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Report of the British College of Health, Euston Road, London.

FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN,

FOR 1859.

SINCE we addressed you last year, the Medical Profession have obtained from Parliament what they call a "MEDICAL REFORM BILL;" but wherein the "reform" consists, so far as the public is concerned, we are at a loss to make out. If any good for the people at large had been effected by the measure, we should applaud it; but so far as we can see, the Bill only appears to us to be a step in the wrong direction, by creating a kind of Medical Inquisition throughout the country. In their appeal to Parliament, Doctors went on the plea, that many persons, not being legally Doctors of Medicine, fraudulently assumed the title, and by that means took many fees which otherwise would have gone into the pockets of the Simon Pures. Now, we are not the parties who, for one moment, would uphold such a state of things, for we think that MEN SHOULD BE WHAT THEY SEEM; but at the same time, we do not believe that such a practice has been carried to any very great extent. Most people, when they employ a Doctor, know pretty well what they are about, but they well know also that no two of them agree! However, be this as it may, the British Parliament were prevailed upon to pass a Bill, which tends to establish a sort of Medical Inquisition in the country. We say "tends," because it is only the small end of the wedge which has at present been driven; but we fear that unless the people are alive on this question, they may hereafter find themselves under as horrible a Medical Priesthood, as Protestants would be if they allowed the terrible Inquisition of Rome to have sway in this country. There must be liberty of thought in Medicine as in Religion; and since the Romish Church does not allow such liberty, we protest against it, as being against the liberties of mankind. It is entirely owing to this great principle of liberty of thought and action, that England now stands so pre-eminent over all the nations of the earth; and will you do any thing, or consent to any thing, that may do away with this greatness? Stly not. Well, then, let Members of Parliament beware how they interfere with the "Medical Liberty of the Subject;" for as sure as that liberty is taken from the people, so sure must the downfall of England commence, because we look upon Medical Liberty as the key to all other liberties. If you have not Medical Liberty you cannot have Religious Liberty; you have a Medical Priesthood, you must have a Religious Priesthood; you have Doctorcraft, you must have Priesteraft; and if you have a Medical Inquisition, you must have a Religious Inquisition- the one supports the other! The late JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist, clearly foresaw all this, as appears in his Biographical Sketch, wherein he exhorts the people to free themselves from the thraldom of a Medical Priesthood, under which the country is groaning..

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You have had this last year some terrible examples as regards the power of the Medical Priesthood with respect to alleged lunatics; but you are much deceived if you fancy that our Parliamentary noodles will do much next Session to alter the present disgraceful state of things as regards lunatic asylums, &c. From experience we know the perfect apathy of Members on everything pertaining to Medicine. They are perfect children on such a question. It will only be necessary for a Member or two to talk about "medical science (heaven save the mark), "respectable practitioners," and so forth, and John Bull will be perfectly willing, sane or insane, to be dragged to a mad-house, without even the chance of obtaining the writ of habeas corpus!that bulwark of English liberty. We are getting up a petition to Parliament on this question of lunacy to be presented next Session, but we have little faith of its success. The usual rallying cry of "Quackery" will be quite sufficient to prevent Honorable Me bers from doing justice to the people, and the consequence will be that Doctorcraft will ag Tear to the country as having

obtained another victory. So it was with respect to the Poison Bill, which is now a dead letter merely because it was found that Doctorcraft, being the principal meddlers with poisons, the could not be interfered with. Even Dr. William Palmer, of Rugeley notoriety, did not open t eyes of our Parliamentary noodles on this question. The fact is, we are a doctor-ridde country, and until people will think and judge for themselves, on the laws of health and diseas they must expect to have Doctor Palmers. Look at the dreadful suicide by strychnine reported in the " Daily Telegraph." There we find an account of a young girl taking “ infallible vermin destroyer," containing that cursed strychnine, which has been introduced in the Pharmacopoeia as a medicine. We hold the Medical faculty to be responsible for all sur cases. This infernal strychnine, we understand, is scarcely ever used; then why is it not altogethe done away with from the Pharmacopoeia? How will our Parliamentary noodles now deal wit these "infallible vermin destroyers? A thing more dangerous to the whole country could ne be devised. And who have we to thank for the introduction of these deadly poisons? Why, ou friend-the Doctor! who has made them ten thousand times more dangerous by holding them ou as "medicines in certain cases," the difference between the Doctor and the Poisoner being onl a question of half-a-grain, or even less. Think of this, and the whole question is at once mad palpable. We have attempted, by illustrations, to expose the infamy of the whole concern, and now remains for the people to assert their right on this all-important question. We may add tha the Illustrations are sold at the "Hygeist" Office, 262, Strand, London, price 6d. each.

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You are aware, from the newspapers, of the terrible failure of re-vaccination in the French army by order of Napoleon the 3rd. The mortality attending the regiments at Toulouse from that loathsome disease was frightful. It is exactly what we expected, but all seems to be forgotten!

The schism which now exists between the Allopath and Homœopathic Doctors ought to open! the eyes of the public to their contradictory theories, but we presume that, like other things, it will be a nine days' wonder, and that John Bull will just allow himself to be treated for his diseases right or wrong-hit or miss. Should it be so ?

As regards the Universal System of JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist, which has now stood the test of 30 years' most extensive practical experience in all parts of the world, (during which period upwards of 500,000 persons have been cured of their diseases,) we have only to say, that the principles of that system are before the world, and by them, Hygeists must stand or fall.

SYNOPSIS OF THE HYGEIAN

1. All animal bodies consist of fluids and solids.

2. While in a state of embryo, all animals consist entirely of fluids.

3.

It is from and by the fluids that the solids
are formed.

4. The fluids contained in the human body
are four times the weight of the solids.
5.-The chief of the fluids is the blood, from
which all the others are derived.

6. The blood not only repairs every part of
the human machine, but also carries
with it all the rubbish or decayed parts,
to be deposited in the intestines previous
to being expelled along with the excrement
7. The blood is the life-the primum mobile-
the first agent-from which all others
derive their origin.
8.-Health depends upon the purity of the
blood.

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9. The purity of the blood depends upon its having free outlets for its decayed particles. 10.-Disease is induced by the choking up of these outlets in the bowels, by reason of an accumulation of glairy mucus on the inner surface of the intestines, &c.

11.

SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.

This accumulation is occasioned by anything that weakens the circulation or impairs digestion, but chiefly by the poisonous drugs and bad treatment of the Faculty.

12. The impurities thus detained in the blood, occasion every species of disease, according to the quality of the humour, or the particular locality in which it is lodged. 13. All diseases proceed from one source, there. fore they may all be cured by one medicine.

14. This medicine must be a vegetable purga-
tive, innocuous in itself, yet sufficiently
powerful to pervade the whole system,
clear away such mucus, and purify the
blood.

15.-The discovery of a vegetable compound,
capable of being digested, and mixing
with the blood, so as to impart to it the
energy requisite for ridding the body of
superfluous humours, was a desideratum.
16. This discovery was made by JAMES MORI-
SON,
the Hygeist, in the composition of
the Vegetable Universal Medicine of the
British College of Health, Euston (late
New) Road, London.

If these principles are correct, (of which we ourselves, and hundreds of thousands of others have no doubt) then it follows that all the terrible Pharmaceutical poisons which load our Chemist shops, and which are to be had for the asking, might be done away with, thereby saving a great number of valuable lives. You have lately had a terrible example at Bradford, through arsenic having got into lozenges by mistake-this very arsenic is used by Doctors for the alleged cure of skin diseases. We would take issue with Doctors upon this very point, and contend that with our simple Hygeian Vegetable Purgatives, we could cure, whilst they failed to cure, such skin diseases: but the fact is, that all such deadly poisons are kept before the world to throw mystery and confusion in the healing art, and thus form the strong bulwark of a Medical Priesthood, from which the nations of the earth have yet to emancipate themselves.

We are, Fellow-Countrymen, your most obedient humble Servants,

"THE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, FOR THE SOCIETY OF HYGEISTS.

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