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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 31, 1899. 6 Perversion of the Laws of H e a lth . ---------- C ontinued from 1st page. and independence—a goal reached only by a favored few compared with the multitude who daily drop down wayworn and exhausted. Rut the deadliest blow to the cause of health was struck by the anti-natural fanaticism of the Middle Ages, the world-hating in- fatuation of the maniacs who de- preciated every secular blessing as a curse in disguise, and despised est health-laws of nature is still the reproach of our so-called civiliza- tion. Our moralists rant about the golden streets of the New Jeru- Haleru, but find no tim e to expur- gate fhe ¡dums of their own cities; our missionary societies spend mil- lions to acquaint the natives of distant islands with th e ceremony of baptism, but refuse to contribute a penny to the establishment of free public baths for the benefit of their poor neighbors, whose child- ren are scourged or caged like wild beasts for trying to mitigate the COLLEGE OF Medicine-Surgery OF CHICAGO C O -E D U C A T IO N A L Fall T e rm w ill Begin S e p te m b e r 2 7 . . . D ire c to rs o f th e C o rp o ra tio n . . . A. E. G ammaoe , P re s id e n t.......................................................................... 167 Hearliorn St. j . H . G r e e r , M. D ., V ice-P resid en t and ¡ T r e a s u r e r .......................... 52 D earltorn St. ..........................................2203 G lad vs Ave. F lorence L. D r e s s l e r , S e c re ta ry ..... FACULTY WM. F. T A IT, M. I). D ean , E D IT H T E N L E Y CLARK E, M. D., C H A R L E S E . B O W E R S, M. I)., R. V. W A G N E R , M. D., as a sign of divine favor, they glo tuonger who turned water into al Professor of P ractical and C linical M ed Professor of E lectro -T h erap eu tics. icine. , ried in decrepitude and deformity, cohol; but millions of toilers who E D W A R D D. W A H L, M. I).. C H A R L E S J . L E W IS , M. D., Professor of Physics, C h em istry , U r in and promoted the work of degener seek to drown their misery in the Profesor of Physiology of th e Nervous alysis am i Toxicology. ation with a persevering zeal never Lethe of intoxication are deprived System , and G eneral Pathology and H O W A R D TAYLOR SM IT H , D, I). S., L ectu rer on nervous Diseases. exceeded by the enlightened bene- of every healthier pastime; ihe Professor of D ental Surgery. H O M ER O. BATES, M. D., W. E. W IN S K E L , M. I)., factors of the human race. For a magistrates of our wealthy cities Professor of Medical and Surgical G y n D em o n strato r of A natom y. period of fifteen hundred years the rage with penal ordinances against aecology. JO H N J . B R A D LE Y , M. D„ W ILLIA M A. T A IT, M. D., ecclesiastic history of Europe is the the abettors of public amusements L ecturer on Rectal and Anal D iseases. Professor of O perative and C linical S u r history of a systematic war against on the day when nine-tenths of our AN LON FR A N K , gery and Surgical D iagnosis. D em o n strato r of Surgical In stru m e n ts the interests of the human body; laborers find their only leisure for JO S E P H II. G R E E R , M. I),, an d O rthopedicaf A ppliances. of Medical am i Surgical G en- the “mortification of the Hesh” was recreation. Poor factory children Professor ito-U rinary Diseases and D erm atology. OTTOM AR C A R L IC Z E K , enjoined as a cardinal duty of a who would spend the holidays in D em o n strato r of Roentgen Ray Diagno A. E. G A M M A G E, A ttorney , sis and of Illu m in atin g and C autery true believer; health-giving recrea- the paradise of the green hills are Professor of M edical Ju risp ru d e n c e and A p p aratu s. In sa n ity . tions were suppressed, while health lured into the baited trap of a Sab H. W .S C A IF E , M. A., M. D. FRA N K S. L E W IS , destroying vices were encouraged bath-school and bribed to memo Prof.«if H y g ien ean d P rev en tiv e M edicine In stru c to r in L atin. by the example of the clergy; do rize the stale twaddle of Hebrew mestic hygiene was utterly neg ghost-stories or the records of fic Fees and E xpenses. M atriculation Fee, paid only once ...........................................................................$ 5.00 lected, and the founders o f some titious genealogies; but the offer to G eneral T icket, each year of a tte n d a n c e .................................................................. 60.00 twenty-four different monastic or enlarge the educational sphere of A natom ical T icket, including m ateria l, first and second years, each y e a r ___ 5.00 5.1X1 ders vied in the invention of new our public schools by the introduc L aboratory T icket, first and second years, each y e a r ...................................... penances and systematic outrages tion of a health primer would be upon the health of the poor con scornfully rejected as an attempt to vent-slaves. Their diet was con divert the attention of the pupils P R O G R ESSIVE M E D IC A L C O LLEG E fined to the coarsest and often most from more important topics.— In Keeping w ith the Advance of the Times. loathsome food; they were subject [Bible of Nature. The Directors have decided to make Special Liberal Inducements ed to weekly bleedings, to profitless to readers of the TORCH OF REASON. Address for A nnouocement hardships and deprivations; their and Terms, sleep was broken night after night; Our offer of the Torch of Reason fasting was carried to a length and the Oregonian for $1.50 is at which ofteu avenged itself in per an end and we now return to the 1 6 7 D e a rb o rn S t r e e t , manent insanity; and their only old rate of $1.75, which is very C H I C A G O ILLINOIS compensation for a daily repitition reasonable, and we hope to get of health-destroying aflliclions was many subscriptions to both papers. the permission to indulge in spirit Torch of Reason, $1.00; Oregonian, ual vagaries and spirituous poisons; $1.50—$2.50 for only $1.75. the same bigots who grudged their followers a night of unbroken rest or a mouthful of digestible food in F o r s tn e r s ’s dulged them in quantities of alco holic beverages that would have staggered the conscience of a mod To sell property IS IN V A L U A B E TO ern beer-swiller. . To buy a hom e The bodily health of a commun C a rp e n te rs a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtisin g , such as lettin g in locks, as it tak es th e ity was held so utterly below the place of chisel and gouge; to To go into business attention of a Christian magistrate C a b in e t M a k e rs, for inlaid w ork, dow To exchange real or personal property that every large city became a hot e lin g , patching, rem oving splits and knots. I n f a c t .n o To work, or to hire w orkers bed of contagious diseases; the pes W a g o n or P a tte r n M a k e r m an u factu r- I I 7 A K T 'T ' tilence of the Black Death ravaged er of pianos, organs, sewing m achines, W / Y I N I ANYTHING A. E. GAMMAGE, President, J N F O R M A T I O N burea JJ DO YOU Europe from end to end— nav, in- J i A • x AV ag ricu ltu ral im plem ents, sash, blinds, fu rn itu re , nor . A n y O ther W o o d w o rk er, should l»e stead of trying to remove the cause of the evil, the wretched victims without it. were advised to seek relief in prayer AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS DNEQDALED. and self-torture, and a philosopher It ’s th e only ronnd b it in th e world uttering a word of protest against th a t will l)ore a SQ U A R E H O LE such illusions would have risked to and do all th a t an y o th er b it will do. have his tongue torn out by the PRICES. roots and his body consigned to St Set of five,different siz es,p o stp aid . .$2.60 the flames of the stake. Single bit, p o stp a id ................................. 60 Mankind has never wholly re covered from that reign of insanity. Address, LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO, Indifference to many of the plain- S il v e r t o n O reg o n . WRITE TO US. WE CAN HELP YOU Address, INFORMATION BUREAU 5V ATKK STKFFT ub..™ i * 1 m i . / v S ilv e rto n , O re g o n . 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