The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-03

These were the golden days of faith II
drugs, when polypharmacy was i'm this
| extreme of fashion, and the dispensing
of medicines was most profitable vo-
cation. Most men I'm those early days
| were too illiterate and unable to escape
from the grinding pressure Of the laws
of necessity long enough to acquire a
scientific education; and those supposed
to be capable of imparting such knowl-
edge were few, and being mostly i'm the
largest cities, they were inaccessible
and had themselves become only par
tally emancipated from the thraldom
of false science, upon which no process
es of correct reasoning could be based
so that We cannot wonder if men, igno-
rant of the great facts of human and
comparative anatomy and physiology
established by the Almighty, were for
many generations unable to compre-
bend that other and greater fact, that
under the unobstructed operations of
the laws of nature, his creatures should
be enabled In most cases to throw off
the diseases Of which they had become
the victims through their ignorance Of
those laws.
NIL ~ ~ lsulS ~ IN lhlS Se1i ~
days of darkness which have not yet
entirely disappeared, the majority of
medical men could not be convinced
that a very large proportions of diseases,
for the cure of which they were daily
prescribing multitude of very active
and disturbing drugs, were in point Of
fact, self Limited, and would, under the
operation Of natural laws, disappear of
themselves if the doctors were mot in
the way.
Neither were the people prepared to
receive or to tolerate such a doctrine;
and am sorry to- add that, even in the
present generation, such is the degree
of popular apathy or want of lnfornla,-
ton that comparatively only a few
among the most enlightened people
anywhere are able to appreciate the
vast difference there is between being
cured and getting we'll
Arriving at his home early in the
spring of 1S40 he reported himself to be
in excellent health, and almost irnnedi-
ately resumed his daily routine of pro-
fessional work
With his remarkable powers of mind
and heightened by his in
innate acquaintance with books, and
enriched by the experiences of foreign
travel; and with professional judg-
ment matured in that best of all schools,
ten years of country practice, supple
mented by clinical study in European
hospitals and at the bedside we can
understand how eminentFy qualified he
now was to assume the responsibilities
of Y1I1f1lio ay, of t,oaJfoipo
AS soon as he was fitted to fulfill these
duties the place awaited his acceptance;
and in, 1912 his election as professor of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics in
the faculty of his Alma Matter, was
hailed with great satisfaction by the
medical professio< in this and the add
Joining states His acceptance of the
however, rendered 1t necessary
for him to remove his residence to this
city, where he made no effort to gain
patients, but devoted himself wholly to
his college work for ten years consecu-
lively, when he resigned his professor
ship Responding to repeated calls to
resume his college duties, from time to
time, he continued to instruct his class
es until 1860, when his health again fail
ing him, he spent the winter of 1859-60
IN Barbados.
AS a public teacher of medicine, DR.
Bronson was eminently successful in
he work of interesting young men and
aiding them to acquire as full knowl-
edge of the dry details of his depart
nent of Materia Medica and Thera-
oeutics as they were able to- retain
His lectures were mostly written and
we're read slowly in a clear, distinct
1oice, and in an impressive, deliberate
manner, and they were listened to with
lose attention. He also gave to his
,lasses occasional lectures upon topics
outside of his regular courses. They
we're almost unequaled In interest and
Instruction, particularly If he chose for
lis topic some one of the great funda-
mental principles of medical science.
lie was then at his best and showed
he highest qualities of a great teach
r; he needed the stimulus of a great |
ubject to bring out the full exercise of |
lis powers Many men, however, may |
lave excelled him as a teacher Of the |
facts of science. But as a
writer upon medical topics he was very |
The society is familiar with |
he admirable and forcible style Of his |
writing in the many papers he has read |
,efore It,
DR.. Bronson inherited many Of the |
trong points of his intellectual charac- |
er from his father; and so generally |
vas this fact recognized by those |
mong whom each of these remarkable |
aen was we'll known that 1t has often |
een said that sketch that would do |
ustice to the father would be recog- |
lied as amply sufficient for the son.
BUT in this estimate of the mental quail
ties Of our friend, those who knew him
rell are unwilling to concur. While it |
7as undoubtedly true that in the natu-
al elements of his character, as well as
I the structure of his moral and intel
sctual faculties he greatly resembled
is father, having similar tastes, and
pom many questions arriving at SINH
lr conclusions from the same points of
lew, and i'm some instances drawing
he same conclusions by the same
purse of instantaneous, or intuitive
,gical deduction, and to degree cher
hing the same excellent opinions of
is own infallibility Of Judgment, to
-hich he had much better reason than
lost men to lay claim; certain 1T is that
is powers of perception and analysis
ere more subtle and acute, and he
in a greater degree those
rental traits and that spirit of devo-
on to a definite purpose and end,
aDIn hlad him tc t,1Irc1ia,