The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-05-19

the same course is pursued in.
stead of investigating tho prod uc-
ton of nerve force, or reasoning
over the theories Of reproduction .
he learns why man eats bis dinner.
the processes Of mastication. insali-
vation. deglutition, tho trituration
Of the food ia the stomach, its ad-
mixture with gastric Juice, aud
transformation into chyme, it's pass
age to the duodenum, admixture
with paucreatic fluid and change in
TO chyle, its absorption by the veins
and lacteals, aud tho removal Of The
debris through the largo intestines.
These are commonplace matt ors
easily studied and easily understood
when studied Alright, and yet many
praciicing physicians have very
vague aud indefinite ideas in regard
to their.
Tho practice OF medicine and sur.
gerry cannot be read in an office 90
much advantage except as connected
with cases seen, but with them,
reading becomes interesting and
instructive. A case of fever watch
ed throughout its course, furnishes
a text and constant stimulus TO
reading on that disease. SO also
all the minor maladies that are seen
daily iu the oilice be,ome instructive
in pathology, symptomatolgy aud
diagnosis, and give zest to study,
that causes it to make lasting i'm
prossion. In materia medica, in
stead Of reading tho dispensatory
alphabetically from A to u, the
student will endeavor to fix in
his mind correct ideas of tho classos
of medicines, enc tics, cathartcs,
diaphoretics, etc, their action iu
health aud why Us eful as curati v
means. Aftsrward, ho can study
one or two of those in most
common use in each class. Reading
says DR.. Chew" is to the mind
what food is to tho bIly. j. ks
food, it may be Injurious by being
used to excess, or by being Of in.
proper quality, unnutritious or un-
wholesome. Like food, als1, if usel
improperly, it gives rise to dys-
pepsia-mental dyspepsia-charac
teriled, like the physical variety of
the disease, by debility, distention,
hatulence, and other evil symptoms.
The errors most common among
those who are laboring to obtain
knowledge by reading are !! lst
That they read without judicious
aud proper selection Of books. End
That they read to much. Bird That.
they read without thinking, and con
soquently without understanding"
In common with many others, l feel
doep interest in tho success of our
cause, and believe that the road to
success is in thorough education
OF the young men who are now, and
may hereafter study with us. II
does not require any extraordinary
talent to become a successful ply
sician, but it does require persever.
ance and constant application in a
right direction. DR.. Chow we'll re-
marks. that tho iIifarsnce which
we find am ong physicians depends
not by any means so much npou
what nature has done, as II pom wha'
art has done not by any means
much upon original difference
nong them in their senses or theii
nse, as upon difference in til c
aiming they have received, aud es-
Icially upon tho different degrees
industry and perseverance with
Iich they have cultivated thei,
.ural capacities. These capacities
susceptible OF almost iniofuite
provement, and toward their i'm
ovemeut well directed industry
wonderful efficacy, being il the
lsiness of mental culture scarcely
SO potent than that religious faith
to which nothing is impossible
Whoever possesses the physica
senses in any moderate degree o.
integrity, may by industry ant
pains taking become agool mod
ical observer. Whoever possesses
the faculty of reason in any moder
ate degree Of integrity, may by
industry aud paiu-takins, became
a good medical thinker. And who's
ever has become good, medica
} thinker, though he may be destitut,
Of a peculiar nature talent for med
icine, and OF extraordinary genius