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ytdr. Bertrand :-i have read with some attention an essay which appear led in tie last Gazette, on the causes and nlodaS carqadi of the fever ineideh-

 tal to the climate of Arkansas. This dissertation might have q tendency to impress the intelligent part of the com lnuHity with the idea, that il vas inc product of laborious research. But that is not the case. The medical man discovers that il contains only a glance, aid q most imperfect one, too, at the many exploded theories of fever from the scnsorlai influenGea advocated bs I've die and Southwood (not Southwark Smith of the present day, to the ienfof and 7iscidity of the blood by Boerhaaye.

 Being mere repetition of unintelligi- ble nothings, for what purpose then, does the Doctor wrlte? It was not to

 inform the people what fever really was or what would cure fever; for the most intelligent men, who have never been blessed with the lights of medical sci ence, cannot comprehend one-third of the publication. And what do the mass of the people know about the ttssssess, !,

 scasorial functions, Hpatic graaafl, vena ca4a, vena portaran, Daetus eomnaunis choledochus, Daodenol Arrangements, the Pytor7c or cardiac portions of tie stom-

 aeh or even gostro-eateritis2 Fudge. Does he write for the medical world

 Does he write for fame? Why not avail himself of some of the periodicals, where the i,ght might have a general diffusion, not see his midnight iueubra-

 tions fall stillborn from the columns of frontier newspaper? Perhaps he writes for the benefit of his unenlght- ened brotherhood of this place. If he does,he is not justified inllis assumption. 1 would most heartily eschew d medi- cal quarrel, for it is one of the most

 disagrecable anncyances that can belal anews reader, and the disputants are always placed in q ridiculous attitude, for they are invariably associated, in the

 minds of the readers, with Pestles, Syringes, Plaisters and boluses; but if the Doctor must have tiH, in the name of conscience let it come. But hope that No. 7, will close the series, for have no disposition 10 wound tie Doc tors feelings; but ] am determined that he shall not pass himself of, for the on lly medical man in this town, by aerba- tin collection of sentences, gleaned 1 from Ciutterbuck, Smith, Cullen, Nc.

 Dr. s. could hardly have hoped that his publication would pass unnotieed; in- dependent of the untenable positions in

 the subject matter of the piece, think

 there is something disparaging, even

 unkind in his preface; he appears 10 be

 astonished that nothing has been writ

 ten by the medical men of this place on

 soimportanta subject as vegetable and laninal miasmata, aliuyial deposits, the putreiactiye process, &c. when he has 1 been here but one Winter and Spring,

 and has written number, 10 be con-

 tlnued in a series, explanatory of inc

 causes and cure of a fever that he has

 never seen!!!

 1 DAW-PLUCkER, .1fD.

 MApgYrD-Tn Conway county. on the