The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1874-10-29

aw, aad ,be society Was laB Of live ard
aalFe mes. Ia 1873 sad t5r some years
amer there asr between forty an8 Gifts
msmber. aad ths meetings were well
aUaaae3 Iheu, So H7ws toe auuaaI
meeting uas bes attended. but tie semi
uaaaI, a]gays attracted q respectable
number, auJ with Ta,maa, Mcclellan.
Waite, Vac prsk, F4agg, ana others
mentioned. dressed ia the traditional
"haFa gfhes. wgh tha ufle3 hasams.
go vogue ia those days They we're q
body OF gentlemen ol lha Ola school.
aLlse tsl OF worth and aeHuG3y. The
auuuaI dinner was always festival OF
bumog, vie apd general good feeling.
Hut soctsbIbHy was uo. cultivated 10 the
exclusion 81 practical medicine. These
moH mat BOT iar tan and revelrg alone.
Tbey were men Of toll and experience lu
battling with death aud disease, and they
had each their tale Of struggle aul tri
umpb, Of failure and success, TO warn
and encourage iheir brethren ia our
noble profession. pr Wright eni3yed
these occasions mneh. The interchange
Of thought aud experience was valu.blc.
aud the fesiiviy rcsfuL Tie showed bis
appreciation OF them by ddviug-in
those days when railroads were ghost
OF the tumre--aIi the way 10 Hudson,
tbiuy.lour milos, often through weather
and over roads that were anything but
enjoyable. DR. Wright had q large ride.
Over che Lebanon hills and Housatonic
mountains for miles around be rode
miuislerinE TO the suffering, often visit
ing patients twenty-five and tweuty-eight
mites away. This daily toll was very
e&bau,ling, not being blessed with "a hale
body, aud careful and temperate u all
his habits OF lie, he ou,Fode the storms,
and to-day shows rs that life OF activ-
ily, sobriety aud integrity will assure
peaceful aud happy old age. lie was
quite al eminent medical teacher, bis
Office seldom without pupil, often sew
cral From his teaching have gone out
eleven, armed and equipped to heal aud
sootbe, Somo Of his pupils are at pres
eut members OF The society. Others are
ia distant places, while others have laid
down with their fathers
One, Parker Peabody, went to the
Sandwich Islands, and il fell to his lot,
under the civilization which Christianity
brought 70 them, to hold the first in
quest ever performed there. Al Of Or.
Wrights "boys," as he alectionatcIy
called them, have held the honor and re-
spect of those among whom they have
mingled. lie taught them to be careful,
attentive and direct, ia impress their
patients with confidence, to be studious,
observing and patient; and following
these directions they have succeeded. In
his younger days the lancet aud caIomel
went hand ia hand, and were in hourly
requistion, the practice decidedly heroic.
He said--alIuding to yeratrum-"I en-
poyed the lancet daily IN the treatment
of phlegmasia and fever, all unconscious
that the fields, by my own door, contain
cd Natures remedy to hold and bride
the heart lie was progressive, as all
true physicians are, and came in later
years to use but little medicine, and rely
much on Us Nedicatrir Nature.
We greet him here to-day, the patri-
arch aud nestor Of our Society. OF all
who were with him in those days, none
are left; aud in Christian faith he awaits
his summons