Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-15
oUAcKs AND THEIR DIPLOMAS.

QUACKS AND THEIR DIPLOMAS.
The more audacious the quack the
more ponderous his diplomas. Mar
win, the woman butcher, who was
pardoned out of the Nebraska peni-
tertiary by James l for a purse,
always pointed 10 his diploma as an
evidence of surgical skill. Mumey.
The horse Jockey, who "A extern
sively advertised by the Omaha
Herald and Republican. as an
eminent surgeon, exhibited three
or four diplomas, one of them
signed and sealed by the faculty of
Kings College, Dublin. Aldrich, the
bigamist masher, had several diplo.
mas from Philadelphia eclectric and
so called medical colleges. All these
~sheepskins were the product of bogus
diploma factories. The charlatans
engaged in the manufacture
of bogus diplomas have ope-
rated extensively, not only in
this county but all over Europe.
Their headquarters have been Cincin-
natl and Philadelphia. The sale of
bogus American diplomas has become
such a scandal of late that Minister
| White at Berlin deemed it his duty to
call the attention of the government
to them. The name of an American
diploma became synonymous with for
gerry and fraud, and the w~ell-earned
reputation of our physicians and sur
geons was furnished by the venal eff
forts of the bogus diploma dealers.
Philadelphia, which is the seat Of two
of the foremost medical colleges of
the American continent, was made
the headquarters of the quacks who
dealt in bogus diplomas, and although
the condition of things Wal no secret,
and the attention Of the authorities
was repeatedly called to the evil, moth
ing was done to check it.
Some time since tie Philadelphia
Record determined to investigate the
matter to its bottom. A member of
its staff was employed to ferret out
the institutions where diplomas were
sold, to examine the charters on which
they grounded their claim, to obtain
full details of the manner in whichthe |
bogus sheepskins were purchased, and
to report fully all facts ascertained.
The city editor of the Record paid
$130, attended seven lectures, suo-
mitted to electrical treatment, so that
the professors said che might know
how the patients felt" then wrote an
elaborate thesis, passed an examina-
ton, and received adiploma authoriz.
him to treat and cure disease-alI |
lone in twenty-fvehours time actually
spent in reading and attendance at
Having gone through the diploma
mil the Record man made a thorough
Investigation of the whole bogus Dip
oma business and finally in conjunc-
ion with the government officers
caused the arrest of the chief of the
,ang of scoundreLs DIR. John Buchanan
who is now in prison awaiting the &C.
ion of The grand jury.
The wholesale diploma manufac-
,urer had his agents in the principal
of Europe, and among the
names os quacks who purchased diplo-
mas from him were parties resld-
ng in Berlin, Vienna, London,
Havana, Cologne, Cassel,
3adeu, Prague, Edinburg, Malaga,
hamburg and other European cities.
These names are published to the
World and the quacks will doubtless
ind their various localities too hot for
hem.
1t was shown that five quack facto-
les have been in operation in Phila-
L. Philadelphia Eclectic
.1edical College. 2. American Univer-
ity of Philadelphia. 3. Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery.
Quaker City Business College. 8.
Philadelphia Electropathic Institu-
ion.