in the Lincoln State Journal discusses the medical fraternity as follows:
The disciples of homeopathy, in annual convention assembled, have enjoyed a thorough feast of reason and flow of rhetoric, and will return to their homes feeling that it was good to be here. When you come to think of it and think real hard, there is something funny in these conflicting systems of medicine, and it is well for humanity that the schools are not as numerous as the vast and varied systems of theology. Judging from general results, mortality is probably as great under one form of practise as another. Medication at best is only palliative, and though research has been going on for over three thousand years a specific for any human ailment under the sun has never been discovered, and never will be, for the very good reason that it does not exist. Process of life and death are about the same in man as in the vegetable kingdom. Given the proper surroundings and in either case health is the natural condition. Sickness is always the result of violated physical law, and restoration is generally sought for through the mysterious channel of medication, without regard to cause. This accounts for the amazing number of "chronics" who go bellyaching through life, "always a-dying and never dead," and enriching the apothecary shops at the expense of alimentary canals converted from the purpose for which they were created, into sewers carrying off antiseptic slop of one kind and another at a vital expense sure to lop off many years of life, and make miserable those that remain. Homæopathy is not lacking in able and ardent advocates— men successful as practitioners and virtuous as citizens, but until medicine has been reduced to a science and religion to a certainty, the preference for one school above another is not of sufficient importance to demand a wasteful expenditure of thought.
For these able men of learning
We should feel profound respect;
'Tis for truth their hearts are yearning
We should ever recollect.
