FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 147 
use of it among the sick. But will they be like- 
ly to do this? Are not their ope prejudiced 
fag steaming? And all this because it first 
came into use in this region among steam doc- 
tee cayenne pepper doctors, lobelia Sacer? 
ay, quack doctors, as they are vulgarly called. 
Hear the confession thus indited in Dr. Alcott’s 
‘Moral Reform rmer.’ 
The enquiry, “why means so sap’ and effi- 
cacious for r pre: health are 
so frequently disregarded by 7 nysie cians of our 
country, might bring us to penal iating to 
treats them as ‘tao troublesome’ fo 
I fear, that another reason for their neglect must 
well kn that they 
t iss d 
first came into notoriety in this country in con- 
he alludes to Tho omeon) with which 
suppose h 
they are still intimate a 
min héy who had not eins observed 
with what petals scientific and eager 
pride ever relucts against the appearance 
ing indebted for any thing to the u 
would hardly credit the weight of this ger 
ation in the present instance. But it is unwor- 
~ thy the — age, in which it is se generally 
most 
important daguieiticiek and es cenen ag to self - 
ere: and that a privileged bod y lies — 
