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Sheriff* ••l*** $5 *• Mortgage H Fa sake |*r square,-.... 5 Citations for letters of Administration....... 6 Application for. Onardiaiiahip....— 5 00 — ■— 1 — fro**t Admla- | BOO /, !32Sr. Application for leave to sell Land 8ales of Land, per square-.— Sales of perishable property, per square .. VOL. 1. THOMASYILLE, GA.,SATURDAY, APRIL 26,187$, NO. 6. professional (garbs. CHflS. P. HANSELL, Attorney at Latv, Thomas vi lie, : - G :L Office up stairs In McIntyre*.- building. Jack- r.Horxura. T. N. Hi»PKI5s. HOPKINS & .HOPKINS, Attorneyn at Latv, 1 Jackson Street, Thomasville, : Georgia. 8|>eelal attention given to collections of rla'ms against the A*. A. Government. obtaining Land wnU^ bounty ctaluie, Pt«i«i<ms, &c f JOSEPH P. 8Mim ... Attorney at Law, Corner Broad and Jackron Strctta, THOMASVILLE, GA- mar 21-ly] W.D. M1TC1IKLL. It.G. MITCHELL. Foreclosure ol Mortgage, per rqi Estray Notice*, 00 ttayr...... Application for lloiaeatead. Administrator*, Executory, or Cuantinn*: All sales of land by Administrators, Executors or Gusnllsns. are requlrod by law to be held on the first Tuesday In the month, between the hours of ten o'clock in tbe forenoon, and three in the afternoon, at the Court House In which the property is situated. Notices of these bales must be given In a public guclto forty days pre- ... :\- 0 j ajr 0 f ia i e MITCHELL & MITCHELL, Attorneys at lav. THOMASVILLE, - UA mar 21-ly •I. I?. Alexander, Attorney at Law, THOMASVILLE, G-A- mnr 21-ly Notices of J k given at least ten days previous to the day of Mile. Estato Debtor* and CreditorsNotice to Debtors and ttedltwrs of aa estate must be published forty days. Court of Ordinary Leave tlcc that appl'ration will ‘ leave to sell Lam monthly for three months—for Dis mission from Uuardkuiship, 40 «lays. Foreclosure of Mortgage:—Rules f<»; Foreclosure ol V * * * ““ mouthly for four i Establishing Lost Papers:—Notl tublhhiug fomt Papers mlist l>e published for the publis frill V For compelling title* from Executors, wh bond lias Item given by the deceased, the I Space of three months. Applkutiou for Homestead must 1* publis! 1> these, flic legal rc«|Uirciuui lontinmxl accord- i Blanks neatly print OUR W. M. IIAMMOND. IIAMMOND & DAVIS, ATTQR.N.EYS AT LAW. — AND — COLLECTORS OF CLAIMS, THOMASVILLE, S. W. GEORGIA, mar 21-ly. •lamps I Howard, Attorney at Law, THOMASVILLE, - - GJ niar 21-ly K. T. MacLEAN, Attorney —AND— Coiinwoloi* sit Law T1IOMA8VILLE, GA. Job Printing Department. Having supplied Mirselvcs with i MacMneJoliPresses Latest and Most Improved Patterns Wc are now prepared lo execute in as GOOD ISTYI.E A.XD AT AS I,OW PHICES a* can be hail in the Stale, JOB WOU OF ALL KINDS, Bill Heads, t Circurbrs, Letter n«sl/, Invitation Cants, Visiting Cards. Hand BUD. Legal Blanks, and every ether deacriptiou ef Job Work. Our Stock and Material is New and om plcto and every effort will be made to give sat- faction to all who. favor us with their patronage. Patronize your Home Enter prises, and dont send off for Job Work, bring it to the Timks Job OrncE. DR. B. S. BRiAfiOa THOMASVILLE GA. Office—Rack room Evans’ Building, mar 21-ly A. P. TAYLOR, II. D., TfiemasvUle, : .: Ga. OFFICE—Front room ovi Conlcctiouarv. 21-ly * DR. JNO. H. COYLE, RESIDENT DENTIST, THOMASVILLE, GA. ADDRESS. Delivered before the Georgia Hledical Association by Dr. J. T. .lolmfton, -in Atlanta, on the lOtli of April, 1878. Gentlemen of the Ga. Med. Association: **Man is a dupable animal;quacks in medicine,quacks iu religion and quacks in politics know this, and take advan tage of the knowledge. There is scarcely any one who may not,like a trout, l>e taken by Uckliug* Thi« quo tation suggests “the Science of Hum- buggery.” It may be objected that this expres sion is a paradox—that it is absurd to speak of the science of that which in notoriously unscientific. But the sci ence of anything may be defined as the knowledge of the laws that govern it. True, in one sense, humbuggery is not governed by laws. But its growth and its life depend on the knowledge of the principles (or the want of them, it may be suggested,) that control man and regulate society. Its most successful practice and its most t uccessful resist ance depend on the appreciation of the ciicuinstances that give rise to it and lend it strength. It depends on the undiscerning judgment—or, more plainly, the ignorance—ot mankind, on one part, and its grasping, heart less cupidity, ou the other. But, j el, we may console ourselves with the thought that our avocation U not the only one that sufTcrs from this monster's insidious presence. We linp the slime of its poisonous trail, and the imprint of its envenomed tooth in every class of men, and in every walk qt life. : It rears its brazen face, and sounds its pompous voice, in every clinic and iu every tongue. Society is hampered by it: commerce gloats upon olitics fester with it; the profes- s are burdened by it ; and let us blush as we think of it, even religion is tinctured with it. But wc haven't time for all this.— Let us consider it as found around us - among us. Let us lift the veil that >* the hidcou-ness of its skeleton; s examine the gaudy dress with which it catchys the wondering fiuan- ial eye. There is in every otic a love of being jeceived—an unexpressed fondness >>r the rascality that titillates with one uuitl, and feels the depth of the pocket with the other. Men and women pos- a capacity of being gulled—and that capacity often or iu:rcdiblc ex tent* Children have often been prom ised the llrst money fouud floating down tli's rivei on a mill-stone. Grown up child! cn are as readily taken by bait uol more alluiiug, and not less thin, Wc find, too, deep down in the breast of many who will never ackuowlud; it a latent, undeveloped love ofsupt nitioij. True they may laugh at the possibility o* glios’s or hobgoblins, but they will seek to rob circumstan ces of their commonplace reality, and invest tin m with a supernatural tinge. Aud tlifo suggests the humbuggery of tin* day. the grand climax of dissolv ing Wonders, Spiritualism. True, it does not full altogether under the head or medical humbuggery, for this is hut one of the many assumed powers, but one of the thousaud domains over which it claims to sweep with tread omniscient and omnipotent. For alj this, I should think it un worthy of notice lie!c. but it has be come so presumptuous that ministers of the go-pel have thought it not becoming to descend from the pulpit they should honor, dragging, though unintentionally, the garments of their Master in the dust, and wrangle iu the market places with the blatant blas phemers of His word. The attempt of these men to apply their wondrous powers to the healing of I lie sick is almost too weak to he dignified as humbuggery. True medi cal science can never suffer inj tijury at prophets chose bruins ar :d workshop i .A-isrisr. A. P. ADAMS, Attorney at Law, Savannah, Ga. Bay Street, over •3/orning News” Office. Refer* to Hon. .4. T. MacIntyre, Ju-lgc A II. H»t»M.lUn<! Ca|»t. John Triplett. >V» 21-ly H. J. ROYAL, SURGEON DENTIST, ct. Opposite R. E. LESTER, Attoi-nc.v at J.nw. SAN ANN AII, GA. Henry B. Tompkins, Attorney at Law, BAT STREET, SAVANNAH) GA I’raeticv in I'nitcd State* t\ Refer to Oaj.t. Win. M. lbu IVrlsbt. narsi-ir. G. A. HOWELL, 11. a. DENMARK. Ilotroll & Denmark, ^Vttomcns at £aiu, John Trifle!t, Thom SMITH & BEEKS, Attorneys nt Law, Comer Bay and Ball Streets, Savaunala, - - Cn. Brier to A. H. 2/uuc!l, MlUbcIl and Mitchell. : become which the Deni finds tools for his* work of destruction, and whose cri ed is but the sugar-coatetF pill of iuliuelily. Their medical treatment consists of a confused mingling of spiritual mc.-mcrUm. laving on of hands—in short, anything invisible or intangible that is calculated to appeal to the love of novelty or superstition ns c: i-tii.g among the less informed of community. There exist* among these people an ill-d- flued idea that words llasli along wires, thoughts through brain, and pain along nerves, by the same miMc-u force. You will be told by them that all pain—whether the nicrcst tinge ot the hypochoudriac, or the boneless pangs of the tortured suf ferer, depend on a deficiency ot this power—a power only physical, not vital- auu that fur the cure uothingis ncct-tfary except that some favored us.-Hum with a credulous brniu, li« art of benevolence, and a body load ed with domesticated curative light ning. allow some of this lioliuess to de part from him and enter the writhing mortal before him. As touching the influence of mind •»wr body, I may do well to give a brief account of the once celebrated •*IVrkin' i Tractors, 5 ’ that wrought«ueb a-touUhing cures iu the beginning of the century, in England. Thcso Trac tor- were pieces of metal that were to be drawn ever disea-ed or painful por tions of the body. Their envxt wn« at tempted to be accouuted i nr by some supposed galvanic, electric or magnet ic power excited by the metals of which the iuslrumcuis were composed. It w ns determined at some of the hos pitals to put them to the test Some woodou tractors were prepared and so painted as to resemble the mysterious original ones. A number of the hos pital patients were selected and sub mitted to what they eupposud to be the treatment of the genuine tractors. These patienls labored under various diseases ol a chronic character, includ ing gout and rheumatism* L T pou the slightest, strokes ot this painted wood all declared themselves relieved. Some improved instantly to much in their walking as to delight in giving evi dence ot the benefit they had received. Tffoy complained or wbudcrlpl sensa tions produced by the contact of the wood. Similar experiments mere trade at siivera! ot tlio hospitals. *4.1je fume of the cures spread to such an extent that more patients crowded tor relict •ban there wartime to devote to them. Men who had been unable to raise ilieir arms could now with case curry coa-% or other objects of considerable weight. This it-st of humbnggery seems incredible but fur having been witnessed by many observers, and well atftU nti rated, “iuth cases go far to explain how miraculous cures arc to Ik- ascribed to empirical remedies, many ot which are composed of sub stances most inert iu thcir'natarc. It is the confidence of the quack and the liopo of the patient that work llio cure. Disease is well kuown to depress the power the understanding at well as the vigor ef the muscular system; and will deprave tbe judgement, not less than the digestion. A sick person is extremely credulous about the object of his hopes snd his fears. Whoever promises him hope, may easily obtain, tor the time being, his confidence; and he can thus easily become the dope of quacks nod ignorant pretenders.” Professor Woodhouse hss given an account which helps to show what sin gular effects can be produced if thk person be previously prepared for the production of wonders. L When nitros oxide gaa first excited attention^ .several of nil friends were exceedingly anxious to fnbale it In stead of the gas, the Professor admin istered to them several quarts of at mospheric air from the apparatus tbe£ had seen used for the gas. So thor oughly were they impressed that a train of symptons followed consisting of quickness of the pulse, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus aurium, difficulty of breathing, anxiety about the chest, sensations of swinging, faintness,weak- ness aud nausea, lasting six or eight, hours—all from inhaling common air, under an excited imagination. Under such circumstances, if one really suffer, and even intensely, his mind may be so wrought upon by the process as to cause him to lose or forget his ills. The instance is often related of the condemned criminal who was bled to death without losing one drop of blood. Having been told that he must so suffer, he was blindfolded and deceiv ed by letting fall a stream of water upon bis arm. The poor fellow actu ally died of deception. This power ordeception over a per son, through his fear and hopes, by what he sees and by what he hears is never credited by the victim, nor can it be imagined by any one who has never given the subject special atten tion. It Is applicable to the robust in health or the invalid, old or young, those of otherwise sound judgment, aud those of weaker brain. The patient will place his confidence in any one whom chance may throw in his wav. It may, be some honest and capable, man whom he has known from his childhood; or, more likely, in some straggling imposter, who is him self over-confident because he has not (he knowledge to appreciate danger or the brain to generate doubt. Upon diseases severe, even incura ble, the influeucc of confidence tor the time is often marked. All of us have noticed this effect in epilepsy. This L a real, a terribly real disease—one that docs not depend on a whim of the patient’s imagination—and yet there is olten an improvement, or ap parent cure, upon the change of pre scription or physician. The hysterical and the hypochon driacal suffer their hundred ills, springing from the acuteness of a dis ordered imagination; yet, to them, ridicule them as we will, they are more terrible than realities. Was oue of their whims ever laughed out of exist ence, or cured by disbcliof? But by deception, often. As they are the subject of most absurd delusions, so they readily become the victims of ost worthless quacks. But though we may be amused by the imposter’s successful play upon the changing panorama of such imaginary woes, far differently must we feel when we sec the hopeless victims of an un relenting disease yield himself to flat tering aud false hopes, only that the love of gain of some grasping wretch may be gratified. Here is a picture from the greatest of novelists. There is a disease which so prepares its vic tim, us it were, for death: which so re fines it of its grosser aspect, aud throws around familiar looks uncarthy indica tions of the coming change; a dread disease in which the straggle between soul and body is so gradual, quiet and solemn, aud the lesult, so sure, that day by day, aud grain by graiu the mortal part wastes and withers away, so the spirit grows light and sanguine with its lightening load, and, feeling immortality at hand, deems it but a new term of mortal life; a disease in which death and life arc so strangely blended, that death takes the glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and gris ly form of death; a disease which medicine never cured, wealth never warded off, or poverty could boast ex emption from; which sometimes moves in giant strides, and sometimes at a tardy sluggish pace, but, slow or quick, is ever suic and certain,” To sec one thus doomed, sinking through a living death, holding on to what is left of life while all his feeble strength, hoping against hope, strug gling against despair, creeping from place to place and clime to clime, dodging yet a little longer the grasp of the still inevitable monster, is sad in deed. But sadder still is it to seo him place his last earthly hope on the reckless promise mode by some soul less quack that he may sell for a few paltry peqts his bot(le ot syrup warran ted to euro consumption. * But, to return to the effect of imagi nation; how many are before me who, when first conning their books, were afflicted with every disease they studied? You would rend ot heart disease; there was the picture before you. qml though nqtiq reality possess ed of one of it* features, yet you were firmly persuaded that ere long you must drop from its sudden inroads.— Aud so you would still thiuk, unless the next day’s chanter doomed yqu a ’ victim of tubercle.* One of the ready tools of humbug- lingering vi One ol th gery, its mighty engine with which It attempts to batter qowq tho strong holds of truth and science, is adver tising. Printer’s ink draws better than doctor’s plasters. It is a maxim with those who pursue this business that so much advertising brings so much reputation, and so much reputa tion so much money. Anybody may establish any medicine as “good” for any disease il be will advertise it ju diciously. Should a disease recover hi Its own good time, the core is of course attributed to the pills with which it was peppered. The adver tiser well know that qo failure will re? tatd tbe sale, (for it is not mode pub lic.) and that every apparent cure givff it reputation. The advertiser cosily persuades hu, reader that hi* “blood is impure;” that he must “correct the secretions; ’ that he must “regulate the fiver.” What seductive plira cs are these? How glibly they roll from the tongue? What nice handles for the tongue to seize upon? What elastic terms to com prise so muefi unmanageable ignor ant? Tbe blood is but a seething mass of •orruption, a raging torrent of im purities. ever tossing to tbe surface as prootof the putrid mass within, its pimples aud iu blotches. Let him but drop into it 4 little of tbe advertiser’s magic balm, and all Is canty agaiq. Correct the secretion: Neither tbe advettiser or tbe victimized knows what they are or wbai they should be; and if they did tbojr do not Jap* bow to correct them; and If they knew bow, have nothing with which they can accomplish it. . The Liver! Here wdliave a fountain forever flowing with advertisers’ dis eases; the hob around which revolve all tbe diseases that (lech Is heir to; the therapoetkal scape-goat on which ace piled all the signs of ignorance.— It it dm mischief maker of the body; llschieffunctionisto be forever oat “order. Possessed of a name more nendly known than any other vis- a. it mast always suffer the penalty of Its notoriety. It is blown upon both hot and cold: if accused of tar- )idity,one remedy; if over actfr*;fee Poor, innocent liver 1 Thy anatomy a blander, and thy function a mistake. Doomed forever to float in a halo of biliousness, and be plied with pills and K wders. Ob, the ignorance thy ex- enco has fostered, and the crimes done in thy name. This has suggested another mighty weapon of humbuggery-—certificates. You can procure certificates of any kind, and in any number, for anything. You may beg them, buy them, or make them. Yon may get them hon estly or yon may deceive the certifier. But they are written by him who has his axe to grind, and not by him who turns the stone. The quack well knows that one cure, or one recovery under treatment, or even one invented cure, well adver tised, will bring more patients than hundreds of cures honestly and unos tentatiously done. No matter how simple may be a disease or an opera tion, advertise it, and you at once con fer upon it a miraculous and enchant ing hue. The newspaper doctors havo pow erful allies in the reverends, so-called. A toll-gate keeper who hailed from tho land of wit and bogs, was told by a passer to whom he applied for toll fee, “I am a minister. All right, says Pat, pass on. But, says fie,“how do you know that I am really a preacher?” Sure, says Pat, if you are a preacher you wouldn’t lie about it, would you? Many who read the cer tificates have a philosophy no deepet than this. But these Reverends are not always empty prefixes, for there are some who are too ready to make a display of their signatures about matters of which they are iguorant; having filled pulpits with their elo- qucuco, they fill columns with their certificates. Let us hope that grow ing observation will soon enlist them on the side of decency and respecta bility. There is another division of this subject that I hope 1 may approach with due respect. 1 allude to hum buggery in the profession. We may ik here, what constitutes a physician? Is it the mere possession of a legal diploma? Is it an observance of Uie code ol ethics? Yes, it is this, but more than this. It requires au honest capacity lo appfeciato tho principles of tbe science that have been deduced from study and observation. It re quires a moral strength that will resist mercenary seductions and adhere to the obligations assumed when enlist- ig in the ranks of the profession. There are those who honestly criti cise some of the provisions of the code ol* ethics—and, yet, observe them. I do not advocate it as its blinded par tisan. No instrument of its length, has ever yet fallen perfect from human braijfc—and never will. There may bo an honest desire and an actual necessity, for its amendment. But, still, when I hear a doctor continually abusing it. grumbling that it is for the good for the favored few, and that it works to the de'riment of the mnoy younger or lesser lights. I then look beneath the surface tor the secret cause of his charges. I suspect that he is trying to twist a code into tho shape of his practice. I am not sur prised if he Is stricken ere long with an ism or a pathy. I suspect that he is falling behind the age, and losing interest in the progress of 'lie profes sion; that he is forgetting his text books, and is not learning anew from tbe journals; that he has adopted tho profession from unworthy motives, and that there is creeping over him the foul atmosphere of policy and expe diency; that he desires more the praises of tbe undiscerning rabble, than the respect of the scientific phy sician; in short, that he has all* the premonitory symptons of professional demoralisation. What if the oodc is not the embodi ment of wisdom, it is the criterion by which the respectable physician is recognized. It is the law of our pro fession, and each member should abide by it or repudiate it. If he will stab it, let him withdraw from the ranks and thrust as an open enemy, rather than give the assassin's blow under the guise of friendship. True, there arc those who attempt to ridicule this code, Rogues ridicule the law; skeptics ridicule the Scrip tures; snail we, far that rcasQn t he- corae thieves qnd doubters? To grati fy grumblers, shall we descend to their level? Shall we blot out the line of demarcation between the phy&jciqn and tfie imposes who steal* the tiue? Must we attempt no distinction be tween honest capacity and babbling ignoran/e? Shall every one who can induce his neighbor to call him “Doc” be admitted within tb$ chqr^ed tilde? True, the code has not eradicated all professional differences; true, it has not made an honest man of every doctor, nor a Solon ot every fooL Some who claim the segis of iu protection would not live to tbe teachings of any code, moral or ethical. But before condemning tbe document, let us first try what virtue there may be in ob serving iu As rigid os may be regarded some of its requirements, there is scope within iu baflndiiea. and room In Ine play of iu machinery for a vast amount of professional 'floating. The very conditions of sodety and civiliza tion that gave rise to the more arrant quackery out of the profession, also encourage it within the ranks. They induce those underhand practices that no code can reach, and no law prevent. Within our ranks he that depends on intrigue or accident for success, rather than oq more enduring merits, need never look opportunities for the execu tion of his designs. They present at every torn of his work. Thera are those who walk habitually near tho bounds of respectability, skilfully edg ing to keep on the safer side. Practice has discovered to them how great a looseness may be indulged in without bringing upon their necks the profes sional guillotine. The lgnoranoe of patienU in regard to themselves and their ailments is profound. In most instanc lgnoranoe may be mode to nm jn any channel that one may desire. * hoc, people? hoe” Is always their osopbjr. The natural coarse of sar disease, and it* tendency to recovery of its gam accord |n most instances, is to them a sealed book. Believing that ___/«■» to tho medicine given. The true physician well knows that in most Instances of aente sickness an that he con 4o Is to allow tbe patient an oppectanitj to get well—he merely retraining from killing him while he geU well. Could Ibis be understood, what on amount ot quackery and undeserved praise Bust fan before IL If; indeed, the phjsSdan would always keep before him that “Post hoc” is not “propter hoc,” what volumes of false experience would be now unwritten. To enumerate all the tricks of the trade would he neelera. and neither profitable or agreeable. It is hard to learn that professional honesty is the best policy, especially when it most keep a man so poor. Bat, what hoo- esfy is there in being honest lo* mere policy’s sake? It may be that we do not always de fend a profeettonal brother as valiantly os we should, when we bear him at tacked for mishap*, that tot know* could not prevent. It is wrong *eL_ him sink beneath an uqjast accusation. Bat more wrong than this is it to de scry his judgment, or call his treat ment in question, when there are, from its nature, so many thousands ot honest differences, often unimportant ones, in our practice. And this mean ness can reach its lowest depth when cutting insinuations are to do the work of slander more deeply than direct ac cusations. There are thousands of vulnerable points wherein may be thrust tbe foul shafts of professional envy. There are thousands of ways in which one may take to himself honors nut right fully hit, and magnify hitnseif and bis skill at the expense ot truth and hon orable dealing. There are thousands of avenues that may be turned to lively account in the practice of respectable humbuggery. Patients glory in having unusual or severe diseases. What more pleasure there can be in shuffling off this mor tal coil to the tune ol some rare exotic of a disease, than by the good old routes of pneumonia or billious fever, I am unable to conceive. But it cer- taiolv Is the case that patients arc very fond of magnifying the dangers through which they have passed. They delight to tell to starting eyes aui gaping mouths that they were let down ‘so near death’s door as to hear the creaking of its hinges,” and that it still closed between them and eter nity. . Why this should be so 1 canuot sav; it is one of the innate human pe culiarities. ' And he whose moral thermometer is about xero.eralittle below, can take advantage of it for his own aggrandizement What use is there in curing a patient ot headache when you cau as readily persuade him that he was well nigh dead with men ingitis. What honor i* there in cur ing head ache. But curing meningitis requires a very special as well as a very valuable skill. Why cure him of sore throat, when he is so easily per- smuled that you rescued him from the horrors of dij'thcria? Your patient knows nothing of tho pathology of disco sc. He is a patho logical fiddle on which you can scrape auy tunc yon wish. He is always ready aud anxious to believe that his internal aualotny is all shaken up, his viscera topsy-turvy, and his machin ery badly tangled and out of order. Tell him so, if you like notoriety more than truth, aud reap the reward of your dishonor. There is a common idea that we must humbug to practice medicine. I do not know who is responsible lor its dissemination, but I do know that we need not confirm it. It may not be humbuggery to give a bread pill. Perhaps it might be belter for the patient if we would give them oftener. It is often necessary to give no remedy; and if vour patient “must take some thing,” why not do him up a crumb of bread? But, lest some non-profes sional is disgusted at the possibility of having his devoted stomach so impos ed on m times gone by these harmless frauds, I will add that we rarely, if eyer. resort to a remedy so useful as tho bread pill. What is the remedy for this small, low trickery within the profession? Neither law or ethics can reach It di rectly. You cannot entirely prevent it any more than you can stop little rascality In the nnn-pofeesional world. But wc can gradually and persistently inculcate the tpirit.aa well an the let tei of the ethics. 'Enforce it in your sodeties. See to llthat the price of affiliation is a course of honorable dealings. No physician, unless a hardened criminal, professionally, will brave the shame of expulsion, as our country advances in refinement and education our doctors wifi be more uniformly tam of tho better stamp. \\ 0 way hastily say that the better people sometime* are taken in the tolls of the most Ignorant imposters. This may be true in isolated instances, but, as a rule, tbe more intelligent the nnetora that live in them. Beery public school, though aimed afar off, la a shot leveled at this monster's hud. Still enforce s our ethics as well as yon can and in the course of year. t(<« whole lump will be leavepqq, Asjq th* prevention of the baneful ttuackerv without tbe ranks of ths pro- fc-ssioo, we an cerUmly unable, In the prewot condition of society, to ac complish It, The time is coming, though I bar yet far 0% when this country shall have advanced moch be- yond iu present status, there will be a demand for the physician, and not the uneducated quack. Then, there win be in our legislative halls men who can comprehend that I be physician who baa devoted hi. time and talent to the study of a science knows more of it than him whoM capacity can scarce ly master the alphabet. Bat now let this body. If 11 win, rep resenting the medical men of the State, present to our Legislature 1 paper upon any subject nppaHalnini to the interest of the pnfemiou. 0. the health of the people, mad what wil be its fate? H will b« laid on the ta ble. 'Tie beyond their capacity, and they beat U with eom^pt/’y^, they wiO lay iton the lahle. mnd take two of th. Peace. No—legislative quackslik. medlealqoacks—aodthere is the secret of IL Your Legislature win, time and again, exploding the paopls with patai) dS|or hilarabny tatory. with oootrums more dangeiooa far to the human family "— »” ,k — '-timmildm rnmlilmif Bair many bills do we Me passed to allow oertala poiwm. la preetto. mod- Wo*! Th* lepmcnUtifM are i*. flood will pranorod to poos upon the qualification of applicants for tho de gree of Doctor df Medfefoe! Theon- piicanl having oorao admiring friend to ring Ido protore lathe body, fo dob- bedwith hk title without, perhaps, one omantiol for tho work he under takes. The Legislature fesring that the ooBegos are net of a capacity suf ficient for grinding out doctors to sup ply tho demand, thus supplement their by this “easy method forbe- V * At this time we arg cursed to an « degree with every form of and humbuggery. We fiud ig out Us arms in every ave nue; it rolls from every press; it •weeps through every moil; and is em blazoned on ever tree and fence board. We grimly stand on our professional dignity and let ignorance and assump tion nm riot over us. We must stood with mule lips and folded hands and detuned tbe principles we practice. Brainless fools flaunt in our very faces their flaming announcement* aud Kite They publiah to Urn hafwe ant old fogy fools, and not a voice is raised to defeud the no ble calling whose honor is iu our keecpiug. There is nothiug that the true phy sician more desires than that ihc peo ple wero able to form Uie real estimate of all engaged in the practice of medi cine; that they had the power that would strip empty assumption ol its weapons, and grasping avarice of its arms. Bat from the nature of the science, from the ignorauco of the public, for the lack of appreciation of cause and effect, the patient caunot individually form on estimate of the merits of his advice. Only tho physi cian can fudge the ability of the physi cian. The ^physician’s life is trufy a hard one. There are trials aud disap pointments unnumbered, responsibil ities overwhelming, services unappre ciated, motives misconstrued, labors unrewarded, vigils unceasing. His life would spoil the patience of a Job, or the temper of a saint. But with all the hardships, there is uothing that so taxes bis patience, so grinds his soul, as this lack of discrimination ou the part of tho people. From the heart’s depths of every physician goes the impatient yearning that fraud might be exposed in its iniquity, and ignorance iu its emptiucM." Mill, through (Disappreciation and through calumny, let us go on with our missiou. Wc know our rights and let us dare maintain them. Let there be no (pint withiu our lines and uo enemies in our ranks. Let us inscribe on our ban ners science and progress; let fidelity and'lioucsty bo the unchauging coun tersign; let us move on, strong of truth and purpose, aud full of the spirit of earth’s noblest calling. Let us move on with steady front and sol id ranks, heart will) heart and shoul der lo shoulder, ever clinging to the principles we cherish, always battling tor the profession wc lovo. A resolution of tuanks to Dr. Johu- son was tendered by the Association. * ■■ 1 • 1 ■■ — —. Great Revival in Denver.— Denver, in Coloruda territory, is sha ken from center to circumference with a great revival. A dispatch dated last Friday, says: The great religious revival which lias been m progress iu Denver for the past two weeks, under the direc tion of the Rev. E. I*, llamniord, con tinues with increased iulcrest. aud several hundred converHons have been made. At the request of promi- uont sporting men, two hundred tick ets were distributed yesterday among S mblers. saloon-keepers and promi- tea. Many atleuded the meeting last evening, occupying reserved scats. Five or six of this class arose foi pray er. A committee are visiting all the saloons, houses of prostitution, etc., to day, praying with the inmates, invit ing them to meeting, and are received wuh respectful attention. .Six prison ers in jail are said to he under deep conviction. Prayer meetings are held in the Jail every morning. The influ ence of the meetings i» extended among professional and business men. A Beautiful Retrospect.-When the summer day of youth is slowly wasted away into the nightfall of age, and the shadows of the past year grow deeper and deeper as life wear* to a clone, it is pleasant to look back through the vistas of time upon the joys and sot rows of early years. If we have a borne to shelter, or h«-arts toiejoice with us, snd friends who have been gathering around our fire side, then tbe rough places of our way faring will be worn and smoothed away in the twilight of life, while the b ight sunny spots »-« have tisssed tUough will grow brighter mud more beautiful. Happy, iodeed, are those whose Intercourse with the world hss not changed the course of their holier feelings, or broken tho*o musical chords of the heart whose vibrations are so melodious, so tender and so touching in tbe evening of sge. This neat and appropriate obituary notice appears in the Louisville t. our- ter*Journal; -Died, la W».hln-Uiu recall/, a little orphan bor narnio Civil Service Hefortu, who vn ap prenticed to th. i'rMideot lot fall, hut before th. electioo. Tbe 1'ruident unfortunately pul him to bed the other ni;rbt, to tleep between Cuey and Fied. Grant, who overlaid him, and th. miurabie little wretch wu mothered to death. Editor of II.r- per’i Weekly and other friend, of tbe deceaud will attend hia funeral with out further notice, hervieea by the Her. Dr. Newman, Inapector of Con- aniatea." A fa* nl|bUi|0, at a private party op town, a young mao aat talking 10 hia beloved, when ebe suddenly grew pole and fainted into hia anna. Now, what did the young man do : DPI be lash around wildly, frantically aeise a glam ot Water end dash it into her face, and therobj spoil her beautiful complexion* Not a bit of it. Itecoo- nizing the exigencies of the cok, he Jut elmp)y unfastened her drees and unhooked her comet ataya. With a tighoT relief she returned to coo- cguneue—t tweedy murmured, “Thank jon, dear Cfcadea.” Char It. wa. posted. Be koew what was the matter. Pam 00.—.V«w York Paj«r. Wajh»oto», April 17.—Accord- mg lo the nport of Vrth rimm there were in 1970 about 2SJ31 red men in all th. Stele* and Territories, .gdamteJBI in 1*» Thlaibow.a touJdeeream la. aingte ifacadeor l&VSor about 415 per cent, or tbe ■hole aaabe la UOQ, Should tb. gev eentege of deem*..' eontiaae, then win hav* piadl away by th* C WibM. MM Hfa, which will w.St.SM Indiana 00 the eon- uaent at that dale. At the mm* rale of decrease. It will not be a gnat many Established 185a IMPORTER —AND- Wholcwala DEALER IN Wines. Liquors and'segaks, 73 SC J alias and 131 CuttfrvM Street*. BAYANXAB, - GA. mar : E. L NE1DLINGER, —DEALER IN— SADDLES, BRIDLES HARNESS, BELTING. 8ADDLESY WABE UASXB*• AXD BOCK LXATBER. Ac.. -Vo. lJti hi. Julian and 153 Bryan Sts, «*4p >, IfMa *UI| fW MEINIIARD BROS. & CO. Wholesale Dealers in Boots, Shoes, Hols, HEADY-MADE OfoOTIlITVC*. Gents’ Furnishing Goods, 121) Broughton St, Savannah, Gu. N. B. KNAPP, WboleMl* ami Retail Owatata la Saddle*. Bridles, Har ness, Rubber iukI Leather Belting ami Rucking, French and American Calf aSkitis, .talc. i/srncsn. Bridle, Bnnd mud Patent Leather, Yuliscft, Trunks, Carpet Bag*, Whips and Saddlery Ware. At THE SIGN OK THE GOLDSN SAD DLE. WEST kndGiriions’ UL'ILLMNG. Market Square, HAVANNAll.tife Large aaaortment on Land ami for ■ r 21-Cot. Bolshaw & Silva, >. 131 Ilryui Hia., SAVANNAH, GA. W* AVK NOWON KXIIIIHTIO.V AT If OCR W ARE ROOM S, —THE— Largest and Best Assort moot —or— Crockery, China, Glassware, Etc., Etc, Etc., i lb* VtaU, to whlab Uw WlMHlta of VISITORS •4 CltlZKwa lasfvrclaUy larlUnl. mar 21 3m GOLD MEDAL Awarded to the C.'otton J *1211*1 COOK STOVE, At the FAIItof "The Industral Association of Ga." Hai l at Hatastitah. .V..*e»Urt, IS7I, blrb bf avtual fr*al pr*T«| Itarlf to U MmC /•erfort. M at Vj*. *m4 tie* U i.n-1. Every Stove v*rr«aU4. For Rale l/y John A. Douglass, qfig&SffS? ’ U , * 4 “—»«■»* *•* mnnrnfMs* H*r*et, SJVAJTIVAII,GA* JOHN M. ROGERS. ISRAEL DASHER* ROGERS & DASHER Importer**, JOBBERS and RETAILERS of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Boisery, Small Ware*, Ribbon, acd Htrnw Croodu, Order, from the country uric My oh I filled at the lowest rate*. *»■«*«'■ sown, Cwww <* a-Uutv. SAV A XXAII, . . UA 9. J. MMJTS SOtmiEKX PHOTOOBAFXI AND STOCK DEFOT, itnrats. Flnhdam Stock at Nortbrnw 1

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Thomasville times. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1873-1889, April 26, 1873, Image 1