THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 31, 1899.
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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
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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.
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F lorence L. D r e s s l e r ,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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lected, and the founders o f some titious genealogies; but the offer to
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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
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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
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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
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ag ricu ltu ral im plem ents, sash, blinds,
fu rn itu re , nor
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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
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