Physicians of ability and long experience, who have devoted their lives to the relief of suffering humanity, both in this and other countries, have declared after close observation, that they were fully and thoroughly convinced that medicines do not cure patients, that they do not assist Nature’s process of cure, so much as they retard it, and, that they are more hurtful than remedial in all diseases. A still larger number have reached the same conclusion with regard to certain complaints, such as _scarlet fever_, _croup_, _pneumonia_, _cholera_, _rheumatism_, _diphtheria_, _measles_, _small-pox_, _dysentery_, and _typhoid-fever_, and that in every case where they have abandoned all medicine, abjured all drugs and potions, their success has been marvellously increased. Professor B. F. Parker, of the New York Medical College, once said to a medical class: “I have recently given no medicine in the treatment of measles and scarlet fever, and I have had excellent success.” Dr. Snow, Health Officer of Providence, R. I., reported for the information of his professional brethren, through the Boston _Medical and Surgical Journal_ that he had treated all the cases of small-pox, which had prevailed endemically in that city, _without a particle of medicine_, and that all of the cases--some of which were very grave ones--recovered. Dr. John Bell, Professor of Materia Medica in one of the Philadelphia Colleges, and also in the Medical College of Baltimore, testified in a work which he published (“Bell on Baths”), that he and others had treated many cases of scarlet fever with bathing, and without medicines of any kind, and without losing a patient. Dr. Ames, of Montgomery, Alabama, some years since published in the New Orleans _Medical and Surgical Journal_, his experience and observation in the treatment of pneumonia. He had been led to notice for many years, that patients who were treated with the ordinary remedies--bleeding, mercury, and antimony--presented certain complications which always aggravated the malady, and rendered the convalescence more lingering and recovery less complete. Such patients were always liable to _collapses and re-lapses_; to “run into typhoid”; to sink suddenly, and die very unexpectedly. He noticed particularly that patients who took calomel and antimony were found, on _post-mortem_ examinations, to have serious and even fatal inflammation of the stomach and small intestines, attended with great prostration, delirium, and other symptoms of drug poisoning. These “complications” were nothing more or less than drug diseases. And Dr. Ames found, on changing his plan of treatment to milder and simpler remedies, that he lost no patients.