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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Doctor Holmes. (search)
s doubtful if he could have been excelled in his own specialty. His ready fund of wit often served to revive the drooping spirits of his audience, and many of his jests have become a kind of legendary lore at the Medical-School. Most of them, however, were of a too anatomical character to be reproduced in print. So the years rolled over Doctor Holmes's head; living quietly, working steadily, and accumulating a store of proverbial wisdom by the way. In June, 1840, he married Amelia Lee Jackson, of Boston, an alliance which brought him into relationship with half the families on Beacon Street, and which may have exercised a determining influence on the future course of his life. Doctor Holmes was always liberally inclined, and ready to welcome such social and political improvements as time might bring; but he never joined any of the liberal or reformatory movements of his time. Certain old friends of Emerson affirmed, when Holmes published his biography of the Concord sage in 18
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Chevalier Howe. (search)
was brought before a tribunal and asked a multitude of questions, which he appears to have answered willingly enough; and a week or more later the same examiners made a different set of inquiries of him, all calculated to throw light upon his former answers. Doctor Howe admitted afterwards that if he had attempted to deceive them they would certainly have discovered the fact. He was in prison five weeks, for which the Prussian government had the impudence to charge him board; and why President Jackson did not demand an apology and reparation for this outrage on a United States citizen is not the least mysterious part of the affair. A good Samaritan does not always find a good Samaritan. After his return to Paris Doctor Howe went to England, but was taken so severely ill on the way that he did not know what might have become of him but for an English passenger with whom he had become acquainted and who carried him to his own house and cared for him until he was fully recovered.
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
28 Major Stearns wrote from Baltimore: I am still perplexed as to the mode in which I can best carry out the work intrusted to me. It is so difficult to adjust my mode of rapid working to the slow routine of the Department that I sometimes almost despair of the task and want to abandon it. No private business could succeed if carried on after the manner of the National Government at that time, and this was not the fault of Lincoln's administration at all, but of the whole course of Jackson democracy from 1829 to 1861. The clerks in the various departments did not hold their positions from the heads of those departments, but from outside politicians who had no connection with the Government business, and as a consequence they were saucy and insubordinate. They found it to their interest to delay and obstruct the procedure of business in order to give the impression that they were overworked, and in that way make their positions more secure and if possible of greater importa
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Dr. W. T. G. Morton (search)
commenced the study of chemistry with Dr. Charles T. Jackson, spending from six to ten hours a week Doctor Morton was necessarily indebted to Doctor Jackson for a knowledge of the hypnotic effect of a philosophical instrument-maker, and with Doctor Jackson as to inhaling apparatus, proceeded to exp Morton reported his success the next day to Jackson, and conversed with him as to the best methodon of the medical profession and the public. Jackson pointed out that tooth-pulling was not a suffmmittee of 1852. He said: I went to Doctor Jackson, told him what I had done, and asked him tngressional Committee of 1852 did not find Doctor Jackson's report of this interview trustworthy. Do commendation. Doctor Warren had invited Doctor Jackson to attend this critical experiment with suened October 16th, and on November 13th, Dr. C. T. Jackson wrote to M. Elie de Beaumont, a member o and Elie de Beaumont's American friend, Dr. C. T. Jackson; and they conferred this particular favo[2 more...]