Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-25

lecior oil the port OF New io'h.
The Medical Specialist, for the month. has at
ilacted wide attention. even outside OF its pre-
yous sphere and circulation. The letter OF the
editor Dr. Robert Hunter. to the Medical Fac
ul,y Of y. York recently published in the pubic
journals here. has melted our community to look
more closely into the inhalation controversy. II
i republi she'd in the present number OF the Med
cal Specialist the column. of which are Tree ana
opened TO any who may choose to reply, aud SO
plnce their arguments directly before the actual
patients of DR.. lI1nter,in every instance through
nut the country We have seen no attempt or
offer of ans wer to il however, rs yet and pre-
sumo there will be none, as indeed physicians
generally are quite as well convinced OF the
availability Of Humiliation as they must deem It
inexpedient to oppose motives OF mere invidi-
BUSINESS or conservatism to, the progress
Of science in their profession. There will
be sthe usual personalities, squabbles. rival
ries and depreciations among doctors about it at
first, as about every other advancement OF the
kind, but the fact is now too well established for
dispute, that initiation Of medical vapor, accor-
ding to the practice Of DR.. Robert Hunter. is the
most natural, powerful and successful mode OF
treatment for consumption as yet recched-caus-
ing the absorption of tubercles, the cicatrlzation
of cavities, and arresting the progress ot d sor-
ganization of the lungs, when other agency
the chief objection to inhalation is the charge OF
yenality raised against the public press for dfa-
sing it, principles. In Justice to DR.. Hunter we
will allude to fact in that connection. The New
York Express the last oi the city journals t.
take up the topic which was done when in a care
full investigation of the theory aud its practice in
the laboratory and among the patients OF Dir.
Hunter. warranted such step. Among the la-
ter found numerous representation OF our
own profession from all quarters of the country,
owing to their peculiar liability 10 consumnton.
OF those who presented some remarkably cures.
were different parties connected with the press OF
New York, as leading editors and proplietors.-
Through this we presumed, had they become
identified with the advocacy of inhalation IN
manner which indicated an interest that nothing
else could probably induce. Me.srs. Clayton of
the Commercial Advertiser, Jones, proprietor in
the Daily Times, Bennett of the Herald, and
other similar persons in the press here, having
been benefited by this practise gave it the
impulse which it has had through that channel.
Besides such personal 'yenality' there is also
another which may have operated; 1.-THE priyi-
ege of commenting from time to time some CON
snmptive printer who had spent all his means
without effect, he ed practice to the LIBERAL
~ Of man who provided him with medicine and
skillful treatment without charge, among the
other patients of a large and generous
clinique. When such man returned to the
"case.'' himself "a case no longer, surely Dir.
! Hunter might reasonably have some claim apo n
his composition stick. Indeed it seems to US
that Of all other diseases. the establishment of the
curahlene>S of consumption should naturally
command the must attention in the newspapers,
and secure at the hands of those concerned in
them, a favor OF such DR.. Hunt er,
which has by no means been fully met yet
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