The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-27

aspirations. Cognac afterward opened
drug store on Chatham street, near
North William, and did successful
business. He was great aliopath.
He died rich in 1912"
"You have spoken of John Brown
as doctor. Did he practice without
diplomat"
''I don't know about DR.. Browns
practice, but 1 do know that his
friends had great faith in his medical
skill"
"Did the oolored practitioners in
those early days who were not regular
physicians resort to any mysterious or
supernatural system of healingp"
''The regular physicians praoticed
on admitted scientific principles. No
enchantment, no fetch for them. OF
the others l know nothing from per-
sonal experience, and l don't care TO
speak from hearsay."
There is good story told about
DIR. David McDonough," continued
Prof. White. "McDonough was
slave in New Orleans, and his owner!
thought he would make first-class
African missionary if little educa-
tional gloss was sprinkled over him,
so in 1843 he sent him to Princeton,
N. j., to be educated. When the
owner thought his slave was about
ripe for missionary work on the banks
of the Nile and Senegal he ordered
him to return to New Orleans. Nc
Donough knowing that he was on free
soil wrote in reply:
1.-TWO things you and l might as
| nd 10 hot Il
not going to be minister of the gos-
pei; the other, that l am not going
back to Africa"
"McDonough's father who was still
slave, furnished him money to COM
plete his education. and he established
a successful practice in this city, max
ing eye and ear diseases a speciality.
He amassed handsome fortune"
"Were the diplomas issued to col
ored men by recognized medical COL
leges always treated as valid where
the holder established q residence?'
"They were not always recognized,
and that was one of our great annoy
ances. In many states the colOred
graduate was not permitted to prac-
tice under diploma issued in another
state. He was graciously told that he
should prosecute his studies and OBJ,
tain his diploma in the particular state
in which he had chosen to reside, else
he could not be recognized"
''In what states were diplomas first
issued to colored menp"
''The eastern states took the lead.
For many years before the war color
ed students could obtain diplomas I'M
Bowdoin college, Maine, and in other
small institutions in the east"
''From what colleges are the great.
est number of diplomas issued to col
ored students at the present timoP''
"In almost all the states colored
students who prove themselves worthy
of diplomas can now obtain them.
Many are issued from the Howard uni
versity in Washington. They can cas-
lily be obtained from the Eclectic COL
lege in this city, but I'd rather not say
much about that concern"
''Are all your colored doctors able
to write their prescriptions in Latin P"
'They write them in gallipot Latin,
just as the white doctors do Gallipot
Latin is not hard to learn. A man
with a few ounces of brains needn't
spend lifetime at it. Some of the
white doctors know more Latin than
English. Here is specimen preserip-
ton which I have just filed:
'Cochlearium pervum ter in die.
If the corf troubles him, take it often
err Being translated all this MEANS"
pursued the professor, "that the pa.
tient is to have small spoonful three
times day, and oftener if the cough
continues. The physician got his
Latin correct enough, but the cough
was too much for him. His spelling
c-o-r-f would make schoolboy blush.
1 may state that the author Of this
beautiful literary mixture was not
colored DOCTOR"
"How are colored physicians treat
ed in the southp"
"The colored man has more to con-
tend against in the north than in the
south. A colored man who attends to
his own business down south is respect
ed and well treated. A friend of mine
in practice in town in Alabama
wrote me letter recently in which he.
said that the local white physician put
a great deal of business in his way,
In that section of the country the col.
ored people are making rapid strides,
in business and in the fields where in
tellect holds sway"
"Have you any female doctorsp"
1--WE have several. Instance Mrs.
DR.. Susan Mckinney, in Brooklyn,
who graduated from the Women's col
lege in this city when she was Miss
Smith. She has good practice, and
IS bringing up two sons to the profess
sion."