We would add that the Journal is pledged to no interests apart from those which relate exclusively to the progress of Medical Science, and the advancement of the Medical profession. It is not instituted for any sectional objects, or partizan views; but to serve as an organ for the impartial and untrammelled utterance of opinion on any matters pertaining directly or indirectly to its professed objects. In conclusion, the Editor desires to say, in his own behalf, that he looks for the means of success in this undertaking, not to his own exertions, so much as to the assistance which he expects to receive from others; he enters upon the duty, however, with a determination to do what he can personally to contribute to its success, and is stimulated with the hope that this will be such as to authorize, ere long the enlargement of the Journal, so that he may be able to render it much more acceptable and useful than is compatible with its present restricted limits. Buffalo, June 1st, 1845. Notes of an European Tour. Communicated for the Buffalo Medical Journal, by F. H. HAMILTON, M. D., Prof. of Surgery in Geneva Medical College. We are happy to inform our readers that Prof. HAMILTON will contribute regularly to our pages, and that the following is the first of a series of communications, giving an account of such incidents and observations pertaining to his European tour, as will be interesting to the profession. The series may be expected to extend, at least, over the numbers of the Journal for the curr. nt year. We think an apology for the non-medical character of the first number, is quite gratuitous. Our readers, we are sure, will not be so hyper-critical as to insist that our friend should write nothing but what is redolent of medicine; but will be well pleased to accompa ny him on his route to Paris, before entering upon topics of a more professional character.-Editor. DR. FLINT-Dear Sir-The object of my tour made last year, some notes of which, originally addressed to a friend, I propose to give you, was to visit the Medical Colleges, and the various Hospitals of Europe; and, also, to collect Anatomical, Surgical and Pathological specimens for our College Museum. I journeyed, therefore, through England, Ireland and Scotland; France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily; visiting, every where, the principal Hospitals, Museums, &c. I have commenced with France, because my tour of the British Isles, having been made at two separate dates, I thought to give it you entire, at the last. You have requested me to preserve the integrity of my notes, even at the hazard of introducing some links which are not Medical, that the whole may serve as a sort of "Guide book of Travel," to such of your readers as may wish to visit Europe for a similar purpose. But how much of Medicine or Surgery can one find between Boulogne and Paris? Yet. I trow, the English valetudinarian, suddenly transferred from an English coach and roads, to a French diligence and French roads, might find much of both-but a man whose bones will hold together upon a Western "corduroy," has little to fear from the square stone blocks of a Continental turnpike. Yours, truly, Buffalo, May 12, 1845. F. H. HAMILTON. |