The Washington times., 1894-09-30
DIPLOMAS FOR THE ASKING
Charges Against the New Hahnemann
Homeopathic University.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ENTERED
Homeopathic Medical Society Declares the
Faculty competent-President Massie
Admits He Knows No More About Medi-
cine Than Cat-Ellis Says 1t Is ALI Right


The Washington Homeopathic Medical So
ciety yesterday asked in the equity court for
an injunction to prevent the new Homeo-
pathic University from opening its doors for
students.
It's bill of complaint at great length sets
forth the alleged incompetency of the faculty
of the new school, and asserts that its pur-
pose is simply TO fleece ill-informed and I'M
suspecting students, and to sell diplomas to
any who will pay Tor them irrespective of
qualification to practice medicine.
The Hahnemann Homeopathic University
was incorporated under the District laws on
September &c last by Charles A. Massie, W.
w. Baker. Joseph c. Ellis Thomas Robinson,
H. G. Ellis, W. E. Quicksall, and Philip
Richer. The object of the university is to
teach medicine in all branches and allied sci
ences, and to confer the degrees of A. NJ, G.
E., B. E., Phi. G., LII. B., L. D., NJ. D., and
D. D. S.
The bill says OF the president, Charles A.
| Massie, that he is unknown to this commu-
nifty and is not physician of any class; OF
the dean, Joseph C. Ellis. that he has recently
| opened an Office here and has no experience
| but is merely graduate of an alleged college
established here in 1893 known as the Ma
tional homeopathic Medical College. This
college, it is stated incidentally died of mani
ton after brief struggle for existence
against the indignant opposition Of all reput-
able and capable practitioners of the homeo-
pathicc school, who are represented by the
| complainant.
II. Conen Ellis is the wife Of the dean. Up
to eight months ago, it is claimed, she had no
| medical education, and with merely six
| months attendance upon the alleged college
| il is impossible she should have prepared her
self for the work proposed for her as teacher
in the new school w. w. Baker is a clerk in
| one of the government departments
| has no medical experience, and is utterly
unfit to give instruction in a medical
school. The other proposed teachers are
| equally unknown and incompetent either to
| practice medicine or give instruction in the
practice of medicine. Not one OF the per-
sons connected with the alleged university is
a member of or recognized by the complain
| ant society.
There has been in Philadelphia for fifty
years a school known as the Hahnemann Col
| lege Of Philadelphia. and it stands equal to
the best. A large number OF graduates are
| in active practice here and are of high repu-
tation. They are all members of the COM
plainant society. 1t IS the evident purpose Of
the new institution 10 create the impression
that the new organization is either a branch
of or in some way connected with the Phila-
delphia institution.
LACK OF ALL FACILITIES.
The defendant holds itself out as having
complete and extensive equipment while in
fact there is grave lack of all facilities for
such an enterprise as is shown by the articles
| OF incorporation and the proposed faculty as
reviewed by this bill. The premises at No.
423 street northwest were formerly pri-
| vate residence and are wholly untitled for the
| proposed school, and the establish
ment of the school would create a null
sance in the neighborhood. The promoters
of the enterprise represent that their students
| will have the use of dispeusary, whereas
the school has no dispensary, no means 10
establish one, and no access to any homeo-
Pathic dispensary now existing. So that the
school is without the equipment it processes
TO have. 1t has no endowment and none of
its projectors has means to conduct such a
university as proposed. 1t is therefore ab-
solutely impossible that the school should
provide the instruction it proposes.
The foregoing is sufficient evidence, ii is as
serted, that the object is not to establish an
institution of learning but TO collect fees
-
of the kind set forth in the incorporation
Such an organization is a nuisance and con-
tinual menace to general health at the same
time that it Injuries the medical profession.
FRANK CONFESSION OF IGNORANCE.
Charles A. Massie, of No 1926 Fourteenth
street northwest, president of the Hahnemann
University, is a rather uncouth, kind-hearted
fellow, who has been experimenting at meth
DDS of making living for a year or two past.
He said:
81 don't know any more about medicine
than cat. DR.. Ellis saved my life by an
operation last spring, and have been very
friendly to him ever since. When he came
TO me first TO act as president Of the school
l refused, saying he should have physician.
"He replied, no; didn't l see that DIR. Well
ing who had just died, was no physician, but
was president of the Columbian Medical
School. Finally, to accommodate DR.. Ellis, l
signed the articles of incorporation. Wealthy!
No; have enough to live on, but not TO start
a college,"
J. Connor Ellis. dean OF the school, lives at
No. 1857 Fourteenth street northwest. He is
a well-groomed gentleman of thirty-flve and
has a very comfortable, well-kept home
When told that it was charged he was
unknown and incompetent to practice
medicine or teach he led the way
TO an adjoining room, where hung
big diploma In Latin, with the seal and
name of the famous old Jefferson Medical
College, of Philadelphia. 1t was dated in
1888, and signed by E. B. Gurdette, J. NJ.
Da Costa, William S. Forbes. Roberts
Bartholow, S. n Gross, Stephen Parvin. and
other names that are recognized in medicine
throughout the country.
In regard to the allegation that his wife has
studied medicine only six months he said:
''She has studied four and half years. AS
to my other associates w. w. Baker. of No.
916 S street, is a physician of good standing
though he is employed in the Post-of1ce De-
partment. Thomas Robinson has all office
on street, near Fourteenth, and has
practiced here for some time. Philip Recher
got his first training in medicine at Rush
College. Chicago, and is a regular graduate
of a homeopathic college. Massie and Quick.
sail are not physicians, and there was never
any thought of placing them in the faculty o.
the school.
NATIONAL HOMEOPATHIC COLLEGE NOT DEAD
Il came here last November::to lecture OF
surgery in the National Homeopathic Col
lege. This institution is by no means dead
its president, DR.. J. d. Hird, and dean, Br
Adelbert II. Lee, assure me. They hav,
rented the building at No. 707 I street ant
are matriculating students to begin study