On the 15th June inst. Dr. Luzenberg, with a view to the counteract effect of the above sentence; to bring the Physico Medical Society into general odium; and to enlist the sympathy of the public in his behalf as a wronged and persecuted man, published in the American of this city his Card or appeal to the public. That appeal is indeed a most extraordinary production. It is stamped throughout with malice, falsehood, low cunning, hypocrisy and calumny. It is every where lavish of personal abuse: and its invectives, revilings and execrations are poured out in the most scurrilous and indecent terms against gentlemen of the strictest integrity and honor. In some instances it invents, in others it suppresses facts; now it grossly mistates, and now artfully perverts. It resorts to every means of misleading public opinion and public feeling; but it exerts itself chiefly in cunning efforts to make up false issues; to direct attention from the charges and evidence on which the expulsion is based, to matters of personal strife and quarrel, in no way connected with those charges and the proofs which sustain them.

To turn the public mind to the examination of the real questions involved in the sentence of expulsion; to make known fully the charges against Dr. Luzenberg and the evidence in relation to them; to demonstrate the judgment pronounced in the case by the Physico Medical Society to be just and equitable; to expose the true nature of Dr. Luzenberg's appeal as we have above described it; to bring to light the facts omitted and suppressed in that appeal; to corect the numerous mistatements and perversions of truth to be found in the same paper; to vindicate the conduct of the members of the Society who have been maliciously assailed for the conscientious discharge of their duty; and to exhibit in its true colors the character of C. A. Luzenberg M. D. who has too long abused the kindness of an honorable, humane and sensible community: this is the task which a sense of duty to ourselves and the public now impels us to perform.

On the 17th April, 1838, the following account of an operation said to have been performed by C. A. Luzenberg, appeared in the editorial column, of the True American.

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Sight given to the Born Blind.

In all the great schools of medicine throughout the world, there has seldom been witnessed a prouder triumph for human art than was achieved in our city on Saturday last by Dr. Luzenberg, in the successful removal of congenital cataract. That the cataract has been successfully operated, upon before, all are aware; but it has always been where civilization has aided the operator by inculcating a reliance on his skill; and when the mind is so disposed, the surgeon's path is smoothed of many of its obstacles. But in the recent triumph of Dr. Luzenberg, every sort of difficulty and impediment lay in his way. His patient was a savage of the wilderness, with no particle of faith in the operator, nor consciousness of privation to nerve her to endure the operation. The circumstances are these.

Among the Seminole prisoners is a female named Mary, about thirty years of age, and born blind. Her life had been passed in the wilds of Florida and among its wilder natives; and ignorance, and a belief in its immobility, have ever made her resigned to her affliction. When arrived here, it was stated to her that her blindness could be removed; that the "great medicine" of the white man could give her sight. The proposition was referred to her relatives and the chiefs of her tribe. Superstition naturally entered into their councils, and the result of their deliberations was this oracular decree: "what the great spirit has denied, the pale face cannot give; what the Manito has ordained, it would be bad in its children to wish to change." Frequent im portunity, however, induced a better state of feeling, and the patient at length consenting, the operation was performed at the barracks, on Saturday, the 14th inst., by Dr. Luzenberg, assisted by Dr. Labatut, in the presence of several physicians, and some of the chiefs of the Seminoles. Many singular difficulties presented themselves; firstly, from the impossibity of prompt communication between the patient and the surgeon: secondly, because from habit the pupils of both eyes were thrown in the interal canthus: and thirdly, because mental agitation caused the eyeballs to rush from side to side as if under the operation of galvanism. But skill and perseverance can overcome all impediments, and the poor savage of the woods prepared to receive from the white man the inestimate blessing of sight. The eyes, which in their blind state were additionally afflicted with obliquity, will henceforth assume their natural position.

The spell of beauty, the sway of wealth, the charm of oratory, and the resources of art, are as motes in the air, compared with the power of science. We speak not of that kind of science which by abstruse calculations gives us the dimensions of a far off star, or tells us when eclipses come, although undoubtedly it is great, it is wonderful; it fills the imagination, but it touches not the heart. But the science of surgery, which can only arrive at maturity in the human mind almost made perfect: where the skill of man approaches nearest the attributes of God; fills the intellect with wonder, and the heart with joy; for its aim, its purpose is to minister to the wants of man, to alleviate human suffering. The physical requisites alone of the good surgeon are "the heart of a lion, the eye of an eagle, and the hand of a lady;" but what wealth must not that mind possess whose resources can thus give sight to the "born blind."

During the first operation, Cloud, the Seminole chief, watched it over Dr. Luzemberg's shoulder almost as intently as the surgeon himself; and when in her agony and dread the poor woman refused to submit again, the chief assured her he had observed the pale face closely, and was satisfied he could give her sight: that their own great "medecin," their prophet, Felix-Haya, could do nothing for her; but if she would submit a few moments longer, the medecin of the pale face would enable her to gaze upon her children and their father, and to look out upon the beauty of the country where they were going to dwell; that she could then mingle in their dances, and see how their braves could defend her whigwam! Bound by habit to obey her chief, and with some ray of hope to support her, the patient submitted to the second operation, which was performed with matchless skill, and well requited success. Under all the circumstances of the case, this may well be considered one of the proudest achievements of surgery; and we cannot avoid envying the Doctor the gratification he must feel when he reflects upon the result of his benevolence and skill. Mary has a child, nine years old, also born blind, who will be operated upon by Dr. Luzenberg in the course of the week. May success again crown his noble efforts.

This piece owing to its very singular and romantic details attracted very general attention, and as will appear in the sequel, did not escape the vigilant observation of some of the physicians in this city. On the 19th May, 1838, it was read to the Society by Dr. Palmer.

After reading it, Dr. P. said that he and other medical gentlemen had carefully examined the case it referred to, and had found that the statements in the American were nearly all false; that the woman had never been afflicted with blindness from congenital cataract; that on the contrary she had seen from her birth up to the time of the operation, and that she had even seen so well as to sew garments for herself and her children; to observe birds in the air, &c. ; that the operation had not only proved successful, as had been asserted, but had utterly failed, the woman having been deprived altogether of vision in the left eye which she had previously enjoyed, and having had the sight of the right eye seriously impaired. Dr. P. further said that he had found no difficulty in conversing with the woman who spoke English clearly enough for all purposes, and who informed him that she had at one period of her life resided in Tallahassee. He concluded by making some remarks against publications of surgical cases in newspapers: after which he offered the following preamble and resolutions.