Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-10-25

,yop,d r,oduce those kindly feelings which lend 70
MIC community IN the bonds Of friendship and gooo
ui From these considerations, II seems 10 oe NV
tent uno The MeaicAl studens Of Virginia, ana me
peope of The Safe generally, nat only 10 encou,asr
ih.r own Medical Schools, out also 10 esVae 'he''
c character 10 the h, ghcst possibl standard.
It il ocnmba!, en- the Students of State to ehceu
race the literary asii,uti"ns "ca.sd IN Inc sac "
,ybcj .bov h. lDrr SO accords win Their interest,"
ona ,b,t IL tn. community of which they are mem
mrs Pm, inns is matter which must be regulated py
the circumstances and feelings OF each 'nov'duaiI-
r.sn,n,a!s o prof cisncy from acknowledged ana &c
uav constituted au orites, are ali that cah ~ -"
es. h nsksd Of Il physician any other professionals
c,,r hro,c admitting hi.n 10 the exercise o. his voca'
linn The COS, OF n medical education IS 100 geh', w
money time and labor for the rshto pracus'ns :" o
ieonsrd,zrt because practitioner may not '".e oe
graduated b. of particular set oi Mea'cu' ochoo
The,. :; IN article upon Medical Statistics, I'm the
Oc M nc the Southern Literary Messenger which rs
really curious Il is wonder that all tue heucai
students IN PaIute phia called Virginia Doclos,
e calculations are any here near the truth
u. s,,,.s TIA, there we're 701 medical students al Tue
vurous medical schools nj Philadelphia last year. ana
OF these one hundred and thirteen were RON f,e.u
alone al an annual expense oil hty-s'x thousaEo n'
hundred ars and that there were ten IN the schoos VI
Nov York from The same State giving as The annualex-
cepa;tn,e for medical education in those Two states lh
sum of SO! 500 and $4,000 annual as Tue sun 'o'a
Withdrawn from the Ststeto al! heacai SCHOOLS e"erp
her own Tins shame ana reploach ~ I've W"
Dnminon m.h cA has within he. o"n borcers, Two OF
the mos, admirable medical schools in the country,
Both these Vrsnia medical schools have vaf'f
from The routine of all the others the United STATES
and extended the time Of medical inst'ucion-ih
the Richmond school, TO session of five months, ana
in the University to one Of ten This alone IS a very
yreat Improvement, upon the old system; but TINS
10 not al-boih these schools possess iacui'iea OF
unusuaI ability. In the Surgical, Anatomical ana
Chemical Departments, the Richmond school IS NOT
SUI pa sscd by any in the country All the FRO
ressors in fact, young men Of modern enterprise
and modern educatiou-incn who have been educateo
for the most part in Europe, and who haze kept pace
with the vast strides of the profession, and not od
nrannes and drones who nope over course oil lectures
which they aud successive classes OF students nave
dozed over for the last half century, as amen'aoy 'r
case in zoo many OF the old schools as preparation!
schools epara,ory to an European Medical educa
on-ihere are none such in this country In TACT tne
very reason why they have not been more popular
is because the is long anu laoofious' oul
parents, we should think, would Ike TINS, even II u
did not please young gentlemen impatient to handie
the lancet The Southern States, at least, should en-
courage their medical as well as other schools
Richmond too, is an admirable school for the manners
of young gentlemen, as well as for medicine There
is enough o the ancient regime lett to give the tone OF
the old Virginia manners TO the society there IL Is
one OF the most delightful places in this country
rSarannah Republican.