The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-16

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the proficiency of pupils in each, and
then the several professors of the two
schools of practice certified sccording-
ly, and the Regents, on these certifi-
Gates, issued diplomas to the graduates,
according as they finished in the old or
new school. The professors were not
required to sign diplomas
This seemed a fair and necessary ar
rangement, considering that this is q
State institution, in which all have
equal rights But the impossible gulf
which divides the two schools, was not
to be almost bridged over so easily. 1t
is easy to see that it would not do to
| admit that, in all the exact branches,
| the two schools were alike, and that
| they differed only in theories of admin
| istering remedies, which neither could
| demonstrate to the conviction of the
other, and in which each had equal
! faith, and seemed, so far as the COM
munity could see, to have equal means,
and an equal need to cast the burden
| of the result on Providence.
The public has seen that profession
al ethics will not permit antipathic
doctors to meet the homeopathic in
consultation, although the case be sur
gical or obstetrical, or an inquest of
| lunacy which does not touch their diff
| ference in theory and practice; nor to
practice in public hospitals where the
others are admitted. Can It be expect
ed that they will be permitted to teach
in Univerity where homeopathic doc
tors teach2 Shall they conduct the
student through the branches of chem
istry, anatomy, physiology, geneology
and surgery, and thus lead them up to
the very door of the professor of ho-
moepathic theory and praetice9 If they
do this, how can they refuse to receive
at the door of their school the theory
and practice, students who have been
conducted through chemistry, anato
my, physiology and surgery by homoe-
pathic professors2 And then so many
of the bars would be let down that the
other would not be visible to the null
titude.
This would never do. The faculty
of the Detroit Medical College saw this
plainly. But for the fidelity of medi-
cal colleges, medical ethics might grow
lax. The Detroit-as every medical
college should-publishes a medical
journal. In this way the faculty can
keep themselves before the public with
out violating the ethics by advertising.
The faculty brought the matter before
the State Medical Society where it was
pending for year. But recently the
Society, after an angry contest, adopt
ed resolution condemning the state
of affairs at the University, and pre-
senting an amendment to the consti-
tuition, for action at the next annual
meeting, refusing fellowship to any
graduate of the University while the
present bifurcated arrangement con-
tinues. DIR. rockingham of the regu-
lar faculty. and DIR. Rynd, a Regent of
the University, resigned their member
ship in the Society, in communications
denouncing its course as narrow, bigo-
oted, and disgraceful to an enlightened
profession.
As the censure was voted by two to
one, it is likely that the disfellowship
amendment will be adopted next year,
and then all the faculty of the medical
school of the University, and all its
graduates, will be refused recognition
by the State Society, and no member
will be permitted to meet them in con-
sultation, or to recognize them as doc
tors.
For our part we cannot see how the
antipaths could do less, without break
ing down the lines, and letting the
common people think that the differ
ence between the two schools is ineon-
into the region of conviction and ex-
pertinent. On the contrary, it seems
to us that they do not go far enough
They should forbid the study of any
branches of education in common
with boys who are intended for homoe-
pathic physicians, or who may become
such, or with the children of homoe-
pathic doctors.
IL antipathic and homeopathic dee
tors may go together through the al
phabet, reading, writing, arithmetic,
grammar, geography, natural philoso-
ply, and so on, their paths will be the
same through more than three-quar-
ters of their training. And even when
they separate to enter upon their spe-
cial medical course, their studies are
the same through medical chemistry,
anatomy, physiology, pathology, sur
gerry and obstetrics, until they come to
the question what to give, when each
enters on the tentative stage. This
makes the line of division of the two
schools" too narrow and shadowy.
The antipaths should travel nos one
step of the way with the homoeopaths.
There should be antipathie infant
schools, and schools for all stages of
education. There sbould be an anti
pathic alphabet, an antipathie multi
plication table, an antipathie grammar
and philosophy, and an antipathie rod
forantipathic backs. Only in this way
can the line be kept up. Everybody
can see that it is fast relaxing by the
action and reaction of these two
SCHOOLS" on each other, and by the
notifications in the practice of the Old
School, which has cast off the princi-
pal features of its old practice within
twenty or thirty years, and is, in fact,
in IFS main practice, the newest of the
schools of medicine. CONNER
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