The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-04
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT AT LAW.
80 UG1 - RENEE ST. i


Our readers were, without doubt, as
much surprised as ourselves, to learn
that the Board of Regents Of the State
University, at their meeting in Decem-
Der, resolved to establish the Medical
Department of our State University at
Lawrence, and to ask an appropriation
by the Legislature to put It in immedi-
ate operations We have been to some
pains to ascertain whether the move
ment had been urged by reliable pro-
fessional men. and we are told that
even the physicians Of Lawrence had
no intimation of such action.
Now, we respectfully submit that the
matter of locating our State school OF
medicine belongs peculiarly to the med
ical profession of the State, as they not
only bear their pro rata tax for its sup
port, bat are the source from which its
patronage must flow besides being the
proper tribunal to decide upon ques-
true medical art. 2ls = h'ii-
If there be one fact thoroughly set
tied as to the success of a medical
school, it is that the school must be To-
Gated in commercial metropolis
where population gEayitRtes where
ample hospital material exists; where
dissectingr facilities are abundant; 9 IN
short, where the education may be
made practical and ACKNOWLEDGMENT
merely didactic OF theoretical. The
State of Michigan presents conclusive
argument by which all new States
should profit. With one of the finest
and best endowed schools of general
literature in the country, her medical
department, located in the village OF
Ann Arbor-stands before the profess
- 4 oil 1Grn k0
some of its graduates, whom we know
to be good and worthy physicians,) as
a third rate medical school. Had il
been wisely LOCATED at Detroit, with its
ample endowments, we believe it could
have been made the most celebrated
school of medicine in the Northwest
There is lesson to be learned in this
folly of our sister State, the gist OF
which is that every man should stick to
his trade and when the educator, fully
versed, perhaps, in the requirements OF
general education, is called upon to
decide questions in which he is no ex.
pert, he had better seek council of those
who can advise him. Ne sut0r WItrO
crepilGm. 100 s,.s.s. 4.G.tr
With the magnificent future before
our State University, we have looked
forward to the time when its medical
department, properly located and under
the proper auspices, should become ar
institution of which the medical profes
sion, and our general people might fee
justly proud. We do not propose tC
see the Michigan folly re-enacted il
Kansas, while we have voice to raise
against il. We learn that at the mex
meeting, i'll June, the regents propose
to organize the Faculty for the fall term
The State Medical Society meets next
May, and we desire to see prompt &C.
ton taken by that body. In order t.
have digested plan upon which to act
we nominate Drs. Root and Spcck, o
Wyandotte; DIR. Trueworthy, of Empo
ria Drs. Stormont and Tefft, of Tope
ka; DrS. Cochrane and Burge, of Atch
ison, and DIR. Martin, of Highland, t
be committee to report upon the sub
ject. In Addison to this, we call upoI
the representatives to the Legislator,
from our county, and request our med
zeal friends throughout the State to d.
the same with their. respective delega
tions-to vote for no appropriations t.
| the State University unless it be con
clusively shown that our money is no
to be expended in planting dwarf med
ical and law colleges, which, instead o
being credit to our people, can onl,
! absorb their substance, and bear IL,
fruit ....E
We shall have more to say upon tn,
| subject in our next number, and w
| trust the profession throughout tn
| State, whose peculiar heritage this med
ical department is, will speak their sen
timents freely through our columns
| LeaCenec0Tth Medical Herald.