True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-02-05
MR.. wILLIAMs, oCULisT,
NOW AT THE JEFFERSON HOUSE. JEFFERSON STREE
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lohe t.diEOfsDf The IO,kisitEP 4d'frtirer:
= IS-lt appears nv the observations Of the Editors
'~of The Nashville Presbyterian, lni.n md Trans
crpt. a welt the editors Of the Memphis Enquirer,
III It the ,h ticn'lem'n" is ano"g the Doctors This
is proved nv Ills kin-lv knowing tha his time ia
hut short, AMI that III, ihtnnamrnt American neoe
lrc able to judge hr themselves what IRE puAs mud
impos'tions. The wa thy editors who are doctors,
the prprietors editors snb-e'li'ors of the above
named journals, call every letter from persons have
res ored to sight in thu NIB .ve places, rufTs.
!. The fact s, nt nsver hal su III great succrss
within so limited period ten or twelve DAYS One
VII" was aged about ten years. who had only seen the
light from his birth, begnn to see to follow his ma Stcr
to my hotel, instead Of being Obliged to be led by him.
Two young ladies', who had eachlost the sight Of one
eye for TIN wears and the other for nearly two
years, having both Of them the other eve weak
vet each Of those young ladies began to with both
eyes, which benefit pledge myself still continues.
cepting they are under the influence or dominate N Of
the Medical Doctors. Another is the daughter of
respectable merchant, whose name hound never
to MENTION las he paid me my fees) who said she had
lost the sight of one eye from the age Of 10 months,
hut that she begins to read large letters with the
knew, as the gentleman told me hmselfh he h.d con-
due e, his daughter 10 the Office Of the medc, editors.
thai they nigh, be inf rne1 Of the fact. The last l
shall ion is elderly gentleman by the Of
youn' nearly seventy of age, who declared pub
liclv by letter. which he tonk to all the different offices
in Nashville but one, 'nd himself told ma he had maid
for he insertion whatever they ae andc, who clar.
g in that letter That lie hs o'aliy deprived Of
the sisht IF one aye from & Ks after his hir'h,
which his mother stated to ,.u. ~ occasioned by the
measles small pox; that n, could only ace
the light of the sun, for the first time that la rec0ecs,
but the s,nrs also, aud beginning to distinguish
many objects; and did, before LETT thut CITY, give ma
ny pr "f Tint h. could to walk about the STR cts
with the other eve completely clnsed He said he had
been member Of the Methodist Episcopal Church Tor
ne rly forty an that his word doubt
| cd through tbc -7tcle course ofhis life.
.. trepesttt;ts ,ad never greater success than at
Nashville, exc t. he medical and "lerca doctors
had never befce :: cl, reason 70 he cnra~e. The
pios ndigna,isr ID, Rev. clerical DIR Smith proves
when stated t. Tint about six past, he was
converted fror: hes perfect infdl believe in the
doctrn of The Bible that he must have ma ,riains
errorhat must have meant to shy, tn before tha
end ofslx years to come. he s u' he converted from
his nlelitv, the spirit Of The minister Of the
peaceful and benign doctrines Of the Christian religion
does E1t breath" ont destruction. rage, cuu'"nv and
Ghlsehood to rlease his medical friends against the
man whom he knew had done so much good, and no in
jury to INV one All the inhabitants Of Nashville spoke
Of the great ucc IS had, s-cept the medical d.ctors
Most of them also had been informed bv Mr. Yount oil
the cure performed on ms totally blind eye.
have lost the 'aarels gained in the Morrill, since my
arrival in the Southwest This proves hewever, had
and TINT Kept them until arrived IN this section.
gained one IN the norh ought to have gained annh
or in the south and southwest, anti still hope to weal
them on my very youthful brow OF the dny leave, III
spite Of the vituperalion Of the great DR. Sif ma,
judge from the man ] ave already benefited in hi.
city " thin three DAYS.
q. The objrc, Of the present is to inform the medi
cal Golias and editors Of The Republican IND Tras
script, well as the clerical DR. Smith OF the c. Pres
hvterian and Of the tnon OF Nashville, we'll Us thu
editor ard sub medical editor Of the Memphis Enquirer
as well es Mr. Prentice, the editor Of the Lousvll,
Journal, and alse the medical Goliah ediior of th
city. the great DR. =, that shall bring actions agains
them all, fl viuperat IN, slanier caunny, nmedi
atcly after my arrival in New York well aeans
their amiahle he hren the medical Golias othe north
now bind m, selfhy PROMISE never" quit This hupp,
land of 1.-The ", until have br light the noses Of al
nv medical GOliahs of the h, well us the SputI
and the west the grinlstone The afflicted, there
fore, may calculate o" finding me during the vcolu o
next year in New York, where letters, post paid an,
no others, will lie sure to reach me.
5. TO inform the public that the ,uff, cal ed
which the Rev. c!erically converted nhde| pretend wa
written for him. was written thnu week prior
and intended for the Rev. d. Howell, who read it il
my presence whont manii-siing any Misrepresentation
on HE contrary took it to his study and condensed i, !,
the way he did, which lie snil he thought would an
my purpose better he delivered then, beth t me
without preten ling that wanted I" ibe him from HI.
duty, as never could presume to offer that genema,
or any o'h'r any money for st'ting facts The Rev
Doctors own <,acme", is before Che pblic had he no
examined all my dip onas, &c. wi h genlcnlun
~ intimate friend Of his, we'll The whole of N,
patients, in company with another clergyman, an,
found them all to be authentic, and all my patients I,
he more or less benefted he never could have bee,
induced BY total stranger draw up such an atic,
rs wrote him elffr pulicarinn m addressed it IL
Mr. SPRINGFIELD, editor of The $ W G Advo,n ate
g.. No wonder The clear sighted medical Goal,s
forts TO oin with them ,,r all nuwerf,l nblet;c NH, a.
zeal aud intellectual force of the snd ,obecuuv erie,
clerical lnhdeI. We read in the Bible thai "a trr. i.