The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1849, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. MORNING EDITION----TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1849. tos ‘tof the University | say nothing in this place of the recent employment ‘thetic ag I jh of anast it, because | shall allude to the of New Vork. as they deserve, at a later period of this dis. THE OPENING aPDRESS OF PROFESSOR MOTT. eourse, Lastly, consider. gentlemen. the immense and The session of this highly successful Medical | valuable additions which modern chemistry has made College opened last evening. The opening Ad- bod taper ge ops Tor alae: rg poten dress, on this occasion, was delivered by Dr. Val- edicine bas not attaine: height to which, entine Mott. Notwithstanding the extraordinary | °4)y very part of the por gg ag badness of the weather, last evening, the great qulttvated, jhousands are at work in attempting the ; ‘ jon of its mysteries, an more or | j lecture room was literally crowded with a large ‘The periodical press teome with the enemanahin (a number of students, assembled from all parts ef | teresting and important results of thelr iselated labor: ; the Union—the greater number from the Southern | while larger tomes collect their seattered stores, de- et) | duce from them facts and principles, erect theories States, We understand that, at no former session | and explain phonomena and apply to the elucidation cal has there been a greater influx of students to the | of problem poyselegioal and pathologi eollege than at this. The present number inscribed phy - Gerace Tho enstouiet ond ¢ t i alpel, and aided by th: is 400, and it is expected to rise to 500. The ce- | tmportant instrument, whose great perfectionment lebrity of this medical institution, and the talemt of | modern times has eontributed, and will hereafter its able professors, 1m which it stands oa a footiag | ttibute, so much to our knowlekge of diseases and ~ healthy structure—the microscope, are busily subject- equal to any medical college in Europe, as well as ing every organ and tissue to the most rigid: sorati im America, is such as touttract students from all ppg Hy post the nature of their pe oneorbs “4d . ro parts. At 7} o'clock, Dr. Mett, the lecturer of the | ture, the very manner even of its developement, ita evening, appeared on the platform, accompanied | anatomical relations. and its physiological purposes. a the professors, among whom we noticed Dr. | Aided by the same bigh power. the pathologist secks, ranville Sharpe Pattisou, Dr. 8. H. Dickson, Dr. | and in some instances has found, in the minute inves. G. T. Bedford, Dr. J. W. Draper, Dr. M. Payne, | Hestlon of ainensed tlarus, the orider thers. “"DeHiger: then ascended ‘the: bibese, ind af abe esa tone ae me ben the students und company assembled, @# | tive energy follows : ot, jages of disease, the secret of its destruc- ud thence infers the rationale of the cure. The chemist is everywhere occupied ia subjecting to Gentiemen Srupenrs or Mepicixe :— avalyris, not only the auimal tissues, but their com- The has again arrived n itisatones my | ponent parts, and deducing thence, equally, the ex- privilege. and my pirasure, to weloome you to these | planatiow of many of the most interest! og and import- academic halls With the faces of maay (am familiar. | ant phenomens of life, and the means of controlling its I rejoice to see you again at your posts, and eager, higher functions. [tis not possible, gentlemen, to es- hope, to pursue, with axsiduity, the aoquisitiva of | timate too highly the claims of organic o ry upon Knowledge which you had s0 happily beg You re- | yourtattention, nor the deep and intimate relations turn, | trust, refreshed by 4 period of comparative re- | which it bears to the most subtil pore. passed in the hemes of your childhood, aad 8 of your families during whieh you &: ‘ our confidence to be shaken in its methods of investi- hej), pondered upon inforwation which w gation. The truth, however, must seoner or later be | imparted; arranged in your memories the facts apparent. For all its problems are, in the last resort, principles laid dowm toyou, and prepared yourselves | resolved by the balavce—thet severe and impartial Bot only for @ vigorous advaner iu scieace, but betser | instrument, whose introduction into chemical in qualificd to profit by the lessous of your teachers. gation bas changed the whole face of science, and ther#, again, | see bere, who, as yet, are strangers | which appeals to the moet unalterable attribute of | tome, Wesball soon, 1 hope. become intimate; and | matter. when we again separate. | shall bave, | trust, equal ‘To Lavoister, guided by a new and profound thought. reason to be gratified with the punctuality and dill- by the motto, “Nothing is thin, is created, gence of the new class, as of old. owing the introduction of this instrumeat, aud the | To ali, I may tately say, that they enter upon and | physiological revolution now so happily in progress, Pursve their medical studies under the brighest aus- d of which the future fruits are incalculable. Or- pices. Never, sii 4s been taught asa sci- | ganic chemistry and structural anatomy, are now in- ence in thi @issolubly united. and fwoction regarded as the result t the present time of their mutual relations. If, to begin with their eouweration, we consider the Nor is the attention which 1s now paid to the practi- condition of the institutions devoted to his instruction | cal part of medicine leas rigorous, or ite resulte less im the sublime mysteries of his high aud holy calling, | cheering Bringing to the aid of @ most rigid scrutiny | we shall find that they scarcely adit of improvement. | gnd interrogation of the rational, the strictest explora- Capacious and commodious edilices are erected for the | tion and the most » explanation of the reception of the studeut—arraoged with perfect adap- | physical signs, and aided by the light which ehomistry tation tohis wants and cowfurts Faculties, composed d the microscope throw upon tt# paenomuens, the of men of undoubted emnence and learning iu thetr pro- ture and locality of disease ure now established with fession. elected from the great body of the profession certaiuty to which the physiciaus of tormer ages | for their peculiar adaptation to the du’ ‘hich de- | were entire strangers, aud a scientific aud rational ba- ‘yolve upon the aud ready, with conscientious zeal | gis afforded for the application of the meaus of cure. and copsumnmate ability. to develope to him the princi- | Phe true value of remedies is tested wita care ia ex- nd practice of his art tenrive series of cases, symptoms accurately noticed, Nor is the maserved for illustration leas copious and | and compared with the reanits of the most critically appropriate, conducted autopsies; results are recorded in numerical pacious, well ventilated aud cleanly dissecting | succession; and thus are fading away, betore the il rooms, amply supplied with subjects, presided over by minatiog sof a truly scieutife ratio medends, the ia- accomplished demonstrators, are prepared to imitiate | numerabie errors and prejudices of @ past empiricism, | him into vbe most intimate acquaiatance with the | gnd the farrago of s0-cailed remedies, which, fearful and wonderful machinery of the humsa fabric. | gecording to some false and fancied theory, Diuscums, rich in every variety of preparation of na | to delude the phyrician, when apparently successful, | \ aud industry of man | into a false conviction of their efficacy, to deceive or | ; ays, to demonstrate its | injure the patient, and to discredit the art. | component parts, their interual structure, and their ‘This, gentlemen, is the only sctentifie and rational | anatomical relation», are opea for hourly inspection; | practice of legitimate medicine, as contrasted witn em- rich, too, in every variety of singular aad malconfor- | piricismaud routiae dis it is which tracy merits the mation snd in illustration of the ravages and the na- of the public—this it fo, as far ay it is yet ture of dirense. bed, which, ! thank God, you will hore be taught, The exquisite designs of the later emineut patholo- | which you will teach, aud which you will practice, des- | ply to the professor of theory aud prac tined, ‘as | trust you sre, to be the pioneers in the th lest opportunity of exhibiting to hise spread of @ truer pathology, 2 more successful treat. minute, morbid anatomy of the diseases which he d ment, a higher glory of our divine aud inestimable art, seribes; aud scarcely avy bave not been Hgured with @ Permit me. gentlemen, to survey, briely and tmper- beauty end life-like accuracy which @ glance at the | fectly. for—indeed, without @ most extended research morbid rpecimens serves ouly to coutrm., The | from the beginutog, | could only s0 accomplish it—the eabinet of the professor of materia medica ts replete | present rtate of sovne of the separate branches into with every variety ot vegetable eubstauce, iadigenous | which the science of medicine is divided, as deduced and exotic, used in the practice of the heal from the Jabors of the investigators of the past quarter with the prinelp! of ® century—a period rich iu results, [| hesitate not them by their destructive avaly bes that has preceded it, of which the mineral body, with it« compounds, jy, and of which you may, individual its shelves. Col plates of the augment the amount and importance. to your own and medica adorn lt tis, amdthe dili your country’s glory, and the good of humanity, 1 not, and ought not, tobe wuacquai The silences of anatomy and physiology, im thelr ward appear colors, smell, taste, &o., of everysub- | yery mature inseparable, how diiferently are they stance which he is hereniter to dispense iu the exercise | studied at the present day, a# compared with the psc: of his vocation. ‘The ove isno longer the abstract aud dry detail of The high priest ot Lucina, too, falls not a whit be- ts and relations, nor does the other consist wholly | in another half From minute organic elements, the cells continu: throughout every period of ite existence. to perfor the most important agencies in the body. By them the secretions are separated, and ‘most of the organie processes effected, from the sepa- ration of the embryo from its parent. to the develope- ment. growth. sud nutrition of the adult individual juch is ere allusson to one of the multitudinous mysteries of animal organization, which the science uf anatomy at the present day, reveals to us, the further investigation of which is replete with interest aud im- portanee, and which it will be your pleasing task to Pursue, and of which it will be your duty to woquite a borough knowledge. I might ocoupy your attention for hours in Cre only, with equ Viovte equally curious and important results of the recent in- vestigations into textural and organic anatomy. Th Intluence of simple transudation, of the re: Property first described by Dutrochet, ezosmose, in effecting secreti d absorption; of the singular phenomenon entitled ciliary motion, in the trans ai of fluid Particles to thelr proper reser- yoirs. Ke, are among the number, But | have said enough, | trust, to convince you not only of the deep interest and vaiue of the study, but to show, as | originally intended, the minuteness of iaves- tigation which is devoted to the study of anatomy and physiology at the present day, and the mazuitud Perfect ‘as they yet are—of its results. ar ef o of chemistry, ° shail sit respects physiology, pathology, au thomnpeuties, thas the sbecmanst aa tise ok oe gard. [thas already been remarked that, by the ap plication to it—foliowing the example of Lavuisler—of weight and measure, it has,in a singularly short period, reached a bigh degree of perfection. Previous to this time, and 60 lopg as the investigutions of ity votaries were confined to inorganic chemistry, but little servic was rendered to physiology and pathology; but duria, this period, physislogy has acquired pew ways methods of tnvestigation within her ow Useful as is the most exact anatomical k ¥ t ructure of the tissues, it cannot teach uy their uses; nor the minutest microscopical «xamiastion, the functions of organs, The most beautiful and elevated problem which the human intellect caa propose to itrelf— the discovery of the laws of vitality—cannot be solved without au accurate Knowledge of chemical forces; and the qualitative metho which phystology has so long applied to the investigation and removal of morbid conditions, brings us not a step nearer knowledge of the former, nor to that of the causes aud essenes of diseases, Useful remedies, of modes of treat- ment, might indeed be accidentally discovered; tional phystology cannot be founded on mere reactions, and the living body cannot be viewed as a chemical! lub or- atory only ‘The great processes of sanguiteatioa, res pirstion and nutrition, ean euly be explained with any semblance of probable trath, by the application to the investigation of the quantitatim metal of research, ewployed by the chemists of the preseut day. © Before the time of Lavcisier. Scheele wad friestly,”” says the jonver and master spirit of the age, the illustrious jebeg, “ chemistry t more closwly related to ysics than she now is to physiology at the present day, are chemistry aud physiology; sn4, tury, it Will be impossible to kepa- rate them.” It canuot be doubted. I thiak, that by continuing the researches which have already been commenced, ® new physiology, and rational patho- logy, both of which have already received very com- siderable improvements will by the result. It is true that we have as yet but @ very wnsatisfac- tory account of the chemistry of the bealtay aad bid structures of the human’ body, and ‘hat eur id ly vague with regard to the induence of the ehemical compositions of the anim tit. nd secretions’ Nay more, we have but an imperfect knowledge of the changes to which reme- Gial agents are subject ducing their passage throagh the animal economy, and respecting the meaus whera by therapeutic and toxic agents are expeliod tro human body. But these, if sources of regret. are not motives of despair We murt labor on, and are, it is to be hoped. now on the true path tor the recognitioa of great truths; and much even bas already been dooe 4 chemical relations of the secretions are fouad to be extremely comstant; the biood is found to vary in the normal proportions cf its component parts in maay diveares. ju ® manner lo assist diagnosis, aud suggest both principles and means ot therapeis, wud maay of rf ny to make interesting and invtruotive to you. Permit me to recommend to you, also, 1 the strongest manner, ttendance upon our exoellent wue Hospital, and tl former, with all the adv except, perhaps, the coplousness of instruetios, nor circumstances will permit, you opportunities of beholding more serious cases of dis- . which cannot be brought before you here—of fol- 4 familiarizing yourselves with the actuat of the sick room—of watching from day to day, the operation of disease and medicine—of compar. ing cases of the same disease—of witnessing the serious eperations of surgery, and the subsequent of the wounded. @ methodus medendi you will flad to be conduct- ed there in all the perfeetion of modern science, by both its departutimts, whose active exertions in the cause of clinical teaching me- rit your gratitude and respect; and who will bo ever ready to contribute their uttermost to your instruc- In the Kye Infirmary, you -Will, to peculiar advantage see every variety of dis | ease to which that beautiful and delicate—that usefal, but. alas! susceptible organ, is liable; ej et nade re t t ui skuifal Burge: One subject yet remains, in relation to which it is my duty to offer you, in passing. my most solemn ad- I refer tothe duties of Neeroseopic examina tion, Kewho would attain to eminence ia his profes. 8 4 diagnostician and practitioner in disease — he. especially. who would venture with safety to his own reputation, and to the lives of his patients, to | encounter living parts with the scalpat | and safely penetrate into recesses where th ould let out life and fame together, weglect this tndis No plates however accurate aad ‘utbful sre substitutes for the actaal cadaver Aud now is the time for study—material is ample, Hereafter, both time and op- portunity will fail you, and upon the foundation which you carry heuce, you must hereafter depend not to the drudgery—the loathsomeness—the danger ut engage in ie with the r bi Beolard, or a Godue 'Y opportunity, duriag y yoursvlves in its ininatest but bitterly, most bitteriy, ¢ idied. and opportumity If by chance, yer of him who now addre: rious functions of Eye infirmary. tages of w college able and skilful men tion and advancement. nd the remarks re to the teachers ce to the two able and ons who attend to its | | On the instant, cannot, 4 od demonstrators able. Gerness of & rp here, to perf Dis you will never regret you may deplore the loss of ti allowed to pars by unlinproved. thing in the eurgical ea you—a career now drawing to its close - cited your approbation. or straulated your ambition, remember that he tells you that itis by this uutiriag omy that bis present post- As ® legacy, he leaves to you devotion to practical an: tion has been attained. the advice, “go aud do likewise.’ JeNTLENEN, StevENTS or Mevrewse— You are here assembled to pursue your professional Many have left happy hon tances hence, have left the tenver guardianship of affectionate parents and friends, aud are now in the very midet of the plow tions of the gayest, the greatest—need | add. the wick- Pleasure will spread her ery ailurement to be uw aud the parsuit of ou be not decwived. wl great dis- | ve aad watebfal es and tempta- } edest city of the Union | every toil—vice offers to you y eat you. that Listen not to the votce of the t Many of you e oly, provided with me: « that you do not become her vietima have trevehed largely upon the scanty board waich | has been piously husbanded to euable you to pursue | your studies to ® successful isene You that it was vot to | | gepces or idle enjoyments, that you are thus liberally id the thewtre, or the toe | billiard-room—it is not in vain paradings along our ai thoroughfares. when you should be imbibing lips ef your teacher k | to make you useful aud honorable in not in rictous conviviality with the di tar, far less, is it im the pursuit +f falsely cniled pleasures of even a more degr: and inexcusable licentiousness. that science is to be ac- quired and her trophies obtained, hirer awply, perhaps too 3 of embraciug her otters Remember, each of ish it upon vicious iadul- It is not, gemth pated and the dimg, daogerous, pou kuow how much has been done by chemical enn sis, im assisting in the diagnosis aad treatment of | that numerous class of cases whieh depend upon dis | f ease and derangement of the functions of the orga by which the great process of systemic depurations is effected —the kidneys an de field lies open. which | cannot too y advire you to ustist i YOu my possess. it placer” in whieh you may dig both gold and golden opioions, with far more safety, sud ratisfaction, to yourselves, than upon the borders of the Sacramento. I had intended. gentlemen to pass briefly in review the state of the other departments of chemical science, but the steadily advancing finger of the silent moni- hind bis brethren ip the amplitude of his resources for | fn crude and often hypothetical notions ot function, the imparting of rough aad agourate kuowiedge of | founded often upon falacious experim: ad incorrect | his most deiteate | ideas of structural arrange Without claiming tor department of th | the science at the present ti fofallibility ot per- | to the professors of anatomy wad surgery, for ti fection. or pretending to assert @ perfect harmony in ustration of their lectures, afters notice of th | the views and deductions of its cultivators, aud while fection of our dissecting rooms and museum | in acknowledging that there is much that is discordant skill and real of our demonstrators, would be superfla- yet to be reconciled, many errors of observation yet to | ons. And a giance at (he varied and costly array of | be corrected, and an immense lacuna of knowletgs to | ohemien! and philosophical apparatus, contained {the | be supplied, to the effvetig of which our present | te ‘cerer Of the unsurpassed apartineat in whien the traly greatly improved aud extended as they are, | eminent professor of that most delightful, instractive, insufielent, it cannot be dented that the and important department of your professional educe- of these sciences, within the last twenty year tion untel i eloquence, based upon & pro- | been great. and the basis on which they bjeot the invalus resources | y bas endowed the materia medica, | from the vigorous prosecution of the researches now and reveals the hidden m)» that inestimable | jp progress, and in wh ch it is, gentlemen, your happy | science will convince you. thar nothing is wanting Im | privilege to be about to engage, the most brilliaat re- | that department, in the principal medical schools of | suits are to be expected. ‘eur Union, for the perfecting of the studentinitscount | ‘The anatomy of the day is textural =the phystoiogy less minute chemical; and it is by their combination and modes of | In short, gentlemen. | need but ask of you to peram- research that the nature of the organs, and of the u Dalis to-night, opened for your aad the | functions doing reves h promises success; aud thi 0 by chioh organised beings are | part of the organi | ereated. reproduced, live, move. and have their being— | eged and well ps | new motives for reverence for the wisdom aad beaili- | tronized medical echoc | cence of the great Author of Creation. | In this epumeration. geatlemen. of the superior a4. it is the province of physiology, say the ablest ‘vantages epjoyed by thy medical student at the pre | guthors of our time, “ to investigate the ways io which sent epoch, immeasurably yeeacer thea in the past, de | the functions of living beings ure effected; and their vi rom the perfection of the orgaaization of our | jyvestigation naturally involves the coomtation ¢ ad o cnemieal com-tituth | the properties of (heir component textares y | of anatomy must always accompany that of physiology | ‘The history ef the last shows that it made no « | until the progress of anatomical ki | folded the etructure of the body. There is so much of . | obvious mecbupical design in the intricate structure of { coald only place upon | the various textures and organs, that the discovery of the table im my of for the ure of my studeots, the ucture Opens the most direct road to the de- works on practions of Culleu. of Gregory. and Thomas tion of their uses. —the Avstomy ot Munro, of Hell, and Wistar—the Od A correct physiology murt ever be the foundation of stetrice of James, Duras xed Uewees—the Surgery of al medicine, in medicine th 4 step towards the Bells and of the Materia Medica of ox Girease is Lo find out disease is, and Mu knowledge of the | print. end which no student of imal eoomomy, purchase at any prices. When or tunotion is de- teat- books of the! schools *ib those which bave sue- ranged must be most vague and ind: fai ceeded them, you will ere that my eulogy is not athology is the physiology of disease, ond it is ob- overstrained. © prife-sors ia medical schools, hoiogical doctrines can command Voth st home and abroed, have either prepared | consdence, whic! not feanded upon original works uj the branches which they | of the natural favetions. It ts also cert tere « for thelr clases, which in mente in pathology must follow ta the wake of aa «ot enunciation, edited the works + unattended to the elisics y. Of the fora the latter, | eat tages you enjoy in their times. and in (heir perfection of auapt for which they are de» It fe bat afew years « be with ability lu at works of Wilson, of Homor, of Quain and Sharps) Carpenter, Roget Dungti-v i RR. and elaborate labors ef feud avd Bowm as your t o In the practice of medi ine. we bave now to boast of friend, alike to you and my profession, if | did nut the entertaining and testructive volumes of Watson, | impress open you, with ali earnestness, the duty of the works of Wo f Dungiivon and of my worthy | their cultivation? Can | do otherwire than congr: aud talented colle Dickson, Im surgery ate NOW | Late you upem the delightful task that is in sto tent and easily tures of ~ neh retar aT mighty work of Ube «nnd comprehensive & devotion a of these mo im my daty a. for oh await your zeal and per- a he sour of pleasure pen dso ably edited |) and copiously enriched by my Inte mn portonce of ke seudy of compasati Dr P. 8. Townsend. nod to whore pages t one Microscope, and the study of orgauio cheais: ‘of him who now addresses you has made additions, the living body,” say the eagactous neither few. nor | bope tosiguideant, Is an almost pet | have bor 4,“ the most delicate chemical process feot compendivm of the art. (a midwifery, the wasat- | are uncensingly going on, for the formation of parsed work of Churchill aod that of Challly, #0 | gompounde, and the destruction or alteration of old ably travelated, improved ana favorably recommended ones, it ts evident that no progress can be made io nted cHeague, the Frofessor of Obatetrion ; tion of these imrieibie processes, unless we f eborban, dge of the ol sane + 4 the y of the excellence of tbt scientific informa | ay fn and its beteg brought | Prodente, therenghiy up to the level of the science at the prevent | the active duties of the fi you enter up nd practice of your ity, and number of the tiuscrations with whieh | joundation—* Hevoetor ward, in physiological research, t fre supplied aod embeliiched, aod their muition | dinous notes. contribute to a hieh degree to facilitate the comfort of the stadent sued be (he state of the lite mer to ascertain the minute mee a procestes; the latter, to determine the nature of the aifiuities by whieh the compesitio boratory are effected t begios hit researches w of the pr upon its study giatified and aterested. upeo a survey of the present | the very earliest embryonic trace of actual condition of the sciences themerives, which com | formative cell. He notes its weil, its stitute jo the segregate chat of vedieine, and which | puctecius. He sees, with wonder and delight, new tie the separate business ofeach profesor of thisfaculty | eejis developed within the old—(so tncaleulably m| o unfold to you? Here, tndeed, ia wide field forexatte- | gute remember. that the ald of the most perfect aad tion and, elf gracul Never vince Medieine waseals a weable hie 00 thele selener, has it beon studied as at the present | jog iuto segun 4 the tay. tbe eam ciwaginings 19 Stanl,aHofwan and each, whien then becom d its tarm the rent of other puctet r between the cells takes pisos ges, wonderfully and mysteriously, under the fat dors of » Bright. @ Carper ral. The pathology of a Liewtan Batilie eve, meritorious as it ae, mmks inte a cence by the side of that of « Hope, @ Care of Ompipotence are od the elementary parts of Bright and aCruvelnier lhe talinctes of &@ Boethars, | tieeuer, normal and pathoingiont, jn bis day the most extoens of fix profession, and the Where fibrous, the eet mombeanes (fancy, If you Aud pom whtca he fowed- | can, gentiem art, fall a Maller , thelr tenaity and thelr own with nization) elongate. aud become eo folded +r of 9 subdivi- fe w istry which he tang’ the principles avd the pragrtoe of bi tyes of @U a ihe precision how the eirgery of the day with te gress end Umnprovement. burn « y Snd appiianees, compares with thet of the tader, | proper murcular or m the barbarous days, | mey say, in watch P tet, OF capliiaey, blood vessels Gavangest floutivhed, aod compare, lastly. t formed by Ube coalrsceuee Of ths walis of tae coli, sterricnl art at this tiure with tte condition Whee | pot et one or two, but at reveral points, owing to their Chamberlin first empl yed, and Smeliie improved, ge ion, here sod toere, tate potnted processes, the most utefal of our emdryaicio instraments, | fications of the vesceis ich they exercise in the eoonomy, are | | wedge had ua- | t | most difficult dissection is effected in “y dey, the exerilence of cheic typography, the beauty, | profession, for which you are now only iaying the | fi ‘ai and chemical analysis must go head in | | the patient before you~ points out to you tu tor on the table, admonishes ine to com!ine my remarks to that one only, of whieh. ow torty-tive y have beep an ardent, and | hope | may, without vanity, say, not unsuccessful cultivator Of the pre fent state of his the surgeon may, indved, be proud, whether be looks to the consciousness and humanity with which it is practised—to the seience to which it_is reduced -to the splendid tri- | umpbs in the relief of suffering humanity which i acbieves—to the perfeotion of its armamentarium, | in which. thanks to the combined ingenuity of the sur- gon and the cutler. the most fageutous lastruments may be found. to effect and facilitate the perfurmance @ moat delic and dificult operations in surgery. he reflects upon the accurate koowled, possersed of the relative anatomy of the body. consequent dexterity, firmuess, safety, and success, whieh are imparted to the operator and the operation— upon the heips tothe attainment ef this indispensable be amiss to mention the great works of the Co pers and of Velpeau, the drawings of Quain. of Mortoa, aad, ely, of Mactiso, which | cannot recommend to your lattering. as substitutes for the not er and, stinguished themeelves in ite cultivation, hom too many, tian! even in our own day, a have rested from their philanthropic labors, and twft | Dut the name which we reverence and the glory whieh hallows it~ the Coopers Liston, Key, ( olles, arwi: Berard, Veflenbach, Uleudin. and, in our owa evun- try, the immortal Physick, Post, Parish, lend ® host of other bright partioular stars, whom it would be easy to | 7 . ells with pride, | | as be contemplates the present position of hie science, | glory oven than these, | Wut, gentlemen, there is a high which may be boasted of in eo present d pride, that it of my own country cenary rpirit in whieh it w fined with n the restrictions of a ntive genias at the mere first attempted to be con- teat, for the bensit of anindividual, [tla the glory of our s¢ience to open | nity—to all—and | teek only im the proud consciou-ness of having served | its means of relief to suffering bu ite reward. to the introduction of it, and merited ite gratitude. fe Tallude. genth mn. of cours anesthetic agents in the pr since the ditcovery of the Smme useful or univer rewarded the rcienes, towards alleviatr, buman suffering bave divarmed surgery of its greatest horror The pa tient, wrapped in a gentle slumber, dreams, perhaps the while of the Dileres of heaven; not a fibre compose of embarrass the operator, or divert hit Kuife, in ite cautions couree between Life and death. The lity; not & ory escapes, to dict tpretator and the victim awak tardy but ra been remove ny spared greater triumph than at the moment when the patient discovers that all be bas dreaded for month bes made bis days wretched and hie nights bas been achieved without his conse nee . out @ pang; po greater reward than his temrful amile of gratitude and plesrure, at his escape from pain and moleery Then—then. indeed. is the wur proud and patient gratefal We canoot, 1 upon the per the tender young, Operations of magnitude, which, without the aid of answatherta, (dared not to ba’ tempted; and when | reflect upon the blood which 1 ¢ thed, and upon the euffering | have in- Micted, I feel, In witnessing the paiv-destroying in- fluence of obloroform. that | have lived long encagu, sod could almost exeinim with the propne:—~ Lord now Jett it depart in peace, for ming a7) a a thoughts ai my grateful admi h in my many applieetious of ows thesia, the firet cause for dread of ite consequences And in the consciousness of ite happy inflarvers may we not at length exelaim: Oh! sargery, Where is thy sting? ob! pain, where is thy victory? Permit me to revert, g to two er thr of medion education, t tage! only passingly alluded Not the triking feature in it is the estabileh- ment in t ous medical sehoots, of the xo cailet Chinte cing in this city a few years age. it ix now in suceersfai operation im both the colleges aud in both has atinined to @ degree of consequence, as 4 school of practicnl medicine amd sargery worthy of your serious attention It i vel and most imyor- tant feature in medi Jon, and bax brea gov Hy adoptd threughout the medical sco ls of the ure, with the pationt before you re of Ieaturer io course an’ It is the book of nature, «th wee for yours Y our professor cance of bis repiter—iave tails the reeults +t bis tm conoluston as vo its mature aud tremtan mupicates to you the gtowads of his seribes and explains the «)mptorm igates his disease Hgation— deduces tte ow and com. weti oe de jnte oat to you the errort isto whieh you in their eetimation, aud congene. jena of suqgery, too. t of the ot traly it own oom mon renee must easily pers { hoge to fad ways attentive to this department of your «a which. as it devolves upon me in the organize of this institution to attend « The time whieb is now | Habits of indifference to sturty gence. Dow acquired, will bever be eradicated; and upon he right direction of your ture bappiness. einivence, and svecess. twig ia bent the tree's toclined whether you leave these balls diligeat stu- eotlomen, or idle, igaoraat, like to yoursel ven, II never be regained, of sensual tadal- nite now de peuds your fa- Just as the It depends upon | dents and accompliabed | and dissipated profligater, disoredit your friends, and your profession —whether you will | comfort and rejoice, or break the anxious hearts of | thore who bave sent you, with so es eh cli the ability | vpon the uneertain you stop your ears to the music of the Syren! olar ttarot duty as ut arrive safely at tl sonal happiness and protessional success. but to listen to their tempting strains, aban- helw but for @ moment tn the delicious extacy which they excite in your unwary souls, and you are Your bark is instantly whirled upoa the break- ers, and yourselves cast captive on their shores, whence escape is difficult or inporsible treat you, ny such influences to al- of that koowledge ou from the steady itis the object of relaxation require The me: simbiated in the tal ingesta of the day | ping, interrupted only by the neeereary for the recruiting of (he vital and intelieo- has been beautifully and truly b: | ous who was himself indeed asavent and a stud | Pre knowledge which now abound, aod of which it may mot | /rcfeceor Agasel you would behold the resuits o | constancy, permit me to offer him to, you as ® model ‘The tet approaches to kno#ledgware rough aod toll but roon the path ix smoot! terest on every wide invest it erative—to retreat impos w objvots of t vance becomes tm ; Wad the distant world des rapidly kefore the glorious vista which opsas to the contemplation of the enrapti Frees on, them, gemtlem your Lurydice ereap ed raloon, filed with the frivolous « to compare wih the quiet he world forget pt in the investiga ly, upon the mon | red philosopher. eagerly; do not look bask. oF vil, | and rest assured, that the gild- um of the phi- 4g by the world of sume gremt my: losepber. who sits, ‘The idie pleaeures of the world are fleeting and ra- of ecience steadtly ia it feeds on and here is no ashing ‘The pleasures of the ‘The appetite grows wi ymenteare inexbaustible | of the hend and heart upon the morrow, of the mind, no deterioration of the body ty and rationally pure duty to caution you against tenre pursuit of study. hy hich robe the night ardent and 1 And yet, how venerabl us his eptiaph gard, the libertive. or the aot Separated as you are from your natural stand to you 8, as the repre- in your welfare, not derire for your jee of surgery; and | reboiar— bow gle guardiaus aud advise | in loco parenivem; and Mt te in thete wi » of the futerest they bi less then from my own mont | ereape from temptation. and trom « misuee of your We tine abd opportuni y 1 for it your respectful considera | seutners and peace; erchew ¥ rounded a you ai cultivate stndy with ar Suceves, fame, compoteres. the ts *, domestio happy ry wide by their seduett duity, end your reward is evr. n. fdenee of your fel esteem of posterity, await you de of your exertions pey and felf denial these the frults of your com netual attendance on tures of your prd xcept from filmaee « his, its long oberished mire discouraging and dirrexper to fied bis insirvetion unbeeded by ® » and abstracted ef WMmODY of OUF FoCiml @ band of brethren ecalety only of those whore babite of e congenial wich your o my | Jour apartments aveid trivolous and Ii tation, and let your talk be u ubjeots of your la amieabie ana only for a moment | wd it even more to you swith the otfiee ly wd ably d vats. Procure the bee: tex to the instruction of st books on each subject, aud a few good um «©. With @ gvod rer Plates, iil Pufliee for your Hbrary fy the comme ment of your studies; rdly digest there, your men’ mark bare diet wil be sui wut to aay that there were the ouly books that hich | he pe you wil rend @ por whieh will wake you wiee unto r for mental. as wi to rerious rem the duties of the doctor, exept u there is mueh bypoort jeot; but the crely Chriw cred (be worse for silently ime: he employ# Rod will fod mauy aa oveast: yexsary—may, tho very { shal spare no pains been very aay traiy religious and orthodox z maintaived the truths of Christi: their happy influenc the mynd learned our own Godman anoth Never acquire. or abandon at once if you have ac: in their own persons. Of these, tobacco is an uncleanly, uuhealthy, and very expen- sive habit, which by uo means contributes to the suc- cess of & physician In your conversation, babits, pursuits, Dever forget that you ought to of intellect ; preparing ® momentou: therefore, al rs y place and action, behave with decency. Avoid, a s0, 1 peculiarities of appearance, expectully those exter: al embellishments, as they are most falsely considered, which savor of foppery, and indicate @ little mind, more apt to be flattered by the notice of the foolish many, than gratified by the approbation of the judi- | cious few. Be scrupulously neat and clean, and in your outward attire ape neither the extreme of fashion, nor | oppose it to singularity, The juste miliew in the ont, and a sober gravity in the color of # garment, be- | come the sensible and i youth, who’ i about toexplore the mysteries of Nature's greatest handi- | Work, the living organism, and fit himself for the ra- | sponsible duties of the healing art. Be courteous to I, without servility—dveciie to instruction, and evan to merited reproof, when kindly iutended—respectfal to those who are placed in temporary authority over you, and whose hands wed discipline you mast Strengthen by your good conduct and example, if you would desire to see the duties of your Alma Mater creditably and profitably performed my young frieads, after thanking you for the h'which you have listened to my well meant but tedious admonitions, permit me my own name, and that of the faculty whow | represent, our congratulations at your safe ar- Tival, and to express the pleasure we feel ia seeing you again with ug Rest assured that we shall spare no pains for your advancement in your studies, and that ia sick- mess and adversity if it should overtake you, you will fiud us faithrul friends, nurses aud physicians Let us assemble on the appointed day—we to teach and you to learn~ all resolutely determined to do our duty to the uttermost; and muy the Great Disposer of events Diogs our enterprise, give us strength and health for the pertormanee of our several duties Keep you pare and holy in the midst of temptation, and incline your minds toa right disposal of your means May He prosper your undertakings, and in seoure for you the fulfilment of all your hopes aad | apticipations of success in your profersional career. . The delivery of this interesting, learned, and instructive discourse, was frequently interrapted by the loud applause of the numerous company. | When the doctor sut down, he was again greetec | with loud cheering aud undissembled approbation | and applause. The courses of lectures to com- mence this dey, were then announced to the students by Dr. Dickson, and the meeting broke up. Co » Council Boanp ov Atpyumen. Ocr. 20 —Jauea Kelly, Eaq, President, in the Chair. The ivutes of the previous meeting was read and approved Revolved, That the Comptroller be direoted to report the increase of salaries. sinoe the 8th day of viay, also, the amount of moneys expended iu cleaning strects, tinee the year 1845, to the yresent time. Adopted Tering of Non Residents —A resolution was offered by the President of the Board. setting forth that our citizens for the support of police, lampa and gus, fire department. ¢ levied upon by tu which calls for & prompt and decisive uc the com may be equalived be done, on application to the next Legislatare of this State for the paseage of law tor the levying of taxes on ail personal property withia the city and county of New York. whether non-residents or other- wd that the members of the Senate and Assem- nm (his city are requested and expeoted will make every exertion for the enactment of such law It was resolved to prepare & suitable memorial to be presented tothe next Legi ort of his resolat ddressed the board jut sound argument. The Alderman pres following statistics. showing the expenditures for the last five years, from which the non-residents are ox- empt :+Alms House, $1.926086 85; County Contia- yheies, $386 252 Cleaning streets, $875,718 TL; Docks and Slips, $424.40 19; Fire Department, $221- 657 (9; Law pr and Gas $959 022 96, Pollee. $2 410 676 28; Kepairs apd Supplies, $298.700 27, Roads and Avenues, $101,683 76; Street bxpenses, § $1,106,063 01; Ofieers’ Kees, $194,000 63; € mon Schools, $1,.494.597 41 The resolution was adopted A Paving d— The President offered a preambl and resolatic of extabliching a Pavis Fund,” to the amount of $600 000. to be applied annu- ally in sums for paving the principal thoroughfares of this city with square blocks of grautte in Liew of cobble stones; and to raise this fand it is proposed to poly the funds now received for stage, hack, cartme: 0 excise licenses, to defray the interest annually on such amoont to be withbeld from the sinking fuod aud to be applied to this purpose, and to petition the legisla ture for the establichment of euch fund Adopted Improvements on Blackwell's Island —The special com- om was referred the communication from Alms’ House, re’ d repairs on the public butidings an- 1 report as follows: —Repairing nursery use, $200; fence. $2,470; dock, o— Washhouse, $3.000; balcony, $1,200; inting, &e., $1,200; barn, $00 Pemitentiary—Cook- Bowse, $100; doe, $5.000; and thet each repair aad improvement be made in accordance with the plans submitted to the Governors. The report was adopted wild Kelly. of the Gh Word.—A petition w by Alderman Allen. of the 8th ward. in bebal Durnin ot No Orange street, clat tion of some $44 for the loss of aleve e alleg arge of & man called O Ald Kelly, of the 6th ward, who wes then, and at that time, ar- rerted aud detained fm the Oth istation house on the ebarge, Boyle was liberated from custody and made his recaps, and now Mr Durnin reeks redress by petition to the Common Counoil for the value of wid property, baving lost the sume in consequence of the fasadcheee thiet being direharged by of that body. whereby the petitioner been defrauded out of his property and the people « subject for the State prion The tition was referred to the Committee on Laws. Alderman Keily and Paving Stones —Aiderman Kel- ly, Of the 6th ward, oftered « revolution for the removal Cf the large let of paving stones now lying to Centre etreet. between Anthony ard Leonard sireets The Al- d #tated that the rea-on why he wanted rom the fact that towy now were ite the poll of onw of the n districts, he day of election. he was fearful some of the boys might fight with (Laugbter.) ‘Therefore he moved to have them removed before the election, to Elm street, rear et the Tombs alder. Allen meved as a0 amendment, to have the stones te moved to the rear of the Park Aldermau Webb moved to bave them Another alde Tore nod said that it Inspector's business to remove the stoa leo the duty of the city to provide some that he might putthem Ther adopted, a offered by the alderr It will appenr, by the above resolution, that the al- Corman is about, nad on the } ut for Cueday of next werk There stones it iseaid are located om Foot ground and to place there handy electionvering mia-tle ‘ rerqual footing, itis deemed prudent to remove them to the rear of the Tombs Lirwtenont Bayle Deceased —A resolution was offered and parred g the Comptroler to pay $100, ray the funeral expences of the Inte Lieut Boyle, herces attached to the New York Regiment Volunteers nrgpriom ot the Art- Union, to atiend an exhibition Dtings. Accrpt: wi om the Leom's Den —An invitation from R. gton to visit Daniel ia the Lion's Den Ac+ or cation of Engine Co No 5 to be allowed on addl- si uowmber of men. Referred to the Fire Depart at Petition of dni Fare; gr of the commit # of the others of a of the bleventh ward 00 bibaver. Keport (0 favor of concurring with the revolution to Tepeir brgime No 42 and of repairing the house of said pany as Light Contract ~A tesolation passed last ev fog the Board of Assierant Aldermen, giving 1 re to Vork (ae Ligh propose din the arsenal yard, (Laughter ) + the Street for attending 0 relation © ermman mod w 7. Referred vo the Committee eculd rot be eflected, as no covtract could be passed through beta Be the table. Resting Place for the Deceaved ¥ Ce tom wae offered: for the pu we of pureha ing & plot of sed in the Green@ood Cemetery ty be approprin t the deewaeed New York Velumteers, Re + be appointed to report on the be Board acjouraed until next Monday week, at 6 o'clock Posnn ov A The Hoard PM. Pr ot, im the © tom of members to their places Leesan got the Menutes — Ube imtoutes of the preceding ne were read and approved A number of petitions were presented prepriately refer wae one from the New Jeteey Katirond Company. tor privilege | to extend pers No, 16 aud 18,N i Referred 0 Com- we on be * to h fayette Place to Bowery. lighted with gas, Re Committers. and Communivations The Com mittee on Serew in favor of fencing enoant ote, between First Seeond aren ed Thirty fourth and Mhirty-eighth streets, with am ordi | panes therefor Re cepted Same committee, 1 opeoing. regulatiog and *y . * } The Committee on Finance, of thie Board reportedin favcr of paying the aldermen and assistant aldermen $400, being the amount of ih seourting their a Chie bowed e ices on Streets, ia favor of par- hysicians, who have ably | ing T ity, and illustrated | with an ordinance therefor, ure, The, Alderman, in the sup, | ‘i ive to certain | 4g diveus-ion, tt | ds on the tame evening Laid om | | Whitaker wae enlled | eroetio. which Frileved the stomach of the pol Jamison wad Bard was ap: | ¢ Creat lones street, | ng Thirtieth treet, between the Second sad Chird Committee on Finance, in favor of eondurring with J, Mason Good was one, and | the Board of Aldermen, in the ordinance to pay con- tractors money due them. Concurred in. The Committee on Roads, in favor ot quired it. the habit of profane swearing The use of | Eighth avenue. from Fifty-sixth to 108th street, bee curred in Also, to macadamize, instead of pavi Sixth a from Forty-second to Fifty-rsvow id grade Kightieth st: Secaeth ia. — ¢ Committees on Sewers, in favor of concurri with the Board of Aldermen in revolution and pance for sewers in Fifth avenue, trom Twenty-eight to Twenty-ninth atreet ncarred in Of Committee on Wharves, im favor of conout with the Board of Aldermen tn resolution to their privilege to build Kast street and grant the wharfage to the persons so building, Coneurred in. The Commitiee on Ferries reported im favor of b= ing ferry privileges to Captain Bilas, to run a ferry boat from the foot of Sixteenth street, E R, to Greem Point. for ten ye t $100 per year A: a ( ommanicati rom the Street Commissioner em- closing estimates and contracts for — grading, and setting curb and gutter stones, in several struets, Contirmed. ‘The Committee on Police, Watch and Prisons, in favor of paying Viartin Van Nostrand for injuries snstained by him while aiding. as @ policeman, in suppressing @ jot in the Kirst ward. on the 17th of August lass. The report was adopted, and $500 named as (he sum to be uppropriated Payers fromthe Board ef Aldetmen.—By concurrence with the Board of Aldermen, the owlug Inspectors ft el pointed :| Lewis Leal. Daniel Bow- #0. Palmer, English, Wm. L. Shardiow, T. Spencer Kirby, Wim. H Jaosen, Samuel K. Mabbit, Archibald D. Cochran, and Charles Fletcher, of the Thira Thowas E Satton. of Seventh ward; Da- nicl Hawiey, of Kighth ward; Horatio Reed, of Teath werd; Geo W. King and kdmond Livingston, of Se venth ward; Wm © Betts, Geo Merritt and Beojamim Pettit, of Sixteenth ward and others Ail the appoint- ments originated im the Bourd of Aldermen, Several resolutions to light streets with gas havit passed the Board of Aldermen, came up in this Boas for concurrence, aod were referred to Committee om Lamps and Gas lved, That several lamps be placed in Market- field street. as soon as practicable. Concurred in ‘This Board concurs with the & of Alderm olution to light Nocth sioore street with gas, A resolutiin was offered in reference to repairt buildings under the supervision of the ten goveruors the Alms House. The resolution was referrd to the Commissioner on Reparrs and Supplies, whois to report to this Board the estimated expenses, hoports of Commitive on Streets in relation to paving ‘Twenty-six'h street, regradivg Forty-second street, flagging sidewalks im iwenty-fifth street, grade of Thirty-uinth, Fortieth, Forty-fi teoond, Forty Uiird aod Forty-fourth sire! of the First avenue, from Phirty eighth to Forty-t treet ; Ning the Seventh avenue; regulating aad ding Sevenceenth street. between First aad Second nue; pay Fortieth street All referred to Com- om Stieets, of this Board mit Resolutions — that Crosby street, between Howard and Grand street be lighted with gas, Referred, ‘To extend Fier No 18 North tiver, 300 feet. Ree ferred to Committce on Wharves Piers and Slips. Assistant Alderman Sruwrevany offered # preamble and resolution iu relation to railroads. Ihe following is the reeolution Kerolved. That it be referred to # special committee to inquire into avd t upon the expediency aud propriety of memorialisiog the Legisiature to grant peruierion to the Common Council of this city to order and direct the extension or widening of Weat treet into the North River. from the Battery upwards, to the extent of feet in order that safficwat room may be thereby afforeed to being said roads (raileosde) into the lower part of the elty. for the convenience the travshipment of produce brought thereby The resolution with & preanble which prefaced it, was adopted, and Messrs Sturtevant, Chapman, and Denman were apprinted said ev heolved, Supplies be ameunt of appropriath ary to pay for posts aad chains around the grass plats in the Batvery, similar to those pow erected in the Park Adopted Resolved. That ail expenses hereafter insurred for repairs to the prisous aud other buildings ta charge of the Governors of the Alms House. be charged to the account of the moneys raised for alms house wad prizon purposes Adopted Resolved. ‘That the Commirsioner of Stree VIOLENT STORM. Yesterday morving a storm beg was threatened the night, before by am immense halo around the moon. It began with a gale from the enste ward,and light rain, which gradually inoreased, till ab to set in, which | 2 o'clock it fell heavily, and #0 coatinued till 9 o'clock | lartevening, The harbor was in great commotion, and the ferry-beats could got make their regular tri one time. the conductors thinkiog of st. them aitoget Uil about 8 o'elook, at bi sea raged as it rare in tl % the rain poured dow 1th of the clouds w ‘The tide xtremely high. Sign about men were thrown down; geptleman assured us he way carried across like @ pieee of cork; umbrellas were blown away. or turned foside out’ in beautiful style; signs were laid low ; ommibuses were overturned, partiy by the wind. and partly by the horrid condition of the streets. one prostrated opposite the pile of bricks roadway. below Trinity Churoh, wh. arto! ge is so oUt Up by the eoustant travel of lines of stages, as te render the ge mont dange While jorm Iasted It appeared to be more the lat ib krom Ho aba ly to Wo fear we wbail hear of ov ble age to shipping, if not lows of life, on the Long Fatat Accioent—Carsinino ov « Boat —Vesterday forenoon, a smal) boat with ove ff to bring om shore © from the «laabeth Deonisom, om 10% oh is lying ia the stream in the Bast river we how ¢ a into the bont, besides the boatman When they nearly cached Pier No. 17, the bout was half fall of «ater, 60 Buch so that @ carpenter, wao was in aship at the lip, called to them to go more forward ia the buat else they would sink her tie had seareely given them the warn- Ing, whem. with the #wvelluf the sea between two ships @ few yards from the pier, the boat was upset, and all who were in her thrown toto the wi heee were waved by # roy hanging down from on f Vl they were saved ; hers we regret to ray, sunk to rise mo more, We could not learn their naaws Four of those « brought back to the veset fr the other turee were tuken charge of by Captaia Wiley and the First ward polices. who were promptly on the spot. Some of thetr loguage was saved, bat # const Table portion of it was lost Che bodt net been ree yet What © ref they ereapad all the ef the ocean, top elty whither ar the bowtman bas « he O- yerterda, corived by rome pers preremt not kaown, or, Whittaker yer'erday held @ post mortem examina. the body, and found about eight ounces of @x- m the brein, Am iaqaret will be heid Verterday an infant Loner front of his 1 iale road it sof the Alms floure seo An ookeown man was found drowned yesterday at the foot of AxoTwen —An the deck at the foor of or in brown pants and eat eouree bo brown bair, He appeared to have been tm the water about a week Artewer of Haye, rest commit ruieide by takiog # who at once riow —A man by the name nn atreet. attempted to the man is now out of danger TAROKT EXCURSIONS ‘The Carro!l Guards, (aptata Kelly, went to Ball's Ferry and shot for three prises Che firet. « musket, was won by P. tate: eeeond a gold waten; third. a al ver medal, by Q Riley, They were accompanied by | Sheiton * brace bend The Oxkiry Guards also went upon a target exear- sion numbering 82 muskets, with 20 plonecrs, «ix feet high beeriog swords, This is @ formidable company. Thetret company Willett Light Guards. w ft of the rain. Forros Guanp.—Thia large and finely drilled corp: under command of Captain Lugoy, yesterday virit Bay ona target exeursion. At aa early hour ip the morntog they left the city on a steamboat, chartered expr me, teria s ne wasary tor the tener oromaiied Che prizes were thew 4 te Archer Creighton, James Gilien, and Devtel Deveoll eaeh «& hag@some vtiver cup; te Michaet Naddy « brace of pt Devan aed foba Downey each @ gold petell, to James ‘asc each & baatsome segar case, when afer t ore awarded to the orter of the superior bs The company t* composed of cighly eght muskevs,