58 CONTENTS. 



BOOK II. JESCULAPIUS. 



CHAPTER I. 



SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS AS THE SITE OF A 

 SANITARIUM, OR RETREAT FOR THE SICK, ARRANGED BY INFINITE 

 WISDOM DOCTORIAL USES OF THE MOUNTAIN. 



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Who is the healing man ? origin of the medical profession ; 

 critique on fixity and progress; reverence for the past; the 

 word ; old medicine too material, too faithful to the prepon- 

 derables; imponderables the movers, builders, and destroyers; 

 veritable show-masters ; ponderables the puppets ; imponder- 

 ables prophylactic and therapeutic, or disorganizing and lethi- 

 ferous ; the vast realities of power sleep in the trace of the 

 divine incubus of law UNDER the outward phenominal; hygienics 

 and dynamics of imponderables ; efforts to attain the spiritu- 

 alities of things through the imponderables ; medical spiritu- 

 alities ; spirit manifestations ; medical theories of the same ; 

 plagues of Egypt following regular profession ; homoeopathy ; 

 fantastic tricks of infinitesimals; humbugability of the race; 

 general formula of molecules ; philosophy of NOTHING ; oracu- 

 lar bard of the sciences ; Hahnemann a new revelation ; his 

 last formula; new modus operand! of vis medicatrix naturee ; 

 homoeopathy; Croelius; hydropathy; Chaldean oracles; Preiss- 

 nitz; mankind in darkness; arrival of the inspired one; glory 

 of water; gods of waters in old mythology; Preissnitz knocks 

 them all ; man clearly amphibious ; Maine liquor law ; chem- 

 istry; water, cleanliness, godliness; water as cure-all; Ameri- 

 cans grab worn-out crotchets of Old Word; trot them out 

 Young America; hoaxes run through the mill again and again; 

 after all Yankee easily sold ; the thing a little musty from 

 age; must be foreign, however; portentous humbugs; Mes- 

 mer, of Swabia; shoots a la Jonah's gourd, for a time in 

 heaven with Barnum, Jo Miller, Jo Smith & Co.; disposition 

 to glorify quacks ; nemesis; murdered kings of quackery; ex- 

 ploded Barnum's; Yankee not a religious animal won't wor- 

 ship monkeys, even God, long at a time ; tired of Barnum and 

 the inspired Josephs ; did print Barnum's book, and inflict a 

 nausea on the solar system; rap! shades of the dead, rise! or 

 speak without getting up, if you prefer ; spiritual drummers ; 

 healing media ; secrets of feloniously wormed out ; mira- 

 cles to order ; rap ! the dead move beds are taken up, eyes 

 are opened; cancers, avaunt! regular faculty flung: old medi- 

 cine in trouble; hair dyes, artificial teeth, miracles among 

 the dull catalogue of common things ; Hume nods ; interrup- 

 tions of the laws of nature always on hand; peace no longer 

 in the grave; stop singing Psalms in Heaven go to work, 

 glorified spirits, no time for loafing; be useful; tell us about 

 cancer and consumption; help us through with obstinate con- 

 stipation; horn of Monker; issues in court; Plato and Zoro- 

 aster, Hahnemann and Paracelsus, Rappers and Swedenborg ; 



