Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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J. P. METTAUER, M. A., M. D

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annals of State education. Dr. Blair has been a valued member of the college and seniinary club, contributing his share of instruction and entertainment to that interesting gathering ot' scholars and professors. Dr. Blair's friends send him their good wishes and hopes for his safe return, and that he may continue to make his home among the classic shades of Hampden-Sidney. And now, that the Doctor is in Rome, not very far from the site of the ancient Pedum, I send to him the lines which Horace, his and my favorite Latin poet, addressed to his friend, Tibullus, then dwelling there: Quid nunc te dicam facere in zvyyione Pwlmm, Scribere quod Cassi Parmensis opuscula vineat An tacitum silvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem quidquid 'dignum sapiente bonoqur: est? Nun tu corpus eras sine pectore. Di tibi formam, Di tibi divitias dederunt artemque fruendi- Quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno Qui sapere et fari possit quae sentiat, et cui Gratia, fama, vuletudo contingnt abunde, Et mundus victus non deticiente cruinena? Walter Scott tells a quaint story of how a queer old Scotch judge was in the habit ot playing chess, I think it was, with a certain Waltel' Carlyle, perhaps, Who often beat him in the game 5 but said Walter, getting into a brawl, was indicted for murder, tried and convicted before this same judge, Who having pronounced judgment on his former rival in the game, jocularly added: tt And now Walte1', my man, I have check-znated you ance Qoncej. So as Dr. Blair's modesty might object to my attempting to bring him before the public it he knew of it, I will only add 4' Now Walter, my friend, I have check-mated you ance? E. H. HARDING. 25

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Short Sketch of Er. 3. llb. fllbettauer, flb. El., fllb. ED., TLTL. EJ. Tbonorarg llbember of the lmeoical Societies of Jsaltimore, 'JLeri11gto11 :mo llbbilaoclvlaiap 'lprofceaor of nbrinciplee mio lpracticc of Surgery in 'llU185lJlllQf0ll llbeoicnl College, JBz1Itin1orc, 18273 llbrofcssor of llbrinciplcs mio llbractice of Imcoicine uno of the Scicncc ano Brt of Surgery in llbeoical Departnicnt of TRHIWOIDIDSIIDHCOII College, at IDNIICC 1Eowaro Gourtlaouee, virginia. li. METTAUER was for more than halt' 11 century the inost pro1ninent niedieul 1112111 of tl1e COH11llLll1ify uround Hinnpden-Sidney, and one of the most ll1l'llUl1S ot its Aluinni. Shortly after the surrender of Cornwallis to tl1e allied tort-es at Yorktown, IL French regiment was stationed 011 the C'UlltiSC'lli'Ql,l c-liurch lunds of St. Patriekis Parish, near Prince Edw11rd Courthouse. It is of interest to note here that the French king paid his troops i11 this portion of Virginia with copper louis d'ors, gold plated. O11 the witlidrawal of tl1e French troops OIIC ot' their regiinentul surgeons was per- suaded by General Lawson, the Riindolphs, and tl1e Henrys to Telllalll here and practice medicine. This surgeon was Dr. John Peter Mettauer, the elder, 21 native of Basel. He shortly D1Hl'1'ylllg, became tl1e thther of the subject of this l1HP61'il?CtSli6lCl1. Young Mettuuer. after being taught by his fatlier, who seems to have been il 1111111 of studious habits, was El student at Hz1n1pden-Sidiiey College during the presidency of Dr. Addison Alexander, the founder of Princeton Seininary, taking his M. A. here. He shortly went, to Philadelphia to study under the noted Dr. Rush. In 1808, having received l1is medical degree fI'O1'll the 07 1