The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-05-04


matical calculations to the functions
OF organs both in health aud disease
1t is astonishing what rapid progress
was made by this new and imposing
theory.
About this time the chemist ad.
vanced the theory OF fover which
vas supposed to originate in an acid
condition of the humours. aud there
fore to be cured by alkulies. The
doctrine OF the ma,hematicians aud
chemiets Absorb ,d the attention OF
medical men until the other scots
were nearly vauqnished la the
midst OF this engros5mont of opn-
iJnly mathematicans aud chemist
Won Hclmontacqnirod some omi.
nenco, nnd his oryinal iloas bojng
followed ont by stdbI resulted IN the
IN the formation o' q nev sect calico
wt1li-ts. The leading d1etr.la H.
tie Sllalist WAS thts a.. motions ar J
'uuctions Of the body wcro prniUcu
and sustained 10y an unknown vita.
principal. Thus after the mechani-
cal doctrine of IIippocratcs had
stood firm as the rock of ages, fOr
upwards Of - centuries Stahl suc-
ceedod in demon Itrnting its error
aud substituting new theory ia It's
place. Among the followers Of
stahl We fud Huffman celebrated
Patholosist whose writings are quite
numerous. In the after part Of the
18th, century we ii ind Buei hauo
furnishing on tha pago Of medical
history, followed 10y Iinller the faith.
er of physiology rhon We have
Cullen, Brown, DAWN, aud WYATT.
each with peculiar syJtems.
Throughout the remainder of the
18th, century medical science cou-
tiuuod t. progress under tho direc-
ton Of Deiiean, Molgagni, and
other. But We have now entered
the era OF American medical science,
which may be divided into three
periods. The first before tho re-
voIution. Tho second till the end of
tho first quarter of the 18th, century.
and the last from 1875 until the pre-
sent time lSS2) The profession in
the FIRST period cannot however, fiat.
ter our vanity at the present day
for though from tho sound OF the
white mans footsteps upon Ocracotc
the bank of the james river, aud up.
on the Plymoth rock, tho march ot
intellect has been upward aud on.
ward yet our profession for a long
was cramped in by circumstances time
which tended to devolope the pro.
fessions Of Law and Divinity, Will,
our own progress was retarded.
Let mo run briefly over tho his.
tory OF American medical science
promising only to notice the more
prominent men and events connect
ed with it, Though tho means foi
acquiring work no one seems to have
thought that such labor would b,
appreciated by the profession in
the United States. The physicians
of Europe could see but little at
fractions in the wild woodsof Ameri
ca, and hence, the clergy being tn,
most learned persons in the colonies
except the governors, bad charge o
the healing art, aud we fud two o
these engeged in dealing out medi,
cine--l refer to two GOV rnorl
of Winthrop, One OF these WAS Gov
connecticut, aud nc tually wrote sew.
oral communications on med cino fol
the Royal Society II waicb ho waG
an active member. Most vi the
early physicians were either gr4du-
ates, or had been instructed at Eu
ropean institutions, and according tC
their practise was IN uch the same as
Europeans Of tho same age. Ship
pin and Morgan Of Philadelphia
were the most eminent men ia the
profession in this country previous
To 1868. However, DR., John
Mitchell of Virginia, had written
much on the yellow fever Of 1887 to
l742, even before shippiu and MoI-
gan became 30 extensively known,
1t WAS from tue suggestions ol
Mitchell that Rush was lead to the
free use OF pnrgatives in the yellow
fever OF l773. DR.. Rush acquired
most celebrity of any physician in
the first era Of American medicine g,
aud the whole of his popularity
seemed to rest upon his success in
the treatment Of the yellow feyer Of