Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-01-24
PLEASANT PHYSICIANS.
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side of which stands the Everlasting
City.
How the theme does grow and ex-
pand and glow! The realm of thought
and illustration, of biography and his
tory, thus opened cut becomes both
rich and limitless. Under the rule
suggested, We can but stand on the
margin and wonder.
These professions, grizzled with
age, all historic, apparently having
their origin in conditions. offices and
circumstances, rs diverse as is the
East from the West, yet, if not in
fact, of a common birth, they have,
in later years at least, in their respec-
tive offices, duties, influences and re-
suits become so intertwined and inter-
woven that they have become bound
together by ligatures more vital and
closer than those uniting the Siamese
twins, so that upon the life and pros
perity of each absolutely depend
on the life and prosperity of the
other. The appropriate legend on
their common banner will read:
limited we stand, divided we fall"
TO show these epigrams to be true,
by argument, illustration, historic
facts and logical results, on an ap-
propriate occasion would be a labor
of love. Tonight, it must suffice
to say, that no one can be q
skilled lawyer without intimate
acquaintance with much, supposed
by many to be within the pecu-
liar domain of medicine. No
Physician is fully equipped for his
high Office, unless he is fully abreast
of the best and ripest thought, in
several branches of the law, as well
their technical learning. No member
of either of these professions has
full and truly FURNISHED armor on,
until they make intimate acquaint-
anse of the other and purer sister
profession - Divinity. While no
clergyman a have on the full armor
nor his culver fully supplied, Or his
bow well bent, for his conflict with
his vigilant and remorseless foe, until
he right well understands the logic,
the hermanentics-and many of the
rules of evidence and their philosophy
found alone in the law.
In these last days, it goes without
the saying, that much of the law Is
administered in the courts finds its
spirit and life and vigor alone, in the
ethics, the morals the canons of So
cial duty, found first and pure only
in that book - the Bible, around
which must cluster, to be of value,
every other book. found in the libra
~ of the theologue, whilst another
and great volume of the law could
never be, intelligently applied to the
affairs of life, or administered in the
interest of good government; truth
Or justice in case the individual, unless
aided by the learning and the science
of the medical profession, and at the
same time both the medical and legal
profession can draw as from a s'well
undefled-a charity - motive and
morality making both luminous and
growing brighter and bIghter until
the perfect day"
The learned professions-three sis
ters-may they walk arm in arm, low
ingly, trustingly, triumphantly TO-
gether until the coming day, when sin
shall have ended, and hence the last
tear have fallen and sigh heaved, and
the only law remaining shall rightly
bear the higher and better nam
of Love.
professional Success was ham
died in a neat manner by Thos. B.
Buckner, Esq.
Rev. DR.. Stoddert followed with a
most interesting talk on medicine in
the last and next centuries. His re-
marks were to the point and very
mirth-provoking. He is a fine after
dinner talker.
DR.. Waller Reed, D.. D.. S., replied
nicely to the toast to THE Dentists"
and showed that there was close con-
neetion between the two professions.
Judge J. N. Berry then followed
with the reading of the first chapter
OF the history of this county, which
was well received. 1t was full of in
teresting facts, and read in a most
pleasant and enjoyable manner.
1.-The Doctor as a Visitor" was
touchingly handled by Rev. j. C.
Armstrong in a manner very impress
sive to all who heard him.
Judge S. NJ. Edwards closed the
evenings entertainment with the fol-
lowing toast to 1.-The Quack'':
MIR. PRESIDENT, AND-Gentlemen
Of the jury ought to say-being
required to make a sort of defence
before you. You must observe that
l am in a delicate situation; am very
much embarrassed at my condition
and yet there seems to be a sort of
poetic justice in it, for does it not
happen that when the doctors have
done their work in a case, it is nearly
always turned over to the Probate
Court to finish up the solemn services
by auditing and allowing claims in
the second class, and partitioning the
few remaining crumbs among the le-
gal heirs. Of course | am the friend
of the doctor, and more particularly
of that large, intelligent and inluen-
tial part of the profession, called by
the vulgar rabble, Quacks, but known
to the scientific and professional men
as DIR. Hornbook. OF course | am
expected to espouse the cause and
white-wash the escuteheon of the
early fathers in medicine. Of course
these gentlemen are too modest, to
say nothing of CALLING jealousies that
rankle their hearts, to say such fat
tering things as 1 may say, of those
who feed and fatten on the ignorance
of youth, the fears of age and the
gullibility of all. Hard and hunted
is the life of Hornbook now. That
faithful, earnest and intelligent sIeuth-
hound, the Missouri Legislator, has
been put upon his track, and 1 doubt