Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
MEDICAL BIGOTRT.
Patients Who Desire Homeopathic Treat
ment and are Willing to Pay for it-Ex-
cluded from st. Lukes Hospital.

Patients Who Desire Homeopathic Treat
ment and are Willing to Pay for Tx
cluded from st. Lukes Hospital.
ST. PAUL, Sept, %, 1sS1.-The follow
ing letter cannot fail to be very inter-
esting reading to the many friends of
St. Luke's Hospital who have prefer
ence for homeopathic treatment.
ST. PAUL, Sept, %, 1sS1.-Dr. Hutchin-
son.-Dear Sir: The question of admitting
patients to st. Luke's Hospital who are under
the treatment of homeopathic physicians,
was brought before the officers some two
weeks since. I had never heard of any rules
with regard to the matter, and soon after that,
admitted the young man "Lewis,' who was
under your care. After SO doing submittd
the question to DIR. Wharton, the chairman OF
the medical staff, and 1 received
his reply this morning. The question
referred to was taken under advisement by the
medical board at the opening of the in
! stitution, some eight years since, and
was carefully considered in all Of its details,
and it was then decided that it would not be
advisable to admit patients under any but al
lopathic treatment.
Upon the receipt of nay note it was again
brought before the board and the expression OF
the majority was against the admission OF
any patients save those to be under the treat
| ment of allopathy. Very truly yours,
MRS. T. D. BosToN,
Vice President st. Luke's.
| The only reason that we have learned
of for this pointed insult to
every homeopathic in st. Paul is this
During the past five or six weeks we have
had patients in the fever ward of the hos
pital who, upon our recommendation,
went there for better care than they
could getiat boarding houses. These pa
tients were not charity cases, but paid
| their board as well as for their medical
attendance. Notwithstanding the edo
nothing" treatment which they received
las this medical staff are pleased to style
| it) these patients persisted in getting bet
ter in the shortest time possible. Fol
this-as one of the medical staff very ele-
gantly expressed it-"the ID homeo-
path must go.''
We would like to inquire how long
since has the management of this benev-
client institution passed from its board OF
trustees into the hands of this
broad minded and liberal spirited
staff of physicians? By what
authority do they make regulations which
cripple the charitable purposes of the
hospital and make use OF 1t to foster the1I
particular medical creed, and this at the
expense of another which counts in its
patronage half of the intelligence and
wealth of ST. Paul?
| Will the friends of homeopathy COM
bine their contributions in support of an
institution which disseminates against
them in their way?
This piece of contemplate malice we
are happy to say does not reflect the SEN
timents Of the board of trustee, nor does
it that of one physician on the staff, Dr.
Hand, who voted against the outrage. II
IS to be hoped that the board of trustees
will take speedy action whereby home-
spaths can have equal rights in the hos
pital, which will include not only free
dom to attend private patients, but also
to give them a ward for charity patients
and place it in charge of homeopathic
physician. II. HUTCHINSON, N. D.