The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-18
Mor7jcal Schools.


South was its chief supporter. ihc NofIh
was rather too economical for the doctors.
O)d women's "posscts" and "yarbs" went
far to keep down doctors bills aud as INC
nrofcssiou didn't "pay SO mighty well the
ambition to become doctor was mol very
extensive Besides, the old folks diah
fancy the idea Of spending few hundreo
dollars to make such things as doctors. Inc
bows were sent out TO take care OF them
selves, and to make money in more deity
ways than riding about ply sicking people.
The South, less careful Of money, and
making it with toerable success, felt quite a
taste for the professions. The negroes did
the field work, and young sprIgs oil the r.
F. VS. fund there never were better +. f.
VS. on ear,h] were. great many ofthem, to
be provided for with law, physic, and dlvln'
ity, as the gentlemanly occupations " were
scarce. In those days, travelling being alto
ccther done by the stages, communication
was slow and limited, and it was rare that a
man from the great cities made his appear
The cut aud fabrics Of city peoples dresses
reached the country slowly, and sometimes
never were reproduced amongst the rural
population. SO that when son of man
OF means returned from Philadelphia people
we're as much excited and as anxious TO see
him as we would be now were the Emperor
of the Flowcry Kingdom TO make bis appear
auce amongst US to see and crlticlSe him.
His coat, his pantaoops, his hat, and his
boots, were examined and admired. People
seemed proud to take the first dose OF calo'
mel that he prescribed. And the family to
which that young man belonged became tX
allied in the community. The kindred OF
GALES or HlrPoCRATEs could not have been
more honored or proud Of their relationship.
The Philadelphia School Of Medicine sent
lis graduates all over the South, and Phia-
deIphia was sympathizer with the South.
The genius and predictions Of her people
were southern, and she took up the south
ern cause with such warmth that she was
one of the first to mob abolitionists. The
southern student was at home in Philadel-
phia, and was almost the pet Of her people.
He had his own way pretty much. DR..
RUSH was the great doctor-the great al.
thority with the South, as the free pouring
out of our best blood in sacrifice to bis name
proved.
But this reciprocal good feeling between
A. bn
interrupted at later date, aud the southern
man came to feel as stranger in city he
had considered his home. Its people passed
from one stage to another of folly and ia
na,iciSm until, just as the war began, it was
worse than Boston in its iliberality and Pre-.
JUDGE towards the South.
With the alteration OF the public mind in
Philadelphia from TIC liberal and just senti-
ments and true republican spirit which were
imbibed from the Revolution and the days
of WASHINGTON, ADAMS, and JEFFERSON, the
authority Of Philadelphia in the School OF
Medicine began to 80 down, and tinally be-
came inferior to the schools Of other places.
Southern doctors seldom graduated there;
and school gotten up by impostors at last
issued diplomas, under whose authority meu
went abroad to carry on the "kiling p.ofes-
sion." For years tue certificates of these i'm
posters answered the purpose of the charla-
tans. The Philadelphia diploma had fallen
so low that it seemed not worth protecting.
Then sprang up colleges in many places.
New York became competitor, and estab-
lished school with much iibcr1lity, whose
Faculty was composed Of some of the great
est lights of the profession. 1t has no.
outstripped those Of Philadelphia, and is
steadily growing in power ard Influence.
Baltimore has Il respectable school. This
city has one Of some thirty years standing,
which has made good name in the llud;
and other southern cities have fine schools.
South Carolina had superb medical depart.
mcnt attached to Columbia College, Of which
the famous DR.. COOPER was distinguished
teacher. LEBER, too, won there his national
reputation, which was involved in clouds by
the war and his course upon the occurrence
of that sad event. Now, Columbia College,
like South Carolina, has fallen under the
fearful blight Of reconstruction. Her halls
no longer resound with the teachings OF
great and good men. They are abandoned
to a barbari>m that is destructive to order,
peace, and civilization.
The purpose of this art Gle was to notice
a claim set up for the New York School Of
Medicine, which raises an important ques-
ton for the country. 1t is proposed by the
advocates of that school to make tia central
lied authority, aud to cause it to overshadow,
if not absorb, all other schools. This coun-
try is too extensive for that. 1t extends
from the lower frigid to the torrid zone,
and disease is so widely different in one part
of it from what it is in another that unques.
tionably it would be better for the country
| that schools should be established making
disease specially Investigated and treated &C.
cording TO the locality or latitude of each
school. Certainly the public good would re-
quire at least two great schools-onc for the
| North and one for the South. We do not
believe that a northern school could any
more excel in considering and treating south
ern diseases than could southern school SO
excel in northern diseases. Two schools
with lesser Institutions in several localities
could unfold disease in all its phases of Ioca'
ton and latitude with the best success,
while, if we are confined to one, the medi
cal science would inevitably be subjected to
defects detrimental to society.