Life and letters of DrWilliam Beaumont, including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis StMartin . a medical professionby which, sooner or later. I hope to exhibit specimens of proficiency in anart which, in this enlightened age of reason and under the modern im-provements of!Chemistry and Physiology, bids fair to rise with healing onher wings. My local situeton is such that you need not give yourself uneasinessabout it. I shall be able to meet the exigencies of my education withoutany difficulty (extraordinaries excepted); my prospects are fair, and myencouragements are by n
Life and letters of DrWilliam Beaumont, including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis StMartin . a medical professionby which, sooner or later. I hope to exhibit specimens of proficiency in anart which, in this enlightened age of reason and under the modern im-provements of!Chemistry and Physiology, bids fair to rise with healing onher wings. My local situeton is such that you need not give yourself uneasinessabout it. I shall be able to meet the exigencies of my education withoutany difficulty (extraordinaries excepted); my prospects are fair, and myencouragements are by no means indifferent. I am considerably in thehabit of riding with my preceptor, and have the charge of many of hispatients during his calls elsewhere, which are numerous and at a has just returned from a distant patient in whom he has, as it were,effected a resurrection, and is now gone twenty or thirty miles to per-form an amputation. Report was evidently current back in his New England home thathe had turned Federalist. In this same letter he showed the 28 Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont. 1806 1812—Republican and Not Federalist 29 fallacy of this report, and at the same time gave expression inunmistakable terms of his firm adherence to Republicanism. . As to the report that I have become a Federalist, I will mentionthat so different is the impression among these people, and even on themind of my preceptor, who is the hottest Federalist that I ever knew,though a man of superior talents, that I am toasted as a Republican, andam under daily threatenings of being turned out of door for cherishing atrue Republican principle. That principle is the legitimate sentiment ofevery real American. It was hereditarily bestowed and carefully culti-vated by an anxious father, whose precepts and instructions have madean indelible impression on the heart of his son, who is farther than everfrom having the name Federal justly applied to his character or associatedwith his
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