An appeal to the medical profession of the United States / by James Conquest Cross.

  • Cross, James Conquest.
Date:
1846
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    boasted of the support of the physicians of Second street, against whom the latter inveighed bitterly on this occasion, de- nouncing them as agitators, meddlers and disturbers of the peace of the town. The reader may well imagine my amazement at this announcement. Both Drs. Richardson and Mitchell ap- peared very restless and impatient to have this interview brought to a close, for they ran about the room like geese in the agonies of egg-laying, but this I did not intend to suffer, for I was now convinced, from what I had just heard, particu- larly when connected as it was, in my mind, with the conversation I had had with Dr. Dudley on the morning of the 17th May, that they had been, by him, debauched from their allegiance to me, and were now traitors; and I fancied in looking upon them I realized something of the truth of the remark made by Pitt, that there were men in whose countenances villany is so impressed it were impiety not to believe it. I told them it was currently rumored and confidently believed that it was the in- tention of Dr. Dudley to have those who voted for the resolu- tion demanding a separation of the Chairs of Anatomy and Surgery expelled the Faculty, and that if such was the fact now was the time to act upon the proposition Dr. Richardson had made the day before, which the reader will recollect was that Drs. Richardson, Mitchell and myself should resign and make a joint publication. The moment I reminded Dr. Richardson of this they both started for the door as if the avenger of blood was at their heels, Dr. Richardson remarking as he went out that he should not at least for the present, for he was not afraid of being turned out. Then said I, if they turn me out they must do it quickly. As I returned home from the Medical Col- lege I met Dr. Dudley on the side-walk, who greeted me with his usual stereotyped Macsycophant grin. That no doubt may exist of the truth of the account I have given of the conversation had with Drs. Mitchell and Richard- son in the Faculty room, on the 25th May, 1844, I here give a letter addressed to me by Dr. Pinckard, with whom 1 had a conversation on the following Monday, and which the reader will at once perceive could only refer to the discoveries made by me in the one held with those men on the previous Satur- day:— LEXINGTON, July 23d, 1846. Dr. Cross,—Dear Sir: Yours of the 21st inst., (mailed at Louisville,) was received to-day. You request me to send you at Cincinnati my recollections of a conversation that accidentally took place between you and myself near the 1st Presbyterian Church in Lexington, on the 27th of May, 1844. I recollect the date as it was the Monday after the Saturday we had the