GENERAL JACKSON-MAL MEDICAL

 TREATMENT,
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Dr. William Turner, the editor of the reprint of Dr. Dickerson's work on the Chrono-thermal system of medicine, publishes letter m the lrl- bune, in which he says, he predicted the death of General Jackson six months since, from the fol- lowing circumstances:

 About the 9th of December last, the papers sta ted that Gen. Jackson had been attacked with splitting of blood, and had been leeched for it. l called to the statement the attention of friends, and desired that they would take note of the se- quel--for that they would find in it the beginning of the end of an extraordinary man. Six short months have told the story, About week e alter the above date, cut from the Courier s Enquirer the following extract from letter written by the General himself:

 HERMITAGE, Oct. 24, 1s44.

 My Dear MT. Blair On the 18th inst, I had a return of hemorrhage, and two days after chill. With the lancet to correct the first, and eGlomel to check the second, ana greatly debihtdted = But being aroused, &c.'

 It will be observed that the patient, with just and unerring instinct attributes his debility not to the disease itself but to the leechng and caomel. I do not address you for the purpose of arraigning the particular physicians in attendance. They no doubt acted conscientiously and under the convic- tion they were doing right. But war and will continue to war, against system which sanctions such monstrous errors. Whyis 1t, that re6ecting physicians cannot see what this illustrous sufferer so plainly for himself saw ? Will any one doubt, that had that iron man been treated with the same prudence that Chancello. Kent. Gas stated in his note.) exercises in taking care of himself. his chances for longevity would have been equal to that of the latter? People who read Gil Bias are greatly amused with the exploits of Dr. Sangrado with his bleeding and warm water,' and yet they look with complacency upon a practice whcE would be quite as ludcrous and laugbable, were it not for the lamentable results which flow from it. To be sure, Gen. Jackson has closed his civil ca- reer. But how was. 1t with Gen. Harrison He had but just entered upon the duties of the exalt- ed station to which the nation had called him, when he, too, though acknowledged to be in a state of debility, had his life blood drawn from him by leeches and cups to which he succumbed, and by which the administration and policy of the country passed into other hands, to the grief and sorrow of great and patriotic party.