The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-07-21
State OF Modern Society-Cu-
rious Doings In Politios-Religion, Medi-
cine. and MOraIa

efervescent state OF Modern Society-Cu-
rious Doings In Politics-Religion, Medi-
cine, and Morals.
Our lot has unquestisnably fallen in a stirring time.
everything is on the move The general aspect OF
society resembles with most tolerabe exactness,
one OF those bubbling, agtated, efervesclng solu-
lions OF the pharmaceutist, which boil angrly be-
ore they settle quietly down into sober, sold regu
lar crystals. The religious world-the political
werld-the moral wcyd-he medical word-all
are agitated. The dealers in spiritual commodities,
rom Joe Smith to Bishop Hughes-thc political
iuach-doctors-the Fourierites, the SquashItes, the
Utilities, and the ]ebuzites-ihe trafickers in the
pubic health, from the Stuyvesant College, with
their new ally, Sands, the Sarsaparilla man, to the
College of Medicine and Pharmacy, with Richard
son, the great reforming chemist and pharmaceu-
tist-a, all are on the qsi pipe, scramblng squab-
bling scratching, and scraping for the public good,
and-their own benefit
One Of the most curious and amusing signs" or
these funny times, is the row amongst the respecta
bic children Of Esculapius. The Doctors are GER
tainly in terrible ferment. 1t is, however conso-
atory to reflect that when "rogues fall out, homes,
folk come to their own," and we have no doubt that
when all the teapot tempests which now howl so
discordantly around the rival schools and colleges
of pharmacy, Motts, Pattsons, Houstons, Sands,
and Richardson's, have passed away, that the pro-
duction of great public good will be apparent The
whole city has been convulsed within the past few
weeks with the fight between the Stuyvesant Col
ege of Pharmacy, aided and abetted by Drs Mott
and Sands, and choice assortment Of leeches %
transported from their native beds" on the ono
side and the Nassau street College of Medicine and
Pharmacy, with the celebrated Richardson, and five
hundred dozen of the :" American Carthartic Pill''
on the other. Dr. Mott has conducted him
self in the field with all the cLivalric dar-
ing which becomes the renowned Eastern
traveller and graceful favorite of the Partisan ia
shonabe circles, willis: he has at the same time
evnced great shrewdness in his choice of an aide
camp-to wit, the fascinating Peter Simple, whose
femenne elegance has been the theme of hundred
tongues. This good man Friday has been going the
rounds of the penny papers, procuring in them the
insertion of intolerably funny paragraphs about the
Stuyvesani College of Pharmacy, DR.. Mott, the Mas
sau street College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Dr.
Patuson--'' Granville Sharpe PattisoD," late of
Glasgow, London, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the
fashionable circles, and DR.. Houston, editor of the
Lancet and Poet Laureate 10 the "grcat mc,ropoE-
tan school Of medicine" at the stuyyesan Inst.
tute.
Now we really cannot understand oil these move
ments. We very much doubt indeed whether DR.
Mott, his man Friday, DR.. Pothson, and Sands, the
sarsaparlla man, understand these movements
What do these gentlemen mean Are they con-
nected with the Nassau street College Some be-
gin to suspect it Certainly the simultaneous an
nouncement of the Stuyvesant School of Pharmacy
with its " choice perfumery," and leeches trans
ported from their native bcds,' and of the Nassau
street College. with its rejuvenating mixtures and
restorative balms appears very much like coali-
ton.
However, like sober citizens, we will wait till the
end of these things be. Sooner or later the scatter
ed elements of science and skill will coaesce, and
system ofpeace and order be educed from the pre-
sent chaos. DR.. Mott will be seen in his own di
mensons-Dr. Houston will find his dimensions
the Stuyvesant School and College of Pharmacy
will find its dimensions, -and the Nassau street Col
ege OF Medicine and Pharmacy will find its dimen-
sionsand in the mean time every man is at liberty
to be purged, bed and bistered as he thinks proper
A special edict.
NlBLo's.-The strongest bill yet The Ravels in
four entertainments. Acquaintance seems to in
crease their attracton-he public never gets weary
of tie humor OF that Napoleon of Fun, Gabriel,
sure evidence it is of the highest order Miss Wells
gains popularity with every appearance she is a.
It were, one of us, and we hail with pleasure he,
rapid improvement. Her brother deserves no less
to be said of him. The promenade continues t.
delight the numerous visitors to this fashionabl,
resort.
superior Court.
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