The Galveston Medical Journal Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [We receive many letters similar to the following. We hope the gentlemen will carry out their intentions: ] Tyler, Texas, 21st October, 1866. Prof. G. Dowels, Galveston: Respected Sir, ?I have with great pleasure read tlie Nos. of your Journal. You will, in Texas medical history, be classed as the first originator of a Journal to give the reflex of the medical mind of the State. I wish you all success, and in a few days I will send you the needful as the price of your Journal. Doctor, a great reform is needed, and it must be with the present to inaugurate that. No longer under the great revolutionary changes which have been wrought in politics and law, as a science, can medicine afford to lag ? Ours is peculiarly a science and art known only to its enlightened members, and from them must it improve. All great steps forward must be at first slow, but never was a wider field opened for advancement than is now presented in our State. The Soule University Medical Department is the first to inaugurate Medical instruction in the State. God speed you in the good work, and may you be the means of elevating the professional standard of the State. Galveston is destined, with Houston, to be the great cities of the southwest coast, and, like other great depots, need all classes of business, and in none will our time-honored prof emon flourish more. The schools of Europe and the North cannot hold us spellbound; and while at present we inevitably look to them, the proper industry, talent and organization will develop our State, and particularly its great cities, as the reflex 'of learning in the varied professions. The history of the world demonstrates this. The time is now approaching for this to be done; and you, sir, in your enterprise will realize to the State of Texas what Hay of P...