True Healing Art or Hygienic vs. Drug Medication
By R. T. Trall and M.d
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I am about to prove the falsity of the popular medical systems--
1. By facts universally admitted
2. By the testimony of its advocates
3. By the testimony of its opponents
4. By the Laws of Nature
5. By argument and logic
By all the data of science applicable to the subject.
These are bold, plain, sweeping assertions--radical, aggressive, revolutionary. But I mean all that my words import, in their strictest literality and in their broadest implications. It is for those who hear me to judge for themselveswhether I make these allegations good.
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True Healing Art or Hygienic vs. Drug Medication - R. T. Trall
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INTRODUCTION
A FEW words in explanation of the circumstances under whichthe following address was delivered, and which induced me to visit Washington, arenecessary to the elucidation of the text. While on my homeward journey from a lecturingtour to the West, it seemed to me that an opportunity presented for introducing thesubject of the True Healing Art in the National Capital which would probably neveragain occur, and in a manner which must more or less attract the attention of menof position and influence. My resolution was soon taken, and the difficulties andthe result of the enterprise I copy from a statement published in the March numberof the WATER-CURE JOURNAL.
MY OBJECTIVE IN GOING TO WASHINGTON
The soldiers of our camps and hospitals were dying off fastof typhoid fever, pneumonia, measles, dysentery, etc., and quite unnecessarily. Iknew that the application of our system of hygienic medication would save most oftheir lives. I was well advised that there were surgeons of our school in the armywho gave no drug medicines in these diseases, and who lost no patients. Also I wasin correspondence with nurses who had attended our school, who were saving the livesof all the sick soldiers in their hands by putting aside the drugs and nursing themproperly. The subject of the best or most successful treatment of the diseases ofour officers and soldiers in the field being of national importance, it seemed tome that I could present the merits of our school versus the drug school, in highplaces, so as to be heard by the dignitaries of the land, and through them by thecivilized world.
Accordingly I determined if the thing was within the scope ofpossibility, to expose the fallacies of drug medication, and explain the truths ofthe hygienic system, in the place and under the circumstances that would commandattention. I addressed letters to President Lincoln, the secretaries of State, War,the Navy, and the Treasury, giving them references to Members of Congress in Washingtonand elsewhere, who had been my patients, as to personal character and standing, andassuring them that I would be very glad of an opportunity to explain, in the hallsof Congress or elsewhere, before the powers that be,
the Medical Facultyand Bureau, and the learned and scientific men of the nation, a system of the healingart which, applied to the treatment of the diseases prevailing in the camps and hospitalsof our armies, would save thousands of the lives of our officers and soldiers. Ioffered, moreover, to meet and answer all criticisms and objections that might bepresented to my positions from any source whatever; and to remove all appearanceof pretentious empiricism,
I offered, if my propositions were favorablyentertained, to afford them an opportunity for any personal examinations or acquaintancethey desired before deciding whether I should have a hearing. To these letters Ireceived no response, nor did I expect any. But I had determined to be heard in Washington,and was unwilling to leave naught undone toward effecting that object.
Meanwhile I had written my friend and former patient and associate,Dr. H. F. Condict, of Washington, to secure a place for a course of popular lectures,and also addressed several letters to gentlemen of distinction and ex-members ofCongress, asking them to speak a word for me in the right quarter to favor the enterprise.Dr. Condict telegraphed me at Dayton, Ohio, that he had secured the hall of the ChristianAssociation, on Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite Brown's Hotel, a very central and convenientplace, and also room in a convenient private house a few doors distant, where I couldbe at home and receive calls. I wrote also to my sterling friend, Hon. H. R. Low,of the New York Senate, asking such assistance as he could render. He promptly senta letter of introduction to Hon. Ira Harris, of the United States Senate, solicitinghis aid, and assuring him that my subject, in importance, was all that was claimedfor it. It was also my good fortune to meet, in Washington, Hon. L. S. May, of WesternNew York, who aided us so efficiently five years ago in securing a charter for ourCollege from the New York Legislature, who kindly promised all the assistance hecould render. Armed and equipped with such missiles, and supported by these and otherfriends, acquaintances, and old patients, some of whom were officers in the army,I felt an assurance that I could carry the war into Africa.
Mr. May introducedme to Judge Harris, who promised me all the assistance he could render to get a hearingin the Capitol. Meanwhile some friends suggested that the Smithsonian Institute,being a national concern, founded for diffusion of useful knowledge among mankind,
and having a large and excellent lecture hall, would be quite as desirable a placeas the Capitol. And so I turned my efforts in that direction.
MY INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR HENRY
I have heard of fossilized conservatism. I have seen men whohave mistaken their own ingrained prejudices for established principles. I have knownmen who could not entertain an idea if presented to them outside of the formularyof some standard textbook. I have had an interview with Professor Henry, of the SmithsonianInstitute of Washington City, the capital of these United States.
I was introduced by Dr. Condict, who assured the Professor thatI was a regular physician in good standing, and that I had letters of introductionfrom the first men in our own city and State to Hon. Members of Congress in Washington.But this was not the point--my character was not questioned. The difficulty was theunpopularity of my subject. It was not orthodox; or rather it did not come to theworld through the usual channels. I asked the privilege of giving a lecture in thattemple of science, on the true healing art, and in exposition of the errors of thepresent medical system. The Professor thought my subject, though perhaps important,did not come within the strict line of subjects proper to be discussed in the Institution.I reminded him that radical speakers--Emerson for example--had been heard there,and that my subject was intrinsically more important to the welfare of the humanfamily than all the subjects which had been discussed in the Institution, or wouldbe in the next century. The Professor replied that the introduction of radical subjectshad already occasioned some trouble, and he had no doubt that when the trustees metagain, they would come to the conclusion not to admit anything in future outsideof its own regular scientific business, etc. I remarked that so long as the trusteeshad taken no order on the subject, I could not understand why I might not be permittedto speak. But the Professor deemed it advisable to anticipate the presumed actionof the trustees in denying me a hearing. I was unable to see the propriety of thiscourse. Indeed, I looked upon it then, as I do now, as