New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-24

The following communication is suggested by
the card signed r. in yesterday mornings pa
per, in answer to the letter of A. c. j. in our
issue of the previous day. R. has inferred
! that a. c. j. 4" alluded in that communication
| to p particular physician boarding at the the
| st Charles Hotel As there are several very
worthy members of the Faculty residing there,
| the communication Of A. g. J might have been
| construed to refer as well to one Of them as to
either Of the others. But we viii let Mr.. A, G.
| J speak for himself:
NEw ORLEANS, August g 1868
| M Editor Of the CreSccRt-iiaving bet
ter employment for nay time and trespassing on
the room in your paper, to enter iuto length
eued discussion about tweedle dee and tweedle
dunn yet | ask a favor space for word in
reply to the card signed h p"
As you are aware, my name was signed in
full to the article to be published, as has always
been my custom.
Mr.. !, r. ;" by his sensitiyeness, must be on Of
the many persons called doctors to whom | re
ferred i'll my remarks, whose names will only
60 down to posterity with the hecatombs of the
Crescent City. :" r. - naturally finds great
fault with the heading, (Which deem marvel
ously proper. Now, if | have read Alright,
q" thoughts come Of thinking, to 10 which re-
quires some brain, and to ncite it for good, is
the very object had in view in the article pub
lished
1t comes with bad grace nor that the great
mortality has lasted six weeks, and at present
average three hUHqred deaths per day, to as
sert that all the medical faculty are to be relied
on, and if these are the actions of the medical
gentlemen r cluims, God preserye us from q
continuance of them"
Some of the medical men think as | do for =
short time since a celebrated doctor, at the head
Of the profession, playfully remarked, that as
the sum total Of the deaths the doctors acknowl-
edged fell short over two thousand from the
| records, he would have to take that number
for his share
To RI" will say that the infamous lam
guage addressed to r sick nlan as | gave it, was
mild compared TO all that actually passed, and
the only reason for my making it SO, was to pre-
vent any public excitement being produced If
all the facts were published.
. Il has . blown the trumpet for doctor
living at the ST Charles Hotel, to whom had
not the slightest reference, and who, for ought
! know, May De one Of the best If men, for g K.
gives him the character of a model doctor; but
IL was unnecessarily severe in " Z to say that
= he does more in day for the health of the
city than A c. j ever did, or ever will do in
his life" What | have done is nothltg, but As
| intend to keep SHY doctors from me when sick
| expect to live long time, and probably may
do some good yet.
If my Thoughts about Yellow Fever comes
70 the notice Of the person, who by his disgrace
ful conduct helped man out Of the world, and
it reforms him Of such conduct or, if it causes
one doctor by closer study Of the epidemic 70
save one patient, aln amply rep.d
In taking leave, will ststethat as my initials
only were given it has induced me this timo TO
take notice Of an anonymous article
Respectfully, A G. JONES