Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
TOHONOR
Physicians Start a Fund for a Bronze
Monument in Washington
AT A. COST OF OVER $4,000.
Dime Banks to Be Distributed Among the
Children of the Land.
$500 GIVEN BY THE LOCAL SOCIETY

A fund has been started to build monu-
ment in Washington, D. c., in honor Of
| Samuel Hahnemsnn. The preliminary cir
culars to the physicians were sent out last
week by DR.. j. II. McClellsnd, who is
chairman of the committee in charge. This
committee was appointed ct a recent meet
ing of the American Institute of Homeo-
pathy in Washington, where the resolution
that a national monument to Hahnemann
be erected was adopted. The COMMITTEES
in laying its plans before the public, says in
its circular:
ausptc1ous time to enter upon the project OF
raisfnf. monument to this veritable Column
bus of medical discovery, and the committee
feels confident that the profession and the
people will join with enthusiasm in doing
honor to the man whose learning and genius
brought about the greatest re ormatton in
the history of medical science, by the dis
covery OF q rational theory of drug action.
The plans look to the erection Of a heroic
statue in bronze upon a granite pedestal;
grand work of art which will make neces-
sary fund of from $50 0C0 to $75, Goa. For
such a monument there Will be no difficulty
in securing most elegible site on one OF the
public squares at the nations capital
1t is expected that not only those who
follow homeopathy will subscribe to this
monument fund, as it is not to be consid-
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rather as that of one of the worlds great
reformers. That he is SO held by the worlds
great minds, even in the medical profession
of the opposite school, is evidenced in the
words of John Syre Bristowe, NJ. D., IN his
annual address as President of the British
Medical Association:
That he had learning and ability and the
power of reasoning, is abundantly clear. He
saw through the prevalent therapeutic
absurditleS and impOstures of the day; he
lauGhed to scorn the complicated and loath-
some nostrums which, even at that time,
disgraced the pharmacOpoeiaS: and he ex-
posed with no little skill and success the
emptiness, and worthlessness of most of the
therHpeutical systems which then and there
tofore prevailed.
The myriads of children whose lives have
been saved and who have been benefited by
the discovery of the new school will also be
called upon to contribute toward the fund.
Abou: 10, 900 banks in the shape of cYIin-
ders, which will hold 30 dimes, will be
made especially for distribution throughout
the United States, and the children will be
asked to put their spare dimes in it for tho
purpose of honoring Hahnemann. Each
doctor in the country will be supplied with
a subscription blank on which he can OBJ
tain the signatures of his patients. These
will all be returned to the committee next
May, who will present their report to the
institute.
j. @. A. Warde, one of the most cele-
brated sculptors in the country, will proba-
bly, be given the work. The statue will be
designed after that of Schiller at Frank
fort-on-the-Main, Germany. A COMMITTEES
is now at work in Washington procuring .
suitable site.
There are evidences of intense interest in
the movement, several thousands of dollars
having been already subscribed. The ALLIE
gheny County Homeopathic Medical So
ciety subscribed $500 at its last meeting.