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![at once to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, over the same signa- ture, designed for the profession. Nor had any human being been privy to these critiques on the book, so that the insinuation that anybody, directly or indirectly, prompted them, is as false as it is malignant, and only betrays the wincing of galled jades, whose withers have been wrung by the truth. Nor has anything written on the subject been retracted or regretted, so that those who lay this flattering unction lo their souls, are thankful for small favore. The writer yields nothing to intimidation, though open as melting charity to the claims of courtesy. Strongly entrenched behind the ramparts of truth, however, he fearlessly defies the imputation of either unworthiness of motive, or misstatement of fact, in the course which duty to a humiliated and outraged profession demands. Nor would he do Dr. G. injustice for his right hand, not loving Caesar less, but Rome more ; but hating all false pretence in the profession to which he has been ardently devoted from his youlJi, he has here resented the outrage done to the majesty of truth, the dignity and honor of the craft. *' Ask you what provocation I have had 1 The stronoj antipathy of good to bad. AVhen truth and science an affront endures, The offence is mine, my friend, and should be yours. Mine, as the foe to every false pretence. Yours, as the friend of truth and common sense.'' New York, January 28th, 1847. Medicus, (alias) D. Meredith Reese. PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL INSTITUTE. [Communicated for the Boston Medical and Siirgicid .TournHl.] We have seen a pamphlet, the Announcement of the Medical Institute of Philadelphia for 1847. This institution was founded thirty yeare ago by Dr. Chapman, to enable those medical students who remained during the summer in that city, to have the benefit of medical instmction, by lectures. The number of students in Philadelphia last winter, we are told, was over one thousand. And as it is made necessary that each should attend a course of clinical instruction at one of the two hospitals, it is apparent that but little advantage can be had during the winter months, and this more particularly so when the patient is too sir^k to be brought into the lecture rooms connected with these institutions. Hence the founder of this Institute conceived the idea, that by unitin« with himself other medical men of known talent, and continuino-to lecture during the spring, summer and autumn, and instead of six lectures a-day there should be but two or three at most, a complete course of instruction could be given, which would be of inestimable value to the student. Tiiirty years' experience has proved the correctness of this ^reat man's views ; and although he and his associates have retired, yet it comes before the public with names which rank among the first in the profession in this country. Among the lecturers we perceive the names of Peace](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21015648_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
