The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-09-06
From the Placer (Cal.) Times.
CITY PENCILLINGS..........No. Iii.
BY SACRAMENTAN.
-amy business in this state
Makes me a looker.oA here in Vienna.
THE MEDICAL FACULTY.

Makes me looker-oR here in Vienna.
The MEDICAL FACULTY.
The science Of medicine is justly held In the
highest consideration among men, not ony for its
copous, versatile and profound learning, but also
for its controlling influence upon human life and
action. No position in socity can be more Dig
nified and elevated than that which the abe and
respectable practitioner OF this sence enjoys
From his very youth he is trained in the strictest
discipline Of the schools, Amid their cloistered
and scholastic shades he becomes familiar with
all the secrets Of academic lore. The learning
thus acquired, instead of being exhausted upon
speculative contemplation, is applied more and
more directly, as his years mature, 20 the practl-
cal concerns of life, giving continuous develop
ment to the understanding, and storing the mind
with the ripe lessons of experience. Associated
with his fellow men in relations the most contl-
dental. and BY ties the most intimate, his attain
ments, his skill, his control as it were over the
powers over the principles OF life and death,
command for his vocation the reverence, for
himself the respect of all. Ancient and venera-
Bile in his craft honored from the earliest periods
of the world, by every age and every nation.
The labors Of Machaon were counted of more
value to the Grecian host than the daun.less
courage or the indomitable prowess of an Ajax
| or a Diomede.
"a wise physician skill'd our wounds to heal
| Is more than armies to the common veal"
! In this city the medical faculty are we'll rep.
resented Time was indeed, and that not long
| ago. when disease rioted among us with fear.
full mortality, and science sought in vain to battle
or subdue its ravages. 1t seemed as if profes-
sional ability was as rare among clinical practi
TONERS as nowadays is the presence of an Epis
copai vestryman at our churches, or the absence
of pious young lady from our balls. Every
mail that departed from among us distributed It's
ominous tidings among distant friends and kins
men, freighted with the messages OF death. The
cuiningest leech was impotent to grapple with
! those virulent and fatal maladies which cousign
ed so many hopeful spirits to the darkness of the
| tomb. But the event soon proved that these
| friphtful devgstations of disease were owing to
| other causes than impotence or want of skill ln
| the uhysican Careful diagnoses of the prevail
inc disorders were resorted TO; the nature OF the
climate and its effects upon unacclimated consti
| tutions were made the subject OF diligent exam
/ ination ard experiment; the water OF the rivers
1 and the wells was analyzed; every local influence
was thoroughly investigated, and the most graft
| fvine results in the adoption of new modes o.
treatment. which soon terminated in the subju.
ration Of disease and the decrease Of mortality
were at length happily accomplished, Medicine
| was regarded and practlsed, as a progressive
/ science. Thus while the rigid allopathlsts con-
4 Timed TO adhere to their ancient tenets, and hom
oenathists persisted in following with scrupulous
exactness the school Of Hahnemann there arose