The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-27

a retraction In the papers. But what
| ever paper L took in my hands from
distant parts of the country, my eyes
were Mortified with the most extrava-
giant and false statements in relation to
| me.
And here I desire to say, that no part
| of the blame or censure belonging to
\ me for imprudence or wrong doing In
this whole matter should be cast upon
the young lady involved in this sad af-
| fair. am older, and on my uncovered
head let the blows of condemnation
fall. am to blame. Every fair mind
ed person will see that what 1 now say
| way help my case. further than as
truth will do it. But as God is my
| Judge. and as 1 expect to give strict
| account at His bar in the last great day,
| for all speak and do, and as hope for
| acquittal when all men stand silent
before. God, SO far as any crime Is con-
cerned with me, or any other being on
| earth, as far as know, that young lady
is as pure as the stars that shine over
her head by night, or the sun that lights
her paIh by day. -,-... ~
He further says his troubles worried
him SO much he resolved to commit
suicide, and actually made the attempt,
but when in the water he thought of
his wife and children, and herePented
| of his design. He then Fed 10 the West,
where he wrote to his family. The let
ter closes with piteous appeal for
charitableness and forgiveness.
LIE aud Death OF a Great Paris PLY.
HIcIan.-.InteresIInEL traits OF his Ge-
MUS and Character. IT,. --
A Paris correspondent gives an inter
esting account OF the late DR.. Trous-
seau, the celebrated French physicians:
He talked, looked, acted woiully like
a quack. You could not at first help
thinking, What a humbug he ISL
When you became better acquainted
with him, you saw hfs manners and
appearance were only the overflow OF a
we'll filled, well-trained, ever active
mind. DIR. Trousseau was one of the
few medical men who thought. There
is no profession In the world where
thinkinRis more frowned on than in
the medical profession, which is one
reason IL makes so little progress. ln-
quiries into the nature OF disease, its
causes, the nature ofdrugs, the causes
| of their action, attempts to .deduoe the
general laws of disease, are heterodox
/ in that profession. Empiriclsm is the
cardinal rule. DIR. Trousseau, like DR..
Ricord, thought for himself, and, think
| ing for himself, invented one OF the
most admirable surgical operations of
modern times, tracheotomy, which re-
moved Group from the fearful group of
consumption, cancer and other inCura-
BILE diseases. 1t is simple as Columbus
egg. 1t consists in making an artificial
aperture in the throat and inserting
silver tube; air Is supplied the
lungs below the diseased part, and
the physician has time to APP
DIV specifics for its cure and await
their action. Where DIR. Trousseau was
most admirable was by the bedside of
patient. His diagnosis of the invalid
mind, heart and body, was miraculous,
reached divination, and the remedies he
prescribed were fitted for shat person
and none other. One OF the most re-
markAble diagnosis of DIR. Trousseau
was given a gentleman whose name he
did not know. The man was singular
Iy robust, looked the picture of health
and yet: "DoCtor, Rm not well. 1t
seems to me my strength is falling me.
A strange lassitude takes possession of
me. / feeI-I scarcely know how l
ieeI." DR.. Trousseau kept his brilliant
eyes riveted on the patient while the
latter spoke, and when he ended the
doctor asked: You sleep every day
immediately after dinner" "Yes, do,
DOCTOR" "Are unmarried, have no
family, are ignorant of domestic life2'
True, DOCTOR" What you want is
not medicine, but-ntfection; domestic
ties; something, somebody to live for
If YOU do not form these ties, If you do
not give ailment to your heart. you'll
be in your grave before eighteen
months" The stranger smiled skepti-
caIIy, laid 5OOE. in gold on the doctors
table and retired. Fifteen months af-
terward Lord Seymour Ctwas he) was
buried. Armand TrOusseau was not
born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
There is some obscurity yelling his
18th of October, 1901. His sisters Uf not
his broIhers) still live at Tours, and
are highly respectable people in
circumstances of easy fortune. He
sent his only sonto live on an estate in
that city's neighborhood, which showed
his Protestations OF attachment to his
native place were not lip'affection
merely. He began life, some say, as
usher; others, as teacher of rhetoric in
school, and when he had accumulated
money enough TO enable him to crafty
the turn he had for medical studies he
went to the medical school. Hegradu-
ated in 1926. Five years afterwaTd Il
believe such rapid success unpreceden-
| ted since Bichat's daysl, he secured, al
though competitors were many and
formidable, the place of physician to
the hospitals, in a concourS still remem-
bered for its brilliancy. Six and thirty
years of his life he gave 10 the poor.
This charity Is judlcious sel6shness.
By the bedside of the poor he daily saw
those innumerable cases which Bacon
| insisted were necessary to the estab-
| lishment of any general law. He
studied diseased nature in all her
| forms, and learned to observe the effects
of all the specifics given. Last year his
health began to give way, and he re-
signed his chair In the Medical school.
He was attacked with cancer in the
stomach. Seeing his end not distant,
he began to put his affairs in order. He
had a vault made, and visited IL Il week
before he died, 10 see everything was
ready for him. An old patient
came to see him, saying: doctor,
[ am unwell; do something which
will enable me to attend to my busi-
ness. DIR. Trousseau prescribed, and
then added: "Physic is efficient, but
will Is more efficient still. Look at me.
I shall be dead and buried in six
weeks from now, and yet you see at
tend to my business" Five days be-
fore he died he went to the underta-
ker's, and made every arrangement
for his funeral, "because ones family,
in the first moment of grief, cannot at
tend to these matters" He made di.
agnosis of himself every day, and 1t
was as clear and brilliant as If it was
made of strangers disease. he would
make his pupils place their hands on
him, and he'd say: you see the tumor
is daily increasing in size; in three