New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-05
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF TRR
NETWORK HOMEOPATHIC MEDE.
CAL COLLEGE.

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The second annual commencement Of this College
took place yesterday afternoon in the hall of the
Historical Society, at which hrge number of ladies
aud gentlemen were present. VIM. Cullen Bryant
presided. The exercises commenced with music.
after which prayer was offered up BY the Rev. Dr.
Osgood. Mr.. Bryant then conferred the degrees
upon graduates IA follows:
w Ht:, RsDso Neville ss sysn b sISs
Manifold prpI a JisSS a. ss'Ta1 Sp.
III. M asDn1 w ii1S aaoss '
Do lstels Pisa italyi Luther NJ Lee Hartford Conn;
Packard Brdaswser M~a James W Savage. Bangor Me-
Charles G Smith, New,Yoa City William hsIknsss Fish.
rss rsss asss
Yew.York City Samuel w. Taylor Cambridge Mass Viz
81 %s 4 SsS.s WA W'f S. WON
V. Miller. Pompey. N. T.
At the conclusion of this ceremony Mr. Bryant
said he hoped that in receiving their degrees they
were guided by high and disinterested motives.
They were relied upon to i've down the calamnies
that had been cast upon the Homeopathic practice.
The vsledictory was delivered by Prof j. II.
Ward and was an able and interesting address, He
sketched the grow Of homeopathy In this country,
and evidenced the fact Of ito progress and Success ~
referring 70 thiryve hundred practitioners OF the
system. and the twenty-five thousand names at
tached TO a petition presented by Senator Wilson,
asking for the appointment of homeopathic bureau
for tee army. lie trusted the time would como when
that petition would be answered favorably, and not
only in the army hospitals. bnt 10 all public and state
institutions, for the cure OF disease, Homeopathy
would be admitted on equal terms with other sys.
TENS Of medicine. The Nsw-York Academy Of
M.dcae In their zeal TO prevent the introduction Of
homeopathy in the army, at late session resolved,
"That the practice, wherever subjected 10 accu.
rate observation, has failed TO establish itself in
any hospital s" "that in the countries where
it originated and attained its fullest degree
Of development il has not been introduced into the
army and navy" There are regularly established
hospitals ia many of the large cite, Of Europe, and
in a few in our own country. in some OF which tho
efficacy of the practice has been tested side by scs
with allopathy within the walls Of the same insttu.
ton; and wherever the trial has been made It has
demonstrated the new system superior to the old the
results comparing most favorably with any hospital
reports ever made. There are fourishing homeo.
pathic hospitals in st. Petersburg aud Moscow; five
ip Austria, three Of which are in Vienna; three In
Hungary; two in Italy-st Turin and Nice; four IN
Sicily; and three in Germany-oDe Ct Bremen, In
Hanover; one at Munich, IN Bavaria; and one
at LEIPZIG, in Saxony. In France, we have hospi.
tails in Paris in Bordeaux, and Saiseiiles IN Prus-
sis one at Berlin; and in Spain, homeopathy 10
practised in the general hospital IN Madrid. In
England there are dspeusares in all the large cties
The HOMEOPATHIC hospital established in London in
1850. about four years since was placed on An on
lxrged and permanent basis. Its reorganization az
large metropolitan hos, iisl was celebrated on tho
authority Of The London Times, in public dinner
by host of the diguitaries OF the kingdom, the
Duke Of Wellington presiding In response TO toast
10 The Queen, the Prince Consost and the Royal
Family" Lord Rokesby bore his testimony to tho
benefits they had derived from Homeopathy, in the
royal family in the srmy and navy, in the expedt.
ton along tho Niger aud in the Crmea. Ii IL grau.
fying to be able TO record on the authority OF the
Registrar General, testimony thus publicly given.
that while tho deaths ia the Alopathic metropolitan
hospitals were 6-lG0 per cent, the deaths IN the
Homeopathic hospital, including those of cholera,
had been but 6-lOO per cent This hospital now
placed on an enlarged and permanent basis, was
opened in 1850, and had done good service In the
cause of humanity, having afforded relief TO- over
". 900 patients. Tho Trustees of the Mississippi
State Hospital at Nachez, some years since appoint
ed Homeopathic physicians aud surgeons, to take
the place of the most distinguished phyd-
clans of the old school in that city In announcing
their decision they declared the election OF Home.
opathists TO preaido over the institution was based
upon the superior success OF the Homeopathic tres
uaent in yellow fever. The statistics OF this, -
compared With the New-York hospitals, show
gain of per cent. Equally hattering has been the
Trial Of Homeopathy in the Protestant half-Orphsn
Asylum, and other charities in this city. In race OK
such facts. We may well ask if the interests OF sea
ence or the cause Of humanity will be advanced ~
tho resolution Of the Academy, " That Homeopathy
has failed TO establish itself IN any hospital An
application is Just being made to the Legislature OF
this State to place just share OF the wards OF Belle
vue Hospital under Homeopathic treatment. The
PRAYER OF tho petitioner is made, because Home
opathy has ceased to he an experiment. and shsi-
lenges to DO tested on its merits, side BY aide WITH
Allopathy.
The speaker concluded by wishing the graduates