PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN,

WITH

AN APPEAL TO THE MEDICAL AND CLERICAL PROFESSIONS;

AND

AN APPENDIX,

A REVIEW OF "CHRIST AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION"IN THE CHRISTIAN UNION.

BY

JOHN ELLIS, M.D.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.PERSONAL MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OK A PHYSICIAN.

CHAPTER II.WHY EVERY PHYSICIAN SHOULD EXAMINE HOMOEOPATHY.

CHAPTER III.DANGERS THAT RESULT FROM THE ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DISEASES.

CHAPTER IV.PERSONAL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN.

CHAPTER V.THE DAWN OF A NEW DISPENSATION.

CHAPTER VI.A NEW DAY TO OUR EARTH.

CHAPTER VII.THE WANTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

CHAPTER VIII.RESTRAINING AND CURING SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL DISEASES.

CHAPTER IX.PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED AND EFFORTS.

CHAPTER X.FINAL APPEAL TO THE CLERGY.

ADDENDUM.A REVIEW OF "CHRIST AND THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION,"IN THE "CHRISTIAN UNION."

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICIAN.

CHAPTER I.

We all admit that every one who attempts to act as a physician, shouldstrive to qualify himself, or herself, for the work by obtaining the besteducation which our medical schools afford; for to physicians areintrusted, not simply the property or money, but the very lives of theirfellow-citizens. As the responsibility is great, so the duty of preparingone's self before commencing practice, and of keeping fully abreast of allnew and valuable discoveries in the art of healing, is equally great. Aphysician should not be led blindly by his teachers and prominent medicalwriters, and so strongly confirm himself in the theories and views whichthey proclaim that he cannot, without prejudice, examine new views andtheories with due care. It has been said that when Harvey discovered thetrue course of the circulation of the blood, there was not a singleprofessor in the medical colleges of England over fifty years of age, whoever believed "the heresy," as his discovery was called. However this mayhave been, it is certain that professors and prominent medical writers arenot always the first to see and recognize the truth, even when it isclearly presented to their notice.

A native of western Massachusetts, I studied medicine with an intelligentand worthy physician in my native town, and attended two and one-halfcourses of medical lectures at the Berkshire Medical College, atPittsfield, Mass., and graduated in 1841; and during the following winter Iattended the Medical College at Albany, N. Y., devoting a large portion ofmy time to dissecting. After finishing at Albany, I visited various placesin western and central Massachusetts, and operated on eyes for strabismusor cross-eyes,—an operation which had then been recently introduced forthat deformity; after which I settled at Chesterfield (Mass.), andcommenced practicing medicine, where I remained about one year.

One day I visited Northampton, and, calling on a physician with whom I wasacquainted, I found upon his table a homoeopathic book. "Why," I exclaimedwith astonishment, "you are not studying homoeopathy, are you?" "Yes," here

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