Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-15
More Doctors.

The Medical colleges are, this season
sending out an unusually large number
OF graduates. It is said that in the
United States, there is a larger percent.
age of physicians than other countries
This we have no means of proving OF
denying, but it is probably true. That
there are too many parchments given tc
unworthy practitioners, we have nc
doubt. In New York City alone, last
week, we noticed, 100 from Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, -four from
Iowa., New York Homeopathic College
80, Zone from Iowa., and one from Cal.
cutta, another Allopath College about a
hundred, and a Veterinary College a
half dozen. Albany, N. Y, Philadel-
phia, St. Louis, Chicago, Louisville
KY, and our Iowa Colleges, at Iowa
City and Keokuk, have been proportion
ately prolific.
From the New York addresses We
CLEAN some excellent thoughts. 1t
Gov. Dorsheimer, for the Allopaths
during an able discourse, said:
The physician has lately been invest.
ed with a power little less than miracu.
lous. He now holds in his hands a huid
which spreads the oblivion of sleep ev.
en- over the surgeons table. The ply.
stefan has been ennobled by the wider
sphere in which he moves. He has ris,
en- above the mists of superstition and
walks in the light of reason. He is the
keenest of Investigators, the most en-.
terprising of discoveries. No problem
is too subtle for his analysis, no enter
prise too daring for his courage. A
profession which has it's incentive in
the purpose to alleviate human suffer
ing has reflected upon the character OF
those who follow it. A noble spirit OF
philanthropy has been awakened-a
spirit which is indeed the fairest child
of the new philosophy. To it we owe
all these exhibitions of benevolence-
the hospital, the asylum, the school fol
the blind and deaf. 1t has given to wo-
nan a public career. Twenty years ago
it led Florence Nightingale to the hos
pitfalls of Scutari, and founded a new
order of knighthood. During our civil
wal it enlisted an army of those who
saved, which. with a courage no danger
could daunt and a charity no demand
could weary, followed the bloody path
Of the enemies that destroyed. Germa.
ny and France were the only parties to
the contest of 1870; but on every battle
field were men and women of every Eu-
ropean race, wearers of the red cross,
the badge of a holier crusade. And to-
day the only CLEAN of sunshine which
has fallen upon the rude quarrel of
Russian and Turk has been the spirit
which has led Englishmen into beleag-
ured Plevna and persuaded men of the
world and women Of fashion, here in
New York, to range themselves into
what we may hope wa a prophetic un-
ion, round the standard of the Crescent
and the Cross.
And for the H%omeopaths, DR.. Dow
ling, in the course of his remarks, refer
red to the dismal fact that the United
States had, in proportion to it's popula.
ton, more physicians han any other
country in the world. This he attribut-
ed, seriously speaking, to the unhealthy
and luxurious habits of the American
people, ironically, to the well-known
c%heerfulness with which every Ameri-
can paid his doctors bills. He alluded
with great pride to the vast strides
which homeopathy had made in this
country. Fifty years ago there was in
this country only one homeopathic
physician-now there were 5000. The
bitterness between the two factions
was also passing away, and it was now
universally admitted that learning, ca.
pacity and dignity were amply repre-.
scented in the ranks of homeopathy
He expressed the hope that this better
feeling was an augury of the speedy un'
ion of the entire medical profession, te
be established upon the basis of impair
tial scientific investigation.
This sentiment strikes us as an i'm
provement on the feeling existing be.
tween the two branches of the medica,
Profession in Iowa, and we give it Oul
preference. Let us have true scientific
investigation, on the Baconian plan.