The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-01-12

TOW we VIII give iull report Oh Tie eAudoIuhdi.
proceedings the day after.
This is one of the most interesting cases ever sub
niitted to legal tribunal in this country. A medi
cal journal is established on independent principle
designed TO draw out the struggling professional
talent throughout this country, which is at presen
ground down TO the dust by the insoent intoleranc
of sordid, graspng, and tyranncal cques-t sets on
with determination TO bring the teachers IN TN
most prominent medical schools properly before th'
bar Of public opinion, in order that they may receive
the due reward of their works, and accordingly /
enters on review of the labOrs Of an individual
who at present occupies a conspicuous position
amongst the professional men of the country
Immediately on It's appearance, II gives evidence
of its independent character, and is assaied Will
all the inherent vrulence of selfish, arrogant ant
monopolizng clique, who, in their efforts to crush 1t
trample every principle Of equity and overthrow
the foundations Of noble public institution.
In the present case an amiabe but overated in
dividual has been faded on TO course which viii
fully test the principle whether public lecturer cal
interdict the publication of review Of the dscourse
which he has sold to the public, because he is lee
to believe that such publication will interfere viii
his anticipated pecuniary profits in bookmaklng
The Express characerzes DR.. Houston as {
literary bandit, because he reports and publishes
the lectures of the Captain OF the deck" while Thu
very Express few weeks ago made an elaborate
defence of its own conduct in reporting and publish
ing the lectures of DR.. Sparks Whilst the Express
is perfectly justihable in reporting public lectures
Dr. Houston should be Stocked up in the Tennis,
and Is TO be regarded as rascal for doing the
very same thing Consistency thou art jewel!
But whence, we would ask, is this extreme
nerv ousness-this frenzied alarm, exhibited by the
"Captais Of the deck" respecting the publication Of
review Of his lectures which are now for the first
time presented in tangible form to the profession
and the world The Captain Of the deck" is little
versed to be sure in the mystery of book making but
the most emaseiatsd intellect Of any OF the gentle
men of " distinguished scholarship about him, might
be able to see that analytical review OF the afore
said lectures on the Operations OF Surgery, with
Surgical and Pathological Anatomy" in popular
Medical Journal, was the best advertisement in the
world for "the book A man of such profound
philosophical and scientific attainments as the
"Captain Of the deck" is universally supposed to
possess should desire, above all things, such
nuncialion of the elaborate work which he might in.
tend presenting the public Before the publication
of his lectures in the London Lancet, DIR. Eiouson
was not worth hundred guineas year, In year
or two after that publication, his professional income
was E goo per annum.
The statements of the Courier respecting what it
desgnates the " disgusting exhibitions at the
surgical clinque" betray beasty ignorance that is
almost incr dible. True, these surgical operations
are disgusting to the nsAprofessional eye, and any
thing but agreeable to the surgeon himself, but are
they therefore to be abandoned-is the science
which teaches their performance to be abandoned |!
BY the bye, our amusing, exciting, curious, tick
ling history Of the attempts TO control the reports of
the ciiniQue are yet TO be given.
The Express describes DR.. Houston as ga foreign
adreniure ye,fresh upon our shores" literary "ban
dit" rascal, who if in London would be lodging
in Newgate, and who is one of those men, who, be-
cause they could not commit their rascali,ies with
out incarceration, have left London or Dublin for
their country's good. and take up their pesidence
in New York; "foreigner'' Who ever heard
of such distinctions in science Science is of no
country, and her true followers and friends, wher-
ever born, constitute wide and ditiusive brother
hood, which no artificial boundaries of sea, or
mountain, or river ever separate A " foreign
er 20 Not day passes in the course of which
the Captain of the deck" does not boast that he
received his education in the very schools which
this 90 foreign adventurer' has recently left Who
were Heyey, Hunter, or Ashley Cooperl Were Sir
Charles Bell to arrive on our shores and commence
lecturing or practising, he would be only foreign
adventurer" Pshaw
All this opposition to the Lancet, has, usual in
such cases, resulted preemnenlly in its favor 1t is
now established as an independent journal Orders
for it daily pouring in from all quarters of the
Union. All the most distinguished and liberal medi-
cal practitioners in the cry, approve Of It's course;
and the attacks Of an interested clique have only
given it a twe!vemonth's start in the attainment
of public favor.