The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-02
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In country villages and small towns
the enmities of the Medical profession
are proverblal, even among those OF the
same school of medicine. And between
those OF opposite schools the feeling Is,
of course, correspondingly more exclu-
sive and intolerant. In the large cities,
Medicine, like everything else, partakes
OF metropolitan influences and :
more afRIiative, or at least acquieseeh'
and unrepellant in its ASSOCIATIONS
Still, even in the great centers' as In
New York, a bitterness has bsen raging
between the Allopaths and the aOneo-
paths on the subject Of their respective
treatments of the cholera. And the
feeling has been exacerbated by the
sanitary authorities taking sides with
the Allopaths in the-care and manage
neut of the general hospitals where
cholera patients were removed when
proper quarters were not obtaina-
BILE elsewhere. The New York Tribune
denounces as high-handed the decis-
ion of the authorities, and claims that
such policy is both nonsensical and
detrimental. While ignoringt the merits
or claims of either school, that paper
claims that to discriminate between
them IS an anti-progressive and Chi
nese blunder, unworthy OF the times in
which we live. It takes for granted
that peoplecan be killed and cured by
either system, and that wherever they
have a preference as to the experiment
OF chances, their preferences should be
consulted.
In like manner, the Michigan people
are being edited by controversy
among the Medical men of that State,
in the matter of the University at Ann
Arbor. 1t seems that proposition
has been made in the Legislature
to establish a Chair of Homeo-
pathy in the University. This propo-
sition meets with determined oppo-
sition from the Regular School
who, it seems, have had charge of the
medical department of the University
from the outset, and who therefore re.
sent any proposed infringement upon
the science of @ate1-ia Afedica as taught
under their auspices. They claim that
such infringement would demoralize
the reputation of the school, by making
| it neither flesh nor fowl, but a sort OF
hermaphrodite affair that would be
without character and influence in the
profession. There is some force in this
view of the case, as every one must adj,
NIT, and therefore we think that tht
following suggestions of the Detroi
Post are well put:
Such IA confederation is neither desir
| able nor honorable for either party
I Therefore we suggest a compromise
which we believe will be honorable &c
| both parties. honorable to the State
| indeed a credit to the State-and highly
advantageous to the homeopathic. We
| suggest a separate medical college, com
| plete in all its branches, for the homeo-
paths. We suggest that the Legisla.
ture grant to the homeopathic society Of
| this State, for the purpose of establish.
equal, or nearly equal, to that bestowed
| upon the allopathic college. Let the
\ homeopathic college be connected with
I the Htllsdale College, or the Agricul-
turnl College. If II were connected
with the Hillsdale College, it would be
near Detroit, where hospital practice is
attainable. and the friends OF the Hills.
dale College, seeing that their institu.
/ ton would be so much benefited by q
new and popular adjunct, would aid
no doubt, in procuring grounds and
! buildings. We have been told, by q
homeopathic friend, that the College Of
I Homeopathy located in Cleveland, Ohio
can be induced to remove to this State
| bringing all its patronage, its corps oil
| professors, and its libraries, If some
such Inducements are held out to it.