"Ode to Health;

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was hurried to the grave."
Who killed General Washington, and who killed
Lord Byron? Well might that good man ??? Fletcher
say, "It is better to die in the hands of the butcher, than
in the hands of the doctor."
Henry Clay, J.C. Calhoun, President Harrison, Polk,
and Taylor, these great men had the fashionable and
heroic treatment of calomel, antimony, opium and
the lancet; when perhaps in every one of them, a woman
with common sense, and a few simple herbs, and some water,
could have restored them to health; and their lives prolonged
for a number of years. Human life is too precious to be so
wickedly destroyed. Remember therefore, that God who
gave you existence, hath sad, "The life is in the blood."
Do not then suffer it to be foolishly thrown a way. Throwing
away a quart of it will not purify the rest; nomore than doing
the same thing would cleanse an impure fountain.
Perhaps it will be said, that bleeding is not practised as
much as it once was, true, but it has been stopped by
the exposure and light which the Botanics, quacks as they
are called, have shed upon this subject. Let the continue faithfully to expose the whole poisoning system, and the
time is not far distant, when a man will no more dare

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