Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal - 1861 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: art, conceded to be such by all Europe, and adopted in the most enlightened transatlantic nations. WE HAVE NO BOOM FOE ENUMERATION," etc. What, now, is the di... more »fference in import between the sentences ? " No time for specification," and " No room for enumeration." We can see none. And we submit to the reader, whether now we have not treated the editor of the Gazette fairly—given the substance fully of what he said. It is true that we gave his answers to two questions instead of to one, for at the time we were speaking of his mode of answering questions. But does this misrepresent him ? Ho used the language that we have attributed to him, and in answer to our questions. As we shall not, from what is said, have the pleasure soon again of breaking a lance with the editor of the Gazette, we will just remind him before parting, that he has incidentally, in his controversy with us, got into a little trouble with a sophomore at our elbow, who criticises his Latin. Will he fix up this before parting, or is he completely now hors de combat ? Homoeopathy—Ohio Penitentiary.—Our course in regard to all irregular systems has mostly been characterized by silence. People in medicine, like in every thing else, have an uncontrollable curiosity. The educated, as well as the uneducated, wish to see for themselves every thing that is to be seen, and try every thing that is to be tried. And the history of things goes to show, that ostensible absurdity, probable fraud, or dangerous appearances, only have the effect of strengthening the desire for experimental knowledge. As a consequence the most unreasonable and inconsistent doctrines, and the most unworthy and uninformed men, have always a warrant, at the hands of the people that nothing shall go untried. Such being the constitution of th...« less