Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-13

auuing college in Texas for the No.,
ent OF her 400 students who for WEI.
OF home instruction are ob,iceT ny
leave the state, aud do leave IL evoss'
year, increase either the number Of an,
dents or the evil of too MANY doctors'
Would our virtuous non-nctione.ra'
fusal to add another to the already tec
many schools--diminish the humber
would 1t deter a single young man
from studying medicine? Then wa
ask, as some four hundred Texans
every year are going to obtain instrucs
ZION IN Missouri anyway and axe com.
PEELED perforce to leave the state. mn
not supply them with a good schoDi
and Keep them at home? If sinvIa
sensible argument can be adyancsd
against the proposal to put Texss
on par with other states in the
matter of being able to educate her
own young men, We have not heard ID.
III all the states would enter into nm
agreement To- abolish all the schools in
existence and establish no more, such
course alone would put a stop to what
lnese WRITER'S seem to complain 0f--the
easy ana rapid manufacture of doctors
put Is there any sense In a state which
furnishes other schools with go mnch
grist holding aloof and virtuol,slv sx.
claiming, "Therea are already too ,nanv
schools-we will not have any %, NJ
insist that Texas shall make no nrovi.
sion to accommodate her 400 vonnv
men who every year will be instructed
In medicine somewhere, with homa
facilities of high grade, would he as
ridiculous as to demand that Ohio
should abolish her fourteen schools
and thus compel her 260 students to
leave the state annually In search of
medical instruction.
While there is not sensible reason
against the proposition to inaugurate
school of our own, there is every
reason in favor of II, and the iptelli-
gent people of Fort Worth are too we'll
acquainted with the bearing aud char
acter of their leading medical men 10
be mislead by such an insinuation as
that to organize a school of medicine
II the state would lower the standard.
and would therefore be positive evil.
They will suspect that some other
motive has prompted this advice.
AT least such advice, in our Judgment
and under the circumstances, would
come with a better grace
from any other city than Dallas. A
live and progressive population like
hers are wide-awake enough upon all
subjects affecting the growth and
reputation of their city to take their
business in their own hands and govern
themselves in matters of public enter
prise, without die alton from residents
of rival city, or of localities, where
there is no probability nor feasibility
of the establishment of a medical
school.
The three Colorado physicians say
| further that Fort Worth "has
no clinical advantages Have
they Investigated this question ?
Stubborn facts indicate that they have
not. Fort Worth has large transient
population. Hence there are always
in the city numerous cases of sickness
and disease seeking treatment at the
hands of charity. These will furnish
much material Tor college clinics and
dispensary practice. The city has a
charity hospital already in operation,
which it is intended soon to enlarge.
Fort Worth is great railroad center.
1t IS rapidly improving. The busy
hum of the saw and the ring of the
trowel are heard upon every street.
Accidents now furnish numerous
patients for her surgeons,
many of whose cases can be utilized
for clinical instruction. The great
railroad hospital of the Jay Gould sys-
tenn is located at Fort Worth. Its
chief and subordinate surgeons are
men of distinguished ability.
The six physicians of Dallas say
in their letter to The GAZETTE
That certain limitations have
been published to your people that the
merchants of Dallas for business rea-
sons and our professional men were
exerting themselves to secure for Dali
las the permanent location of the pro
posed college," Now the question is
! pertinent, by whom was sucn an init
nation published? Certainly the
writer has never seen it. and it never
appeared in the Courier-Record, OF
which he is a regular reader. In the
February number Of that paper II was
said that If Fort Worth would not
towns, as Dallas, Waco, Terrell, etc,
has never been appealed to directly or
indirectly to inaugurate medical
school by giving it material aid, nor
can the Dallas physicians prove their
assertion to the contrary. If Fort
Worth by moving in this enterprise in
advance of Dallas and is thereby likely
to secure the honor of establishing the
proposed medical college, her people
cannot be expected tn sympathize with
those physicians of Dallas who did not
wake up soon enough to the interests
of their city. No doubt Dallas has
enough medical talent resi-
dent within it to inaugurate
and sustain medical school
of a high standard If they chose to
move in that direction. Fort Worth
can point to her resident physicians
with pride equal to that of Dallas, but
her physicians would not rush into
print to call into requisition the purity
of motive or the ability OF Dallas
physicians in the premises, nor in
trude their opinions in the. public
prints to defeat an enterprise that VIII
greatly promote the interests of rival
city. Ii aged Dallas mods and lets
wide-awake Fort Worth conceive and
almost bring forth an enterprise in
advance of her waking, why should
Dallas' physicians try to defeat 1t?
A good school of medicine can be es.
tablished at Fort Worth. The medical
! profession of the state want no other
kind and the Fort Worth people have
never been approached by any one To-
found any other kind Of school. ii
the people and profession at Dallas are
able to establish a first-class medical
school and decline to do 80, IL is their
business. If the people, led 6y the