436 A Modern Bee-Farm 
“For many years I have admired the candor and, 
honest acknowledgments of Dr. O. W. Holmes. When 
he said ‘It were better for the people were all the medicine 
of the world cast into the sea,’ he meant medicine used 
by the regular faculty, such as he had been taught to use. 
I don’t think he meant water, honey, and other domestic 
remedies.” 
“ An experienced doctor in Louisville, Kentucky, told me 
that the people would be better off without than with 
medicines as he used ; but he said he had to visit patients 
and they would not be satisfied without medicine.” 
“Many years ago one of my comrades was sick with 
fever, and the doctor said he would die, as most of his 
fever patients did; but in the night, when the watcher 
was asleep in his chair, the patient, ‘burning up with 
fever, tongue and lips cracked’ open, ‘dying with thirst,’ 
reached the pitcher of water and drank all he could. 
When the doctor came the next morning he was surprised 
to find his patient better—saved by Nature’s remedy, 
contrary to the doctor’s science (?)” 
These Remarks 
my reader will believe, are not set forth as the dagger 
striking in the dark, but rather as the lancet used in the 
light of day, which our friends of the profession employ 
that it may prick only, in the hope of giving relief; and I 
have not any doubt that at least some members of 
this honorable profession will ultimately agree with me. 
My only object is to give some relief to suffering humanity, 
and having myself passed through more than 50 years 
without seeing any benefit gained by the reckless use of 
injurious drugs, but too frequently sad and permanent 
injury therefrom, the foregoing statements may be taken 
as having a very considerable basis of truth behind them. 
