To tMS Editor. Having paid the accufI entered the company, in ay a friend. It confided of entv perfons, who were af- , with all the gravity of a Rotate, for ihcdtfcuffion of a fubmounceJ on a former night, telfion being read by the prefijolly looking man in a tye-wig. S r, tartan is an anci. After this gentleman tad finiflted sit orarioo, a genteel dreflrd young nan role, and addreffed to tbt lolloping effect: " Sir, I hereby agree with Mr.
Cabbage on the-importance of the ijueRion before ui. It is of the utmofl confequence to focicty at large, ind l doubt much if there hat been a liibjeft ot greater magnitude agitated fince the dtfeovery ot the. If I feel the palfe of the gentleman's arguments, who fpokc before me aright, I cannot think they are fo condufive as he teems to think.
He talks of the fuperiority of the men in former times with a degree of applauie which I am by no means difpofed to allow. Can yon call thofe civilized who know nothing of the theory, and little of the pradice of medicine f who were ignorant of Chemiftry, of Gal-r-nilm, or of the circulation of their awn fluid I They were ignorant ofeleAnciry, of the ufe of acjua fontana that invaluable, and but till lately un tiifeovered remedy in gouta and fe- j vers, and l am inclined to doubt, if j.
As to wbar Mr. Macalpin fays about bardinefs and manliness, thefe are poor virtues in companion with tbofe which accompany the tten of the prefeot day. Did that marlinefs give fo much encouragement to men of fcience and induftry; i' our anccflors had few wants, they had likewife few enjoyments.
If they knew not what ficknefs was, owing to j the want of proper practitioner t thev could never prize the bit flings o1 ' health. Sir, it appears to me evidently, that we of the prefent dav are as i much fuperior to our forefathers, as I the Dilpenfatory of our College is fu-P'-rior to all others.
