tinue so to stand, until a Power competent to bring the dead to life shall awaken his dormant conscience.

In reference to these slanders, Dr. Lawson, the principal editor of the Lancet, repudiated all personal responsibility, because he was not the author of the article. Yet, Dr. L. was no less culpable than Dr. Harrison, and was no less bound to apologize for the slander, since he had himself previously uttered similar slanders, which he has to this day refused to correct, although he knows the falsehood of his statements, and has been strongly urged to do what every honorable man would feel bound to do-to correct his own palpable and notorious mis-statements. The following is the language of Dr. Lawson, in reference to the Eclectic Medical Institute, in his review of Dr. Forbes' celebrated essay on Homopathy, Allopathy, and Young Physic.

"This new Cincinnati school,' we wish Dr. Forbes to understand, advocates a system of botanical practice, excluding all minerals, general and local bleeding; and as a substitute, offers a false system of pathology, and a system of therapeutics more monstrous than that of Brown. This is the reform we are promised."

Although Dr. Lawson knows distinctly that in the above passage he has uttered a malicious falsehood, he will not permit his readers to be undeceived by any correction of that falsehood, from any source, in the pages that he controls. He has not even sufficient sense of shame to feel the necessity of vindicating his profligate course, but pursues his career with the same unblushing effrontery with which an abandoned convict lies to your face, and, when detected in the act, still adheres to the lie, and utters a few more, in the firm conviction that any falsehood, well maintained, will pass for truth with a portion of the public.

Dr. Lawson knows full well that the prejudices of his readers have been artfully excited against the Eclectic school, and that its character, principles, history, &c., have been so carefully concealed from them as to render them liable to imposition upon such a subject: hence the brazen effrontery with which he publishes the slanders of the Columbus Medical Journal, edited by Dr. Butterfield, and adds new falsehoods of his own. The following language, in reference to the Faculty of the Institute, will show his hardihood:

"We are right, then, in saying the quacks; for they completely

and perfectly come up to the above definitions. One advertises his secret nostrums (and he a professor-God save the mark!)"

This allusion, according to Dr. L., is aimed at Dr. Beach. It is possible that when it was penned, it was written in the recklessness of ignorance, neither knowing nor caring whether it was true or false; but he has since been distinctly informed as to its truth, and now persists in the falsehood because it is convenient and answers his purpose. The medicines which bear the name of Dr. Beach, and which are now manufactured by apothecaries, like Dovers' powder, Seidlitz powders, Coxe's hive syrup, Cooke's pills, and other familiar forms of medicine, according to certain well known recipes, have gained a wide celebrity on account of their intrinsic merit, and it is no small honor for Dr. Beach, that he should have been instrumental in introducing to an extensive circulation, medicines of so much value, which have already accomplished more for human welfare than will ever be accomplished by the Faculty of the Ohio Medical College, even if they should live to the age of Methusaleh. To assert that these celebrated medicines were secret nostrums, when they were familiarly known to thousands of physicians and apothecaries, as well as to the nonprofessional public-when they are, and have been from their first introduction, as public as any of the officinal preparations of the United States' Dispensatory-indicates either deplorable ignorance, or still more deplorable mendacity. Whatever the motive, there is no probability that Dr. Lawson will ever retract a falsehood, uttered against his medical opponents, if we may judge from his past conduct.

While our Old school neighbors thus assail us for the open, public, and honorable introduction of important medical compounds, as familiarly known among us as paregoric, or volatile liniment, how happens it that they themselves attempted, unsuccessfully, to introduce a secret nostrum? Aye-how happens it that Drs. Jackson & Morton attempted to introduce a secret nostrumto take out a patent right for the use of Sulphuric Ether, giving it a new name, to disguise its nature, and thus convert a well known substance into a secret nostrum. And how happened it that this secret nostrum, this patented Letheon, was introduced to the profession by Dr. Warren, (now President of the National Medical Association,) and its use extended throughout the country, until the secret exploded, and the patent expired by its utter incapacity

to be maintained. Verily, the old Hunkers of Medicine should say but little of secret nostrums, when they recollect the history of the Letheon nostrum, introduced by Jackson, Warren &c. How different the career of Dr. Beach, who instead of making nostrums from the resources of his experience, made every thing public, and even sacrificed time and money to obtain possession of useful remedies and recipes, to convert them from secret nostrums into public contributions to medical science, for the benefit of mankind.

The remarks of Dr. Lawson, in reference to the bill for the regulation of the medical attendance upon the Commercial Hospital, contain a great deal of sheer nonsense, which is utterly unworthy of notice. These silly remarks appear to be caused by a petty jealousy, and narrowness of mind, which are truly pitiable. The suggestion that Homœopathy is taught in the Eclectic Medical Institute, appears to Dr. L. utterly incomprehensible. He pronounces Homœopathy 'antagonistical' to Allopathy, and therefore avers that it is really dishonest to teach Homœopathy, or to profess that it is taught in the Eclectic Medical Institute. This specimen of malignant silliness, is worthy of notice only as a specimen of the spirit of Hunkerism. Dr. Manley, of New York, a prominent physician among the old Hunkers of that city, once declared publicly in Court, that he regarded Homœopathy as a system of knavery. Dr. Lawson, in a similar spirit, pronounces it dishonest in Eclectic practitioners to extend a courteous recognition to Homœopathic science. Yet these gentlemen pass unrebuked among their old Hunker associates. How degraded, indeed, does the medical profession appear, when such sentiments are current in our medical schools and periodicals. It is possible that Dr. Manley may be mentally incapable of appreciating the evidence of Homœopathy-it is possible that Dr. Lawson may be incapable of conceiving how any one but an exclusive ultra Homœopath, could recognise the truths which have been proved by Homœopathic experience and investigation, but if these gentlemen are thus intellectually deficient, this fact furnishes an additional evidence of the influence of the moral over the intellectual faculties, and of the contracted range of the intellect, in those of contracted sentiments. Figuratively, as well as literally, the heart affects the head, and smallness of the former tends to produce a certain weakness of the

latter. We have never known a man of bold comprehensive intellect, who had not, also, generous and expanded sentiments.

The quibbling scurrility of Dr. Lawson is assisted by an extract from the Medical Journal of Columbus, which would be considered quite an appropriate article, in the columns of certain weekly newspapers, published in the large cities, for the benefit of the more profligate portion of the population, who delight in fluent and spicy personal abuse. This article, of about seven pages, displays considerable skill in the way of medical demagoguery, and partisan slang, in which Dr. Butterfield appears decidedly more skilful than Dr. Lawson. Dr. B. says: "We know a family, in which one of the Eclectic Faculty' was the attending physician, and which lost by death three cases of Scarlatina, in succession, out of three cases attacked."

The great lack of veracity, which these gentlemen have already shown, in their general statements, and suppressions of the truth, destroys all claim to our confidence. But it is to be observed, that the statement of Dr. B. evidently refers to private practitioners at Columbus, the only place where he could have had any opportunity of observing Eclectic practice, but by using the terms Eclectic Faculty, he aims the accusation at the Institute! With reference to the Faculty of the Institute, we have interrogated three of its professors, who have been extensively engaged in practice, as to the results of their practice in Scarlatina. Of these three, one who has for many years been engaged in a heavy practice, stated explicitly, that he had not, in the whole course of his practice, lost but a single case of Scarlatina; another, who has practiced about twenty years, and has been in the midst of the most violent epidemics of this disease, stated the mortality of his practice to have been about five cases in the hundred. Another, who has not been practising for so long a period, stated, that in the treatment of Scarlatina, he had never lost a case. Indeed, any one who will converse with Eclectic practitioners, any where, will find that it is an extremely rare circumstance with them, to lose a patient by Scarlatina. These facts, we hope, will ere long be amply established by the statistics reported to the National Eclectic Medical Association.

B.

THE NATIONAL ECLECTIC MEDICAL CONVENTION has just concluded its second annual session, in Cincinnati. The proceedings, which occupied a day and a half, have been quite interesting. They will be published in our next number. It had been supposed, on account of cholera panic, that the convention would be postponed. Hence, a large number were deterred from being present, who would otherwise have attended. It was therefore deemed advisable to hold another session of the convention, on the first Monday of November next, at the same place.

The treatment of cholera was the subject of many interesting remarks in the convention. The experience of those who have been engaged in treating that disease, in Cincinnati, seems to demonstrate that it is a disease of but little danger, when treated according to the principles of Eclectic practice. Among the large number of cases treated by the Eclectic Faculty, but one death has yet occurred, and that was owing to the neglect of medical treatment until the last stage of the disease had arrived. At the same time, we learn that in the Hospital, where calomel and the lancet are still retained, by legislative sanction, there has been a fearful mortality! How long shall this outrage be continued?

B.

CINCINNATI MEDICAL INSTITUTE.-What has become of the Cincinnati Medical Institute-the summer school of medicine, at the Ohio Medical College? Last year we had the melancholy duty of recording the death of the Allopathic summer school, after a wretched existence of a few weeks. This year we are disposed again to write the usual obituary notice for the poor thing, if we can only find out whether it has actually died. We presume it cannot die without previously being born. And as we are not certain whether the hopeful Institute has ever seen the light of day, or commenced its course of lectures, we are not prepared to record its death without some previous evidence of its birth, more convincing than a newspaper advertisement, with a long list of professors, and a fee of $20 for the whole course. The only explanation of the enigma which occurs at present, is that the school proposed to commence on the first of April-All Fools' Day-the day on which practical jokes and humbugs are much accustomed to explode.

B.