The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-28
A JUSTIFICATION
FROM
: JAMESHsd dG0RD0Na BENNETT,
Editor New York Herald,
= tiH#a sssiu.g ,2.,gA 5any
Success Of DR.. Hunters Practice
.n0itIN. NEW YORK CITY,
and its HaDDy Effect in his own Case,

.U0f tINgNEW YORK CITY,
and its Happy Effect in his own Case.
90 MODERN. PROGRESS IN THE MEDICAL
PRoFEssIoS, The public have iatterfy had
presented to them a rather novel feature
in the journalism of the day, in the shape
of elaborate scientific tTeatises on No edical
subjects, appearing in consecutiv, chap
tiers, in the columns of the da ly and
weekly newspapers of this city. These
articles are from the pen of DR.. Hunter,
the welI-known practitioner in pulmonary
and bronchial diseases, and are distin-
guished by their thorough acquaintance
with thesubjects treated of, the simplicity
and ciearness of their language, and the
demonstrative forceTof the argument en-
ployed. T8gqefelIsH2 ff
with these qualities to recommend
them to our attention, we cannot but well
come The appearance of these articles as
|. heralding an important and beneficial
revolution in theItraditipns and practice
of the medical profession-iar
70 'sWe are rejoiced. TO find that one man,
and that a raetitioners whose professional
merits and Skill cannot for a moment be
questioned, has had the moral courage TO
I break through the tIammels imposed upon
him by the old, routine of his art. DR.. Hun
ter wisely, and in time, a rived at the con-
clusiou that if such. requirements as he
possessed were worth anything, the more
extensive the circulation he gave to the
results Of his researches and experience,
the greater the benefits would not only
confer upon himself but upon the commu-
nifty. No man, we will venture to say, in
4Ae whole ahnals OF the profession. has
eyerdntrodpced a more Important innoVa-
III. n on the old system of practice, or gain
LED, in a.shorterspace of time more converts
TO his opinions. But the most incontro-
Nertible evidence of the benefits conferred
by Dr. Hunters mode of treatment in the
diseases of the lungs is to be found in the
/ City Inspectors Report, showing that the
mortality from Consumption has d'n'l'l-
is7ed tiptonrd Of thirty per cent!
=. Nosc, ,5e knos0 from The Uast number Of
cltses treated and cures Effected 6y Or. Hunter
during The period referred to, that his efforts
contributed, II not to produce all, at least the
a,.eate5. share Of this Improvement. The Sc
verify of the past winter would have in
creased. instead of diminished, the mortal
itDy arising from pulmonary disease, had
not there been some new and powerful
,coInteracting influence atwork.
Z sITe haze had personal experience Of tie
hapl25I results Of the Doctors mode Of treat
oae,st, and can vOltch for is success. Owing
to the severe drudgery incident to our pur-
suits, and that tendency to bronchial dis
eases with which the peculiarity of our
climate affiicts such large portion of our
population, we have been suffering for
several years past from throat affection,
which all the medicinal remedies that we
had formerly applied had failed to cure.
We can truly say that a0e have found more re-
lief, and greater hope Of ultimately getting rid
Of the ndlddy, from DR.. Hunters mode of
treatment than from that Of ol1y other medical
man 10 1ChoDl ape had previously submitted
our caSe.7