The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-01
DE. WEED on HoMEorArHr.


To THE EpsroE: In recent issue Of the Posi-
IsrsLLfsEscxR Frederick Churcaia. A. n, Il
D., charges me with . gyssuitous Insult 10 tne
psysicsacs Il his school. "A Published interview
with yoar reporter. and In % doing makes
personal ding At myself It Is trae ! am bat =
pain u. d.. but even % much honorAbiy earned
ought 10 be sufficient assurance that the pos
SCISSOR 10 . gentleman, and TOO intelligent and
eroaa-ninGed 10 mistake assertions for fscts.
or personalities for argumeuta IL looks very
much az theagh the doctors chief object IN
rushing into prin. wss TO air his appendAses-
He says: These arc tie facts,'' and then pro-
ceeds to make assertions without facts 70 sns-
tain ihem- Recently tho New York Graphic
did about the same. aud made some extravagAnt
claims and assertions in favor OF the dssciI les
OF HHhns mann. 10 which the New York Medical
Record. one OF the leading medical iournxls OF
the world. made The following reply: In the
Uaitsd States there were in 1855 twelve homeo-
painic and eighty -eight regular medical col.
eses. with Loss and el8l students respectively.
At the most liberal estimate the homeopathic
practitioners are one IN eight of the total num-
Der
There 10 no homeopathic medical college in
the country that can be said TO be even fairly
well equipped aud endowed. as compared. for
example. with the leading medical colleges OF
New YORK Boston and Philadelphia The only
school which really fourishes is in Chicago
The statement that homeopathy Is recognized
branch In most Of the great medical schools OF
Europe Is absolutely untrus. Homeopathy has
no place whatsyer in any OF the universities OF
Germany or France. nor has IL q school of its
own anywhere In Germany. There - small!
homeopathic hospital OF 100 beds In London
with small medical school attached There
are said 10 be only about 275 homeopathic
physicians In Great Britain and Ireland. The
number on the continent is proportioaatsly even
less" The Dublin Journal Of Medical Scisaecs
says. According to the most recent ofhciai
statistics In Austria, there are ocly lis homeo-
pathists out OF the whole number OF medical
men q .ls3l, and only forty -four OF these profess
TO practice homeopathy exclusively. There are
none at al in the italian districts, and only
nineteen In Vienna The number also 10 said
to be steadily decreasing
In ls05 Hahnemann first published his doc
trina to the world In his Medicine Of Experience,
and i've years later In his 0rgcnoa in Germany,
and yet his followers after nearly . century
have not one single school Of their own in all
Germany. The Mecca of the aspiring physician
and medical student, with it, great universities
and its acute and profound Investigations, will
have none Of It. Icheerfuuy admit that there
are many able. and some brilliant physicians
who class themselves 40 homeopathists, but q
majority of these have obtained q very large
ahare Of their medical equipment by drinking
90 other fountains of medical lore than those Of
their own school Like the regular school, Q
majority of them are electic in practice-not In
the narrow sense In which that term is applied
TO school OF medicine, bat on the broad
ground OF the use Of any and all remedies Of
approved value. which is . very different thing
from homeopathy pure and simple. Many of
the leading homeopathists Of the dsy received
their medical education in the regular schoola
Carol Durham. the leading light Of homeo-
patty, graduated In 1850 from the College OF
lam nd Gty Ynrk Man
others might be me toned who by nominally
accepting homeopathy have taken high rank in
that school on account OF their superior medical
education.
DR. Churchill asserts "that the fundamental
requirements for graduation in the different
schools Of medicine are identi cal" This il not
true. And IL he means by this that all schools
require the same proficiency in anatomy. physi-
olosy, chemistry. etc. il Is equally untrue, and
the contrary IL susceptible Of abundant proof,
a. may be inferred from the ground already
gone over. II what he asserts 10 true how Is il
that whenever IN effort has been made TO pass
laws regulating the practice Of medicine and to
weed out ineompetents, that homeopathic, &c.
iecties, hysomedicals together with charla-
tans. qnacks, imposters and humbugs, like
natures, poor dumb creatures, in mortal
peril. sink their diferehces and huddle
together appalled, by the common dan
ger Such at least has been the
history of medical leg Station on this COST.
Why is IL that NO school of medicine. except the
regular school. has ever in any state. SO far
as am informed. taken the initiative to secure
by legislation better qualifications In the meci-
Cal profession At no time during my residence
OF thirty three years in the Pacific states has
there been effort made in this direction cx-
cept by the regular school Now. doctor. If the
standard os your school Is high. 1t ought to be
manifest In iis acts aud history. For the
yea m mr. ~ afrAf Ia
sddueed. adhere most positively 10 the con-
vietIon heretofore expressed, that the appoint.
ment by the governor OF q majority of the state
board OF medical examiners from the irregular
school, Of medicine is not only an injustice 10
seven-eighihs of the PHYSICIANS of the state, but
ealeu ated TO lower the standard of medical ed
ucat.on, destroy the usefulness OF the hoard
secure better qualifications among medical
uracfitionera q WEyn N n