The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-02-21
Further Notes OF the Great M dical Revolu-
tlon--Dr. stevens and DIR. Mott.

Further Notes OF the Great N. deal Rsvola-
tlon--Dr. stevens and DR. Mott.
The Lmeet of this week again presents us with
the two great rival herc4S Of the Medical Schools Of
New York. DR. Morn discourseth on The Mumps''
DIR. STEVENS continuesthe discussion of the funda-
mental principles of the subject OF his former lecture,
which excited such ensaiion as the revival of the
Abernethan, Samivel Weller style of popular lee
turing The profession" during the past week,
have been dreadfully agitated by controversy re-
specting the comparative merits Of these two emf
nent sarans The respectable dry-nurses OF the
New School are quite enraged at the attempts to
place d. STEVENS on the same level with their
venerable darling, and tura up their noses at the
funny old boy Of the "Colege," just as we may
imagine that pretty Windsor girl, from whom the
royal shabby" derives the nourishment Of his most
sacred, flannel swathed little body does al the hum
bic foster mothers of the "tenth transmitters of
foolish race' Some of the supporters Of the New
School, indeed, would eat US up alive, because we
called Dr. Morn their "great gun" This is super
lltivey silly All the world and his mother very
well knows that DR.. Morr is to the Stuyvesant
School. what gas is 10 a balloons boiler to a
steamboat-or impudence to Colonel Webb, OF
the regular drmyw Why, at the whisper of a hint
that this distinguished operative surgeon would
leave them, the teeth Of the old dry-nurses would
chatter in their head, and their venerable knees
knock agains! each other, in the manner OF some
poor devil of blue coat in the swemps of Flo
rida
OF the value of DR.. STEVENS to the " College" in
Crosby street, any one who reads his lectures in the
Lancet will be at once convinced. The second fully
sustans the character OF the first There is in it the
same practical experience. sound judgment, and
grnning good humor, that 80 remarkably distin'
guished its predecessor. The fact is, the most
preIudiced nom professional on reading such lee
ture falls head and ears in love with surgery and is
almost persuaded to wish he were himself Saw
bones
Since the battle Of the frogs and MICE" recor-
ded in immortal verse, there never has been such
fierce bitter we'll contested, bloodess, funny strug
gle as that now wagng between the rival Medical
Schools in this wonderful metropolis. The members
of the old College," must say, are good tacti
clans. They have managed to secure the entire
troll of all the Hospitals and by late most judi
cious move they have also secured all the DISPENSE
ries in the city, at which there upwards Of fifty
thousand applicants for relief, yearly, from whom all
sent to the Crosby street Surgical Ciiniqus, where
they are every Monday treated by DR.. STEVENS and
Professors Parker and GILMAN. On the other
hand, the New School increasingly blow the trum
pet in Judev, by sending circulars TO all the ply
sicians, lawyers and clergymen throughout thu
country. They also give periodical feass Of pcklsd
oysters, stewed CLAIMS and cider champagne to their
students; and have lately organized no less than
three Cliniques Of MEDICINE, SURGERY, and OBsTE-
rRcs, under the management Of Professors PATTl-
ION, REVERE and Be DroRD. The establishment of a
public obsetrical cnique, is novel idea, and was
doubtless feicitously conceived in the brain Of the
distinguished gentleman who ass ulnes that part of
he labor NH
So the New School are also wisc, in their gene
alton. But there's one polnt where they have been
lns quivocally beaten. The New School had an
,ounced summer course of Lectures, by DIS c. A.
Lee, Post. Detmold and others, which was TO be
yiven at merely nominal rate, to induce students
stay, and give greater eclat to the school But the
gentlemen of the Faculty. it seems merely in ten
led this as kind of decoy- Duck, and so the OH
II week they told the talented physicians whom we
lave named, that their services would be dispensed
With, as it was not intended TO permit any person to
ecture at the Siuyvesant Institute on any subjects
aught by the Professors and thereupon the cunning
I'D fellows deposited their tongues in their left
cheeks rubbed their hands with great gee, and went
off in the full glow Of Of the greatest of all
earthly epioyments-a hearty inward chuckle. But
heir laughter was the Joy Of the silly ones, which,
as the wise man says, sis like the cracking of
thorns under pot" for the worthless of the "CSl-
ege'' Immediately completed arrangements by
which one Of the most attractive and varied courses
Of scientific lectures given in this city, will be
delivered during the summer fn
Now all these movements are of the greatert
nteres, to the community. They betoken the ap.
proach of new day for medical science in this
country. They show an awakened desire Of eleva-
lng the character Of medical education. They give
evidence that an art. emnently noble
and useful in theory and practice, will enc day be
of all those clogs and hinderances
which have hitherto impededlis progress in this
country. And they form but one Of the "Signs of
he times"-those evidences every where apparent
hat the human mind is preparing itself, by one gil
yantic effort to carry away those gates, by which
ignorance and superstition have SO long held it in
hralirom.
TaEArRIcALs.-The Park re-opens tonight with
he new tragedy Of " Nina Sforza," to bring on.
which, in splendid style, the management have been
levoting all their energies for some time past, and
lase expended great deal Of money on scenery,
lressss, decorations, &c; Simpson being deter
Eined, if possible, at any cost, to give the public
cries Of good comedies tragedies, &c, and to see
f the legitimate drama, properly done, will not be
uccesslul once more. In addition TO other new en-
,agemens, the Manager brings out, tonight, Mrs.