Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05

til 1647, when he applied to the Legislature
for the charter of the Philadelphia College
of Medicine.
This institution, nnder the energy and pop
ularity of DR.. McClintock's management, 500 N
reached degree of prosperity unrivaled in
the history of medical colleges. In 1850, at
the end of its second year, it numbered no
less than two hundred and twenty pupils, and
1t became necessary to give two full COURSES
OF instruction. summer course and winter
course, in order to accommodate all the ap-
plicants. At this period, DR.. McClintock's
labors were almost Incredible, vet he seemed
to perform them all with perfect ease. He
would frequently deliver sir lectures in the
course of day and evening, besides attend
ing to his private practice, and numerous 9TH
er duties.
1t would naturally seem that a man of DIR.
McClintOcks scientific character, after having
acquired wealth and fame in the pursuit of
his arduous life, would be disposed to seek
some relaxation from active duty, or that, at
least, he would not now desire to enter into
new, and more than ever laborious underta-
kings. Yet it is so, and we now come to the
most remarkable part of the history of this
been directed for several years past to the de-
ception and loss suffered by the public from
the general prevalence and sale of injurious
patent medicines" and to the formation of
some efficient plan to counteract this acknowl-
edged evil.
His reflections finally led him to the be-
lief that the only true method of eradicating
bad medicines from use, was to substitute
good ones, and that this could only be done
by furnishing in popular form, such prescrip-
tons as the diseases of this climate most de-
manded, honestly prepared, in accordance with
the rules of science and the teachings Of COM
mon sense and experience. But who should be
the man high in the profession, who would con-
descend to leave the attractions of brilliant
career, and amid the sneers of his brethren,
place himself, as it were, on level with the
quack, solely from sense of duty, in order
that the public might be enabled to feel the
proper degree of confidence in this mighty re-
form Clearly there was but one man living
who, in position like this, could afford and
,ooud dare to place the weight of his name
and influence in such scale. That man was
Dr. James McClintock himself
Accordingly his resolution was taken, and
in the autumn of 1853, he entered into an ar
rangment whereby twelve of his favorite pre-
scriptions were to be made carefully and sci
eltifcally from the purest drugs, by an
experienced chemist under his own supervi-
sion and guarantee in such quantities and at
such prices as that the public might procure
them without inconvenience. The expert
ment succeeded. An immediate demand
arose for DIR. McClintock's medicines where
ever they were head of, and as fast as they
became known, their own merits caused them
to supersede ell others. Their introduction
is destined undoubtedly, to be one of the
greatest features of the age, and their bene-
fits will form a noble and lasting monument
to the skill and public spirit of the great dis
eoverer