Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-05-14

OpcratiOHo. Auou Will SldTuiiS aOSoSo
tions like the cry stop thief they try to
divert attention from their own depreda-
tions.
1--WE trust our voluntary associations
may show clear line of distinction from
hypocritical preterders. Very few COM
munities are now ignorant of the claims
our profession has to the foremost rank In
Improvements.
1.-THE fashion of the past has been to
misjudge and decry that which was not
easily attained; but we may safely expect
Dame Fashion soon to change her garb.
Turn the evanescent literature Of the day
-two-thirds of the columns of the news
papers and one-half of the superfcally
educated elergymen, who try TO make
themselves appear wise by croaking igno-
rantly to the ignorant. wiki several thous-
ands of unprincipled commission dealers
in the land against the validity and supre-
macy of our laws, or against the Holy re-
ligion of Christ and Low long Would pub
lie confidence remain unshaken? Anarchy
and confusion, unsurpassed by the gross
est injustice Of barbarism would soon tell
where The institution of our Savior wouli
be driven A few faithful votaries would
shake from themselves the accumulated
filth and maintain evangelical purity; but
we doubt their equaling the staid men of
our profession; not that the cause is less,
but that fanaiicism, and infidelity are even
more contagious than quackery. Were
knavish huxters allowed to gain living
and opulence by distributing lascviOus
cards, anonymous valentine notes, un-
threatened by law instead of bibles, tracts
and moral literature, petted and praised by
those who were ignorant of the material
circulated, as are scores of the certifiers OF
the thousand compound drugs they en-
dorse, and what comparison would the lit
erary world bear to the worst days of Med
icine? Fashion may change the venue.
Astute knaves have any may again assail
other fields upon which they may fatten,
and which may not bear their ravages bet
ter than our well tried science.
1--WE trow, it is not our mission to chase
down quackery. cut carefully keep our
selves unsmirched of It's principles, and
truth and honesty will prevail. In my
youthful days l have watched the pro-
gresslon of the meadow frog, and for aughr
| could see its prospects for flying were as
good as the young robins that hopped be
side him. and we almost feared our feath
ersd songsler was to be oufdone by The
yerdant amphibian. Time has shown M
that however beautiful they may sail pei
soltum or loudly they vociferate, they vii
never soar aloft to meet the Sun. or deceiy,
the world long in regard to true harmony
Just SO with the croaking and screechins
tribes of empires. They can hop as trut
science may DO in its early efforts, bu
there is limit to their progress and poEu
larity, and he who attempts a crusade
against them, bespatters himself to as LITTLE
purpose as did the patriotic tiberian wher
he turned from his path to ca ch their pro
totypes the i'll manners of saying: 'We'r,
Irishmen too-we're Irishmen too
"The unstable progress in Medical liter
ature and advancement IN the early anC
middle ages seem to have been bul the 'hoI
and skip to increase momentum; while fol
our time is reserved the stupendous leap
I'M which the united abilities of all civilized
nations are carrying medicine and Surge
ry far beyond the goal of empiricism, Is
the resting place of exact science and each
step of advance should find some ready
writer, prepared to record his history and
topography.
The Speaker then proceeds to notice The
State Medical Society and its growing
strength and efficiency and remarks TIA
at ''every candid and intelligent mind mus
appreciate the benefits of mutual inter.
change of thought and experience in It's
papers and debates.
He then proceeds to speak of the for;u-
nae time of the formation of the American
Medical Association and of the Michigan
State Medical Society, and remarks that a,
that time "All the powers of quackery. in
Protean legions, armed with such tongues
as once wagged in Sampsan's weapon.
were martialed through city and solitude,
assailed public credulity from ambushes on
every side. Their implement of warfare
did not come within the range of old or
CARNATIONS, and in many instances. they
found their occupation as pablic guardi-
ans gone, because there was no sane pablo
10 guard, Utopian dreams Of general ben
eft from popular education in physiology
had spread through our country epheme-
raj lecturers. themselves less than half
schcoled In most abstruse science, at.
tempting to introduce the masses to a
mysterious sonsething in mystic dialect
proving for the time that little learning
is dangerous thing for when hey saw
men as trees walking they supposed their
eyes were fully opened, and every gulli5le
as they are, they believed they could pro-
tect themselves. Former salutary lepa
supports. reciprocating benefits were ami
hilatsd by several State Legislatures OIL
weakened by sentiments promulgated under
the bew'ldering cry persecution
The speaker now. alluues to the collate-
raj associations which he compares to 'the
arterial trunks carrying the vitalizing prin.
ciple to the individual capillaries.
He then speaks of some proposed alter
ations and Improvements, and Of the time
Of meeting. and of the mount OF labor be
fore the American Medical Association
then refers to the educational system of ,ht
State OF Michigan, and insists upon bet
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