The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-09-06

a new school Of practitioners who, dIscardIng the
set formularies of the schools, and abandoning all
the restraints of system, aVailing themselves OF
what alone was excellent and useful in each and
all of the prevailing systems Of the day. So ra-
pid and complete was the effect of these changes,
that in few brief months climate which had
been branded as tsarfully malignant, and laden
with the influence of malaria and death, was
discovered to be healthfnl, salutary and bsnevo-
lent The bills of mortality no longer depres-
sed the spirit and stiAed the energy Of the
people by their sable catalogue, but soon claim
ed an advantageous contrast with those Of
London, Lisbon or New York.
As has been usual in other instances Of mi.
grafton to this community men of the highest
grade of talent and capacity in the profession of
medicine have resorted hither. So much of real
ability and decided merit exists within their
ranks, from the gray haired veteran down to the
acolyte fresh from the halls Of the academy, that
we can pardon our brethren in this department
of science those jealousies and unworthy strain
ings Of punctio for which, under the iusive
name Of f"etiquette," they have every where been
noted, and are noted here. Yet profession so
honorable and ennobling as theirs should not be
degraded nor even tarnished by petty enmiles
and controversies full of bile and spleen. There
should be perfect fusion of all conflicting SEN
timent among them into one homogeneous, pro-
fessional, fraturnal spirit. To their honor how
ever be it spoken, it was theirs to found the first
intellectual institution of purely scientific char
acter within the limits of the state. The Medi-
CO. Chirurgical Institute OF Sacramento is, we
believe the earliest monument of learning and
Of science which has been erected on the whole
Pacific coast of North America
The Medical Faculty Of this city is composed
in the main Of a higl-minded and honorable class
o! men, whose literary and scientific attainments
and whose professional skill, not only place them
high in the estimation and confidence of their
fellow citizens but are also continually producing
new developments of the laws Of anatomy, Of
physiology and Of pathology, and occasionihg Of
tentimes the most brilliant achievements Of pro-
fessional success Not TO multiply instances
where so many are deserving, we will only chron-
icie the fact that an eminent surgeon among US,
long time an associate of the venerable DR.. Mott,
has successfully performed two operations which
would have excitedt admiration even in the insti-
tutes Of Boston, Philadelphia or Paris. The one
consisted in the removal from the back Of an af
! fcted fellow townsman, tumor Of about the
ulHehlUlS vi ali USlIlCl cS11 tlle OtleI III tIlC
extraction Of six large buckshOt from the knee
joint of gentleman who had been accidentally
wounded by a weapon loaded for an encounter
with a grizzly bear. In remedial science, too, and
the whole department Of materia medca, the
most iattering results have been accomplished.
But altho' among the crowded ranks oS the pro-
feseion there is SO much talent and ability, there
is also the usual modicum Of quackery and pre-
tension-Many hapless sufferer is unwillingly
subjected to the tender merces OF the charatan
and the empiric Elixirs, panaceas and specifics
hold out the most tempting promises to cure al
the ills that human flesh is heir to. There is the
medicament, whose effects are warranted; there
is the patent remedy, which is never known t
fail; there is the cunningly compounded lotion
before whose influence disease falls powerless.
owing, however, to the establishment OF th
Chirurgical College the crafts and devices 0
quackery are in large degree defeated, and th,
safety of the community from imposition compar
atively secured 1t is not the least among tn
merits of this institution that it points the pub
to those practitioners in whose capacity and skill
the fullest confidence can be reposed. In thi
way continual safeguard and protection is affol
ded, by which the unsuspecting are guarde
againstthe wiles and stra.agems of the designing
and human life is shielded from the dangerou
and often fatal experiments Of the sciolist and tn
pretender. 1t must indeed afford grateful con
; ISOLATION TO many domestic circle far away, tha
all those perils, fearful though conjectural, il
which the malignity Of the climate and the ah
sence Of professional ability were supposed to in
volve some beloved and cherished member liyin
: in our midst, have ceased to forever exist; an
that while we posses every grade and every va
riety of talent in each department of the versati
profession we are now discussing, there is an &C
ded security to human life in the bandness an
salubrity of the climate and the braeing vigor
the atmosphere, which promises reviving bloom |
many faded cheek, and renovation to many
/" shattered constitution.