made supple, and carious bones have been restored to healthy conditions. What is called the lost substance of lungs has been restored, and healthy organizations have been established, even where disease was organic instead of functional.
For the benefit of the reader let me quote Testimony of medical teachers. from Dr. Benjamin Rush, the famous Philadelphia teacher of medical practice:
It is impossible to calculate the mischief which Hippocrates has done, by first marking Nature with his name, and afterward letting her loose upon sick people.
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, Professor in Harvard University, declares himself “sick of learned quackery.”
Dr. James Johnson, Surgeon-extraordinary to the King, says:
I declare my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there were not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality.
Dr. Mason Good, a learned professor in London, says:
The effects of medicine on the human system are in the highest degree uncertain; except, indeed, that it has already destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine, all combined.
Dr. Chapman, Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Physic in the University of Pennsylvania, in a published essay, says:
Consulting the records of our science, we cannot help
being disgusted with the multitude of hypotheses obtruded