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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



Mr. A. [. Root:— Yon give the doctors a punch in 

 ■Gleanings of July Ist for being " perfectly silent 

 on this great discovery " as you term it. Now, I 

 think I speak the sentiment of a large majority of 

 the medical profession when I deny the charge by 

 saying we are not silent, but "speaking out in 

 meeting "day and night, the world over, and be- 

 cause we do not parade our wares in public, and 

 advertise in the popular journals and daily prints, 

 and discuss "the Great Discovery," which is as old 

 as Hippocrates, and has been used by physicians 

 from that day down to the present, you must not 

 conclude that we are silent and disinterested specta- 

 tors, or afraid of diminished rations of " bread and 

 butter," as Dr. Hall is pleased to insinuate, in case 

 the "Great Discovery " comes into general use, and 

 "doctoring" is carried on "without medicine." 

 We report remedies and the general treatment of 

 diseases, and special cases, to each other, through 

 the medical journals, the only proper vehicles for 

 such communications. " A little knowledge is 

 dangerous ; " and while you are reporting your 

 "Great Discovery" to your 10,000 readers you 

 should point out the pathological conditions to 

 which it is applicable, as well as the great danger 

 that would result from its improper use. All reme- 

 dies are relative agents— relative to the pathologi- 

 cal conditions existing— and all good remedies are 

 dangerous if not rightly used; and this one which 

 you extol so highly, and recommend so indis- 

 criminately, caused the death of a lady in this city, 

 in the convalescence of typhoid fever, although 

 used under the direction of a skilled physician. 

 Now, you seem to think our keeping still is at least 

 suspicious, and would like us to appear before the 

 public and prove our innocence to the entire satis- 

 faction of all your readers. You have asked the 

 question yourself, and we patiently await the ver- 

 dict. Our evidence is before the world, and we 

 submit the case without argument. 



J. A. SCUDDER, M. D. 



Washington, Ind., July 7. 



Very good, Dr. S. I hardly need say that 

 I believe you are right in nearly every par- 

 ticular. Any thing that comes up, having 

 a tendency to spoil our faith in the family 

 physician, tends toward danger and evil. I 

 have, however, received so many very kind 

 letters from those who have very great faith 

 in Dr. Hall's remedy, that I thought best to 

 submit one of these also : 



Mr. Root:— I noticed your editorial in Gleanings 

 for May 15, and I wish to say I think you have done 

 a great wrong to perhaps hundreds of people. I 

 will explain. If I had read your editorial before I 

 had purchased the secret I should never have 

 bought it, for the reason I have such confidence in 

 your criticisms; but I have practiced the treatment, 

 and it has saved me a great deal of sickness and 

 money, and I would not sell it again for $1000. You 

 say it is well known to our doctors. If that state- 

 ment is true, why did they not prescribe the fame 

 forme? I have had several doctors treat me dur- 

 ing the last 30 years for what they called " inaction 

 of the lower bowel," and every little while 1 would 

 get bilious and have a sick spell; and the nearest 

 anybody ever came to prescribing that treatment 

 was one doctor who told me to take one of those 

 five-cent glass syringes and inject a gill of cold wa- 

 ter. Now, can you not sec that there are others to 

 •whom the treatment would be just as beneficial as 



it is to me, and that your editorial will for ever de- 

 prive them of that which, if they had, they would 

 not part with for any amount of money? therefore 

 you have done them a great wrong, saying nothing 

 about whether you wrong Mr. Hall or not. You 

 say Dr. Hall claims it was revealed to him by Ihe 

 Almighty. I can not find any such statement in 

 the pamphlet, in the light that your editorial gives 

 it, any more than you claimed that God revealed 

 that spring to you there by the windmill; and I be- 

 lieve both of you in your finding the knowledge of 

 the spring and the secret. 



Another thing, Mr. Hall does not claim that the 

 injection was a discovery, but that the retaining of 

 water after having had a thorough evacuation was, 

 and I most heartily agree with him. And even 

 admitting that it is an old remedy, is he not a bene- 

 factor by bringing it before the public? and is it 

 not worth i4.G0 to any family? Do you not bear 

 witness that it is " valuable" ? and would you have 

 known it if it had not been sold for $4.C0? 



And now, Bro. Root, just one thing more: Two 

 years ago this village had an epidemic of menin- 

 gitis. Four of my children had it. Two died, and I 

 believe before God that this treatment would have 

 saved my boy's life. If you are acquainted with 

 the disease, you know the first and main thing is to 

 get a movement of the bowels; and as they are tak- 

 en with vomiting, it is impossible to give physic. 

 Could I not with this secret have done better? In 

 closing I will say my heart is full because I think 

 you have done wrong, and a great wrong, to your 

 fellow-men. I am not selling, nor interested in the 

 sale of it, nor in Mr. Hall. Adolphub Newton. 



Norwich, N. Y., June 6. 



EDITORIAL. 



But the fruit of the Spirit is love, .ioy, peace, longsufleriiig, 

 goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is 

 no law.— Gal. 5: 22, 23. 



Until next issue we will pay .'Jc each for the 

 April 1 and May 1, 1890, numbers of Gleanings. 



DECLINE OP BEESWAX AND FOUNDATION. 



Since the rush of the season is over, the price of 

 beeswax has eased a little, and we are able to cancel 

 the lafct raise of 3c. per lb. Price of beeswax will be 

 same as on the cover of last issue. Heavy brood 

 fdn. 4.5c. per lb., and at sante rate for other grades. J 



AhTONISHED BEES. 



We clip the following from the Country Qentle- 

 men : 



Among other things struck by lightning this sum- 

 mer was a beetree near Cuesta, Ga.; bees and 

 honey were scattered in every direction, but the 

 bees couldn't hit back. 



ANOTHER WARNING NOTE. 



In spite of our caution on page 470, we have re- 

 ceived two or three more samples of foul brood by 

 mail and one large one by express. The one last 

 mentioned came in the absence of the writer 

 (E. R. R.), and the receiving clerk, not supposing 

 the box contained any thing so dangerous, of 

 course opened It. It being very hot weather, some 

 of the honey had melted and run through, when 

 my attention was called to it after my arrival 

 home. I took it down in front of the boiler-arches. 



