The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-04-21
Medical Intelligence.

exception of DR.. Pattison's, attract crowds of stu
dents.
DR.. Parker's clisiqus for surgical cases was re-
markably well attended las, Monday. The PROBES
Sor operated on several cases Of strabismus, and per-
formed several other important and interesting ope-
rations.
DR.. Levett's ~clinique for Diseases OF the Chest, Is
deservedly considered a great attraction by the pro-
fession. Many of our most distinguished physicians
attend it. The cases are selected with great judg-
ment, and the students are making the most rapid
and satisfactory progress on the use of the stethes-
cope.
DR.. Bulkley's clinique for cutaneous diseases is
also a very valuable school of practical instruction
in a class of affections which must of all other, be
seen, in order to be understood. A great number Of
remarka bly, interesting cases where exhlbited-their
peculiar characteristics pointed out with great clear
ness, and their appropriate treatment accurately and
lucidly detailed.
Besides these ~cliniquss, several courses of lectures
are given at the Crosby street college, at a mere no.
minalfee. These combined and unrivalled attractions
have collected a very numerous class of students
from all parts of the Union and Canada. A great
revolution is certainly going on. The Lancet Is re-
porting these lectures and ~cliniques, and is contri.
buting its efficient aid in advancing this great move
ment for the reform of medical education, which
has thus so auspiciously commenced at one of our
oldest and most respectable colleges.
DR.. Patinson's c%linique, we regret to say. was very
poorly attended on Saturday. The Professor pre-
scribed for two or three babies very much afflicted
with the 'bowel compliant" DR.. p. manfully
struggles through his difficult task of regenerating
this clinique. Indeed we don't know which most to
admire-Dr. Motifs magnanimity in leaving the field
TO DIR. Pattison-or DR.. Pattison's heroic possession
oft, and
"Greatly falling with a falling ~state."
However, we rejoice to see the war kept up between
the two schools, and now that they have the Lancet
to show far play, and prevent either of the belllge-
rent parties from availingSlhemselves of any %trickery,
we hope they will fight it out, to the utter dlscom-
future of all quacks, and the good of the public health
Fouw1ERIsM.-Hs BlHrHDAY.-A few amiable
modern philosophers, blessed or cursed with IL
dlculous weakness. have latterly been making a
great fuss about Fourierism laying down plans for
the entire remodelling and reconstruction OF socl-
ETY., and showing that every soul in the world has
been living, moving, and breathing upon wrong
principles for the last six thousand years and that
they alone have just hit upon the true mode of en-
Toying life, by eating bran bread, adopting Mrs.
Gove's self restraining policy in matrimonial mat.
tiers, eating squashes instead of beef, and doing and
not doing Heaven only knows what.
These modern squash philosophers whose brains
are as weak as their bodies, have mixed up a little
transcendentalism, a little universalism, a little
phrenology, a little Grahamism, a little mormonism,
a little squashism, a little teetotalism, and not a little
infidelity ; and cut of these precious ingredients
they have coined a new code of morals and manners
for the regulation of society, and a new dictionary
of long, badly constructed, novel and ridiculous
phrases by which they hope to mislead the million.
They lately gave a sort of squash and cold water
celebration in honor Of Fourier's birthday at SO
cents a head !; and as the dinner was well worth 62a
cents, of course the table was filled. At this dinner
one of these ways gave the following beautiful spe-
of pure nonsense, as a sample of their new
philosophic nomenclature -
Attractive Industry, the Harmony Of the Passions, and
proportional to Destlnies-words Of power
to bid the Earring discords and wild uproars of our false.
ly. organized societies :" stand ruled"
THIS is a fair sample of the whole affair, and this
jargon and piece Of folly they think to cram
down the threats of intelligent beings in this age Of
steam and political purity: 1t will not do. And the
is, that their great apostle, and demi-god Fourier,
was one Of those miserable philosophic humbugs,
whose brain was composed Of the infidel particles
upheaved at the time of the French Revolution.
aud he himself, f1oated like one of Professor Lyel's
holder formations in a coat of ice over the hills and
dales Of true social life, down the ocean of time,
knowing nothing practically of all that he passed
over, and at last died with his brain filled with one
large magot, which has since emerged from the
chrysalis state, and is now a big white butterfly in
tho citv feeding IN cnuoshea and IL ca1lod Eo,,r,av.
ism.
The whole OF this nonsense must soon explode from
the weight of its own folly. 1t is impossible to induce
a large body of rational beings to herd together like
in a Jail or paupers, in a workhouse, having
all things virtually in common. This was tried by
the celebrated Dale at New Lanark, and failed it
was tried by Robert Owen at New Harmony. and
failed. That remarkable agriculturist, Norman, the
great Sussex Gardner, tried it at Hurstperpoint, and
failed; that truly great man, philanthropist, and pro-
found philosopher, William Allen, the chemist Of
London, tried it in several places, and failed in all,
and lost a large fortune Lady Byron tried it in Lei
cestershire on her own estate and failed William
Pare, the great radical of Birmingham, tried it with
his numerous cooperative societies, and failed in all:
the talented author of the "Revolt of the Bees"
did the same with the same results. And so will the
Fourierites and the Squashites.
The truth is that the only body that has ever been
kept together in any society of this nature, is the
Shaking Quakers; and their leaders are the greatest
religious despots that ever lived. Mahomet was not
a beginning to their tyranny. And they have been
kept together upon principles utterly repugnant to
every wellregulated mind and body, at variance
with the first law of the Almighty Creator to "in-
crease and multiply" and upon a system which if
carried out by all would soon bring the world up
with a round turn, and that too before even the year
1914. The species would be extinct. Let all such
nonsense therefore be treated with the contempt il
deserves.
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