Choice Extract.
PubMed · 1850
The following choice extract from a distant country paper* was sent to us by a friend for our perusal.It is too good to be entirely lost, and we therefore present it to our readers, albeit slightly shortened in its fair proportions.It would seem that the sovereign people are beginning to be awake to their "doctoring" necessities, and evince a laudable desire to diminish the want above expressed by Dr. Mitchell, by filling up the vacuum at the shortest notice and with such material as they have at hand.* The Daily Constitutionalist, Augusta, Ga.Milledgeville, Feb. 13, 1850.* * * * But let us go back a few days, to Saturday last, which, if I mistake not, was the 9th, and into the other branch where dignity is only disrespected-when dignity would be a bore.The bills of the House of the first and second reading had been discharged, and the Secretary had taken another order.Bills which had been committed to the Committee of the whole, and in the course of the order, one was taken up " to license one Stephens, of Gilmore County, to practice Medicine without license."Dr. J. R. Smith, when the bill was read, moved to postpone it indefinitely-he was opposed in principle to the enactment of any law of the kind ; under the present general law men were required to familiarize themselves with diseases and reme-