Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-12-14
For The Vermont Wnichman.

| For The VernOnt Wdtchmdn.
Mr.. EDIToR: / desire through the medium of
your valuable paper, to call public attention to DR.
| GaLup's Institutes Of Medicine. If there was
want of merit IN this work, would solicit one
moments regard nor would pen this article IL
! did not deem that il possessed sufficient merit TO
recommend itself TO the attentive reader. But be-
ieyiDg that its worth has not been duly noticed or
appreciated, | have judged it due to true science
and to DIR. &. to make in its behnlf, this demand
upon public attention.
do not design to review this esmablc work,
for this has been done with great justice by Others
better entitled to confidence But | wish TO set
forth certain thoughts which its reception has sug-
gested, in conneXion with some remarks of dis
tingushed physicians relative to its excellence.
think have traced in our medical department
as well as in other departments distrustful spr-
it manifested towards the productions OF native
authors. Is it not true that the researches of our
own countrymen-those with whom, perhaps, we
may have associated, but those who have labored
assiduousy through life to advance their PROBES
sion-is it not true, ask, il their researches are
not treated by us with too little respect? Do we
pay them that attention which their merits de-
serve? Are we not too apt 10 leave them in neg
lect while there is foreign production to read !:
Ii must appear so, think, TO all who correctly OBJ
serve. But is this right? Is it treating science
with proprety and above all, is it nourishng and
protecting native talent-the only sure means of
Ii must be perceived by all who attend to this mat
ter that just so long as we turn our backs upon
the productions OF our own country, and hail ev-
cry volume from Europe a text book of our
profession, so long shall we, in scientific point OF
view, be the parasites of transatlantic talent. Do
not misapprehend me. ! would not wish that ev-
cry effusion that is vomited upon community by
our presses should be regarded as oracular. Meth
er would desire to see our professional men over
weenIngiy refuse to examine the merits of n Tor
egn work. But what would rejoice to see is, q
decent respect paid to talent wherever found and
proper regard especially, manifested for the re
searches of native authors. That we have mer
of science among us, no one can doubt. Ther
why Should the Investigations and experience o
such u be set aside, Tor the remarks OF foreign
ers 10 iAore entitled to respect? There is n spri
of envy that might perhaps answer, if she would
suffer language to reveal her burning DESIRES
This spirit has ever warred with true merit, anC
had her power been great as her antpathie'
were vivid and lasting, the farest stars that twink
lie in the armament OF science would have been
wiped from their spheres. How fortunate it il
that MS years roll on, true greatness rises above he
influence, just the sun goes up from the fog
that sometimes darken his rising l have no
made these remarks as prefaratory to an introduc
ton OF Dr. Gallup to The community. His year.
and industry have superseded the necessity o
such an introduction. Neither have made then
because his /" Institutes OF Medicine" have SUM
to pass off without receiving proper civities.
have made them because | deemed them import
ant, and relevant to the subject OF this notice.
AS proof that the work deserves favorable atten
ton of the community, some extracts may he her
inserted from respectable reviewers.
Extracts from brief notice of the work, by Dr.
John Bell of Philadelphia, published in the Lii
brary of Health, for May, 1889.
awe are safe in expressing our favorable opn
ion of the spirit of candor and liberaty manifest
ell by the writer in his criticisms, and analyses o
the doctrines Of his predecessors and conlempo
rares; and of the general cealness of his prop
ositjons and commentaries. To many it will b
a matter Of agreeable surprise 10 discover, that tn
venerable author displays preference for man
OF the views, and an acquaintance with the mos
important facts of the medicine OF the day par
tcnlarly in basng it upon the doctrine of the lis
sues"
mot only does The work of DIR. Gallup aboun
in valuable aphorisms and facls for immedat
guidance, but also IN suggestions of momen
which by attention and thought, may be mature
into useful practices. Alike clear of an aflecra
ton of mere antiquity, and of the last fashions
the European schools, the author shows hlmse
to be an eclectic, who reasons on, aud explains tn
wisdom OF his CHOICE"
The reviewer in the Boston Medical and Surg
cal Journal, of Feb 1889, in abiding to the worl
says, "The author has founded his remarks o
the broad basis OF the philosophy of the hunIa
economy, in health and disease, and DISGUISE
each subject recognized in the field OF observ,
ton, with that logical freedom and exactre'
which characterize the researches of an origins
thinker. 1t is a book which is not destined to !
thrown upon the shelf after the title page has bee
read, 10 repose under the accumulatng dust Of III
age. It's high claims TO consideration must be AZ
mi,,ed at the outset, and the principles DEVELOPS
aud the philosophy which il incucates will eXel
else the minds OF professional men we apprehen
more than any native system of theoretical al
practical medicine which has appeared in III
country. tits hoped there will be no section
. feelings operating against its intrinsic merit"
y Again, in the September number, he remarks
W o are still impressed, as we were at firs, WI
" the intrinsic excellence of DIR. Galups resenrch'
and We sill believe that his mime will be iran
: miled to posterity in the pages OF the o"s'tnes
,e The Institutes Of Medicine, when those VINO al
u always ready top put out Light are iorgot'eh
y tile lumber of accommodating centuries
u The Editor Of the Boston Recorder for FEE
r. 1910. remarks, in speaking of the work at is Il
" pathology in which consists The super-excellen'
N Of The work He moves more in the wake Of Il
" French than of the English, Scotch, or Americ'
:. Schools Of Medicine or rather, perhaps, Il wou
IS be more correct to say, he pursues his cour
il along the line of his own discoveries. The no
10 vslle doctrine of NJ. Broussaiss pathology conlal
much tha, is better expressed by DIR. Gallup i