Show An Ornimtnt liidMit The LL D conferred on Dr B Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia by the University Univer-sity of Edinburgh Is the second bo hat received the first coming from liar vnrd but It was left for tho Scotch university to do him tho extraordinary honor of referring to him 01 the chief ornament to medical science In the new I world In addition to hit groat attainments at-tainments 01 a physiologist Dr Mitchell Mitch-ell hts be unique illiilncllou of maintaining main-taining a practice In London as well na In Philadelphia Ho Is t one of tho numerous nu-merous phyalclana of celebrity ot whom Smollett and Oliver Wendell Holmes were example who hare excelled In letters na well ns In medicine Dr Mitchell well known both at poet and as novelist and It Is I not unlikely theta thet-a mil on one of lilt books would hnva pleased hint even more than the Idln burgh degree |