The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-04-09
BUCHANAN CONFESSES.

Dean buchanan OF bogus meilcal ui-
ploma not"riety, has confessed to Il Phil
adclphia Record reporter all about how
bogus doctors We're turned ont. The
following is part of the Rc"ra's story:
When Buchanan WAS entrapped. and the
trick of his alleged drowning was com
pletely exposed by his arrest in Michigan
last September. the old man saw that his
last hope of escape had vani>hetl-so he
accepted the inevitable and bowed to the
supremacy of the law. On returning to
this city he promised t. do all that man
could do to right the wrongs he had com
mitteh. He confessed judi, ment of custer
in the two suts brou. hit by the common
wealth to annul the charter OF the Eclec-
tic medical college OF Pennsylvania ana
the American University of Philadelphia.
Tess Judgment of custer for him az ,in>i
the Livingston University OF America.
chartered by the state OF West Virginia.
which charter has been alIuulled by the
Legislature OF West Virginia. He ha>
given up all the books he hdd-tie mat
REGULATION bucks. the minutes OF faculty.
alumni miuutcS-and Il mass of valudh!,
inf"r.natIou. Including i list III foreign
diplomas sold and catalogue of All
dresses including over ) 900 names a..
persons vino had cnrresp nIfiei with hint
lie gives the names OF Wholesale drn-.
gists in Philadelphia who have sold hi,
diplomas. and he gives the names ct tl'
parties to whom the diplomas we've issued
He relates how diplomas were signed b
the faculty: how in one instance three
professors for - each 81 .ned 800 dipl"
mas for him. and how for. So 80 the d.
p!umas which were to 80 abroad were
certified t. by a Sp,ni>h consul. In all
about 10 900 names are tangled up i'll hi
disclosures He has given the names a.
many professional abnrtioni>tS AMI TIL
means where whereby they destroy life.
He tells of the trick OF his trlle. the
quack nnstrums that are advertised T."
cure all diseases. and of the impo>ter>
who prey on public credulity. He tell
of faith in the supernatural; of fortune
teller in Philadelphia WIG reads de>tin,
under the light of candles made of human
fat. lie relates how one doctor goes T."
Europe annually aud brings back love
powders which he represented were com
pounded at the shrine OF Cupid in Mn-
erva's Temple. He describes how ont
concern sells the pulverizc'l gizzard of =
chicken as compound to produce alti:'
ciaI digestion. He rectes incidents wheI.
in he robbed graves, and how, on one
Saturday morning. stole five dead boii"s
from Bluckley Alm>llnuse. He tells how
he kept himself clear of the courts am:
their penalties. He tells of twenty-five
concerns in this country and III ir"le
by which degrees are sold. He figures
that fully 5000 bogus diplomas are cut
rent in America ana 40 900 more III
Europe He gives the authorities Lever
by which they can uproot every dipl ma
dealer in America. As Il result of tn
expnse of Buchanan business the char
tiers of the American University of Penr-
sylvania, the Philadelphia University ot
Medicine and surgery and the Livingston,
University Of America Cat Charlrst"r.
W. Va. have been annulled. and bill
have been introduced into the State Leg
stature to repeal the charters of thu
Quaker City business College, the Penn.
Medical University, the Philadelphia
EIectropathic Institution and the Phila-
drlphia College of Medicine. \ law has
been framed for approval by the STATE
Legislature regulating the Practice OF
Medicine. protecting the people from il
competent practitioners, an elevate g
the standard of medical education.
To protect the college from Legislative
interference. Buchanan says he plid $50
to each of thirteen members of the rdt-
catiural committee nf the State LrgiSlt-
ture in 1871. and 81 00) to the lesi,lativ,
committee oi 1872.
1t is mated in one place that on the 10TH
of March. 1853. DR.. Simon Lands. o.
Ephrata. sent u letter ana ,uncin his in
trntinn OF paving the full fees. 800. and
submitting himself as Il cIndll tie for an
illegal diploma.
After Buchanau'S detection in Canada
and his return to Philadelphia, public
curiosity WAS satisfied upon every point
of the deans strange doings. except AS t."
the identity of the man who had pr r
snna1ed him and had jumped from ferry
boat into the Delaware river. IL is now
possible to clear up that phase of the
case and to reveal the Ingenious details
of the whole proceeding. The idea was
prompted in the minds Of the conspira-
tors by recollection of Il former pupil of
Buchanan college named Foster. This
man married Pine street widow, and
within Il month after the marriage Ger, :
monv he disappeared. At the same time
the ladv's money also vanished. No trace
OF the man was obtained until one day
news was brought of the finding of his