San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-02
LOcATEIT AT SAN ANTONIO.

LOCATE 1T Al SAN AIN iNi>
The location of the medical branch OF
the state university is beginning to AZ
tract attention throughout the state.
The call is loudly and urgently made FOR
the establishment of state medical
university, and the demand grows more
and more insistent each week. The
forthcoming meeting of the goth legisla-
ture In special session is made the occa-
sioE of q renewed interest on this SUD-
ieot. 1t is not to the credit OF the state
that she should be wanting In the de-
partment Of her university. Her very
remoteness from the large centers OF
medical instruction renders it peculiarly
necessary and fitting that she should
not be without such an insti-
tuition, fully equipped by the
state and guaranteed in all its appoint
ments to meet the wants OF this age OF
medical research and progress. 1t Is not
necessary to dwell at length upon the
necessity, the property, the wisdom, and
the advantage to the state OF establish
ing such branch Of the state uniVer-
sity. The one question more than all
others to be considered is its location.
The fact OF its establishment is conceded
as necessary and that the time for its
establishment has fully come.
San Antonio, in her hospital wards, In
her nearness OF access to the state cap
itol, in the great healthfulness OF her
climate, in the attention she has given
10 medical matters, no less than in being
the largest city in the state present
special advantages as the home OF the
medical department Of the university.
The interest taken in medical instruc-
ton here, and the recent steps
taken to establish a medical COL
lege at this point which shall be
second in efficiency to none, may also be
cited as showing that the location of the
state medical university at this point
would be most fitting and proper.
Speaking upon this point the Pleasanton
Monitor has the following editorial en-
dorsement of San Antonio which is to
the point. The Monitor says:
at is just gross oarelessness and
criminal Indifference on the part OF the
| 10Th and 10Th legislatures that no loca-
! ton and provision has been made for the
medical branch of the state university.
We have a normal school, Though we
need another) to give US teachers, uni
versity to give US lawyers and men
| learned in other professions, but not one
dollar provided for furnishing us medi-
cal school to graduate the 1000 physi-
clans, healthy az it ia, now needed in the
state Of Texas.
There will be no subject of greater in
terest and Importance before the 2lst
legislature than this. Let US then re-
uuire of all candidates for the legisla-
ture that they will do their best to make
adequate provision for the establishing
of q tirst-class medical school at some
suitable point in the state of Texas.
We claim further. that San Antonio is
that most suitable point. l. San Anto-
MO is the largest city in the state. 2
Its proximity to and intimate connec-
ton with the city OF Austin, make 1t
the more suitable on that account. 3.
1t Ia mainly the physicians of west and
state Medical University. East Texas
assimilated to Louisiana in climate and
disease will graduate her physicians at
New Orleans. North Texas for the
same reason, will graduate her physi.
clans at st. Louis. South Texas, west
Texas and southwest Texas will gradu-
ate their physicians in Texas. Fol
them, San Antonio beyond all compari.
son is the most suitable location"
Add to these reasons this other one
San Antonio is destined to be the great
health resort of those who seek RELIEF
from the rigor Of northern climates, and
San Antonio is the acknowledged center
and seat of that southern influx of health
seekers. A flourish medical schoo
literally equipped and backed by state
authority would gain much from the
presence of the wealthy invalids who
are learning to seek San Antonio as the
one spot above all others in which tt
find respite from respiratory trouble
and the purest air to be inhaled any
where upon this continent. That stat,
medical school should come to this city
1t would flourish here as In no other CITY
in Texas, and there are more sound rea
sons for locating it here than can b,
urged in favor OF any other point.
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J The Prescription Pharmacy.
Near the corner of Alamo and Com
merce street, stands the well known
pharmacy of Messrs. Ragland 81 Ken