New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-07
PROGRESS IN MEDICINE.

NETWORK HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL CoLLEGE-FIRsT
LECTURE.
The seats of the lecture-rOOm of the New
York Homeopathic Medical College, at Twenty thirdst.
and Thirdave, yesterday filed with alumni and
students who had gathered witness the exercises Of
the opening Of the Winter of lectures The Fac
ulty occupied In the of the lecturers desk j.
w. Downing NJ. d., Dean of the Faculty, stepped for
ward about p. IN. and made few remarks before In
PRODUCING Dr. Egbert Guernsey, who had been elected
to deliver the first lecture the subject being Progress
Dr. Guernsey said that whatever relates to the physi
CAL the moral, the intellectual condition OF men
directly within the province of the physician
Progress is of slow growth. ever advancing, step by
STEP in accordance with the Of nature and the
growing necessities arising from the improved condi
tioD,N the higher development of man. Each forward
step make is for the good OF the human race
Nature yield her secrets unwilingly, but one
avenue of investigation opens after another, one
thought follows another. and year by year the grand
mechanism OF the world is slowly unfolded and It's
secrets are brought before our wants
require them, and We understand and
appreciate them. In the early days OF the
race there was for the architects skill Garments
were made Of skins and vegetable fiber food was OBJ
tanned from animals killed in the chase and from fruits
But when began to congregate in cities there be-
came necessity for houses properly ventilated and
the appliances of sanitary science. The worn out SOIL
must be renewed and enriched and the refuse OF cities
has been made to accomplish this end Here chemistry
with its beautiful combinations and simple analyses
comes into action. The chemist initiates the processes
Of nature and combining atom with atom Watches tue
laws of growth and decay The human system Is ex-
plored and form the study OF Inc
knife in the hands Of the earnest student with rapu
and ,skilfu movements lays bare the delicate
nerve, and the MICROSCOPE follows out the ds-
section TO the ultimate f,aments. There Is no going
back: every thought action Is onward ana upward
When we reach tne limit of research by the cuemist
does Nature say Thus far and no furtherf MOI We
pass a beam of light through prism ana Deautui
run analysis does not like chemistry, decoDpose ana
combine elements but reconnOters new country, auu
signals of substance unuefts scrutiny
1t delicate that it unerringy detects suDsa
that chemistry and the microscope may search LOT III
| vain
1t 10 impar this progress 10 You WHO are 80 ieaug
10 receive that teachers have planned hs coming
course OF lectures. Priests IN Natures great eupe,
rradated by its pure and molly hight, Coo Keep you 10
| uertOrm your duty nObly and well! And you. young
men standing the threshold OF your great profession
| remember that profession holds within lts grasp
| the sum of all sciences, ana reaches
| ont lis eager hands into every avenue
are to be won only by earnest hearts ana unrenttng
sedenying labor. Approach 1t as the priest approceS
the altar of his God with reverence, win an earhes
heart, with unseliiSh spirit, ana Win tDat pro"u
charity that so well becomes us all , -,
Dr. Guernsey took his seat under great applause ana
| Drs Allen O'Conner, Helmuth Bradford, Lllienthal
Burdick and Paine each in turn made short addresses
| winch were received with applause lac Dean an,
uounced that the next lecture VI the course Wou DC
gwen at 9 d. IN. to-day.