The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-20

ms grasp as subjects of study But this number
IS auanap'e every WHEREOF with few, II any
excePuon--among the Southern schools Again
You should select for beginner, not the medi-
cal curioslties, " examples ofrare and strange ma
ladies, but such diseases heis likely to meet with
most frequently in his own practce But this is
not SO easily done when you have TAX en- him away
from the climate and the subjects with which he is
hereafter to be familiar
we repeat 1t, we must not be misunderstood as
detractng from the high value of good cniques
ana great hospitals but their usefulness is least
Illustrated In reference to the youthful student in
attendance upon course of winter lectures Dur
ing the four or five months Of such a course, the
day Is short and all his hours of sunlight fully
occupied by the dscourses of his Professors
Twice week he sees cases at the theatre at
some feet distance he witnesses examinations of
them, ana hears opinions pronounced diagnoses
which he is never able to verify--proenose the
correctness Of which he must take for granted
Once week CERTAIN sasisct passes for few
moments before his field OF vision is prescribed
for, becomes the text for a brief projection, and
disappears for the time after few such intervals
disappears forever Four hundred eager youths
gaze--but cannot investigate listen, but cannot
make inquiries. What can each Of the n learn
under such contingencies
So much for the clinique; now as to the win
ter's walking, the hospitals" The peripatetic
medical philosophy thus taught lis it apt to be pro-
found or superfcial' Serviceabe or iusorv, In
direct proportion to the numbers thus taught
must the teaching be unsatisfactory. With dozen
around sick bed, the physician may converse
usefully with an hundred he cannot converse n,
all. "a lew orief remarks and hurried scuffing
transit takes place to another bed, where those
who again occupy the inner circle may hear and
see the little offered to their ears and ewes.
Both clinical and hospital opportunities must be
otherwise laid hold Of to be made available for any
purposes Of permanent benefit. They must be
sought for and earnestly pursued in the intervals
between the regular courses of Elementary and
Didactic instruction in Anatomy, Physiology.
Pathology and Theoretc Therapeutics. Tbev
should be employed under the direction of private
teachers who will admit the pupil to close exami-
nation of cases, to touch to see and hear minute
ly; to keep hold of them from beginning to end.
that he may verify diagnosis, observe the so.
gacity of prognosis, watch the course of a NAL
| ady, and witness the effect of remedial treatment
Now, as all this is absolutely impossible in
winter, even in the greatest and best schools the
sacrifice of time, and money, and comfort, and the
love and delights of home the peril Of health and
character, so often added all these are undergone
in vain, nay far worse than in VEIN
We end as we begun. The motto of the South
now and henceforth should be, education at
Home. " Improvement abroad" should be sought
by those who can afford it, after having first laid
"a broad and substantial foundation Their d.
plomas, obtained by at least three wears dilieent
Sluuy, their characters
formed, their constitutions confirmed, no longer
in the dangerous transition state of adolescence.
but in the vgor of intellectual as well as nh vscai
manhood, they may launch out upon the stormy
voyage of life, prepared to profit by change of resi-
dence md extension of the field of observation.
Thus and thus only, shall our now Thoroughly
awakened Southern republics escape from their
present state of almost colonial dependence Thus
shall we elevate and strengthen our institutions,
instead of building up and supporting those OF
distant communities, that taunt us with our own
indirect but practical confession Of inferiority.
Parents of youth destined for the high and hon
orable profession of medicine! Southern parents
will you not keep your sons at home, will YOU
not rather devote the liberal appropriations ann,i-
ally set apart for their education to the susenance
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of your own colleges, Will
rou not circulate the large additional amounts in
cidentally called for among your own neighbors.
friends and compntriots' Have you no desire to
keep your boys under your own ewes, within
your own reach, to guard protect and advise
them; in the midst Of those whose interests and
opinions Identical with your own'
Students ofmedcine Southern students! remain
at home with those who love you and care for
you. Pursue your studies under instructors ia
mlar with the diseases you to treat hereafter;
IN the climate where you were born, and in the
midst OF habits, customs and manners that in a
prominent degree make the constitutions YOU are
to deal with.
As you would swell the glories and PROMOTE the
welfare of your own beloved South-remain at
home! As you would avoid contest, hostility,
taunts and Insult--remain at home!