The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-30
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The New orleans scheols af Meaicine-
what TNey ought 10 ne.

The New orleans schpols af Medicine
what Tsey ought To ne.
Editor Democrat IL see from a recent num-
bel. OF the DEMouRAf that Speaker Bush has,
addressed d letter TO each member Of the
Legislature In regard to the repatriation Of the
.,.gld teokery," alias st. Louis HOTEL alias
3 Etate-Hoilse,
!. Now, sir, propose to make few s,ieges=
tigtis, which hope the Legislature will take
Into serious consideration.
I'm the first place, the old 81. Louis Hotel Is
totally untitled for the purposes of a Htate-
House. II was built for d hotel, and as a mat
ter u course, the principle Of acoustics were
The Senate chamber and Representative hall
1t is almost impossible to hear what is going
pm. IN the Hobbies 1t is utterly impossible
i to hear anything. save the solnd of
country taxpayers. when we visit the
Capitol, like 10 glide Iii quietly and see
and hear what our representatives are doing,
but. ID the dining. room and rotunda of the
g. Louis Hotel IL is impossible for them TO
do 80. Again, the purchase Of that 'troekerv''
was a cheat and fraud upon the State. and
the iniamies, villainies and aceursed asso-
clatioils CONNECTED with it, and which will
adhere TO II like the shirt of Nesslis, will
cause the proud soul Of every patriotic Loi-
isianiHt to fecoil back with Instructive horror
Whenever he. enters Its aeeulsed portals. No.
Yet II be sold, even at a sacrifice, on Let Il
tumble Into d mass Of ruins, that there may
mot remain any track, trace or remetn-
bfance" Of the hell-born orgies that were
once held within Its polluted threshold, and
where liberty was struck down by military
despotistn, and where the sons Of Louisiana
incurred over the PROSTATE form of their
widowed mother,
in the name of all that is just 10 the State
Yet us remove, and forever, tho "reminiscences
surrounding the Hput now orrtipied nd a Stata-
House, It can be. done, and That too with a
cost which will be but baaatelle.
~ make, Then, the. following suggestions
The University building belongs TO the State. |
fitted for q Htate4IIouse In all It's appoint |
mehtss 1t was built with due regard 10 the |
principles OF acoustics, for within its large
and airy legttiieAruoms every word uttered can /
be. heard distinctly. as within an ordinary |
private room. The buildings themselves are |
The most beautiful in the State, and / am
pertain that there iH not a taxpayer OF citizen |
N The state but would point proudly to It as
che StateAHouse of the South.
But you ask me what will do with the /
present occupants law and medical de- |
pHrtmentsf answer. that tho Charity Hos |
pItal Medical College ),oll building can be pur..
about sl5,oo0 This building was err erected i' OK
presely for medical college, and it's large
lecture rooms are capable Of seating 500 stl,-
dents. This building Is Immediately opposite
the Charity Hospital. But what, say YOU,
huildingY Why, consolidate the two schools. |
double the professors Tor each branch. as hi |
the Bellevue Hospital in New York with ita |
500 students and IN less than the half Of u de-
cade we will build up n medical school In New
Orleafs-with 800 students which will not |
only pour thousands of dollars into the Golfers
oil her citizens, and be their pride and boast.
but the great medical school of the South.
Before the war there were over Ave hundred
students attending medical lectures In New
Orleans at the two sebools-why cannot we
have that number again and even more
4, For fear that YOU and your readers may think
"a xtt pm t1f Mi, ,...Il
plate upon what gronndsl base my opinion as
p the building up Of such a school In New
Orleans. In the first place, the student of
|!nedicine IN New Orleans medical college
has free access to the grandest hospital In The
world Here he meets with every known
disease Incident 10 the South. He has an OPP
portunity Of learning the practice Of medicine
ut the bedside OF the six thousand patients
who annually enter the wards of the hospital
and In the dead-house attached he learns.
from post n1ortem examination, the patho-
logical condition during life, and the cause or
causes 81 death In every department. Of the
ample means of harning the mystic art
Independent Of the two medical schools
NOW In existence, IN tho city, the Charity Hos
|pital itself would be school, far superior to
|rnan who Intends TO prosecute the profession ,
|of medicine In the South, Once the great ad-
|yantages for the study of medicine are made
known, not only through the brilliant attain
Schools, but especially those advantages of
hospital practice found nowhere else in the
world, nine-tenths OF the medical students of
alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas
Georgia, Florida, and of course all of Lou
siana, and parts Of Tennessee, Kentucky and
Missouri would flock to OUR consolidated
schools, and soon our present paucity of num-
pers would swell into hundreds
But, say you, you have disposed of the
Sdical, what wifi you do with the, Law De-
5afeAs entp Why that department can be
fery Assily accommodated IN a half dozen
ways. The second story OF the Library build
Ing could be readily fitted up, or one Of the
lecture rooms Of the Charity Hospital Med
cal College could be appropriated for the Law
chool, or one of the many large rooms in
nat building could be used for that purpose,
PARTICULARLY as the law class has never been
very large.
Now, sir, what do you think OF my sugges-
Iionsp Are they not plausible? II they are in +,
accordance with your views / hope that you
viii join me In carrying them out. With your
permission will return before the meeting of
The Legislature to the subject.
A ut.x- D.&