Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-15

.EE- LARGEST DAILY. TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY
CIRCULATION, OF ANY PAPER IN WHEELING.
PROBABLY fogyism and the tendency to "mag
nifty mine Office" obtains more in the medical
profession than in any other of the learned de-
partments Of human industry, clerical Brahmin-
ity, possibly, excepted We notice in one Of
the Eastern papers that contest is in progress
as to whether one physician has the right to
report an extraordinary operation by a brother
practitioner, for the press. Itseems that a DR..
Carnochan, of New York, performed the opera
ton of tying the internal carotid artery" An
account of the operation was written out by one
of the profession, and called ga piece of ana
tomica, scientific manipulation of extraordin.
ary character" Whereupon another practi-
toner comes out in comment upon the report,
alleging that "a newspaper is not the medium
to convey to the professional reader scientific
dispositions on the surgical, relative and artis-
tic anatomy of any part of the body" Suppose
it is not 'sthe medium to convey to professional
reader" a report of a difficult operation. We
do not suppose that any body ever considered
it as such. But there are other people besides
professional renders" Andwe apprehend that
such accounts are full of interest to other peo-
pie beside professional readers. For our part
wecan say, that nc read the account published
with great deal of interest, and we presume
that thousands of.other persons also did. News
paper men are generally and quite rapidly get
ting into the belief that there is. naught of
science and art that they may not give to their
readers. They stay not their hands from pro-
PrstS7er7'itr
laic and unprofessional reviews and expositions.
The people claim, as Lord Bacon taught them,
that all knowledge is the province of the human
mind. They are rapidly shaking off their
reverence for that effete cxclusiveism that for
ages has imposed upon their ignorance, and de-
luded them into the belief that there were
certain kinds of knowledge too mystic, too
deep, too dangerous for the mind that has
not been put through drill of learned
canonry, so much per day for so many
years, NJ. D--ism, D. D.-is.n, L. D. D ism, for
the last two hundred years, at least, has been
the bane of popular progression. We have
noticed that most generally when new book,
intended TO simplify and popularize any Of these
departments of learning, appeared, immediate
ly there has been an outcry from the graduates
''Gd eundun," who thereby see, like the arti6-
GERS of Ephesus, that their callings were being
enquired into, and disrobed of that cunning
whereby they brought so much gain Men seem to
bejust as prone to surround themselves with
webs and shreds Of speculation, and dogmatical
fogyism, spun from their own and others brains,
us insects are to hive awayin musty and noul.
dy hooks, covered over with the mustY tangle.
ments spun from insect bowels. The long
face and ponderous looks of Holy Orderism, by
which We mean professionalism of every kind
has imposed upon the people an awe which has
made them shrink from the lonsings of their
minds to ''read, weigh and consider as they
would from the touch of dead mems bones.
But, as we said, the days of Brahminity are
passing away. The Press shrinks not in its
explorations of all the known doctrines or dog.
mas, and the people, somewhat timidly, per.
haps US yet, venture to follow them up. Ifever
that millennial time is to come when poor man.
kind is to get up off its knees from the degra.
ding obeisance to which it has been stopped by
empty titularism, by pretentious theosophism,
it will be through the agency of all kinds of
knowledge being ventilated broadcast through
the columns of the press
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TEE london Field complains bitterly that the
English drink inferior champagne while iona.
than takes the best. The writer saws that Sam
Slick the clockmaker has handed down to pos.
zterity the cheap clocks of the Americans as
instances of their love of passing off spurious
articles for the genuine thing; but Americans
take too much care Of their palates and stonachs
10 practlse the impostures IN wines and liquors