The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-12-01

We copy the following article from the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal. 1t is from the pen
enc Of car Physicians, who has travelled much in the
Territory. ID has done much toward the dcvelope-
usent Of the resources Of Minnesota:
DIAM SIR:-Your Journal reaches me here in
the far Northwest, forming the only link that con-
meets with the medical brotherhood in the East
aad South, and il affords me much pleasure To read
It's pages Its perusa causes the of that dis
ease Which has occasionally afflicted me ut the Fast
called ia plain English, the ,w,ting madn,ss. The
elects o he paroxysm, YOU trace in the scrib-
bngs that follow.
Ga the I'D Of July, 1853, the first Medical Society
was organized in tins Territory, and ohriscncd,-
The A'aaesoia Medical Society,"" Considering that
here are scarcely twenty regular physicians in the
EtriFnryf the meeting was well attended, matters
were discussed in friendly manner, and the follow
i9s ,hcers chosen Dr. Potts. Of ST. Paul, President;
Dr. Ames, Of Minneapolis, and DIR. Murphy of ST.
Ah.hon,, Vice Presidents DR.. Anderson, OF St. An
'hony, H'oording Secretary; Dr. Goodrich, Treasur-
CT, Dr.. Mann, Corresponding Secretary; and Drs
Day, Dewey and Fiach, Censors. The last FIVE Off
res arc csidents of 81. Paul. Though few in nun.
b-rs. We mean 10 do what sustain and ad-
vance m,iical science in this new Territory and we
hope q receive the good ws, at least, OF the older
specifies u the States.
Ta9ugh Minnesota, from present appearances,
seems 70 be the hcalthiest portion Of cunry, yet
II otached 10 world cursed bv sin, disease and
death mere, and the physician can find prob
cns to solve, and subjects enough for patien,
htu Is AMI Investigation. The effects Of Our pure bra
cling ii.- and even-empered seasons, the tuberci-
Dn- 4.H5 nj from the 6ck le climate of New York or
NeS iig and or On the jaundiced victim al malaria
r.fs te States below and east vi us, afford ample
scop- for esearch Here, too, can watch the ef.
tets Of the blending Of Races. We have here the
n1'f. qoarter and all degrees of Indian blood mixed
with tae Anslo-Sax,n, French, Celtic, &c. Minne-
its ~ D. rich, too, IN botany, mineralogv and the
b l,. Ell lataral sciences, in which ph, scisns are
usoai. n'ercs;cd. Upon some of these, and many
other ,1iGts we hope Society, at its succeeding
aqaoli etngs will throw some light. and in such
l'D. hat benefit will follow.
IL osei.ss ior me C speak Of the scenery Of our
iecr1 Tor our summer tourists have writte: Of our
beaiiia landscapes, water falls, lakes rivers and
r4r4tr.s I'll Minnesota seems TO many like Dreamland
BI a- de from all this, have "A rich, productive
SOIL sathy climate, with a surface Of country sui.
hl.--t diversified with hills and vallc, prairie and
woodland, t. suit the varied of the einisrant
4ad here IT anywhere in the great West, will persons
Eon tl- eastern States be suited II in search of
.50it. Many coming here in search of health
from rcarl, every state IN the Union but how far
h.yk -4-dpwn constitutions may be recruited here
81 IN ,he exposures and prvations incident to Il new
coue.y- time alone Will fully show. At present, how
eNer 'iuy report themselves very much benefited
That pessons sound health live here as long as
aD.wh here else, or a little longer, l lave no doubt
"a e - lar removed from the ocean and large lakes
also i0iu high mountain ranges, that the seasons are
lu tc !istui bed IN their accustomed round. SUM-
along steadily, with bat fey lden chan
-:s- -aI il autumn, when, u. the East, winter and
sua.-Esr quuielng Tor weeks, With dash If
sl'lmer day and al uincr The next, we have
here uiet, modest, Indian passing quiet
g. aian, I'LL old winter takes possession by thiow
ts roie If snow over all. Our winter is 4 genuine
Viotef, almost cntire, exempt from those tta,cs
"h "a ln New England are 50 productive of pncumo-
lia, picu it's, rheumatism, consumption, SC.
Ia regard To consumptives removing here they will
no doub oe benefited if the disease no, too far at;-
I.uced .rovidcd they have The means to avoid the
exposures o frontier liie aud make themselves
as couYrtable al home. Take, for example,
large class who able to keep about and attend to
has.n,ss but whose lungs contain less tuber-
cutters deposits, ready to take inflammation or uI-
ceia Ion, with every change of weather. unless the
s,seu IS guarded and protected with especial care
aud attention. These usually disregard the opinion
a hc nopest physician, that med ici.e can do but lit
&c ior hem, and that diet, regimen and pure AIR can
de much and commence deyourlDg quack medicines,
.'sarras,,ed TO coesanp,ioa'n Each new remedy
make ITEM feet better, aad they Y1e sure II Is
cu;ns hem, until the physician again called, not
80 them, hui TO alleviate their suieringS, aud
sn5oh their passage 10 the grave. ow # such will
eome 10 MinneSota, will not u1ralt cure, for
,nany would rather die than get well without medi-
cine bot tciu that our climate will do them
= than all the patent medicine manufactured
siucc Tie time Pec!zclub offered dose 10 our first
,reats For those who in the last stages of con
sumption, have advice, fJr have long been OF
IN, opinion that for such, '',here is 40 place like
hf1tf.'
in conclusion will say, that if physicians or 9th
rrs have any particular questions to ask in regard
v ants IN, | viii answer them with pleasure.
-. Paul, siin. Teg., SEPT. u, 1913.
Prom the Nj rnesota Democrat Nov. 80.
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