Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-10-11
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"There is a lust in man no power can tame
Of loudly publishing his neighbors shame;
On eagles wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but horn to die.
Yes. It's time. but without making any COM
ment upon the sentiment CT the past in the
above lines ask leave to notice through the
columns of your paper, my friend Medicus
again. But it is due the public to remark,
that Medicus, previous to this time has taken
avery active part in the professional decision,
relative to the nature Of very peculiar dis
ease, which made its appearance in the town
of I.oudon. Well, after he had written several
very pointed and elaborate articles for the
Press the excitement rather died away, after
which he returned to his private practice, crown
ed and loaded down with the success of his
public effort, in the world renowned discussion;
there to enjoy in silent contemplation the
"fruit of his labor" But it seems that | have
disturbed his privacy, and called him forth
again from his silent reveriA to take up his
pen. only took occasion to write mildly,
through the American Statesman his articles,
upon the nature Of the disease as II existed
there The article appeared over the sigma
ture of A Student, purporting to be written
from Hiwassee College, which, Medicus, was
not the case, but was written in your own
town; neither were the contents of my letter
pitched mainly at your articles, but upon the
lalneness Of the present system of medical grad
i l. NIL to
prove the correctness Of my position; but since
YOU have taken some exceptions to my article
and attempted to answer in frvilous and non
sensical style, / shall have to notice you again.
Yet, for one insinuation which needs retort,
l should pass your last article as being un-
worthy A Students investigation. AS business
is pressing, shall make no criticism upon your
article in fact it needs none; the errors are too
gross and common to pass unnotced by the
keen eyed observer. l must nCtice one, when
he is speaking of croton oil being applicable to
the great nervous center Of the BRAIN" Now
Medcus examine pour physiology, your pa
biological anatomy, and all your books of ref
erence,a and then tell us ifyou find that sent ence
in any of them; or perhaps you will find the
brain to be the great nervous center ITSELF
Such errors reminds me of a beautiful thought
of a learned Doctor:
"a little learning is dangerous thing;
Drink deep or tast not the poison spring;
For shallow draughts intoxicate the mind,
But drinking largely sobers it again."
Rnt IN his insinuation upon H. Col. He be-
gins: "With pleasure l say never was stu
dent of that School, had I been after this |
would ever be ashamed to acknowledge it,
Well with greater degree of pleasure an
nouncetha he never was,aad an6nd whole fam
lilies of good fellows,w who are as proud as myself,
who have all been students of that institution,
and not one ashamed or afraid to own it, either.
Ifhe(iudg ng from my article would be ashamed
of anv institution which have been associated,
what ought or any other student to think of
an institution with which he has been associated
Judging from his article and he with an NJ.
D., as big as a box fgoods to the hind end
of his name. work that ont will you? Never
theless, proud proud am to say, II. c. is the
place at which spent my schoolboy days, an
institution which even in the nineteenth centu-
ry is doing It's country honor, an Institution at
which you might even yet condescend to be
benefited and not ashamed to own it either
But since your dignity is above an institution