The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31
HIS DIPLOMA FORGED.
Serious Charge From Germany
Against DR.. Meyers.
MEDICAL SOCIETY AFTER HIM.
Filed . Bogus lawyer, Not . Doctors,
Dfpioma-PoweiI Reeves VIM
Test Medical Law.

The King County Medical Society. com
posed Of the regular" or allopathic ply
sicians, is about TO begin the prosecution
OF DIR. Bernard Meyers, who has been
charged with malpractice by Robert Dur
rer In attending the iatter's wife.
Some time last fall Dr.. A. B. Kibbe,,
president Of the medical society, received
an lntimation that Meyers held a forged
diploma. He went TO the county audit
or's Office and examined the diploma, and
was convinced that il was not genuine.
he then brought the matter before the So
cletv, and he and Dr. William Jenner were
appointed q committee 70 communicate
with the faculty of the university OF Jena,
oy which the diploma purported to have
been granted. They forwarded a copy of
the copy which DR.. Meyers had filed at
the auditors office to the protector of the
university, and received reply, of which
the following is translation:
JENA, December IL, 1891.
DEAR SIC: In reply 10 your favor Of the oath
would say as follows:
The diploma of Mr.. B. Meyers, of which you
sent me copy, would be, If il were genuine,
not that OF a doctor OF medicine, but that of
doctor OF Laws, for the reason that 1t reads as
follows: Doctoris tarts atriusque honores
contnta. In the diploma of a doctor of medi-
cine this place should read as follows: Doctoris
naedictns ct chirurstS honores contula;
and equally in place of ordo jure consukorum, the
expression ordo Bsedicorun should be used
Ihe alleged diploma of Mr.. B. Meyers Is In
wording an imitation of a genuine diploma or
doctor at laws. The difference between this
copy and a genuine one is that before the word
orcoentd the phrase decdno ordinfs jure consult
Drum IL wanting Above all, however, the place
where the name OF the person on whom the de.
gree was conferred should be blank In the copy.
genuine original should read az follows:
In piruna prdnoblissimum atque doctissfmum Bern
ardam Meyers oh insigaem erudittonem, etc.
The pace where the name "Dr. Bernhard
Meyers, Berlin" appears in the copy is blank
In the original The genuine diplomas are al
ways signed only by the dean of the faculty. A
genuine diploma of doctor OF laws should show
the signature OF the dean, DR.. Leist, not below
near tie seal, but above and to the right The
following named persons: DR.. A. Fl. Schwartz,
DR.. Carl Eifele, Dr. Julius Dyke, DR.. II. II.
Kaiser, were never members OF either the legal,
medical or any other faculty. These names
were invented by B. Meyers.
b. Meyers will probably attempt to prove that
the diploma he possesses isfhat of q doctor OF
medicine from Jena, because the name of Ed.
Mortin appears as protector, with the title of
doctor of medicine and surgery But the title
OF the protector at the time the diploma is issued
u
fraud on the part of Meyers. Respectfully.
PIERsToRFF, DR.,
Protector OF the University of jena.
The diploma In question was filed at the
auditors Office on April 26, 1889, and is in
Latin. The following is translation of it:
To whom these presents may come under the
high name and authority OF this University of
letters, during the reign OF the Roman-German
Emperor Ferdinand the First. in the year 1857
fnsrt dat ala
of the great duke and dukes of Saxony-
Academy of Jena
During the rectorship of the most august and
most magnificent and potent Prince and Master
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of saxony
Weimer and Jena, Landgrave Of Thuringen.
Marquis of Misnia, etc. The pro-rector at the
time being the most illustrious and ex experienced
Edward Martin, doctor OF medicine aud surgery
under the most serene GRAD Duke of Saxony
and his council, public professor of medicine
and director OF the oestetric clinic. etc., and
under the deanship of Burkhard Wilhelm Leist,
doctor of the laws and ordinary professor of
pub ic law.
BY order of the council here conferred upon
most noble and learned, aud showing profound
knowledge of the science of law, the honors,
dignity, rights and privileges of doctor OF both
laws.
And have conferred upon him publicly thi.
diploma upon which Is impressed the seal of
the legal faculty.
Issued al Jena April 4, 1861.
BY Order of
DR.. A. II. SCHWARTZ,
lsEALl DIR. CARL EIFELE,
DR. JULIUS DYKE,
DR. II. II. KEYsER
Mr.. Bernhard Meyer in Berlin.
Information will be drawn by Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Mcbride against Dr.
Meyers in few days, the evidence in the
hands OF DR.. Kibbe having been placed
before him, subject to the decision of the
prosecuting attorney.
DR.. Meyers was told of the charges by a
Posr-INTELLIeENcER reporter and said:
That is all caused by jealousy. l graduated
from the University OF Jena on April 4, 1861,
with about thirty others. aud we had banquet
together after We received our diplomas. That
is all poppycock they have got in that letter. !
am a member of the King County Homeopathic
Medical Society aud the Washington Homeo-
pathic Society, and il 10 the allopaths who are
making these charges. am prepared for them
and will leave the affair in the hands Of my
attorneys.
/ am no bum; ] am 10 drunkard: attend to
my business II thew want to go Tor any man,
why don't they go for some Of these doctors
who lie around saloons aud gambling houses
ali night drunk. Their license can be revoked
for that Way don't they revoke tina iieens es OF
doctors who have failed to register. IL Is all
prejudice because am q honRopsth; II had
been an sllopath they would no. say anything.
II makes no difference, it only costs s man q
little money.
In spite of all this DR.. Meyers made re-
peated appeals to the reporter not to pub
lish the charges.
As soon as this subject began 10 be
talked about among the members of the
medical profession, DIR. Meyers brought it
before the King County Homeopathic So
ciety at its meeting this month. He said
that the genuineness of his diploma had
been questioned, and he would bring it to
his office and submit il TO the inspection
of the members. The opinion was gener.
ally expressed among the members that it
was matter for the state medical board
10 deal with, and the subject was dropped
with that understanding. The disposition
of the hom9opaths is TO let it alone.
TO TEST THE MEDICAL LAW.
DIR. Powell Reeves Appeals From De-
cision Of Medical Board.
DR.. Powell Reeves, of Tacoma, filed an