Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-01-24

mentS or agriculture Win winch ne Is
now supplied. His nice and strong
cast-steel plow, for breaking up his
groand, his nice buggy plow to cul-
tivate the same, his valuable thresh-
ers, mowers and reapers to clean his
grain, and everything else in proper
ton. The practitioner of medicine
at that day labored under as many
difficulties and drawbacks as the
farmer. Both were good many
miles from any highway of travel or
trade, and consequently labored un-
der many difficulties in getting sup
plies. There WAS not drugstore in
all the county, consequently i had to
send to St. Louis for all my inedi-
clnes, and it would be some two
weeks or more before I could get a
return. All my visits to my county
patients, ranging from two to twenty
miles, were made OH horseback.
There was not buggy or carnage in
the county. Now my more favored
and arlstocratic brethren ride in bug
gies, and few days since / saw one
brother even had a negro to drive
him. Many time have l ridden
from early morn till midnight, and
then slept on the floor with a blanket
Or quilt for my bed, and my saddle
under my head, then home to break
fast the next morning.
There being no drug stores conve-
nient, / had to carry all the medicines
1 might need in my saddle-bags, to-
wit: SIENNA, salts, castor oil, calomel,
rheubarb, laudanum, quinine, &C.,
&c., &c., too numerous too mention.
Now my brethren are not put to such
inconvenience. A little hand-sack,
not bigger than lady's reticule, will
suffice for the occasion, and if not,
they can soon send to a drug store.
Another draw back which the physi-
clan labored under at that day, l will
mention. Although living in civil
lied community, and comporting my
self as an honest and law-abiding
man, my pathway across this wide
and illimitable pralres was filed with
blood. thirsty and vindictive enemies,
assailing me and my horse on all
sides, and adding wings to our fight
to get out of their way. l allude to
the green-headed flies, which would
cover my horse all over, and some
times render him so frantic that l
could scarce maintain my seat in the
saddle. This involved the necessity
of making many of my visits by
night, both on going from and re-
turning to my home. Happily, ouI
physicians of this day are freed from
most of these troubles, and they look
as happy, sleek and contented as s
darky on a rock-pile, breaking rocl
, at dollar day to pay fine. len
, Wy not, however, their lot, and posi-
ton in society, for it is hard one a
, best.
There is another thing to be con
: sidered in contrasting the practice O
medicine in that day and this, bu
which has been assigned to two NOR
able hands than myself. l allude t
: the different and improved method
E os treating disease owing to our ad
= vance in physiology, pathology ant
/ the true nature of disease, and tn
e new and elegant remedies which hav
: been discovered and brought into use
It With these few desultory remarks
# gentlemen, l shall retire, thanking
v YOU for your attention, and wlshin
{ much happiness and prosperity in th
Y future.
o The toast to "The Druggists ws
IL u responded to by Mr.. J. F. Llewelly
" in a neat and pointed little talk.
: "The Progress of the Medic'
N Science" was handled by Drs. Ru
sell and French in a thorough an
exhaustive manner, that showed the
~ y knew what they were talking abou
le 1.-The Learned Professions WI
n, replied to as follows by Judge W. {
'I Forrist:
J. Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEi
# The sentiment just announced. ''Tl
4. Learned Professions" s"--Divinity, Me
te icine and LAWS suggestive OF d
as mand for the pen of far readi
g. writer than / to make q fitting 1
to sponse, and yet, the readiest write
under the circumstances Of this Q
casion, could not do so, and as a re
o. son, need only to point to the
d. gend on your programme-'speech
to limited to five or ten minutes
,r- Five or ten minutes only to respo
:. to Divinity, Medicine and Law, a
III, any of the vast numbers who belo
OF to and honor these professions
'e- spectively: Divinity, whose doctt
nj from the days of Paul until now
ed but a host of orators, students, p
~ losophers and philanthropists gildi
s'' the pages and each page of histe
ne for close by two thousand yea
,ss Medicine, whose devotees from {
inf len down through the ages to l
Simms, whose labors and life enc
together but the other day, leavl
Is" weeping and gloom throught
III. and over two continents. were bu
catalogue of intellectual jewels;
Law. with its Bacons, Hales, w
OF sters, Kents and Storys, certainly
the an appalling "point Of time wher'
OF to stand or wherein to explain, no
'lte or even name them.
en- These professions-the three gr
IN, foctors-by a common labor and I
der tual influence, working out and est
ect fishing free governments for
the throughout the world; the basis I
'er- cause of all high and valuable ci'
nus cation, lying right close to, il ind
nat thev themselves are not, the sole TO
dation of human happiness; prl7
re- and public health the full enjoym
the of all civil and political rights
OF immunities; the inseperable trll
rms alliance of three immense for
'me lifting humanity and governments
us of the darkness of ignorance, destI
Eta, :, ing the heavy yokes Of oppres.
nail and wrong, into the broad sunil
the of a common education; the me
ors, full reign of justice and right,
mat leading light of all beng, the ak
cry that equality lie equity. and with
EN- either of which professions ane
ln- proper influence the social, civil,
au- tellectual and moral ''sun would