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MEDICAL CORRESPONDENCE.
REPLY.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, November 17, 1852.
GENTLEMEN :-In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the
11th of September, I cannot refrain from expressing my grateful
acknowledgments of the complimentary manner in which your par-
tiality has induced you to speak of me: such kindness has more than
its ordinary value, when coming from gentlemen occupying the dis-
tinguished position in society as well as in our common profession,
which universal assent accords to you.
There are few among us who would not entirely agree with you in
the great utility of such a work as you speak of-a work on the Theory
and Practice of Medicine, particulapr'on the practice as specially
adapted to the peculiar manner in which diseases manifest themselves
in Texas, for the existence of such peculiarities has often been observed
by our most intelligent physicians: indeed, I may say, all medical
men have more or less felt the necessities of such a treatise. Situated
as we are, scattered over a wide spreading country, without the oppor-
tunities of association, which in the great metropolitan cities give so
much impulse to the progress of every science, and of which so many
glorious institutions attest the readiness of mankind to avail them-
selves, our experience becomes isolated and individual, and we live,
learn and die, without contributing the results which our acquisitions
of knowledge have produced, or warning against the errors which we
have committed, either to our cotemporaries or those who come after
us. Such reflections have often been present to my mind, and it has
always been with me an object of desire and ambition to produce a
work of the kind, which might'be worthy of attention, and procure
for me, if not the recompense of applause, at least the consciousness of
having endeavored to be useful. Our profession is eminently philan-
thropic, and to all worthy members, the pecuniary gratifications we are
compelled by circumstances to receive, and even the rewards of well-
earned reputation itself, however dear it must be to every sensitive
mind, are both secondary to the happiness we derive from relieving
suffering humanity-such, also, should be the sentiment of the medical
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/6/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.