The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-09-08

Jack Downing assuring him that there was no IN
territorial respect shown TO his EXcellency IN the
manner Of drinking that toast'-that II was pure
ly accidental.
This statement may pass for a Joke-a NOAH "a
the Jack Downing school of literature certainly
not for a fact. If Captain Tyler swallows JACK
version we should think his Excelency as great
fool ard imbeclle as the Wall street papers call hln
But we are positively assured that the President, on
reading lacks letter, burst into horse laugh and
sad-"Jack Downing is id fool if he thinks
canbeEeve this" SO he IS.
TIE MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF New YoRK.-As the
season OF their opening now approaches, the public
wishes 10 know all about these celebrated schools
of medicine and surgery. The public must be graft
fed The desire is natural Every has got a
body to be preserved in health and cured of disease
as well soul to be saved from the world and the
fesh and the devil So it isn't strange that the
munity should be anxious to learn the character of
the sapans who are entrusted with the manufacture
OF our physicians and surgeons. We have two
Medical Colleges here-the Crosby Street School,
and the Stuyvesant Institute of Medicine and Phar
macy. Let us contrast their merits.
We will begin with the juvenile establishment,
which has scarcely yet been relieved from It's swad-
ding clothes, TO w.t. the Stuyvesan Institute under
the management of Drs Mott, Pattison, Bedford
and Sands This school was ushered before the
public with a terrible flourish of Understanding pre-
tension, and a vast quantity OF advertising, some Of
il not yet paid. Its Professors represented to
be veritable giants in physic and surgery. They
promised a reform of the whole system of medical
education. They threatened to knock all the
other schools in the country into a three-cornered
hat. They were the men, and wisdom was to die
with them All this had its effect He was true
philosopher who said
"The pleasure is great
In being cheated as to cheat !"
The greatest impostor may gain credence for
time, if he shout loudly and long enough.
The fact is, that we ourselves believed the Stuy
vesant gentry We swallowed their dose without
grain of allowance. We spoke words of cheer to
them. We bid them prosper. However, every
species of imposture must day be subjected to
fatal exposure So alas, was il with the of the
Stuyvesant In four short months they were found
out and found themselves out of pocket, out of Gre
dit out of the good graces of the professionally of
their students who applied for admission to the
val medical service reected-their whole scheme
failure And why was this! For the simple reason
that the professors in the school have no means Of
affordng clinical instruction, and are utterly unfit TO
occupy the place of public teachers Let us
mine them Individually
And first comes the great gun-Dr. Valentine
Mott. Dr. Mott is firstrate surgical operator, but
is most innocent of any acquaintance with the prin-
cples of surgical science, and the very worst lee
turer that opened his Jaws in college. The
verbatim reports of his lectures in the Lancet have
excited the surprise, ridicule, and pity OF the whole
profession in this country and in Europe. His Book
of Travels would have dsgraced schoolboy. The
poor man can unite broken leg but he is utterly
capable OF connecting together two ideas. His
vanity and egotism are proverbial. He is I'M
Just and ilberal towards his brethren, so
much so, that he did not scruple to invade the
solemn sanctity of the tomb, and stigmatse, an
Ignorant foreign adventurer," the late Dr. Bushe
surgeon of extraordinary talent, and who, as is
well KNOWN drove DR.. Mott to Paris, there to swal-
low his chagrin at the triumphs of his successful
rival. The same heartless jealousy prompts the
savage attacks on the professional atainments of
DR.. Houston the influence Of whose talents may be
estimated by the urulence of his opponents The
same low envy led DIR. Mott, last winter, to describe
before his class DR.. Mcclellan of Philadelphia,
" foreign adventurer, who came here with only
three cents in his pocket" The same maligniy in
duced Dr. Mott TO abuse Professor Mutter of Phi
ladelpha, and DR.. Stevens Of New York-gente-
men who rank amongst the most distinguished sur
geons OF the age. Nor is DR.. Mott from
censure strictly professional grounds. AT one of
his cniques last winter, are informed by seve
raj surgeons who were present, In case OF supposed
aversion of the foot he cut the tendon of the tbias
anticus, when, told, the meres tyro in the
art knew that he should have divided the tendon of
another muscle, the peroneus longus. Here DR..
Mott committed a series of blunders In the first
nlaca he cr,h,ac cd tba lad oft
years of age, a cruel operation, which was quite
uncalled for, as it was merely case of incpient
paralysis of the muscles of the leg secondly he dis
covered want OF judgment in installing the nature
of the case ; and, thirdly, he committed
tomcal bunder. Then, as to his lecturing, what
is to be thought of the teacher whose public dis
courses were filled with such expressions as these
" Gentlemen, you can now go home and say that
you the very knife with which / done this -
or, Gentlemen, you tell your friends that you
the very ligature with which tied this ar
terry ~ No wonder that with such dwelling, gar
rulus old woman Tin breeches) as their Professor of
the great science OF Surgery, the Stuyvesant stu
dents should have been rejected at the Naval
Board
Then comes DR. Pattison-" Granville Sharpe Pat
tson"-late of here, there and everywhere. An
extraordinary and melancholy fatality appears to
have marked the entire past migratory Of this
gentleman. He failed as teacher in Glasgow-he
failed in London-he failed in Baltimore-twce he
failed in Philadelp hia-and now again, after last
desperate effort to retrieve the oes and failures OF
his past life, he has failed in New York. If we did
not well know the miserable intriguing, double
dealing disposition of this individual, we would
pity him; for it is indeed lapentabe spectacle to
see man thus driven from city to city, and from
shore to shore, leaving behind him any thing but
fragrant odor TO recall his unhonored memory As
an anatomical teacher DR.. Pattison dates about the
year Of our Lord, lSl0-he knows nothing whatever
of the minute and philosophical manner in which