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ADDRESS
BY
James O. Ramsay, SC. D. ,
Dclieertd before the Roicau County Med-
teal Society, at its Annual Meeting, held
in Salisbury, N. C , on the 2 1st of May,
1867. Published by request of the Society.
Gentlemen: The constitution of our
Society makes it the duty oi the President
to dt livet an address, at the end of his offi-
; cial year. Before proceeding further iu the
attempt to discharge this duty, permit me
to congratulate you upou the resuscitation,
not only of ma County, but also of our
State .Medic, il Society, as pleasing evi
dence of unabated interest iu the welfare
of our time-honored Profession, to be li -tiled
with delight, by every true disciple of the
Healing Art, throughout the length and
breadth of the State Organized associa
tion and i Hurl, conduce to improvement and
indicate progress, and had at tin- com
mencement of the late unhappy war, at
tained to a considerable degree of perfect
ion. Since that time individual effort has
had, t'n the most part especially in our
Profession, in the South, to battle, for re
cuperation and success, almost entirely
alone and unassisted. Iu this emergency,
it is a matter of regret that i II the regular
Physicians of the County, have not en
rolled themselves as members of this So
ciety. Let us not, -however, abate our
teal : the pleasing anticipation of a united,
harmonious and worthy brotherhood,' of
zealous, skillful and scientific Physicians,
must yet be realized, if those of us who
now constitute our County and State As
sociations, only remain true to the emer
gencies of the times, aud the post of du-
.. ..
I desire therefore, to avail myself of this
occasion, to T vindicate the claims of the
'Regular Profession to the confidence Kid
support of the public, and to the devotion
of iu members ; and also to point out some
or its dangers aud safeguards, under the
The Bt valuable. aad perfect preparation
ia Bar. tar gi vg the skia a beautiful pearl
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Moth Patches, Sallowaess. Eruptions, and alt
impuritieastf the skia, kindly healing the same
leaving the skia white Sad clear as alabaster.
Itsaae aaa aet be detected by the el. eest scru
tiny, aad being a vegetable preparation ktper
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We stand to-day upon the accumulated
expej-ieuce of ages. More than three thou-
saud years ago, Moses informs us of the
Eractice of Medicine among the Jews
ow the Priests should prevent the conta
geon of leprosy and cure it by seclusion
aud ablution. This practice appears to
hare been a considerable improvement
upon that the Jews bad doubtless long be
fore learned in Egypt, which consisted
chiefly in magical incarnations and opera
ted entirely through the imagination. A
thousand years later, and we begin to
h-arn .he names of some of those who heal-
regarded as having a magical potency, as
remedial agents, in the cure of disease.
Ksculepius, the fabled god of Medicine,
was a real personage. His sons, to whom
he transmitted his profession, after the cua
ton of that age, accompanied the Greeks
to the Trojan war. For a long time after
si. OS jo aewtit, the practice of jgejiisiiie. waa
S.isi. confined to Ins descendeuts and disciples.
who were called sclepiatleajor priests of
the many temples erected to hit memory ;
the most famous of which were those at
os, Gnklos and Rhodes. These temples
became schools of Medicine, and com ider
able infoanation, esteemed valuable at that
day, accumulated within their walls, from
the pniciite which prevailed of mini ring
the patient who were cured, to deposit
votive tablets, upon whf.h were recorded
the nature and history of their diseases, as
well as the nnans used for their core. The
division of tht profession into that of the
Dogmatists aid Empyrics, whose disputes,
for a long time, agitated the medical world,
grew oat of the doctrines taught at the riv
at school at Cos and Gnidoes "those of
the former assumed more of the philosonh
icel east. Attempting to unite reasoning
with eperienee j while the latter attached
1 themselves solely to the observation and
collection of mere matters of fact."
In the sixth century B. (, the learned
Pythagoras is supposed to have acquired
some acquaintance with the anatomy of
animals, which he taught , to bis Grecian
disciples, at Crotona. A few 'years later,
Democritus is supposed to have ventured
upon the dissection of the human subject ;
while Herodicn.' is said to hare invented
"gymnastic medicine."
And here, in the foar hundredth and aivth
year before Christ more than two thou
sand and two hundred years ago let us
pause a moment to notice the birth of the
Philosopher of Cos - the Father of Medi
cine the great Hippocrntes. It has been
affirmed that the science of Medicine is
more indebted to his genius and ability
than to that of any single individual. He
was an eminent teacher and writer in Med
icine. His knowledge of anatomy was
limited ; but many of hit remedies, taken
chiefly from the vegetable kingdom, are
till retained in our phartnucopa-ias. Blood
letting, emetics, purgatives and other rem
edies, of a like character, were used by
htm. In his phusis, we have the origin
of our doctrine of the remedial p were of
nture, and in his dunamies, the germ of
that of the vital forces. He was the true
fadier of Humoral Pathology, and the au
thor oi the doctrine of ericee aud critical
evacuations, as well as of the epidemic
constitution of the seasons, in the causa
tion and cure of disease. Many of his
aphorisms have stood ' he test of time ; and
the solemn oath, wnicn he exacted from
bis pupils," never to indulge ia libertine
pi actices, nor to degrade their art by ap
plying it to criminal purposes," is worthy
of one the Athenians maintained at the
public expense, whose head they decorated
with a golden crown, and to whose memo
ry they paid divine honors.
A century later Medicine was taught at
Alexandria, by Erastritus and Herophilus,
who undoubtedly dissected the bodies of
such malefactors, as were executed and re
linquished to them by the Government
Ab.mt this time, wo have an accouut of
the separation of the practice of our pro
fession into the departments of Dietetics,
Pharmacy and Surgery. Little is known,
before" the time of Celsus, of the history of
Medicine, among the Unmans, Thcasser
tion of Pliny that they were without Phy
sicians, for si x hundred years, must be ta
ken with in any grains of allowance. That
Arcagathus was expelled from among
them, about two centuries B. C, for the
severity of his surgery, and. that Asclepi
adea, a quack of Bythinia, who is said a
c hi ury still later to hare divided diseases
into acute and chronic, practiced at Rome,
with great! acceptability is probably true.
About this time, Themison instituted the
doctrine of the Sol id is ts, under the name
of Methodba madifamw, after whkh Um"
Pneumatic, Eclectic and other. schools
speedily arose. But the great Celsu, wlw
nourished in the times of Tiberius ' and
Trajan, is tho first native Roman Physi
cian of which we have any positive know
ledge. His knowledge a Medk4oe eapo
ci ill y of surgery, was very extensive, for
his time. He describes an operation of
couching for cataract and one for lithoto
my, and is said to be the first author who
of the rise of chemical medicine , of the
application of geonetneal proportions and
ot mus ical hsrmoniea, in regal-tang the
doses of medieiae, ia) the ninth century ; of
It lone who wrote on saaall-BOX. and of
Aviceiiua whose works, for a time
ceded these af Galea ta bbobtb wtth
the decline of MaiiaiBS. bate the pes
of the arts of i
A k sf.r4r ,n4 when the lbrht
of learning nearly left the earth, and when
the most learned a Dent their tisse ia the
vain search for the philosopher's
the elixir of lift; aad then again I
especially delight to engage with you, as
the more pleasing task of tracing the grad
ual revival of our science, through SJoodi-
ui, an Italian, who o
of his ace. so far as to succeed ia
ing the bodies of two haaaaa 1
jects, in the early part of the
centurr : and even through the
tuous
bicb mince-pies often produce,
most foolishlv, upon himself
wiib rhcabarb and other ne d.cmes to dis
pel hamors, in the Mood, which meet pro
bablr existed in the brain. Seeing how
per '"the wisest of mankind" are deceived,
reaH we must
ot he impatient if the ignorant,
la . . ma :.i - -
ice Wno sometimes umm on - unaipoeiiion, or
!
i
lobelia cares
the
oa u Xo. 6" should be Incred-
when laid that vegetables are often
minerals, and that
lake tartarized antimony be-
ofended at iu
resents iu poisonous impress-
No process of reasoning can be
to prove the utter fallacy of the
Homeopathic doctrine of infintessimally
except that of the reductw ad
at all would be better.
But what shall I say with regard to patent
BMlrams T The facility and' nest with
which these are gulped down, by the peo-
Paracelsus, in the fifteenth, arhe j pte, lecnaa tne suspicion inat mere is any
gave an impulse to chemical aaedieiae uncertainly, in tne pnonc mino, as w inc.
through Kustaebiua Vesalius and Fallopi- power and emeaey of physic, and tends
ns, in the sixteenth -ftylrfna, Willis, the ry greatly to modify the severity of our
immortal Harvey, who demonstrated the judgment apon those, of onr own number,
circulation oi the Wood and the great 8yd- who dose without reason, and cure or MI,
enham, or as he has been styled the Kog -they know not why; as well as to palliate
lish Hippocrates, of the ntomBunnth-the j u enmet ot empmncs, woo amnonor ra-
Hamj eg" to uuou mnisaisiu, vj iuiug uvu upuu
as the author of the credibility of those they too often per
illntliini Boer- I anade to be sick, and whose lives they al-
haave the renowned Haller. the nhilocoph- Bost snrely sacrifice, to that mercenary
ical Cullrn and the bold and theoriaing . spirit, which would as soon furnish a coma
Brown, whose names, with those of their cart. I once attended a dance in
-- a I . a . a a..A r tL sr. .n m 1
hmu-uinim:. fit: ui hue iruuurv cuiuiawuu
' ftaVak Anrwvrtnnirv mwlwanajtaasrl taw an aKsart tntaartlBal
liV '"JHfl IMIIII nuoitit.u J ouv Mriwweai
celebrated Jenner, whose
come will probably revert
vaecinatidn, the good aad
co temporaries, will forever shed imperish
able lustre on the medical galaxy of the
last cent ury ; and to dwell upou the wor
thies of our own day whose,
"Footsteps oa the sands of time,"
can never be effaced, bat time will not per
mit, nor is it necessary to do so. The his
tory of Medicine, as well as our own ex
perience, demonstrates the fact "that there
are sects in the practice of our Profession.
This is unavoidable, as the human mind
is constituted to differ If all men thought
one way, no change would ever be made
except through the tine mt miracles.
There are sects in religion, in laws and
philosophy, and Doctors differ in all these.
Bat the sects, in religion, keep n watch
upon each other and truth the truth is
evolved and kept alive. Doctors learned
in the civil laws differ and often render
conflicting decisions, yet the law itself is
to accost me with the salutation, " do yon
work miracles sir? I replied, in my sim
plicity, that I did not. vhe left me with
evident reluctance, only to repeat the ques-
tion, to every gentleman with whom she
1 came in contact, from nil of whom she re
: ceived the same answer, except one, who
styled "the perfection of human
Doctors dispute and wrangle over
aud philosophy, and yet science and phil
osophy are continually advancing. And
the same is true ia Medicine. One-idea
men, whether in or out of the -regular pro
fession, are as a general rale to be avoid
ed. The advance the cause of science.
I . .1 lc. J - .i C .L I "dm
uui lueyr one,, uo u .ue. "H dllCtion of
upon w num iney practice. mw tmumm-
huck, Hroussats", Kasori and others, who
have taken one idei aud carried it to its
extreme limit, have contributed to onr ex
perience, and the general advancement of
the profession, while their practice, defect
ive, an it is now knowu to be, was probably
in advance of their cotemporaries.
But there are oljectinna to our system
of practice: of course tHt"FC are. There
informed her that it was his happy lot to
work miiades. He was immediately re
warded by becoming the adored one, and
was overwhelmed with caresses and adu
lation. The gentleman, thought I, is
scarcely to blame, the lady is eracy, and
nothing hut the consciousness of my integri
ty consoled me. The world is crazy for
miraculous cures, and demands them at
oar bauds. The man? who promises them
bus very often a fortune within his grasp.
Let ns stand firm, in onr integrity, and
pray to be delivered from the glittering
, ! temptation of desiring the price of blood,
science " . . T . - r , j.
out i in-re is cerium ly iu rauoiiai meui
, cine. When a man geis a colic and takes
an opiate and bis colic leaves him, and
j when this happens not once or twice, but
in multitudes of instances, and when re
corded e perience tells us that this has
been the case in all ages, wince the i n tro
op ipn into practice, that man
must be incredulous indeed, who denies
that opinion relieves pain and cures dis
ease It is nnncessary to multiply illus
trations. Er pede Herculem.
Having thus. Gentlemen, vindicated the
claims of the Profession to the confidence
and support of the public and to the devo
tion of its members, it ouly remains for me
to urge upon yon and through you upon the
A Card to
A clergyman, while residing in SOuta America
as a BBaBBBBavy, aiscevered a safe and simple rem
edr for the cure of Nervous Weakness, Earl v De
car IlikMUM of the 1'rinarv and Seuuaal Oraans- learn
and the whole train Kdt-den. brought on by j ed the sick, in Grece and elsewhere, and
baneful and vk-h.h- balats Oreat numhera have f who used external applications to wounds
tBsara . otrT
tunate. I will send the receipt for preparing aad ' "Jt derived must probably from the dis
using tarn marina, m a Baled mvefope, to aay ' section of animals. "Cbirou, iu the thir-
,oHx,vwv jtceuth century B C, was noted for bis
JOSEPH T- INaTA. I kui . , i
krti in
which, even at a muck- later period,
makes mention of the ligature, as a means
of arresting hemorrhage
This brief historical narrative, designed
to prove that our science is venerable for
its antiquity, brings us to the christian
era. I would love to speak of the great
Galen, who flourished in the second cen
tury, of whom it has been said that, "lie
acquired a 'name which, for fourteen cen
turies, was above every other qame in his
profession aiideen Bonr stands pre-eminently
illustrious," of how his diciples
kept alive the medical spirit until the de
struction of the Alexandrian Library, in
the seventh century, aud of the manner iu
which bis writings were preserved and
iranslatedJuto the Arabic language, thus
were preserving a history of Medicine to tell
....I.I.- . .l...nn.l, , , f -
are objectmus to every system, and tone f which , .
system at all. But are these objections , . , . . ""e . f
founded in reason ?
In the
ad
pawwa ee r .k- ; .kUt, .
dg . a j aanae pwuiMUiriwi vi tuv saavas aaa w aasvaa was
state of our profession mere theory
gives way to facts, because wc adopt the Emiwnx and .oeeew ;
, , , . , r , . . - 1 bat more especjallv in the prac ice of Med-
-
and adopt nothing which cannot be ven
ft ed by observation and experience. En
deavoring thorougly to understand the na
ture and functions of the human organism,
in health, we the more readily detect those
liberations that constitute disease. The
causes, nature and terminations of disease
are determined with astonishiug accuracy,
considering their obscurity and sabtilty,
while the whole range of nature is emplor
ed for the remedial management of diseases
themselves. Ours is the true eclectic sys
tem, for there is no element in the anim il.
vcgiuble or mineral kingdom in the earth,
the sea, or the skies, which we may not !
lay under contributioii for the benefit of ;
suffering humsni'y. Water, fluid and solid, ;
boVandonea, hard and. aaftt heat, from sim
nle warmth to bloa -oipe intensity; air, hot
and cold freshened in the zepher or fanned
iu the gale ; light, in twilight shade, noon- .
icine, to be useful and enduring, must be
secured by merit ; and this must be reach
ed through channels of diligent reading,
critical observation and philosophical study.
It is true that the most worthy Physicians
often fail to attain popularity and lucrative
practice, while the daring ignoramus, blus
tering quack or stupid dolt, 'esteemed
wise only because be keeps a still tongue)
like,
" Fools rasa ia where angels fear to tread,'
but the general rule is as stated, that pa
tient and enduring merit will eventually
win iu way, as certainly as attrition wears
away the stone The tact is unwelcome,
but it is not less true that there are unwor
thy prsctioners of the Healing Art. and
this tact, explains, ha part at least, way so
little consideration is otten bestowed
upon
those whose province it is, through s lf-de-
day spWdiHy Dmmmoad bdUiaoey r .tefefc tjtoBjaaidmpese, to contribute to ther
copic range or microscopic precision ; elec- . lief of euiering bumauity ; Such men bring
tricity, gdvanism but why enumerate. T j reproach upon the profession, retard its
the earth and all its fullness is the inex- advancement, cripple iu usefulness and
haustible storehouse from which we draw demoralise the pablie mind, just in the
the potent weapons with which we go forth, . proportion in .which tl ey succeed in secur-
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to battte with disease and a cam. isciug patronage
Tbompsonian may confine himself to beat; j
the Hydropathist ro water, and the Home- .
opathist to decilliotith itifiiitessimal doses, '
or the Quaakjnav lumb. r away with his
. a a aW . S . . ..
panacea, bat each and all otrAnom nave
stolen their weapons from oar well-stored
arm ry ; and succeed, iu tbeir monomtnis
eal fury, about as well in proving that all
diseasea are amenable to one remedy, or
even to one system, as Satan did ia de
monstrating that man should lire by bread
alone. How absurd then to speak of anr sys
tem as Mineral," or of ita vorarieS aa
philosophers, on
AMonalhiata'" F.ven
other inkiivu ant oftm finds in nhvsic. ! CalUtrg
Bacon could reason well about tbi urn- ckantahis with his brethren, always acting
We must be devoted to
onr prosessioa and tree to ha time-honored
ethics. The ample scope of iu studies is
more than sufficient to tax all the time and
talents, even of the aaost gifted sons of
genius.. Its portals mast be guarded
against tne stapid aad illiterate, as well as
against the asereenary, the avaraeious and
impure The tree Physician must be a
gentleman Una to hiaaself, ia avoiding
sensuality and excess ; in attention to
cleanliness and propriety of psrsan and
dre, as Well as fcs eaitrvating those gra
ces of intellect and manners, which are at
once, the ornaasenU and supports of his
He must be just, courteous