The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-01
INDIANAPOLIS LETTERS.
[From our own Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 30.
A VICTIM.


was the protracted discussion upon
the case of DR.. Cole. Of Kokomo, and
his ignominious expulsion from the
organization. The head and front of
his offending was but a trivial affair."
He was called upon last year to pre-
pare "a paper upon The Progress of
Medical Science, to be read before
the Society, Having an extensive
practice, including some curious sur
gical experiments, he found himself
pressed for time, and rather than dis
appoint his brethren of the expected
feast, he borrowed an article upon the
same subject, which learned brother
of the Empire State had published.
| For this peccadillo he was tried, con-
victed and expelled. His. usual luck
seems to have failed him. When on
| trial, few weeks since, for the still
more trivial offence of killing man,
he was much more fortunate. True,
the killing was admitted, but Dan.
VOORHEES,, with the aid of DIR. Barnes,
our great expert, " !, brought him
through triumphantly, and he left the
court room hero, subject to spas
modic attacks of : impulsive hom-'
icidal monomania. Where was the
Tall Sycamore and where was the " ex-
pert when the indignant bowls Of
the sanguiniyerous horde. burstupon
the ears OF the : big medicine man
of Kokomo? Why did not Daniel
come to judgment? and why didn't
the . expert comet time? Is i'm
1yfxy >lao
crime? or isn't it so easy to bamboozle
hundred NJ. DIS as a country jury?
.sE, FEMALE PHYSICIANS
Will find cause for sineerso gratitude
in the generous action of their cru
dite brethren at this State conven-
ton. There is an intimation in a
resolution which was laid on the ia
BILE for consideration at the next
meeting, that at some future time,
the society may DE willing to rec
ognize women as practitioners of med
icine, subject, only to the, same sgre-'t
quirements of education. and observ-
ance of ethics as are required of
men, 1t is fortunate for the female
practitioners of the healing art that
they are not excluded from all hope
of recognition in their profession by
their magnanlmous competitors
The idea that a properly educated
and duly qualified female physician
must wait for these gentlemen to con-
rider for year or two the propriekS
of . recognizing her before she caAs
practice among her own sex, (and
among ours if we want her and she
accepts the call is too outrageously
and ridicuiously absurd for serious
consideration. Their recognition.
withheld or granted, will be of no
value except in determining the
measure of their enlightened liberal
ity or sluggish bigotry. Public opin-
ion has long since decided that ''wo-
mans sphere " includes the practice
of medicine, at least a certain
class of practice among her
own sex, which is too prof
table for the members of the State
society to surrender cheerfully to its
legitimate claimants. al.e 1914
The society does well to come down
with their heaviest artillery. Both
the doctors and the public ought to
be protected, either by State or Ma
tional legislation, from this most ia
| famous class OF spectators in human
misery. The dentists tried at the
last session of the Legislature to Sc
cure the passage of an act calculated
| to weed imposters out Of their pro-
tession. They argued the subject be-
fore the Judiciary. Committee with
great ability, and obtained favorable
report; but there was no one to pre-
sent their claims with professional
ability on the floors of the Senate and
/ House, and they failed. If the doc
tors will make common cause with
| the dentists and try it again, they will
succeed. Such law viii be immeas-
urably beneficial to the public. Let
them try to relieve their profession
from the ignorant and unprincipled
of both sexes, and they will have the
| sympathy and support Of the intelli-
gent public. Ii they can divert the
money now paid by dupes to the scores
of "quacks' that infest every town
and city into the pockets of duly
qualified physicians, there will be no
occasion to-sreiuse recognition to a
practitioner on the ground of sex.
MR.. RICHTER,
our Street Commissioner. might be
supposed, from the nature Of his Of
fee. to be somewhat careful as to his
ways. 1t would be but reasonable to
expect him TO curb the promptings of
| avarice aud to persevere, without
tagging, in the faithful discharge of
his important official duties. But ex-
pectations are often fearfully dispro-
,orfionato fo onI