New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-17
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.

vorvn GENERALS OF TIE LATE wAR-MANL'
NESS OF CAPTAIN LYoN-DAvlss INCAfA'iii"
NAuoNE's REPUTATION IN THE ARMY -.
7 neturn to nv fatherland expecting puono
reeeption and what do see lone thous'.u uoo'o''
,rr.s,;oat;pg mud, II would he a sorry joke to say
that this is as If sexton detained agaihs. g'aro
vsnis or Charleston street eagle against tue i"ii
ness Of his meal The doctor has been u geh'io "eo
ciate of the politician. oi these many years Al .ne
time of Louis XI. Jacques Coittier gave 'haa mug
somc pertinent and thrifty advice. Said he: "one'
A. a., oud hour 7 die YOU also pass IN your
china The King took good care of that man ~
least In the time of Tweed there was q s'anuins
crarral between the sensationalists ana inc quar-
antine doctor the latter an eminent SUI se'i NO
WA werc informed at least once week 'ha' 4'o"
York was on the eve of one. two or threc ep'ue"l
v phvsciansr wrote Montaigne not long altcr ooi-
r,,rs - are not content to deal only with the SICK
hut they will moreover, corrupt health tseh' ioi
fear men should at any time escape their authoi''
Do they not" says the same Old observer
continual and perfect health extract Suspicion Vi
80 80 s;ctness TO ensuef i do not know
ho,hor no+urc do not require a residence OF her
.or.rta IN n certain proportion AZ VINE does vi
a.. eo. to keen il alive" But still the influence OF
rhvsicians exercised for aggregate results 10 INV
70 be cavled about.
No man, Messieurs. is more entitied 'hin 'oy
ponouet to his views this subject ; his'' .h''
have taken more pills than any surviving Cai'h
p;an. second | have been IN moro hhu,
weather: third, / have been more over new iA
nm foot than anybody in it; and. hnaiiy' l a..
p,,vsican myself. My posies go in'o sich 'n"" .',a
Pn' a.hns;o;o,s were in VAIN My chamome,
v,odonbvln. dandelion, witch-bazel, poppy anu
-, hioom;no ccrcus are born in the beauty Oh
-.trrs With the DIVES of heaven, and In the FRESH
-. 81 tho mornIng I bring the smell Oh 'no
ID and the brooks TO the living ana my puuS
81 blooms decorate the crown and temples VI 'no
dead NV diploma is in my venerable years VIM.
nv some oversight of Providence have oeen sPa'oN
the consequences of my vices, anu my oni
tnres are at the bedside of myself, whero nA' W
arisen son standing by its mortality, give my grim
.olilooues upon life's violated laws iaSo up
tbv bed and walk" was a miracle ou' pen''u " -
mo ,vbo am permitted to go hale and stohd down
NV ~. 90 health for whom the daisies in the
Potter's Field have come ana witheiou' ""0 OVAL
my hands are full of roses
"REMINISCENCES OF TIE PROFESSION
phvs;cians were slaves, it is said. TIL JULIUS
Caesar raised them to Roman citizenship ihoh iu'
,nrtur;es the monks were the doctors, from WHICH,
ncrhaps started the irrcverent dstich:
When the devil sick the devil monk nnS w was be
when the devil well the deVl "a monk "@' NO.
NJ. tho barhers became the doctors, ana no
donbt engaged you in some such learned taih "a
this:
"Sit little higher, please. SIR
Does this razor hurt your
"Nicc weather to-day"
1Can I cell YOU bottle OF NICE tonic I
aWho cut yo' hair lastf
aMaybe YOU better keep one OF thein en4A'S
shaving cups ut this shop H..
Such was medical learning up to some tune ai,er
the discovery of America. In Germany about the
onnrentce unless he solemnly affirmed that he
80 of q family in which were found neither par
h.. hatbers nor skinners" and these were the only
doctors Consequently Shakespeare has no doctors
of madeleine except two ill Macbeth" one OF "hoih
knows nothing aud cannot prescribe a common ano
avne and the other believes the king can cure Tue
1eyilr Macbeth in despair goes to inc ~ ouuo"'
the witchcs-in preference. Shakespeare Is any
thing but complimentary to his only apo'nccaiS
And n a man did need a poison now
Whosc snle Ia present death III MANI
Here lives oatif wretch would sei IL h''n'
Tho best medical treatise in general literature Is
the ninety fourth essay of Montague. LII "nion %
said: One asking Lacedieinonian VINO iau 'i'''uo
him live 10 long. he made answer inc ignoiai'oe
of physick'" Hogarth, who died but ten years
before the American Revolution. introduces 'he
physician in his a." Marriage In mode only ~ mus
frate a case of malpractice. pr Sangrrdo VII!
music.
ON VARIOUS DOCTORS.
Doctor Marat who prescribed 10000 human
,.oas ON the block as a remedy for France. was
,rsdica professor and one of the first TO appear III
,oItical affairs Saws Theirs Devoted to the
.,udv of the physical and medical sciences, he had
5,r;nyv attacked the best established systems ana
ey,nced an activity of mind partaking OF the con-
yulsiye Accustomed TO scientific contests ana 10
uphold the most singular paradoxes he had icarheu
10 despise those who despiscd him. and scoT "a
them az incapable to comprehend him." Partly by
Marat's influence medicine was made legal TO he
practised with surgery. At the outbreak OF the
American Revolution, Dr. Warren, of Boston laid
bis life down upon the ramparts of Bunker Hill.
Or Jones. of Washington, has prepared but has not
publishcd list of American patriot military officers
,rbo were doctors. The Commander -nChef of
&be American army at one time. james Wilkinson,
w.s n doctor of medicine. Benedict Arnold kept
an apothccary shop. DIR. Crawford, who was III
Fort Sumter with Anderson, became a MaIor-Oen-
rral and Justice Miller Of the Supreme Court. was
n doctor before he studied law.
Several wears ago visited the estate of Dr.
Brown. near Port Tobacco, Maryland, who was one
of the pbysicians in WashingtOns last illness. The
discomforts of country life ut that day-l199-
NAV be imagined when Washington had to send
from Mount Vernon for this doctor across the wide
Potomac and then about twenty miles through the
woods and hills. His regular physician, DR. Craik,
had also lived at Port Tobacco but removed to
Alexandria to oblige Washington. His instructions
when absent were: Always send for Dr. Brown"
The three sapient heads. DIS Craik Brown and
Dick, consulting about that precious lfe-he
WAS sixty-scvcn-found that his overseer had
opened his veins and drawn his blood The great
old man had always objected TO medicines. This
time he took theni-and died This incident seems