand but  a little  of it  at  a  time on his  conscience-
stricken "sole."
   Can Mr. Holliday point  to one physician, whom he
says I have  "scored," where that scoring is not in con-
sequence of some fraud upon  the people by word or
deed? Did  he  not score  the great  Fletcher  for his
negro 'voodooism'? as I have  noted  it in  the  book.
But, then, he may be one of the modern "Christ-like,"
whom John mentions, and so  he did  not "score" him
' 'by name" yet left the reader not in the dark as to t
name—W. B. Fletcher—because it was notorious  that
that  Dr.  had been using  the Philadelphia Record's
quack's "squirt-gun."
   Then, he did  "score"  the doctors; but not  "by 
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 name," excepting Dr. Hurty,  for his determined fight
 against Dr. Earp, to oust him from the Board of Health,
 simply for the reason that he was a "rival."  He  said—
 "Outside of matters pertaining to their profession,  no
 class of men are more broads; ded than phjsicians."
    Then they are narrow-minded, as professionals,  are
 they?  Just what I have so  often claimed in the  book.
 Yes, here Mr. Holliday  has it.  ' 'This fact makes their
 professional  narrowness more remarkable,  the wonder
 is that men so intelligent are not ashamed to indulge in
 such a petty exposition of jealousy."—"Small souls de-
 voured by greed, unscrupulous men, worthy of all Mr.
 Kingsley can say against them"—Mr. Holliday  might
 say.
    True,  he  does  not "score by  name"  all  those
 "narrow physicians," "who indulge in such a petty ex-
 position of jealousy," but leaves  the reader to under-
 stand that such narrowness, and jealousy are peculiar
 to the "breed."
    They are  hatched out with that peculiar mark upon
 them, after Jordan,  Brayton, Hays and company's hen
 has "sot" on  the egg in the Medical College nest.
    Witness the "doctors" which the News "went for"
 in a manner "mercilessly scathing"—as "M. D." Clarke
 would say. And too, the doctors who looked on—with
 that "exposition of  jealousy"—while Bliss, Agnew and
 company worked on our beloved President's anatomy,
 for their $25,000 fee—"for-the greed of gain."
    I have noticed all those  cases and many others  in
 the book, which the reader  should examine.   He will
 then see  that Mr.  Holliday  is correct when he writes
this: "There  are quacks, charlatans among them"—the
 doctors—"small souls devoured by greed,  unscrupu-
 lous men," &c.
    I do  not  "go"  for this  kind,  which he  mentions:
 "Some of the best men ever known in this city, to go
no farther, have been physicians."    "The best  men"
are the Baruch and Smythe kind, not the kind who re-
fuse, in the face of  light and knowledge,  to save  their 
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patients, as those doctors advise; but let them die—after
their long drawn out treatment for the $2  a visit;  those
are the  "small souls" kind,  "devoured by greed," &c.
And too,  "the best" kind,  "ever  known in this city,"
are scarce, as the Baruches and Smythes  are scarce in
the latter-day medical societies.
    Mr.  Hollidiy knows nothing about  medical science,
only from a smack, now  and then, as he inhales the
medical science air. as it  passes from the windy Clarkes,
Fletchers, Braytons, Hays and company.   But he is a
graduate of Hanover College—the same that was my
old stamping-ground  before him of more than  thirty
years, and where and when I enjoyed  the teachings—
preachings—of Doctors Crowe,  Blythe,  Mathews and
others.   So, as  the  "doctors" are  medically  college
"larnt," he  feels,  perhaps,  compelled, as  a matter of
courtesy,  to greet them,  occasionliy, as "hail fellows
well met;" when, as to their great pretentious medical
science  knowledge, he hears their blowing, yet, all the
time, sees their constant  failures to  utilize  it to save
suffering, and life.
    He  has not  used that "little knot  hole"  to  no
purpose—the  same that he provided  for  my use, to
select the Baruches and  Smythes,  from the great  array
of "frauds," who  are torturing  the people with  theit
great pretended  "materia medica"—the  same, as the
great Dr. Holmes said,  atter looKing  through John's
same "knothole," should be cast into the  sea, as all
the better for humanity.
    As  I had occasion to say in the  book—'my book'
to please the fastidious Clarke.—Mr. Holliday has grown,
in the last twenty years, "physically mentally, and most
grandly Newsy," while all  that time, as  a reformer, he
has been utilizing that same "little knot hole."
    I am glad to be able to mention  one matter of re-
form which he entered into, and, while looking through
it, he saw the necessity  for the News to open fire on
"Smith"   He saw, through that reformer's "hole" that
Smith was enlisting the  aid of the saloon interest to 
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 procure his nomination for Mayor;  when he, undoubt-
 edly called to "Gid." "Hustle out our gun, and level it
 on  Smith and company.   That  gun did do herculean
 work in his effort to prevent the  mayoralty from being
 contaminated by the saloon interest, and until Smith,
 by some hook or crook, succeeded in spiking it, just be-
 fore the election; but not until it, and the little pop-guns
 of such reformers as Kingsley and  company, had suc-
 ceeded in reducing his  majority to about one-fourth of
 what the others on his  ticket  received, while too, our
 pop guns kept up their fusilading, until the last vote was
 polled.  And it is  a matter  of history too,  that just so
 soon as that  Mayor showed himself a  tool of that in-
 terest,  which had championed him, those naughty spikes
 were drawn  from  that fowling piece, and it was again
 filled with hot shot  which he never ceased to pour into
 that Mayor's office,  until he bowed himself out a pri-
 vate citizen again.
    More recently,  he has done good  work toward hunt-
 ing down and consigning to the penitentiary "doctors"
 of tally-sheets.
    Then, while  still using that reformer's "hole" may
 we not hope that, while "seeing the vista before him" he
 will see the necessity for a law to consign  "doctors of
 medicine,"  the  "fraads and cheats"—those who allow
 Murray boys to  linger for weeks, and reach the confines
 of  the grave, rather than to save them in a day, by cold
 bath.—those  who  allow  the  Gillespies,   Loomises,
 Frauers, Carpenters, and others, whose name is legion,
 to go to their graves, rather than loose  a  long fee bill,
 by using the same watery element to  save them in a few
 hours—all who sign the death warrant of their patients
 by refusing the  advice of the Smythes, and treating it
 "with  adverse criticism," to the same penitentiary?
    Are unmutillated tally-sheets  more  sacred with the
 people than their health and their lives, to their family
 and their friends ?   Are tally-sheet mutillators any more
deserving the penitentiary than mutillators of families—
erasers of names from the family record, to be transfered 
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v to the records at the Crown Hills ?  Is, to preserve the
  purity of the ballot box any more deserving the care of
  the people  than  the preservation of the health,  and
  lives, of families of the.same people ?  Then, is the doc-
  tor, who will scorn  to  use, and treat with contempt the
  one who advises the use of a sure and quick remedy, to
  save suffering and all  those lives;  but persists to treat
  their sick by the same code of ethics that has proved,
  and is every day proving a failure, any the less deserv-
  ing the penitentiaay than the tally-sheet mutillator?
     To let the physician down gently, Mr. Holliday says:
  "No physician will claim that  the practice of medicine
  is an exact science, it is experimental," etc.   Then why
  do they enjoin upon their medical graduates to observe
  strictly their  materia medica,  without any "semblance
  of quacktry?"
     If their "medica" is perfect why do they experi-
  ment?  And, is not  "experimenting,"  "quackery" ? try-
  ing some remedy which they are not sure is the proper
  thing.  Then, should the patient die under that experi-
  menting,  would it not be quackery that killed him, or,
  at least,  did  not save him?  Prof. Hays, at least,  would
  not experiment; if  so, why  does  he advise a  strict
  observance of his ''ethics."  And  does he  not  allow
  his patients  to die  rather  than experiment  with cold
  bath?
     Here is a case just  now reported that does seem to
  justify Mr. Holliday's theory as  to  experimenting.  A
  clipping from the Journal with  these head lines—

          "SMALL  WONDER SHE DIED.
  MRS.  'PETTIT CONSUMED  THE  CONTENTS OF  A  DRUG
           ■STORE DURING HER LAST ILLNESS.
  Special to the Indianapolis Journal."
     "Crawfordsville, Ind.,  Nov. 4.—The more light
  that is shed upon the symptoms of strychnine poisoning
  in the Pettit case by the learned doctors the less the
  spectators seem'to know whether Mrs. Ptttit died from 
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 malarial poison,  tetanus,  hysteria,  vegetable  ptomains,.
 strychnine or from  the chloroform and the  combined
 effects  of the  medicines  given her during her illness.
 The following formidable  list of-drugs  were exhibited
 and sworn to as gi\ren her on Tuesday, so far as can be
 deduced from the testimony:   Two drops aconite every
 half hour, five drops  digitalis every  fifteen  to thirty
 minutes, ten grains bromide of potash every  hour, tei>
 grains  of hydrate  of chloral  every   half hour,  eight
 grains quinine every three  hours,  ten grains cathartic
 compound every three hours, one-eight grain  morphine
 every three hours, one-sixtieth grain sulphate of atropia
 every  three hours,  ten  grains subnitrate of bismuth
 every hour, ten grains chlorate  of  potash  every hour,
 ten  grains  saccharum lactus every  hour, ten grains
 calomel every three  hours, oil, mustard and water as an
 emetic, strong coffee  and tea, besides during the last
 six hours  of her  life she was kept in  a  stupor  by the
 chloroform, of which sixteen  measured ounces  were
 used during her sickness.   There were  also  injections
 given and all sorts of hot applications used.  Then add-
 ing to all  this medicine the alleged fact that Pettit  was
 also giving her strychnine, it is not to be wondered at
 that she died.  In the liver has been found about one-
 half grain of strychnine,  one-half grain  in the  spleen
 and about one-half grain in the stomach  and intestines,
 according to the testimony of the two  chemists."
    "Consumed the contents of a drug store"—as the
 Journal facetiously has it—the day before she died.   It
 does seem that there was experimenting in  that, or else
 the humbug Hays'  "medica" is terribly  loaded  with
 poisons, of all kinds.  And, if such be  the  case, *is it
 any wonder that the veteran Dr. Holmes thinks.it should
 be "sunk to  the bottom of the  sea?"   He has become
 satisfied from long experience, and thorough testing of
its merits, as a curative agency, and is convinced that it
 is all the better for mankind that it be  so  sunk.   About*
 so,  thought  such distinguished Doctors  as  Cooper, 
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Hoffman  and Abercrombie, whom I have quoted in
the book.
    And too,  what  a muddled up mess of knowledge
those doctors, and  experts seemed  to have about the
effect of poison  on the human frame.  One of them
seems to be trying to fasten  the crime of murder upon
the husband;  yet some  of the others show him  to  be
entirely unreliable, and  untruthful.
    And are they not a fair sample of the medical mind,
-ability,  or honesty, when  brought  into contact with
others of the profession,  to prove, disprove, to condemn,
or save a criminal from punishment ?
    Perhaps  Mr. Holliday  would term  those doctors'
course,  up there,  a "petty  exhibition of. jealously."
Certainly those other ones had great reason to be "jeal-
ous" of that one who Was able to understand  that that
sick woman needed the  contents of that drug store, and
then, successfully administered it to her.
    Mr.  Holliday,  after stating that  some of the best
men  ever  known  in this city, have been physicians;
men who showed  the Christ-like spirit of  self-sacrifice
in their  daily lives; and, continuing to  multiply their
good qualities, finally comes to this:  "These men are
not all dead,  either.   There are just as good in the pro-
fession to-day,  and so  far  from believing with Mr.
Kingsley that society is  under bondage to medical feti-
chism, we regard his arraignment as totally inadequate,
unpioved and  unjust."   Now,  if  John will  "name
names" among the physicians of  our city, who, he can
claim, are  "Christ-like," according to the example and
precepts  of the  Christ,  then I will exempt  them  in my
"arraignment" of the frauds.
    I do not arraign such.   I only arraign those who are
pretending to be healers of all the people's ail's, by a
pretended science, but/#//to heal, and, while failing to
so  heal,  and allowing  their patients  to  linger in long
suffering and  to  die, are sneering at, and treating with
"adverse criticism" those who do heal, and who advise
them to adopt their safe methods.
    The "Christ-like" are known by their fruits.  They 
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are the kind whom Christ blesses as merciful.   They are
merciful to their  patients, by treating  them to  a cold
bath for their fever.
   Are they merciful and, therefore "Christ-like " who
say they have not  found anything better than  pickled
moonshine for fever, or those  who  say that they do not
recognize that typhoid  fever can be broken up?—and
so let their patients linger in long suffering, and too,
since they have been  told by men of their  own  pro-
fession, that cold bath will break it up, and has in thou-
sands of oases,  without the loss of one.
   And are they Christ-like who allow the Murray boys
to linger to the brink of the grave, rather than use that
quick remedyjbut, sneeringly, term those "angels" who
tell them that it has sived all those thousands, and that
they have saved hundreds  in their own practice, with-
out the loss of one.
   Are such "Christ-like," or rather are they not "devil-
like?"  Which was it,  Christ like or devil-like, in those
who allowed the Frauer family  to die in the face of the
fact, as they knew, that cold bath had  saved thousand*
without the loss of one.
   Those "devil-like  doctors"  can be enumerated by
thousands, and then, as far as their reign is concerned,
is not "society under bondage  to medical fetichism?"
   Here is a case  right at  home to the hearts of many ;
in which some of our  city  doctors must have been con-
cerned.   The case of  Rev. W.  H.  Wydman, who is
buried to-day.   About three years ago "he was stricken
with typhoid fever, which  brought on heart and  lung
complications of rheumatism, resulting  in three years of
suffering."
   Now,  had one of my "angels," whom  the  flippant
"M. D." Clarke so sneeringly refers to, treated him, in-
stead of three years of suffering,  and  then, death,  he
would have restored him to health in three days.   Won-
der if that doctor, or those doctors who treated  him are
some of Mr. Holliday's "men" that "are not all dead"
yet?  The "Christ-like"  ones  I  mean, of  the "self-
sacrifice" kind. 
MEDICAL 8CIKNCE FRAUDS.            35
to-day, and so far from believing with Mr. Kingsley that
society  is  under bondage to  medical fetichism, etc.
"Well, was not Rev. Wydman "under bondage to medi-
cal feteceism"  for three years?  If not, what was  he
under?   He  was not under  the healing wings of my
"angels."  Were they not mutillators  of family ties?
Then, will not John call  "Gid" to again unlimberthat
gun, and  level  it on  those mutillators, the same as he
did so successfully on tally-sheet mutillators?
    Mr.  Holliday says:   "Mr. Kingsley's grievance,
when sifted out, seems to be that the  doctors will not
accept his methods, and admit that his sovereign reme-
dies of water and  salt and  kerosene are panaceas."
Yet, he did  not tell  his readers  that my "sovereign"
remedy—water, wis also the  same sovereign remedy of
such real "Christ-like" physicians as Dr. Baruch,  who,
he  acknowledged, had  so completely   vindicated me;
and Dr. Smythe of our own state.
    And  herein, I claim  that he was  not fair to the
people,  whom I requested him to deal fairly with.  Had
he given that part of the title  page where I refer to those
doctors as my vindication, and  advised the  people to
read, and weigh my arraignment of the profession for re-
fusing my "remedies of water" etc., and to consider the
backing I had,  and then written  this:  "But we regard
his arraignment as totally inadequate, unproved and un-
just," then no  one could arraign him  for his arraign-
ment, as "totally unjust"  etc.  But, as he has left it,
"Dr." Kingsley thinks a part of his "mercilessly scath-
ing analysis," a la "M. D." Clarke, is a little unjust.
    "The doctors will not adopt his methods and admit
that his sovereign remedies of" water and salt and kero-
sene are  panaceas."   Well now, as I  have good pro-
fessional proof, which Mr. Holliday has admitted, that
"water" is a remedy, why  does he not  advise such
"frauds" as  those  who  treat  Basse and  Vondersaar
children, to try my salt and kerosene remedy, for diph-
theria, since their treatment is so  futile?   Futile effort,
as the News  had it, in the case  of that brutal treatment, 
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      He says:   "There are just as good in the profession
  by inserting a tuba into tue throat of that Vondersaar
  girl, to remain  there thirty-six hours, while she was dy-
  ing.
      The  kerosene  and  salt remedy  saved our grand-
  children with diptheria, and nine chances to one  it
  would have done the same for  those children.  Those
  remedies were complete in every case, which I mention
  in the book—that little Garretson girl out near Pendle-
  ton of a big lump on her neck, and which two doctors
  at  Pendleton, had pronounced  scrofula—those cancer-
  ous affections of my throat, etc.
      Mr.  Holliday cannot, in justice to his readers, and
  the people generally, afford  to pass those remedies by
  with only a flippant notice.
      I  saved myself of the  same "cancerous" trouble
  which, as the vautned "medical minds" were proclaim-
  ing every day  on  bulleton boards, was affecting Gen.
  Grant.
      They  were, undoubtedly, descendants  of Count
  Rumford, who Dr. Fletcher referred  to when address-
  ing a class of medical graduates, as having done more
  good in the world than even the twelve Apostles.  Yet
v even  such  Apostle  excelling  "doctors" could not save
  him,  nor  would they  let  a cancer  specialist try his
 . skill;  and  very likely from  fear  that he knew more
  about it than they did.
      Just at that time, my  doctor  friend whom I have
  mentioned  as  not  understanding my repetitions,  etc.,
  wrote me,  thus:   "Grant's  doctors  have  said  that
  he has cancer, and he must die.   Ot  course,  then,  he
  will die  because they have said so,  and he must  die  to
  show that they  are not mistaken.   Their word must be
  made good."
      One of his doctors were paid $12,000; and here is
  what  Mrs. Grant says of his  services:  "Dr   Douglass
  never did Gen. Grant a particle of good.   All he  did
  was to look wise."
      "He would have  the  doctors take his remedies," 
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says Mr.  Holliday,  well as I  cured  myself  of just
exactly such a cancerous affection,  as  they published
Gen. Grant had, and at the same time,  and which  had
lingered for months,—until it alarmed me,  after reading
their  account of  the  General's—with  dry salt alone,
taken into my mo nti and  swa'lowed  as  fast as  dis-
solved, would he not advise the doctors to try his (my)
remedies for the next cancer case?
    Here,  the facetious  John gives an account of a
lunacy inquest—with Dr. Ddu^Us,  probibly,  on the
witness stand, and, referring to my statement  of curing
myself  of so-called cancer, says of me,   " 'This man is
crazy,  no doubt of it at all,'   'But how do you know?'
'Why, he thinks he's the prophet Jeremiah.'    Well,
do you think the belief that  he is  the prophet Jere-
miah unmistakable proof of insanity?'  'Of course I do,
I'm the prophet Jeremiah myself.' "
    "Of course,"   that  "Jermiah" is   one of John's
"Christ-like" doctors of "self-sacrifice."   Did  he not
"sacrifice"   his  health  in  looking "wise"  on Gen.
Grant?"  And, too,  claim a pension for thit wise  look;
and which  causes  Mrs.  G. to thus exclaim.  "Why
should this family be a pensioner on ours?"
    Such "Jeremiahs" should  not be allowed to suffer.
They  are of the  self-aduatoried kind,  before  whom
journalists and  company stand  in awe, while imagin-
ing them to  be the "Christ-like" kind.
    Those  up at Crawfordsvile, just now, are  of the
same kind,  telling how much  they know, and yet, ac-
cording to their testimony,   none of them know the
same thing alike, but. know it just as the plaintiff, or
defendant wants them to know it.   It is yet to be seen
whether, betwixt "which and t'other,"  the defendant
will go free, or—otherwise.
    Here are some clippings  from the  Journal that fit
right here,—"Expert testimony seems to be like sta-
tistics.  Any amout of it may be had  to  establish in-
contestable proof upon both sides of the case,"—Then,
"The  amazing quantity of drugs shown  to have been 
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poured  down Mrs.  Pettit's  throat by medical order,
give rise  to a  suspicion that the unfortunate woman
cook strichnine of her own accord, as a means of hasten-
ing her escape from doctors."   Again—"If  the  Pettit
jury can decide whether it was the doctors' prescrip-
tions or the strichnine that killed Mrs.  Pettit they  will
be entitled to rank  as medical  experts."   Presumably,
Dear Journal, more reliable  experts  than our  doctor-
experts, who pronounced it not strichnine  that  killed
her?  Such cruel insinuations of contempt, is it?—about
doctors,  by the Journal 1  And,  too, does  it  include
our Doctor-experts?
    Here this, and these which the Journal has—all in
flaming headlines:   "Now she  was not poisoned"—and
I might add :   "Because"—"Indianapolis   physicians
say Mrs.  Pettit's death was not due to strichnine.  Doc-
tors Henry Jameson, and E.  F.  Hodges give  expert
testimony that strongly  favors the defendant Parson,"—
Of course this settles it—with  the Journal?
  And here is still another clipping from our Journal;
and which really does seem  to indicate that jt proposes
to vie with even me in  my "contempt"  for the "quack
science of disease" and  "the  quack method of healing."
    " 'Pseudopathy' and  'pseudotherapy'  have  been
added to  the medical  vocabulary by Oliver Wendell
Holmes.   The first of these words signifies  the  quack
science  of disease, and the  other means  the  quack
method of healing.  It  is to be hoped that the ordinary
profane characterizations of bogus medical methods has
now found acceptable synonyms."
    Dr. Fletcher's Rumford's mantle fell on our Doctors,
and which  makes  them very "wise" as  Mrs. Grant
might say.   Yet, later, the jury did not seem to think any
more of their pretentious wisdom  than  Mrs. Grant did
of "Dr." D)uglass' same pretentions, nor as much  as it
did  of the  State's Doctors'  evidence.  That jury was
very unanimous in pronouncing the "Parson" ''guilty,"
without "fooling" away time.
    All, and everything which has been reported about 
MEDICAL SCIENCE FRAUDS.           39
doctor^  connection with, and treatment of Mrs. Pettit's
case, disagreeing  about the doctor who  did treat her,
 or who  helped him  to treat her, disagreeing about the
 cause of her death, designing to, or in effect did, crimi-
 nate each other, as to what was done, or what was  test-
 fied to in court—does  it not  prove them, all, to be of
 President Jordan's "irauds or fools," and, does it not, all
justify me in all I have said on the same subject in  the
book?   Witness the "expert" testimony for the defense,
in the Longenecker case, a score of years ago.  Was it
not designed to, and  did it not "fit" the side of the de-
fendant?
    While  the  Editor of the News may censure me  for
believing,  as  he intimates—'that society is under bon-
dage to medical fetichism,"  what does he  suppose that
the Boston Globe Editor thinks about that  fetichism  in
his  city?  I copied  the Globe's word, in regard to its
reporter's case, in the book, and  here reproduce the first
few lines.
    "A Globe reporter has lately called upon  a dozen or
twenty  of Boston's leading physicians and got them to
prescribe for his  ailments.   He was perfectly healthy
when  he started  out early this  week, now he has  the
highest  medical authority in  Massachusetts  for saying
he  is a very ill  man."
    As Mr. Holliday has read all  what the Globe has to
say  about it as printed  in the book, I would query—
"just for information, you  know,"  Was  not   that
reporter  "under  bondage  to  medical  fetichism?—or
what kind of bondage was it?
    Is the highest medical authority of Indiana any more "
reliable than that of Boston?  Do one in ten of our doc
tors know any more about prescribing correctly for  dis-
ease, or discerning whether there is any disease, at all,
in  a  so-called  patient,  than the   ten-tenths  of those
Boston doctors, who didn't know there was nothing the
matter with that "athletic reporter?"
    The  fact  is, nine-tenths  of the  doctors do not care
whether a person who calls on one of them needs medi- 
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cine, or does not, that is,in their pretended judgment—but
they  want  his  money, and will prescribe  something,
which may  or may  not injure  him; and too, there can
be no doubt in  the  mind  of a reflecting person, that
nine tenths  of the real sickness  among the  people is
caused by  those reckless  and  sordidly minded  nine-
tenths of the doctors who prescribe for, and alarm per-
sons until they do really think  they are sick, and finally
become  so,  from the  use of the very stuff that is pre-
scribed for them to use, to save them from sickness.
    There are really,  ten doctors where one is needed to
attend  to all the real ills that are liable to come upon
the  people.   Then  the  people would have nine-tenths
less blubbering over  them, with their pretended medical
science  as  a basis  for their pretended necessity to  the
people,  as  "conservators of their health."  And nine-
tenths  of the people  would then study up how to attend
to their little ails,   or  how to let them alone, and then
would have very few big ails.
    Nine tenths of all the fevers now in this city, and the
consequent  suffering, and  deaths, are the direct  result
of the determined purpose of  the doctors to practice
their  "science" theory upon  them; despite the fact,  as
they know, that every  case  could be treated with cold
bath, with a certain recovery of every patient.
    "Medical science" is their  trade, and they start out
to 'practice  it on as  many patients  as they can  "scare
up"—scare  into thinking their  medical knowledge is a
neccessity to them—to restore them to health.
   Nine-tenths  of the people are as completely  under
the control  of that medical influence  exerted by  the
doctors,  as the serfs, or subjects of Russian  Czars,  or
Africa's cannib d  Kings, are under their despotic orders.
And   those   medical  despots   are  multiplying   their
number  over the people four times as fast as the  same
people are increasing.
   We have  this statement,  essentially, from one  of
their number—Dr. Shrady, editor of a medical Journal,
in New York City. 
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n
     Here is a little quotation  from the Medical Record,
 Dr.  Shrady's  paper.   "There  is  certainly  no  more
 curious phenomenon  than  that of the extraordinary
 popularity  of the medical calling in this country  as a
 means of procuring a livelihood."
   See?  "As a means of procuring a livelihood."
     Does he not, tacitly, admt the cmth of my charges
 that, the doctor practices his calling for the money there
 is in it?
     And, does not this admission also sustain me in the
 accompanying  charge that they  will,  and do prolong
 the treatment  in the way to make the most money out
 of the case? and, also, while refusing to adopt the  short
 and safe method of cold bath for fevers;  as well as other
 short  and safe  methods for other  diseases.   Torturing
 the people "as a means of procuring a livelihood."
    And,  right  here,  I quote  this from the  News, in
 reference to Dr.  Douglas claim  upon the Grants  for
 more  money,  "Twelve  thousands  dollars to a doctor
 for assisting a man to die, " etc., Well, John,  was not
 that "medical fetichism"?
    It is very reasonable to suppose that,  had President
 Garfield's doctors kept his wound covered with a wet
 cloth to keep down inflammation, and  forced  salt water
 into the wound with a syringe,  had there been danger
 of blood-poisoning, his  wound would have healed, and
 he would have lived.
   Others doctors, who looked on so to speak—said his
 doctors' treatment killed him, and which was undoubt-
 edly, the fact;  yet,  those very  ones,  had  they  had
 charge  of his  case, would, just as  likely, have  killed
 him  by the same or  some other equally cruel  treat-
 ment,  as they  would not have  applied  the  "quack"
remedy,  which I have suggested.
   His  was  nothing but  a case  of surgery,  and  the
surgery was nothing  but good nursing,  as I have  in-
dicated,  with the addition of cold bathing had  fever
developed in the physical   frame; and, also giving, as a
drink,  salt water sufficiently often to keep the blood  in
good condition. 
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    But there was not  "science" enough in that  simple
treatment, so they mumbled all sorts of names in "hog
latin," or something else,  to describe  his condition,
and treatment, while" assisting him to die," as the News
would say.   And  then was he not under  bondage  to
medical fetichism?''
    Evidently, the  "extraordinary   popularity  of the
medical calling in this  country," may be accounted  for
in the fact that the "doctors" find it so easy to dupe the
people, by their  twattle about the wonderful "science,"
that lets them into the secret of the cause of all diseases,
and how to treat them, or to keep the people clear  of
them.
    The fact that we have in this country on t doctor  to
every 60 of  the people, shows how easy they find it to
dupe  the  people.   About six times as many as  France
has to their number of people.
   The Medical  Record says:  "The United States has
about  sixty  millions of population; nearly one hundred
thousand  doctors,   13,091  medical  students,  and
graduates  3.740  students in a year."
    Then this: "A comparison of the United States with
the Europeans countries, in  whatever way it is  made,
leads  one to think that there is something almost morbid
in our medical fecundity."
  Yes, The  "medical fruit is "rotten"—six rotten  to
one sound,  comparing it to France.  Our medical col-
leges  are turning out   "rotten fruit"—rotten in heart,
mind and  soul.
    "Rotten" in theory, rotten in practice and principles;
infecting our people with their rotten practice of a rotten
theory.  Our people are sickening and dying, while en-
couraging, and in  consequence  of, the "morbid medi-
cal fecundity" of our medical  colleges—"rotten  medi-
cal fruit" of our colleges.
    What more can  I want  for a vindication in all my
charges in the book, and in this supplement, against the
medical profession,  than the Medical Record has given
me in these  lines—where he refers to the "extraordin- 
MEDICAL SC1ENCK
FRAUDS.
 ary populaity of the medical calling in this country as a
 weans of securing a livihood'1 as a "social phenomenon?"
 He does  not intimate that the purpose is  to procure
 health, and long life to the people, yet he knows that is
 their pretense, but with the sordid motive of securing a
 livelihood.
    Then:  "Almost morbid in our medical  fecundity"
 —fruitfulness, whether he means, that the graduates of
 their colleges are sick, diseased in heart and soul,  with
 only the sordid intention "of  securing a livelihood," or
 the fruitfulness—the great "fecundity" of their practice
 while  securing that livelihood, is "morbid"—sickly in
 its effect  upon the people—its  fruitfulness  is disease,
 sickly, diseased is their medical  work,  " medical fecun-
 dity," one, the other, all together, sustain me in the va-
 rious counts in my  indictments against nine-tenths of
 the practice of all the profession.
    Then here, very  properly,  comes in  the  considera-
 tion of the medical colleges, and their graduates;  and
 which subject matter—the mills that grind out the "poor"
 bread winners of the "doctor" persuasion— I handle in
 the book without gloves.
    Here I call to  mind this  little streak of literature
 from the mind of that versatile "M.  D." to whom I
 have refered before, in these pages.  "To return to that
 crankiest of crank literature which Mr. Kingsley calls
 'my book,' which  overdoes Termagant as a tirading ar-
 raignment of the members of the medical profession as
 remorseless butchers of the innocent and helpless sick,
 like any Kingan pig-sticker, for gain alone," etc.
    Were it not that that blustering "M  D." is afraid
 to attack big game  I would refer him to Dr. Shrady's
 "curious social  phenomenon"  in regard to the "popu-
 larity of the medical calliug" as a means  of  securing a
 livelihood.
   Dr.  Shrady  also says:  "The subject is one that is
often dwelt upon, but we doubt if many even yet realize
 the grotesque  misproportion  which  medicine in  the
 United States holds to other bread winning occupations." 
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    See?  I am not the only one who his "dwelt" upon
 the profession "as remorseless butchers of the innocent
 and helpless sick, for gain alone"—as a means of secur-
 ing a livelihood, in Dr. Shrady's  words ;  while he also,
 instead of using  mv "M. D's."  words: "butchers  of
 the innocent and helpless sick," refers to their practice
 among  the  people, as "almost morbid in  our medical
 fecundity"—sick,  diseased medical fruitfulness, among
 the people.
    Herearetwo ways of expressing about the same senti-
 ment by two doctors; while I, a "'layman," have come
 nearer to Dr. Shrady's manner of expression, only vary-
 ing at times, by quoting the language of such "doctors"
 as President Jordan, "M. D." Clarke,  etc., to  please
 them.   And here,  I use, to  please "one" Clarke, his
 language, in reference to the  generality of the product
 of the medical colleges.
    Dr.  Shrady places them  along side of other bread
 winners.  He refers to them as pursuing the calling "as
 a  means  of \securing  a livelihood," but  says  nothing
 about their healing the sick at the same time; and, when
 he  refers to "something almost morbid in our  medical
 fecundity"—fruitfulness—he  leaves us to suppose that
 he  means that they  leave their patients not sound,  or
 healthy, but "diseased,  sickly, sick,"  while "M. D."
 C's  pretended   pen-picture   of   my   language  is,
 "remorseless butchers of the innocent and helpless sick,
 like any Kingan pig-sticker for gain alone," I quote  in
 the book, Dr. Shrady's opinion that there are an  excess
 of doctors, while, what I  have quoted in these pages,  is
 later on the same matter.  I accept the  sentiment at-
 tributed to me, in that pen-picture, and declare, as Dr.
 S., has placed them along the side of the "pig-sticker,"
as bread winners,  that, I believe  the young man who
 enters a medical college having the same nature in him
 as has the facetions Clarke's pig-sticker, and, as the call-
ing is so notoriously popular, and,  then—is Kingin's
pig-sticker,  has always found car-loads of pigs ready  to
 be "sticked," so  has  also the  people-sticker   found 
MEDICAL SCIENCE FRAUDS.             45
houses full, to do for, and do up—he calculates that car-
loads of human pigs, so to speak,  will be ready for him to
•work at, just so soon as the "old grannies" of the medical
college wean him,  and send  him out  to  secure  that
"livelihood."
    And,  while  he may hope  that, while he follows the
granny Hayses's advice to stick to his ethics, he  may
not hurt, but benefit the people;  yet, as "gain alone" is
his object, and  as  the people-stickers who  have  had  a
year or more the start of him, are already, a half dozen
times  too many, he is obliged to hustle, hunt up,  and
blarney the new comers and old ones alike,  so  as,  at
first,  to get dupes enough to, even,  give him a  bare
subsistence."  And, while working for that bare subsis-
tence at first, but, later on, for bank stock  and  piles of
brick and mortar, he is just as oblivious, and careless of
his patients' life as the pig-sticker is of the feeling of the
pig, when he runs his  knife into its throat.
    This, I admit, is plain language, but the evidence of
the brutality of the human-sticker  is in  the hands  of
the "angel" Smythe,  and   which  he  read  to those
"stickers,"  in their medical  society,  assembled.   He
charged them with being "human-stickers"—all whose
patients  died in their hands, while refusing to use  cold
bath to save them.
    They are also amenable  to  the same charge  of
brutality, while  letting .patients  linger in any  other
disease,  while treating  them by the  code, to  the ex-
clusion of simple and safe remedies; but, which, are out-
side of the code  of ethics, while all the time their object,
in  refusing  those safe and quick remedies,  and so al-
lowing  their patients  to linger long;  can  only be,  to
obtain  the  largest* fee possible,— to "secure a liveli-
hood"—and more.
   Many,  many such  cases—of  lingering,  and death
from  those fevers,  are of daily occurence in our city;
and, just as often as they do occur, am I not authorized
to characterize the doctor, who attends them,  after pro-
ducing the statistics, and experience, of Drs.  Baruch 
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and Smythe, and other ones  whom they mention, all
to show  that cold  bath is a  certain remedy for those
fevers, as  "frauds  and scoundrels,"  for letting  their
patients linger and die?   Are they  not guilty of their
death, "for gain  alone,"  the same as  Kingan's pig-
sticker practices his profession for gain alone?
   While the same doctors,   who are  guilty of  their
fevered patient's death, by refusing to use  simple and
safe remedies, are,  equally, guilty of the death of their
patients with other diseases, while treating  them  with
their pretended science; and which diseases are, largely
made, or  aggravated  by  that pretended  scientific
treatment; but which required no treatment at all, by
a physician, or,  at the most,   very  little  simple treat-
ment.
   Yet that simple treatment is far beneath the high and
lofty calling of the  self-adulatoried  Clarkes and Com-
pany;  but who allow Murray boys to  approach  to the
very confines of the grave, while they are battling with
typhoid  fever,  or  other fevers; and,  too,  while they
could relieve them in a day,  by the  simple—yet the
doctors' tabooed—remedy  of  the "angel," Smythe and
Baruch.
   This brings to  mind some language  of the  indignant
 "M.  D." about that Murray boy's case,  which I quote:
 "just about this time there appeared a short item in the
News to the effect  that this  boy was very low with
typhoid fever, and  shortly after that Dr. George handed
me a queerly written epistle  on  brown paper,  stating
that Mr. Murray had received it through the  mail and
turned it over to him.  It  was signed 'A. S. Kingsley,'
and one of the vile  diatribes   alluded  to in  the above
reprint.  Mr. Kingsley  has written  so  many of these,
probably—since  he incriminatingly confesses  in the
card  I am answering, to have  written  to the Jenckes,
 McCulloch and  Ritter families  in similar exigences—
that he has forgotten the wording or circumstances, and
in defense glibly calls me a liar."  Then, after telling of
 what—"in this letter he spoke." "If Mr. Kingsley still 
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adheres to his idiotic charge  of untruthfulness,  why
this letter will have to be publised as the only silencing
reply."
  In referring to his plaint about those letters  which I
wrote, I say this in my  "card."  " 'Dr.' Kingsley has
no regrets for those acts of kindness,  nor has  he any
evidence that they were not received in a kind spirit.
'Advising  the immediate  discharge of the attending
physician as  one of a  gang of murderers,  as he  has
done,' is a creature of the imagination of W. B. Clarke,
'M, D.,' and, while admitting  that  he is  learned in
the matter of pukes and pills,  he must concede  that
he  has  not learned to not do what the little George
Washington told his father that he could not do."    For
this, comes this language:—"and in defence glibly calls
me a liar."
   Well, so be  it, if he wishes; yet,  I  stand  to  every
word  there written, and charge him  with forging and
publishing words that I  did not use, in that letter, or in
the article  in  the  News,  and, with forgery and false
quotations from  "my book."  See? Fastidious "M. D.,''
my book.  He alters quotations,  erases quotation marks
and makes words,  phrases,  and sentences which do not
appear in the book, all to make it. appear that I abuse
doctors of our city by the use  of the language  which he
imputes to me
   In reference to their treatment of Mr. Murray's boy
"M. D." Clarke says:   "It is gratifying to  be able to
record that his  confidence was not misplaced, for his
child  was returned to him whole again."
  Well,  was that'confidence"  in him or them,  any
justification for the "remorseless butchers of the innocent
and helpless sick' "  in their tormenting  that child, or
allowing him to suffer, and harrowing the  feelings of
those parents?
   And what about that "confidence," and the result,
had my "angel" Smythe stepped in, just while that boy
was hovering on the confines of the grave, and spoken
to those sorrowing parents,  while in all their grief, at 
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the thought of having  to  see  him fall into it; and had
convinced them that all their tears,  and  his  suffering,
could be saved had they put him into a tub  of water,
at the beginning of his sickness?
   Their "confidence" was the result  of their  ignor-
ance of "angel" methods,  and  which, had  been the
purpose, of  the  fallen-angel,   "pig-sticker"  kind, to
continue them in that ignorance, "for gain alone."
   However much those frauds may have tried to con-
vince them that I  was guilty of a crime in sending them
that letter, I still opine that they are not  so convinced;
and, while I may not have convinced them, against the
blubberings of those "frauds," that a cold bath was what
he should have had at the beginning of his trouble, yet
/ am  convinced that, when they hear from my angel
Smythe, they will be so convinced;  and  then,  instead
of a feeling of "confidence," it may  be changed to one
of contempt.   I am fully of the opinion that the time is
coming, if it be not now, when my course will be ap-
preciated by them.
   Dr. Baruch,  when  reading his plea for cold bafh> to
his medical society associates, of New York City, after
urging  them to  weigh the whole  matter  as  he had
weighed it, said:  "You-will then, I  opine, agree with
me that we stand to-day upon the threshold of a great
epoch in the treatment of typhoid fever."
    "Since he incriminatingly confess." So, then, it was
a crime for me to write Col. Ritter,  Dr. Jenckes,  Rev.
McCulloch and Mr. Murray those letters, in  the time of
their suffering, and suggesting a way to be relieved from
it all?   Well, then, why  did not Col.  R.,  instead of
thanking  me for my  kindness, commence a criminal
prosecution against me for  that  crime!   Lawyers are
supposed to be fond of fees,  the same as the pig-sticking
 "M. D." profession is.   Yet, while it is generally  sup-
posed that they do work for that fee, I would  not, for  a
moment,  rank them  in the same  procession with the
 ' 'remorseless butchers  of the innocent and helpless sick,
for gain alone."  While they work for a fee they do not 
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 sacrifice  human  life  to obtain it—do not "sign  the
 death warrant" of their clients, as angel Smythe told the
 Clarke and Company  "frauds"  that they did  sign  the
 death warrants oi their patients,  by refusing to treat with
 cold bath all Murray boys who are suffering with typhoid
 fever.    That  letter  "was  one of the vile diatribes"
 —one  of the  several written to  suffering families,  ad-
 vising them as to how they could be relieved.
    Now, I may as well inquire right here,  who is  this
 blubbering,  blustering,  ranting self-important "medi-
 cal"^?) scold who is charging me with a "crime," con-
 fessing to a crime—"incriminatingly  confesses."  Was
 it acrime for me to notify that Murray  family,  after
 reading in the News that their son was at death's door,
 from the  effect of typhoid fever,  that au  angel of mercy
 was hovering over him, and they had only to open  the
 door and let him in, when  he  would administer  cold
 bath  to their son,  and  who  would, then,  immediately
 recover?
    I read that he was  suffering,  and also  knew, from
 long  experience,  as well as from  the words of such
 physicians  as  Baruch  and  Smythe,  that  cold bath
 would save  him;  and  so, from the  humane feeling
 which God had given me, I felt it a duty to so  inform
 those people.
    It  was  enough for me  to  know that a brother,
 one of God's children, was  suffering, but did not know
 that one of President Jordon's "fools and  frauds,"" was
 torturing  him,  or allowing  him  to  "battle" with the
 fever—according to Dr. Oliver's plan—nor did  I stop
 to  inquire;  I  was  simply  vindicating  the  character
 which "W. B. Clarke,  M. D." gives me in  a  few lines,
 in the three column article over  that name  and cog-
nomen; This: "Mr. Kingsley is noted in this community
as a man of quick sympathies, honest purposes,  and the
willingness and ability to do much good, and  his whole
life is  proof of this, in deeds as  well as words."
   Yet, while vindicating the character he here gives
me—"the ability to do much good" to that  boy—he in- 
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sinuates—that I was guilty of. a  crime—and confessed
to it.
    I repeat the inquiry: who  is this self-important medi-
cal "M. D.," who assumes the prerogative of prosecu-
tor, witness, judge  and jury,  to arraign  me before the
people, and then pronounce sentence upon me?; after,
as he assumes, exorting from me confession of guilt—
" incriminatingly confesses," confesses to the "crime"  of
notifying parents how their children can be saved from
the grave, which they were hovering over; and against
the treatment that was sending, or allowing them to die.
    Why!  It  is W. B. Clarke, "M.  D."  One of the
great professedly  professionals of the so called  medical
profession; those professional  characters who imagine,
and, too, not without cause,  with a very large  portion
of the  people,  that they so  control the minds  of the
same people  to  the extent of inducing them to believe
that they  need  their professional  services, at all times
and under  all  circumstances, to keep them well, or  to
cure their ails!
    And, while having such an exalted opinion of their
importance; as the  people  have; but,  which the  doctors
know is only in their imagination, and, that  imagination
created by themseves, by their self-pretentious claims  as
to that importance to them, in sickness or health.  They
deport themselves, before all people, as though they con-
sider themselves a far superior race of humanity, above
the people, whom they can, and do so easily dupe,
    Prof. Maxwell, in his address, which I quote in my
book; quoted  another doctor's sentiment, thus:—"The
grave nod, the  mysterious  air of infallibility,"  this he
admitted the doctors affect, yet claims that it does not
have the same effect on the people as of  yore.
    That nod, and "air of  infallibility"  accounts for
heir ability to dupe so many people, while that ability  to
dupe  them,  accounts  for the fact, that, they are run-
ning their medical mills to the very extent of their capa-
city, to enable young men, who see the  abilily of older
ones to dupe, to try their own ability  in the duping pro- 
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cess;  and, always  with  the hope, and expectation, of
being able to  make  the same  "grave nod,"  and to
assume the same " air of infallibility."
    That pompous  feeling of infallibility has so invaded
the brain  of  my pretended reviewer,  who, by  falsely
placing my words, language, quotations and sentiments
before the public, hopes thereby, to do what he can not
do by an honest review, criticism, and  defence—defend
the profession, against my arraignment.
    His big, pretentious blusterings remind one of the
toad, that affected such  immense bigness that  he finally
 "busted."
    I publish  facts,  which are a matter of history, that
justify me in  all my charges of imbecility, and dishon-
esty against the profession.   He don't notice the Boston
■Globe reporter's experience with the Clarke kind of doc-
tors,  there.  He had better go and join himself to those
doctors, that they can enjoy mutual  commiseration, and
abhorrence of " Dr. " Kingsley.
    I venture  this assertion, and  which, I claim, every
day's observation, of the reflecting person—every day's
history, will justify me in the assertion:
    The  majority of the  medical  colleges in this  city
know there is not room, or the  necessity for  one more
 "doctor," of  all,  that they  are  now  preparing to
unload upon  the people, of our city, or any  where in
the state, or country.   Assuming this to be a  fact, then
the following conclusions must, necessarily, follow:
    Their care is not for the best interests of the people,
but,  only, have a care for the money which the student
 pavs for  his  education—"for  gain alone," like the
 "Kingan pig-sticker,"  who  works  "for gain alone."
 Knowing, as  they do, that "there is  room for no more
 doctors"—like the one  whom Dr.  Jordan  so pitifully
 mentioned, who killed himself, m New York  City, be-
cause  "there is room  for no more  doctors"—the only
 hope of those  managers,  is, that, those unloaded doc-
 tors, upon the people, will be  able  to dupe  the  same
 people, for a  "bare  subsistance;" at first, at  least, and 
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until they can do better. They know that, in  proportion
to the number which they throw upon the people,  there
will  be a corresponding portion of the people all the
time supporting them, upon the plea of the "doctors,"
that,  they  need their  assistance, to keep well  or get
well; while, with the corresponding  amount of sickness,
to the number  of those young doctors, so will be the
inabilily of the bread-winners to earn  their bread; but
all  the time  a demand  from the doctor for his  fee;
and, in proportion as that is  paid to  him—all  for the
privilege of being made sick—in nine cases out of ten—
by him, the family suffers  for necessaries of life;  often
compelled to beg or go to the poor house; and, in the
meantime, many are consigned to the  grave—with the
attendant expense; besides the sorrow  in the  loss of
friends.
   Those managers care as little for this result,  of their
over-flow of doctors on the people,  as the "Kingan pig-
sticker" cares for the squeal of the pigs.
   Then, this is  the sequence of it  all:   The most
sordid propensities of the mind is  brought to the front,
in the doctor, as well as  in the  managers of their col-
leges; more so than in any other profession,  or calling
of mankind.
   I notice in  my book Dr. Hervey's  paper which he
read before a medical  society, claiming that  the utility
of medicine had made great progress in  the  last fifty
years; and  it  xs  the  claim,  and clamor of all blatant
medical scientists, of  the Clarke and Hervey kind, that
the  treatment  of diseases  has been greatly simplified,
and rendered  much  easier  to handle, by  scientific
discoveries.
    Yet, all kinds  of diseases  are  not handled, by  the
most pretentious scientist, only with the usual fatal  re-
sults, in the most  simple cases of disease; but it  takes
five times as many doctors to hurry those  patients  to
their graves as it did twenty years,  or fifty years ago.
    That pompous "air of  infallibility"  has so  inflited
my  "M. D."  reviewer that he is lifted  very high  up in 
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53
that "air," from whence he looks down upon me,—very
much the same as the Shanghai Cock, upon the  dung-
hill,  looks  down upon the little bantam in the  ditch;
while, in his  big-highness'  rooster language, of cook a-
doodle-do,  with out-stretched neck and open mouth, re-
minds his lowness of his  extreme smallness.  Then, he
dilates on "small minds," and,  when, whose "worthless
armor is pierced in a wordy battle,  retort with the in-
elegant expression 'you're a liar.'    So  it is  with our
ancient yet  modern Aquarius,  or Jupiter Pluvius, or
latter-day Priessnitz, whose trouble still seems to be,  as
he has been so often diagnosed, water on the brain."
Then again:—"It is  only  charity  to  assume that the
author of this work  is insane  on  the one subject  of
water in its relation to the practice  of medicine." All
this for the only reason that I, after my own experience
of thirty  years in  the use of cold baths, proving  its
utility,  and entire safety in every case of  trial, and then
advise all suffering people to use the same remedy, in-
stead of trusting themselves and children  in  the  hands
of the doctors, who allow them to suffer,  and,  so often
to die, of  the same fevers which I  have found so easy
to manage with cold baths; and, too, after those long
years  of my own  experience, I  find that  I  am  so
thoroughly justified by doctors who have had the same
proof of its utility,  and I refer to them,  to more thor-
oughly  convince my readers,  and  the people, and in-
duce them to try it, without the advice, or  aid of those
doctors who  are  opposing it,  and allowing  them  to
suffer and die; then,  my reviewer, already inflated with
that pompous "air of infallibility," swells his bigness to
such  ponderous proportions, away up in that "air," that
he  even looks down upon those doctors, to whom  I
have referred,  contemptuously; sneeringly referring to
them as my "angels."
    Referring to my book, he says this :  "He arraigns
the doctors for practicing their profession  for gain  alone,
utterly  regardless of life or health, and on many other
charges, basing it  all  on their fancied rejection of his 
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hydropathic ideas."   Then comes this :—"He has two
or three  angels among the doctors."
    Yes,  and for the lone reason that they have "announ-
ced their belief in the efficacy of water." And right here I
will ask that fraud;  doubtless one of President Jordan's
"fools and frauds." No, not a fool, "nither," because he
has read  Shakespeare  and can quote him glibly as fol-
lows;  and, as  he uses the pronoun I, profusely, he evi-
dently  refers to his own great  medical  knowledge; and
which must account for his use of "M. D." so continu-
ously and unanimously  after his name.
                  'Tis known I ever
     Have  studied physic,  through which secret art
     By  turning o'er authorities, I have
     (Together with my practice) made familiar
     To me and to my aid the bless'd infusions
     That dwell in vegetives, in  metals, in stones;
     And I can speak of the disturbances
     That  Nature works  and of her cures—which doth
             give me
     A more content in course of true delight
     Than to be thirsty after tottering honor,
     Or  tie my treasure  up in silken bags
     To  please the tool and Death.
    A Contemptible fraud, who  would allow that Murray
boy to  linger in suffering to the  brink of the grave,
 sneeringly referring to those doctors as  "angels" for the
sole reason  that  they "believe in the efficacy of cold
 water,"  for  fevers, practice what they  believe and ad-
 vise other doctors to do the same.
    Why does he not deny my statement, so often made,
 that  water is a sure and quick remedy  for fevers ? : and
 then pitch into Drs.  Baruch and Smythe for  publishing
 false  statistics about the thousands  of patients being
 cured of typhoid fever—without the loss of one;  and into
 Dr. Smythe,  and charge him with  falsely  publishing
 that  he has  treated  over 200 without the loss of one?
 Why does not that big- cock-in-the barn-yard  pitch into,
 and  gaff  that big  game, instead of spurring-the little
 bantam,  over  whom  they  are  hovering  their angelic 
               MEDICAL SCIENCE IKAUDS.            ')")


 wings for a protection from that Shanghai's spurs, and
 cook-a-doodling-do shout?
    In regard  to that letter to Mr. Murray, the bluster-
 ing  fraud writes  this: "If Mr. Kingsley still adheres to
 his  idiotic charge of  untruthfulness—why, that letter
 will have to be published as the only silencing reply;"
 while  just  before this he  writes:   "This letter  was
 read by a  number of parties,  and  I have  this day
 been told by  Dr. O.  S. Runnels,  who  has read the
 letter, that the above words are a fair synopsis of it."
    Well,  then,  why  did not that same falsifier  publish
 that letter as it was written,  word after word, by  me, in-
 stead of threatening to publish it, and instead of that "syn-
 opsis?"   In connection  with  his blustering about that
 letter, the same  falsifier writes this;  " 'Dr.' Kingsley's
 wild statement  in the News recently was that the doc-
 tors in this State in  their  treatment of typhoid fever
 kill  1000  patients to  every one lost by the Christian
 science healers in all kinds of diseases."   He also says,
 in reference to my writing families where typhoid fever
 is reported, "extolling  the  virtues  of cold water and
 Christian science."  Now, so far as "Christian science"
 was mentioned  by me,  it  is  a lie,  plain and  simple.
 Here  are  the "wild  statements" in  the News, full and
 complete.
      Christian Science and Medical Science.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis News.
    In  reading Dr. Earp's remarks on Christian science
 some  thoughts are suggested.   Are  not  the  same re-
 marks applicable to medical  science which he makes
 against Christian Science  ?   Is there not in his science,
 as  practiced,  "a species of neglect which jeopardizes
 human  life?'   Dr.  Smythe, of Greencastle,   read  a
 paper before this State's Medical Society, at its meeting
in this city last summer, in which he said:  "In  1870 I
 began  the  treatment of  typhoid fever by a systematic
application  of cold baths,"etc.   Then, "the  apparent
neglect or indifference with which the brilliant results of
this  treatment  have been received by the profession," 
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etc.   Again,  "No one has  any  right to oppose this
treatment  upon purely  theoretical grounds.   He who
does so, and refuses to adopt it,  signs the death warrant
of twenty individuals out of every hundred  with  this
disease which he  treats, and a  discriminating public
will  hold him  responsible.   This plan of treatment  is
not  an idle  tale  to be whistled  down by  a breath  of
wind."  Is  "the  expectation of prayer  and  implicit
faith"  in  "Christian  Science" to cure, "without resort-
ing to the  necessary auxiliaries which a wise God has
furnished  man for the  alleviation of disease" any more
preposterous than is ' 'implicit faith" in ' 'medical science"
to cure without resorting to the  necessary auxiliary  of
water  which a wise Go'd has furnished man  for the alle-
viation of typhoid fever?  In  view of the much more
numerous  cases of "neglect," by the medical scientists,
in not using the  cold  bath, which one of their own
number advises them to do, and  by that neglect signing
the  death warrants  of  their patients than there are by
the Christian Scientists  attempting to cure by prayer
alone,  how  would it do  for  "a community to have a
right to  legal  protection against the methods" of both
these  scientists that  "sacrifice the existence of its indi-
viduals?"  The  death  of  one  in this city who was
under  the  treatment of the Christian Scientists can be
offset  by  one  hundred  or one thousand who have lost
their lives by  the refusal of medical scientists to use the
cold bath,  of which Dr. Smythe says:  "In every case
where  the  bathing was energetically Used the patient
recovered."
                                           A. S. K.
   The reader will hardly be able to find the language
quoted above and attributed to me, by that fellow who
has  not  yet learned to not do what little George Wash-
ington  told his father that he could not do. —For instance,
"the   doctors  of  this  State" * * * "Kill" * * "their
handling of all kinds of diseases."
   So  much for the honesty of one medical fraud when
he is  trying to defend  the profession from the seiious 
MEDICAL SCIENCE FRAUDS.
and  truthful charges  of  one who has no other motive
than  to  benefit  his fellow-beings,   by warning them
against  such  frauds.  The only defense  which he can
make is developed in his ranting, blustering, game-cock-
in-the-barnyard style.  The feeling of "I am holiei than
thou,"  is developed in every word and line in his three
column review of 'my  book'.
    In referring to me  he says:  "though of a truth, the
game is hardly worth the candle."   In his  "conclusion'
he says:   "This  verbose  and necessarily  hasty reply is
made  "because  of  my powerful conviction that it was
some one's duty to do  so on general principles, and be-
cause  the medical  profession has  been  so often chal-
lenged  by  Mr.  Khagsley  to  make  reply to his 'con-
vincers.' "
    He himself, coins "convincers" to make it appear as
my own  supposed  opinion,  that my arraignment of the
profession is unanswerable, while  he has volunteered
to be their "Moses"  to lead them over "Jordan."
    And  how  has  he replied to those  "convincers?"
Maybe he  refers to  Drs. Baruch and Smythe as my
convincers.  Certainly, they have convinced me that I
am right in attacking those "frauds" who sign the death
warrant of  their patients by refusing to use cold baths,
th it  I was  right, when those lying doctors of the medi-
cal  society  published, to the effect, that I lied when I
ublished that I saved our children with scarlet fever by
cold water.
    In  all his "hasty reply"  has he attempted to prove
that my "angels,' " and all my own belief in the efficacy
of water,  is not justified by facts, as shown by those who
have saved thousands  of patients without the loss of one?
Has  he attempted to  prove  that Dr. Baruch's statistics
are  not correct,  that Dr. Smythe's statement of his own
experience is not true?   Has he attempted to explain
the  cause of all those futile efforts,  of great  medical-
pretenders,  to save  all those distinguished  patients—
whom they allowed  to die?   Has he attempted to de-
efnd all those doctors whom  I have arraigned, for  their 
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failure to save their patients from all  those insignifient
cases, which I mention?    Has he attempted to defend
those doctors of our city—himself perhaps one of them
—whom Dr. Metcalf  refers to as making  serious cases
out of trivial ones that they can thereby  obtain credit
for curing serious cases? -  Has he attempted to defend
all those three sets of  doctors who treated   Mr. Haskell
for  three different kinds  of disease—and  then  let  him
die? ; and Mr.  Laird, who  died of softening of the
brain as the  doctors  said,  but when they found the
Train sound, they then concluded it was blood poison-
ing that  killed him.   They all need his defense badly.
   Has he any "reply" to  the  Boston  Globe's conclu-
sion?—"So we have the comfortable.assurance  that the
doctors, nine times out of  ten, doctor their patients for
the wrong complaint."  And:  "certainly  not  one  had
the skill to discover  that  nothing  ailed  the athletic
reporter."
   He  has  any amount of blustering, with   his  war
paint on,  while dancing all around me, whom he im-
agines he has flayed, scalped,  and  tied to the stake,
"all aburning," just like the  Camanche  Indian,  who
has been so often  challenged by Mr.  White  Man  to
make reply to his convincers; and whose "hasty reply"
has been  the  same flaying, scalping  and  burning,  as
the Camanche's was who saw it his "duty," "on general
principles"  to  make  his  "hasty  reply"  to my 'con-
vincers.'?
   All the "reply" he has for such men as Dr. Smythe,
who   are  saving  their patients' lives every time,  and
without long suffering, is, to look down, in his inflated
condition, up in that "air"—that "mysterious air of in-
fallibility," and sneeringly refer to them "as angels"—
my angels, to whom  I  refer,  to vindicate me in my
"hydropathic ideas."
   Here, the wonderful defender of the "medical  pro-
fession," says, of my book:    "He arraigns the doctors
for practicing their profession for gain alone, utterly re-
gardleas of life or health,  basing it all on their fancied 
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rejection of his hydropathic ideas."  Well,  did  they
not reject those ideas when they published  that "water
is not beneficial but  hurtful in  scarlet  fever"?  Then,
why does not the fraud defend them against my arraign-
ment, instead of whining about it?
    Then, here, is another fling at the book and another
sneer   at  my  angel:  "He is very fond  of quoteing
isolated statements from the Smythe fountain, especially
the unfortunate one which intimates that one-fifth of the
typhoid patients will go to their  graves  unless water is
used."   "Unfortunate!"  when  the  statistics of  New
York City  shows  that one-third, and more  go to  their
graves when "water is not used, while  the  statistics of
hospitals in European countries show that  none  go to
their graves when  'water is used;' " while the "Smythe
fountain" utters out the sound that more than two hun-
dred patients were saved from going to  their graves  by
the  use of water alone,  while  none went  "to   their
graves."
    Yet this whiner about the "Smythe fountain" pro-
poses to furnish me a ticket to the  "crazy" asylum, o'er
White River, for the  alone reason  that  I denounce the
medical profession, for not using water, so as to save all
their patients; and so "on general principles"—as this
wonderful  defender would  say—arraign the  members
"as remorseless butchers of the innocent and helpless
sick, like any Kingan pig-sticker; for gain alone."
    I am "crazy" for the reason that the "Smythe foun-
tain" of knowledge  is the  same  knowledge  which  I
have had for many years, and, because I am small, andr
"unlarned" in the "little pill" biz,,  am made a scape-
goat for the sins of those men, who are his peers  in  all
that pertains to the science of medicine, while they are
as high  above him in any  humane  motive—to benefit
and relieve the sick  as Heaven is  above  sheol.   He
dare not attack them in their impregnable hight.
   While   my  "pleonastic" reviewer  is enjoying his
"plethora" of  that "mysterious air of infallibility" it
would  seam to be  cruel to  print  anything that wonld 
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cause him to think, wonder, and look around and down,
down to see if it be  possible that he is a habitant with
"small minds," or "small game."
    I have quoted his reference to me, as among "small
minds," and, as worthless  game—thus: "though of a
truth the game  is hardly worth the candle," yet,  as it is
said that " misery loves company:" and in my present'
" fix," I do feel it to  be a truism—" what is a truism. "
So, from sheer necessity to have, andjenjoy "company,'
I feel impelled  to print this: Once upon a time, in con-
versation, in the presence of a distinguished journalist, I
happened to mention one " W. B. Clarke M. D.," as a
reviewer  of a book—'my book'—as he quotes it; when
he—that journalist—with a  significant—contemptous, 1
might say—laugh, exclaimed in a whisper, as it were:
"Aw, He's Small Game."
    I think  the reader will appreciate my state of mind,
ever since  I  first read that  he did consider me "small
game;" and too, after I did know that I was to have com-
pany ; and, that, I really was entitled to the company of
a distinguished—self-distinguished [?]  "M.  D."  But
just  how £to get at him, without soiling his  medical-
little-pillship's garments,  with all my  quackery,  was a
query.  I dared not claim him,  or divine a " gitatable"
way to "git" him, until  that censorious,  and naughty,
"paper man"  came to my aid;  or, rather, rescued me
from my loneliness, and lone condition, in '' quackery-
dom."
    "The game is hardly worth the candle."   At first
thought I could not divine how that "candle" was called
into requsition,  in that  defence—"on general  princi-
ples." But, with the second thought came the  enlight-
enment;  this: That  "defender"  is  supposed  to be  a
disciple of a second Savior of Man—according to the
self-distinguished M. D's.,  own  language, in writing of
Hahnemaun. Thus:  "Of whom it may be said that no
man, save Christ, has  ever  conferred upon his  fellows
such  blessings as he."   Then of course he was a second
Chirst and, supposably, with all the attributes of ihe first 
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One, and then would imitate Him, in his injunctions to
His disciples,  and, among which, would be this; "Let
your candle light so shine on small game that it may be
consigned to the crank's abode over the river."
    But, in reality,  " candle light "is a very modest illus-
tration  of that  "disciple's" brilliant(?J intellect—yet, be-
ating  "small  game."  The wonder is, that he did not
write :—"is hardly worth the Electric Light "—capitals
and all.  Butmaybe, he preferred to be "unpretentious,"
on account,  may  be, of a  "presentiment," that, some
unappreciating Journalistic "light"t'might, inanunguard-
ded moment, suggest "candle light"—"small game."
    Journalists are  supposed to harbor the idea that theirs
is of the electric light kind of mind; with die ability to
out-shine,  and envelope  in total darkness, such a mind
as one might have who could be described—thus:  "Mr.
—is a thoroughly  one sided man; " and, for his excoria-
tions of the doctors, that Editor's language might  be
illustrated,  by  "small game," about  this way:—"A
Mercilessly Scathing Analysis."
    That  "small  game"  was, undoubtedly, suggested
-by a mind  as brilliant as  an  electric,  compared to the
 "candle" kind.   And that small game, and  candle-
light, is of the second" Chirst-like,"-r-imitating, of course,
Mr. Holliday's "Chirstlike,  self-sacrificing" kind of
doctors.   That  three column effort  on one  "small
mind,"  and one  piece of "small game,"  must have
been a  great "self-sacrifice"—"on general principles."
    That defender, against my " 'convincers' " evident-
ly saw  that I was  following President Jordan's train of
thought, in his great  address to  those young sprigs of
the profession,  just cut loose from their grannies' apron
strings; and which address, I have retered to liberally
in the book.    He  queries:   "Haven't  we had enough
of  the work of frauds and fools;" and, which frauds and
fools,  and  their  work, is  the subject matter in that
book—which my small  game reviewer saw at  a glance;
while also seeing,  that the President had, in his mind's
■eye, the "little-pill," as well  as  all  other  schools of 
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medicine but his own, when seeing all those frauds  and
fools; and,  while seeing so much "of ignorant, empirial
and dishonest work called  professional,  that our hearts-
sink within us"—even down to his boots.
    The  reader  of my  book  will see,   that, in all my
denunciations  of  doctors, I  am imitating President
Jordan, in his denunciations of such as he is pleased to
call "frauds and fools;"  and, while he fails to particular-
ize, though pretending  to meau  all such as  do  not
cure  disease, yet evidently does not,  I  take  the re-
sponsibilty of including all, "both great and small"—
even  taking in that fastidious  newspaper man's "small
game;" and, all the way up to the was great Douglas,
but isn't  nolo,  since   Mrs.  Grant  has said  that  he
did no good to the Gen.,  "only to  look  wise;" JVow,
only one of Dr. J.'s "fools."
    That is what worries my small game  reviewer.   He
sees that I am only  imitating  the Jordans  in  my de-
nunciations;  but as he  dares not  attack such "big"
game, the splenetic "M. D".-Rooster  claps his spurs
into the little bantam.
    Here is  a list of names of local physicians whom,
my s. g. reviewer says:  "Mr. Kingsley has contemptu-
ously alluded to in his book."  I  will  notice some of
his own language which he imputes to me, and, where
it  is  particularly  false,  will mark it "false"—"Dr. [?]
Brayton"—false; "Venemous Brennan"—false; "Pickled
moonshine Fletcher"—false;  "He scores Dr.  Woollen
because his brother died," This is  false,  because he
uses such language for  the sole  purpose of making  a
false impression on the minds of his readers.  It suited
him better to make language, than to quote  my  own.—
 "Maligns  Dr.  Mears  for  some  very old  court  testi-
mony," this is false, because,  that, if he be maligned at
all, it is in consequence of such court testimony exist-
ing.   "Medical god Harvey"—is false,  in the way  it  is
used.  I refer to the harangues before the medical gradu-
ates as literally making a  medical god  of Dr.  Harvey,
as they do of the "divine Hypocrites"—according to' 
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    Dr.  Brayton ; My language cannot be construed as dis-
    respectful to Dr. Harvey, but otherwise,  as  I mention
    his "really generous heart."
        My garbler's object is to make ridiculous language
    for me, or to make my own so, by misstaking it.  Here!
    ; "Fool  or  knave  Long," he  makes me say, when I
-  -'merely queried of the reader,  this:—Would it be very
    strange were I to characterize him as "either  a  fool or
    a knave?"—Thus the reader will see  that he relies more
    on dishonest statements and false  quotations, than  on
    honorable defense.
        As  Dr.  Long's medical advise  did  prove  so  dis-
    astrous, to that dear little boy, I  now emote  Dr.  Jor-
    dan's language as exactly applicable to him; "Fraud" or
    "fool."  Could that indignant Jordan see that little boy
    now, as he hobbles along  on his crutches,  his heart
    would sink  terribly  low, in  view of such  "dishonest
    work called  professional."  That little boy's home is  al-
    most within  a  stone's throw  of that "fool"  doctor's.
 >v He must often see him, then what can he think in his
j^*~ heart of hearts,  about his  advice to that, now  dead,
    mother?
       My  small  game reviewer prints this :  "He asks,  'a
    careful and  prayerful  consideration  of  all I have writ-
    ten,' and  it certainly  needs a very  careful  pursual to
    'make head or  tail out  of the critter,'  and I might  be
    justified in devoutly praying that few will ever attempt
    it."
       His "devoutly praying" will probably not have the
    desired  effect.   He should have hunted up the manu-
    script, and then drawn  his heavy eraser over  it.  That
    would have  made his laboriously-devotional exercise
    unnecessary.
^.      Yet, nevertheless, some have read it—the New's Editor
5s rior one, and, too,  the  Sentinel  Editor,—Mr.  Morss;
   and  who seems  to differ, somewhat,  from a sub-editor,
   "small game"—reviewer.  He gives the title page  in
   full, and, after,  very  kindly, and intelligently stating
   the subject  matter of the book,  concludes with the fol- 
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lowing few  words—golden  words:   "It may  be  truly
said  of Mr. Kingsley's  book  that  there  is not a dull
or stupid page in it."—It can hardly be conceived how
much  I  appreciate  such  testimony from  one  whose
attainments, ability, and position, render his opinion so
very valuable; and, all the more so tome, from  the fact. *
that  I had  not  formed any such estimate of its pages;
from any point of view.   But from the stand point of a
"swell head,"  away  up in  that  "mysterious air of
infallibility," he can not ". make head nor tail out of the
critter,"—He grappled  its horns, and got punched in
the gizzard,  then, in seeking to stay its progress by the
"tail  holt," was kicked in the lower stomach, seriously
disturbing  the brain; then, like Balaam's ass—after re-
ceiving that clubbing—cries out, and devoutly[?J prays
that others may be kept away from  the horns and heels
of the "critter."
    Here  is  what  is just now published,—"Victim of
Christian Science"—Sioux  Falls,  S. D.,Jan_i,—Justin
A. Pettigrew, a  brother of  U. S.  Senator  Pettigrew,   J
died here last night;  Senator Pettigrew is much incensed
at the Christian scientists who attended the sick man."
    Just so.  Perhaps some Dr. Earp out there, has made
that discovery—another victim of Christian  science—
and infused into Senator Pettigrew the same feeling—in-
dignation, perhaps—that  our Dr.  Earp  felt  when he
carded the News about the necessity for a law to pun-
ish Christian Scientists,  whose patients die   in  their
hands.
    But  here is  a case  that  would seem to offset the
Pettigrew case,—Miss Emma Abbot, who has, just now,
died  under medical science treatment.   Is  there any
incensed feeling among her friends,  at her ' 'medical
 science'-'  "doctors?"  Where  are the  Earps, to call for   _
a law to punish them for letting her die ?  Where is our  ^
 Earp  or Clarke to  call for a like law to  punish their
 "angels"—fallen angels—who allowed Mr. Carpenter,
 Miss  Gillespie, Rev. Wydman, the Frauer family—all
 —to  die?—not in  the  hands of the  "Christian," but 
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    "medical science" kind of "doctors."   But, then, when
    the Earp kind of judges' "bull" gores another man's "ox"
    they are whist about it; yet, all up a stirin' if his ox shall
    gore their bull.
       Then here  is another case,  in our city, just reported.
 ■   Chief fire engineer  Webster, the  Journal  says is very
    sick; while Dr.  Hodges fears that  it will  terminate  in
    typhoid fever.   To get even with the Earps should not
    the Smythe-angel  kind of doctors call for a law to pun-
    ish the fraud who allows him to thus suffer? ; rather than
    put him in  a tub  of cold water,  and relieve him in an
    hour.
       As appropriate to the foregoing, I here quote from Dr.
    Jenckes' remarks  at the annual meeting of our Humane
    Society; in which  he called attention to 'trap-shooting.'
    "This consists  in  'sportsmen'—tearing  the  little birds,
    limb from limb; and the  birds they used  were  doves.
    This is the tender hearted bird  that bemoans the  loss  of
    its mate,  until  it dies of bereavement and loneliness.
"*   It is  the  bird that symbolized the Holy Spirit at our
    Saviour's baptism. We give these gentry and all others,
 ♦  whose  tender  mercies  are cruelties, fair warning that,
    we will  make it as utterly  disreputable and  infamous
    for any one  to maltreat any  one of God's living and
    breathing creatures as it is  to  have the hair  cropped,
    don prison garb and serve a term in the penitentiary"—
    So much indignation—and righteous indignation it  is,
    too—at men who torment  any "of God's living and
    breathing creatures."    Well  then, I  suggest  to  the
    Doctor,  and all of my  brothers  and sisters of  our
    Humane society;  if we should not have  the same, at
    least,  indignation  at those 'sportsmen'—those "pig-stick-
    ers,"  as the facetious M.  D. Clarke would call them—
 ^   who "maltreat"  his Human creatures? Shall we  not
   apply Dr. J's words, above-beginning:   "We give these
   gentry," &c.—to all those whom Dr. Smythe  has told,
   that, they sign the death warrant of every  patient who
   dies,  whom  they refuse  to treat  with cold bath for
   typhoid fever?—and which means the same for all other 
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fevers.   How about the human  bird  that bemoans the
loss of its mate, its child,  its father or mother?   These
are the 'birds' whom God created in  His' Own  image;
and to whom He said:  "Little children love one another"
—not "torture one another" for gam—the $2.50 a visit; .
continuing for weeks, and  then to let one-fifth of them *
die.   Is not Dr. Jenkes one of the leaders of that "dis-
criminating public," who,  Dr. Symthe says,   will hold
those torturers "responsible."   While we, of the  Hu-
mane Society, have organized to hold those  who mal-
treat these birds, any thing, of God's creation,  respon-
sible to the law—even  to "serve a term in the penitenti-
ary"—shall we not  join with the general discriminating
public,  to induce  our Legislature to enact a law that
will place them along side of those other  "penitentiary
birds?"
    Here is another "victim" of—Christian?—no—"med-
ical"  science,—King  Kalakaua.   President  Jordan's
frauds had  been  tampering with him for years, while ;
confessing that they could not locate his disease, and in
fact  he had  no  real  disease,  only as they made it for
him, in all those years.  But finally,  a trio of them, in
consultation,   the day before his death,  discovered  that
Bright's disease "held  him firmly in its grip."    "Four
years before  the   King  had   suffered  severely from
Kidney trouble."   Had they then put him  on a milk
and  cracker   or toast  bread diet, and caused him to
drink liberally of salt water, also of  weak soda water,
his kidney trouble would  have  soon  disappeared,  but
that was too much "quackery" for fraudulent,  medical
pretenders—those  who  had  started out  to  secure  a
"livelihood," bank stock, &c,—"like any Kingan pig-
sticker."
    Gen. Schenck  published that he  was  cured of that 'J
disease on that diet, and with a liberal  use of salt.   It
was published not long since that a doctor had cured a
patient of that disease with salt.  I know,  from many
years experience,  that salt and soda,  taken together or
separately,  have  a healthy effect upen  the kidneys;
which means, they keep the blood healthy. 
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   Every one taken with a "cold" should be put into a
hot bath, then there would be no la grippe, pneumonia;
nor would Vice-president Hendricks have died,  had he
been so treated, instead of his  "doctor" standing over
him, and twattling about his scientific treatment, while
letting him die.    I have paid some attention to all such
"frauds"—as President Jordan would call them—in my
book;  and here say that I have no hesitation in believ-
ing that they should  all  be placed in the penitentiary,
along side of Dr. Jenckes' "bird" maltreaters.   I have
mentioned in  the book,   Dr,  Comingor's  charge  for
treating  my  Uncle's  injured  hip.  Our little  crippled
grand-child's parents consulted him about  treating the
callus  below his knee joint.   If he knows what he pre-
tends  to  about surgery,  he knows that callus could be
taken  off by an irritating liniment or plaster; and then
the leg would straighten, as the joint  is uninjured; but
he had  an interest in a $25 "brace" which he prefered
to advise them to buy, to put  on his leg to straighten it;
and, by stretching  the ligament in  the joint,  thereby
destroying  it,  while making  the leg straight,  but stiff.
The pain the child suffered from that  brutal treatment,
so discouraged its parents  that the  brace  was  applied
but a very few times.  Comingor's black-smith—as he
•called himself—spoke to me several  times  about  using
the brace on the boy, when  I  invariably  said  to him
that it could do no good,  yet the parents, unfortunately.
yielded  to   that  "fraud's" advice—with  the  result as
now seen.
    Here is  some  valuable (?) information given to the
people by "Dr.(?) Brayton"—as "M. D." Clarke writes
it.   The Journal has it thus: "The Local Milk Supply."
 All the  important(?) information given below is con-
densed in two lines, these:  "Under Stringent Rules and
Inspections  Consumers Generally Obtain  a Pure Arti-
cle."—" 'i think; said the doctor; 'that Indianapolis has
an abundance of the best milk in the world.  The great
interest taken in this matter by the Board of Health and
Sanitary  Committees, from time to time, have imbued 
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those of our milk-sellers who were disposed  to knavery
if there were any such, that if they furnished poor milk
it would be found out, and punishment would follow.'"
—Well,  has  that  'great  interest' extended  to visiting
those milk-sellers who feed their cows on such slops as-
are prohibited  by law, under a penalty of $50 to $500
fine?   It  has  been published, with a  great flourish of
printer's type, that that Board "is making examination*of
creamery and dairy milk sold in the city, with a view of
bringing some,  who are said to be violating that law, to
justice, and the Board of Health will,  if necessary, file
complaint against them."  Then here  comes this: "The
success of the case will depend upon  expert  testimony,.
as to  whether or not  the  milk from starch fed cows is
adulterated."   Since  we hear of  no "complaint" filed,
are we to understand that that "expert testimony" is:
that, such  milk  is not adulterated? But then, will that
"expert" say, that the cow is not adulterated—after eat-
ing that rotten  feed? and then, will not the milk be im-
pure?  And if that be so, where from  cometh Dr. Bray-
ton's 'besf milk  in the world'?  Here is some important[?]
information, from Dr. B.----'Generally, the people who
get poor milk, Jike the woman who found the naughty
words in the dictionary, are those who are looking for it,'
then,  on the same principle—of  finding the naughty
words  which you hunt  for, would not the Board of
Health  find "naughty"  milk  by  hunting for the cows
that are fed on  those prohibited feeds?—starch-feed and
brewery   grains?  But then,  perhaps  our "Dr."  has
given that expert testimony—that  milk from that feed is
"not adulterated."   One  might judge so from reading
this important testimony of his:—'Probably  no city  of
its size  on earth has  such excellent conditions for the
production of good milk.'   Just what those conditions
are. he, unfortunately, has failed  to tell us; but, as most
cities  have alike facilities  for grass and the usual  kinds
of lawful  feed,  he may  rely on his own "expert testi-
mony," that those  unlawful  feeds produce  'the best
milk in the world.'   The knowledge of the  unequalled 
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conditions for our city to produce the  best milk in the
world; as  well as of the woman who hunts for naughty
words, and  finds them,  could never be stored in any
other than a "doctor's"  brain.   Then  farther along, is
this: 'If people will give the  matter attention and follow
the directions given  by the Board of Health and physi-
cians, they can raise babies quite as well on cow's milk as
upon mother's milk.' This is "important if true."   Just
what directions the Board of Health does give, does not
appear, publicly,  unless  it  is about  this,  impliedly,
perhaps, to the dairymen:—" you go on feeding brewers
grains, and  other unlawful slops, we will  not prosecute
you,  but, (this in  a whisper ) will "whack" with you
on that $50 to $500 fine—all the time assuring mothers,
and those expecting that happy event,  that you give
them 'the best milk in  the world.'"  And then here is
the  assurance of what is, and will, of course, continue
to  be,—this from  the  superabundant  wisdom  in the
brain of our own Dr. B.,  'This year,  allow me to say,
has been one of almost unprecedented success in raising
babies, both as to quantity and quality.   Babies in the
market this year rank A No.  i.'   All this  great wisdom
in contradistinction to the scores of small doctors, and
benevolently inclined women,  who  made  that great
"ado" about the neccessity of that "outing" toFairview
Park,  last summer, to  save those hundreds of 'babies'
from suffering  and  death; but then they probably had
not had access to that 'best milk in the world.'
    The "directions," given by physicians, to  mothers
during  24  years of my experience  in the  business, has
been, to give their babies milk  from one cow.  Yet
many  mothers  have given  their  babies milk which I
furnished from  my herd of cows; and from the time they
first saw the light of day until they were large enough to
come  with them to  the  wagon for milk.  They would
often tell me that their doctor told them to get milk from
one cow; but I assured them that it was nonsense; all that
was necessary, was  to  know the cows  were healthy.
Conscientious dairymen  will not, generally  agree  to 
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furnish milk from one cow,  but  the largest part of those
who do agree to do  so,  draw the milk from their can
into the small one  furnished by the customer, before
reaching her.  Such twattle—our  "Doctor"  indulges
in about the quantity  and  quality—almost unprecedented
success in raising babies  that rank A No. l.—Just "this
year," too!   Of course he is  wearing the mantle of Dr.
Fletcher's medical god—"Saint"  Rumford—"who was
believed to have  done  more good in the  wcrld than
even the twelve Apostles;"  and then, as  a matter of
course, he  expects  the  average  people to gulp  it all
down  as  gospel—from  the  disciple of the—at least—
"thirteen-apostles-Rumford."   But,  just  what real
information is contained in that  conversation  with the
Journal reporter, does not appear; yet it gave  him a
chance to get the people  to think of him as a  "smart
doctor."  And  it must  be  a  smart one—to  know a
"woman who hunts for naughty words in the dictionary."
    Yet,  just  what  the  Board of Health, its "experts"
and chemists are doing toward fnrnishing the people
pure milk  does not  appear, only in printers' ink.  The
health  officer is prolific in confiscating,  in the season
tor  them,  bruised  berries of various kinds; and which
are powerless of harm in  the way they are always used—
cooked into all the various ways of preparing fruit for
subsequent use.   There is no end to the rotten apples, in
all the season for apples; and which are made into cider
and vinegar, for family use.  Why don't they seize sour
milk?  It  is deterioated  from its original condition, the
same as sour berries; while  they can be  made into proper
food,  the  same as  sour milk can be used for bread, or
cheese or for drinking, and a healthy beverage,  too.
    But, a great display of  Board-of Health virtue before
the people seems  to be necessary in order to blind their
eyes, the more effectually to "stay" their stomachs while
gulping down milk  from  the rotten and  unlawful cow-
feed.
    There can be  no doubt that  there is as much unlaw-
ful  food  given to cows  to day as at any time in the last 
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ten years; yet the wise(?) Dr. Brayton says the milk sup-
ply of the city "is the best in the world."
    And while the health officer is engaged in vindicating
the  "virtue" of his office,  "by  order of the Board of
Health,"  by  destroying  property  belonging to parties,
who  paid  freight and shipped in good faith, to our city,
expecting a reasonable return for their labor and expen-
ditures,  he passes the markets, and hundreds of other
places where grease in all grades of nastiness,  is sold to
the deluded victim for "butter."   Or even if "oleo" be
on sale, with the government stamp, that is hidden from
view,  and  "butter" marked in pencil is placed on the
tub  in  front, in  plain view of the customers.  Such a
display I have seen many times.
    Where's  our   virtuous-Health-Board's  officer  while
such  displays of oleo or other grease  under the name of
butter, is going on?
    Really, seriously,  while our half thousand "doctors"
are quartered upon  the people, expecting to  "secure a
livelieood,"can it be expected that the virtue of our
Board of  Health, or any other conclave of medical ex-
perts, chemists  or  what nots, in pursuit of that liveli-
hood, will lose any  sleep in hunting down and cleaning
out  any real disease-producing food?  Milk js being
distributed  all over  the  city every day from cows that
are fed unlawful food ; yet is our Board of Health doing
anything to stop it ?  Oh, yes.  Perhaps listening to "ex-
pert testimony" from the doctor who is in pursuit of that
"livelihood," that  "milk from such cows is not adulter
ated"—thus  placing  that interested,  livelihood-hunter's
word above law, that which makes it a penalty for feed-
ing cows with that rotten food.   What little virtue there
is in a  Board  of Health oozes  out after destroying a
countryman's property; and in a little printer's ink, while
diseases go on, and come and continue all the same.
    Whenever we have a Board of Health composed of
my  "angel"-kind  of doctors,  then proper effort may
be  expected  to  stop disease;  but,  while it is  com-
posed of  "M.  D."  Clarke's pig-sticker "fallen-angel"- 
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kind, we will have to "battle"—a-la-Oliver—with dis-
eases to the end.
    I hive  mentioned  the kindly  notice of the book by
the Editor of the Sentinel. Mr. Morss, and which proves
there is a liberal supply of the "milk of human kindness"
in his heart.   Others have also read it; and here I take
pleasure  in  printing their  kindly testimony  as to  its
worth.—This  from  Rev.  Dr. Goodwin:—"Mr. A.  S.
Kingsley:—It  is impossible to do justice to my views of
your  work on Medical  Science Fraud, and at the same
time do justice to  the  book  itself, in the few words I
must, necessarily be limited to.  Without taking time to
say  why, I  must  say  that  my convictions are that its
publication is timely, and will be productive of good—
much more  good than you will live in the body  to see.
Your present  reward will be detraction, and possibly
pecuniary losses; I  am not prepared fully to endorse all
you say, or  to reduce to practice even all that my judg-
ment approves.  We are such creatures of habit that I
suppose if I should get sick  I  would send for a doctor,
and submit to his prescriptions; but I  am  sure  they
would be different  from the prescriptions of fifty years
ago.  You see I have to send for a doctor."—Here the
Rev.  Dr. facetiously voices public sentiment—as created
by the Qoctors.—"If I should send for you and get well,
then I could not have been very sick: if I should die, it
was too much water—it was a quack, a "crank" that
killed me; and worst  of all, the people would say that I
was a crank  or  I  never  would  have allowed you to
prescribe for me."—Now, here again, the Dr. facetiously,
of course, expresses a dread of being called a "crank;"
while, will he deny that  the liquorites have been, for the
last half century ; furnishing Goodwin, Kingsley & Co.,
crank's clothes to wear all that time,- and which the firm
has worn without a murmur?—"On the other hand, if
I should get well, it would be  the skill of the doctor that
saved me.   I  had a  bad spell—very low, but he pulled
me through.   If I should die  under the doctor's treat-
ment, it would bz a clear case of inscrutable  providence, 
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to which the survivors must be resigned.—You will not
live, in the body, to see it, but I predict that, unpreten-
tious as your little book is;  written without the ornamenta-
tion of scholastic lore, and justly open to critcism,  in its
rhetoric at many points, and at many other points in its
harsh epithets,  it will modify the practic of medicine in
many  diseases,  and what  is more, the professors of the
theory and  practice of medicine in the medical colleges
of the  middle  of  the  next  century will  denounce the
present practice as the professors  of to-day denounce
the  practice of sixty years  ago.   Can  you  afford to
wait that long?—T. A. Goodwin."
    Here is the sentiment  of a prominent lawyer of our
city:—" 'A Bold Arraignment of the Medical  Profes-
sion,' " &c.—I  have  just  finished reading this  wonder-
ful  book—for  such  it is.   My acquaintance with the
author  of this  bold  and fearless book, covers the last
thirty-five years.  During this  time  we  have lived in
the same city—Indianapolis.  That  he has,  from time
to time during  this period,  contributed  to  the  news-
papers of the day,  many  valuable  articles,  suggesting
the proper mode for the use of cold and hot water for
the cure of fevers and chills,  I know; but, that he was
laying a plan to "tree"  the doctors I did not know until
I read this book.  The reading of Mr.  Kingsley's book
suggested  to me a story that I heard when a boy in my
New England home.   It  was  of a  Western  merchant
who had been very  successful in his business; and who
by dint of close application, coupled with the ignoring
of all popular amusements, including the celebration of
the  4th   of July,   had  amassed  a   large  fortune.
He  had  never  attended a 4th   of July  celebration
in   his    life;    and   knew   nothing   of   the
Declaration of  Independence.   But,  at  length his
neighbors and friends prevailed upon him to celebrate
the 4th.  He went with  them and listened to the read-
ing of the Declaration  of Independence, to  the  usual
spread-eagle oration, and  other exercises of the day.
On his return he was asked how he liked the celebra- 
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tion?  He said:  'I  liked it first rate.   There  was one
thing they read there that I liked very much.   It  must
have been written by a very smart fellow.   But it was
terribly severe on the British.'   What the Western mer-
chant said of the Declaration of Independence, may be
said of Mr. Kingsley's book.   It is  terribly severe on
the  British—The  Doctors.—But, the  author by  no
mean? condemns all  doctors. He distinguishes between
those who treat  their patients  to cure, and  those who
treat patients with,  seemingly,  no other object in view
than to swell their bank account.   In one sense, the
book is open  to  criticism  by  reason of more or less
repetition; but to the careful reader this seeming fault
works no greater injury than does the  repetition of the
Lord's Prayer.   The more one repeats it the better one
likes it.   To  the  reader this volume will prove both
interesting and profitable;  it should be read by all, not
excepting the  doctors, even!   From  a practical ex-
perience  of upward  of thirty years in the treatment of
scarlet  and other fevers and  chills,  by cold and hot
water, by the  author, and  with uniform success,  to-
gether  with the  undisputed evidence of Drs. Baurch,
Smythe, Brand and  other  eminent physicians, as set
forth in this volume,   I cannot for one moment, doubt
the utmost sincerity  of Mr. Kingsley  in all  t^at he
claims for this almost infallible cure#for fevers and chills,
under his mode of treatment.    And as for my  views of
this question, I  must  confess that they  are very similar
to those expressed by President Lincoln, concerning the
value, and probable success of Ericsson's naval monitor.
When the entire Naval Board, together with the skillful
experts, save one,  had condemned the plans and draw-
ings  as a failure, all  eyes were turned  to  the President,
who  was asked  his opinion  of the invention.   'Well,'
said  he,   'I feel about it a good deal as the fat  girl did
when she put her foot  in her stocking.   She thought
there was something in jt.'
     Jan. 5, 1891.                Geo. K. Perrin." 
MEDICAL SCIENCE  FRAUDS.
    Here I am glad to present a few lines from a young-
er member of the already mentioned firm of Goodwin,
Kingsley & Co.
                   Indianapolis, Ink,  Feb. 26,  1891.
Adriel S. Kingsley; Dear Sir:
    I have examined your work, "A Bold Arraigment of
the Medical Profession, etc.," with a great deal of inter-
est.  How much the  profession knows about diseases
and how  much it can  help the afflicted, must ever be
questions of very great interest to all thoughtful people.
That the medical profession has not and does not know
everything, and has not and can not successfully over-
come  all  diseases, and every case of physical affliction,
are thoroughly settled.  That great progress has been
made  in information  and skill by the profession, must
be conceded.   This  has been accomplished by the ex-
posure of false theories and practice,  perhaps, as  by the
advancement of better theories and better practices.
    The illustrations you use and the cases cited, present
 with great force your argument.   While I do not feel
competent to  pass judgement upon the whole question
involved,  I  am like all common people, who  are with-
out professional study,  learning and experience, upon
the matter under consideration ; yet I feel safe in saying
that  your work is entitled to careful consideration, and
put the  theories and  practices heretofore adhered to,
 upon their defense, to which they must respond.
                           Most respectfully,
                                   Eli F. Ritter.
    Here is a short  statement  of the effect of the lini-
ment I recommend for sore throats—diphtheria,  as  the
doctors  call it.
                          "Pendleton Jan. 15 1891.
    Mr.  Kingsley:
    *  *  *   Nathan and children  have all been  sick
with such sore throats; they are better now.  I treated
their throats with your liniment, and salt on the inside.
I used sulphur a part of the time, but  I  found that salt
gave the quickest relief.     Mary E. Garretson." 
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    I am also glad to be able to refer the reader to Mrs.
Alice Horrell, in block, corner West  Washington and
California streets, who has received great relief from an
enlargement of the  neck and throat, by the application
of the liniment, refered to by Mrs. Garretson, and by the
other Mrs. Garretson mentioned in the book.
   Here is a little more testimony.
                 62  North Delaware Street,  City.
                                    Feb.  27,  1891.
    My wife has had throat and lung disease for the past
five years, and has been treated by  several physicians,
but received little or no relief.   Last  summer she was
given up as incurable,  and told by a physician that she
had consumption and would  not  live three  months.
About  three weeks  ago she  began  using Mr. A. S.
Kingsley's remedies according to his instructions. While
she is not, as yet, permanently cured,  she has received
very great relief,  and will continue the remedies.
                                     M. E. Shiel."
    Mrs. S. is using the liniment and salt  for her throat
trouble.  She  came to our house  to inform me that she
felt very much relieved.
    Here is an item  worthy of note.

          —"DIED  FROM  NEGLECT.

CHRISTIAN  SCIENTISIS  CHARGED  BY  A  JURY  WITH
         RESPONSIBILITY FOR  A  MAN'S DEATH.
    Des Moines,  la.,  Feb.  21.—Much interest has been
felt here in the inquest over  Wm. Protzman, who died
under   Christian  Science  treatment.   The  coroner's
investigation lasted four days.  To-day a verdict was
returned.  It was found that  Protzman was twenty-four
years old,  had good  health and  a rugged constitution
until  Dec.  17  last, when he  was attacked by a cold,
which grew into typhoid fever.  The testimony showed
that he received no treatment except "silent prayer:"
that all dietary rules  were  disregarded and that he was 
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otherwise neglected.  The conclusion of the jury is that
Protzman  "came to his death  by reason  of having
practiced upon him the  teachings of an association of
persons calling themselves Christian scientists."    The
jury further say that in  their opinion  Protzman  would
have lived if he had had proper treatment given him.
It is expected that important  arrests will be made."
    The  medical scientists  testimony  was, of course,
given to that jury, and also,  of course they prepared the
item  for  the press.  Now,  how would it  do for the
Christian scientists, of  our  city, to have  the coroner
investigate the Frauer  family's,  Miss  Gillespie's, Rev.
Wydman's or any other of the numerous cases of death
from typhoid fever,  and call Dr. Smythe for a witness,
who would testify that they "Died From Neglect,"—by
allowing them to "battle" with the fever, while neglecting
to  put  them in  the  cold  bath—that  those  medical
scientists,  by refusing to use  cold  bath, "signed their
death  warrant."   The  jury  then would say "that in
their opinion, all those who died would have been saved
by  that cold  bath."  This, of course, whould  appear as
the  last bit of information:—"It is expected that impor-
tant arrests  will be made."  Then  there  would be a
hustling for the Clarkes, Fletchers, Hayses, Olivers, Her-
veys, Eyirps & Co., to appear  in court with the Baruches,
Smythes,  Little   Kingsleys  &  Co.,   to  testify  that
every one  who  refuses  to use  the  cold bath does
"sign the  death warrant of every patient with typhoid
fever who dies in his hands; and a discriminating public
will hold  him  responsible."    While  a  law   should
authorize  the  court  to  send him  to  the penitentiary.
    Just now the people, who learned to honor and love
Gen. Sherman, for his great services to our country, are
mourning his death.  Yet had those medical frauds, who
attended him, not left him to "battle"  with his disease,
but given him a hot bath when he felt the "cold" upon
him; or, atter, when the fever was  upon  him, applied
the cold bath, he would  have been well in three  days.
The same treatment would have saved Judge Berkshire
to his  family, and  fie State, for which  he was  doing 
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valuable service.  Dr. Baruch would not have allowed
Gen. Sherman to battle with that fever, but would have
"drowned" it in a tub of water.  So, would Dr. Smythe
have  treated Judge Berkshire, and  saved  him,  also.
Such is the difference between  "medical" and nature's
science.
   Here is a  case  of family  suffering,  just now  re
ported; and,  of course,  in the  hands  of  President
Jordan's frauds:—"The  family of Ephraim Fuller, of
D. H. Baldwin & Co.,  is greatly afflicted.   Four chil-
dren have had the diphtheria; one  died  last night, and
another is  at  death's  door.     Recently Mr.  Fuller's
mother, a brother and a fifth  child  died."  Had those
frauds resorted to the "quackery" of the  coal-oil,  cam-
phor  and croton-oil liniment,  and  salt  water for the
throat, as we did for our grand-children,  and as others
have done,  with like success; as  well as other simple
remedies for those  who  died  of other  diseases, nine
chances to  one that family would now be unbroken.
All this fraudulent practice is going on every day, and
all the time, by all  grades of the  medical profession—
from the "small game" Clarke  kind and  all the way  up
to the  "high-faloutin'-Fletcher-Brayton-Hays-Hervey
-Earp-and-Co.-"Rumford kind.
   In conclusion, I will repeat what  I have already  so
often   asserted  in  this supplement,   and in  my book:
that nine-tenths of all kinds of medical practice on the
people  of this  city,  is fraudulent, in all intents and
purposes.  Yet,  probably, the same  proportion of the
people take the pretentions of the "doctor," that his
aid is essential in saving life; and so, when disease does
appear, they call in his aid,  but, so often to their great
sorrow; as with the remnant of  the family just mention-
ed.   The very "scientific" name "diphtheria,"  "tonsi-
litis," is used by the fraudulent profession to lead the
people to think that there is  such a difference of treat-
ment  necessary in each  case,  that only  the doctor can
tell the difference; so, it is unsafe to attempt to treat a
sore throat without consulting him.  It is a lie,  used  by 
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the leading physicians,  the  world  over, to blind the
people, as to their own ability to cure that sore throat,
by simple means; as I have mentioned.  There would
not be one  death from this simple sore  throat, would
the people scorn those  frauds'  pretentions,  and study
the nature of such diseases, as well as of other diseases
from  which there is  so much suffering and  death, and m
then apply the simple remedies;  and, which are all  that
is necessary to  remove  them—to insure health,  and
consequently, save life.  The continual, and so frequent
long suffering, as well as loss of  life from what was,  very
evidently,  at first,  a small ailment, should  lead every
reflecting mind to see  that  that  long  suffering,  and
death, was  the direct result of the treatment given that
patient by the  "doctor;" and whose  only aim was  to
prolong  the case, regardless of the consequences,  in
order .to realize the longest  fee-bill.  Like the facetious
Clarke's "pig-sticker"—"for gain  alone"—to,—as Dr.
Shrady would say—secure a livelihood. 
 
 
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