The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-03
PROBING INTO i
DR.. s. E. Martin Explains the Fight
on Him.
THE COLUMBIAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE
rs Really His Hnstftution-SeaAou
and Envy said to be at the bottom OF
the Row

and Envy said to be at the Bottom OF
the Row.
The Columbian Medical institute is
still doing business in the old ST. James
hotel building on West Sixth street, not
withstanding the statement of Health
Officer DR.. c. S. McClintock, that the
place had been closed.
DR.. s. E Martin, president of this in
stitution, resents the charges made
against him and says: 81 have lived IN
Topeka over thirty years and have prac-
ticed my profession as physician ali the
time and | have never until this time
been accused of being quack- While
the attack OF the health officer is seem
ingly made at Joe Dolman, it is really a
strike at me over the shoulders OF
the young man. In 1act aH
the Columbian Institute. L do
all the operating and give all the treat
menr This young man, J. w. Dolman,
has not been attempting to practice
medicine or surgery. He has simply
been out on the road looking up cases
for me-" and here DR.. Martin showed the
reporter a blank form, onfwhich Dolmau
reported each case he found with all its
symptoms.
Continuing Dr. Martin said: "Ihe
whole trouble is that this medical society
here is jealous of the business we are
working up. In medical ethics it is re-
Tise or solicit business. This young man
has simply been looking up cases for me
to treat and has been making his own
living in this way. l don't blame DR..
Clarence McClintock for this thing, for
while he is seemingly doing the work,
there are older heads back of it, who are
responsible. He is just a young man
starting in the practice and have no de-
sire to do him an injury, but l fully IN
derstaud that the members of this local
medical society are back of this fight on
me. They need not, however, worry
themselves They can't expell me from
their society because l belong to another
school of medicine. l am an eclectic
aud there is nothing that they can do
that will either injure me or drive me
out of business. A few years ago fight
was made by this society on DIR. Roby,
and on Munk, Mulvane & Munk, because
they advertised and this society COM
PEELED them TO quit"
]. w. Dolman, the young man who is
said to be guilty of unprOfessional con-
duct, in speaking of the attack made on
him said: 1T may be that l have been
expelled from the Kansas Medical col
lege, but l had no knowledge of it until
saw the resolutions adopted by the fac
uity as published in the JOURNAL In
fact 1 was a student there last term, but
that term closed some time ago and they
had no power to expel a student who
had that power they have not treated me
fairly, as they did not even give me a
hearing.
The members of the faculty of the
medical college have known for a long
time what kind Of business l am engaged
in. have been soliciting cases for ex-
pert treatment for about three years, and
when entered the school last fall they
that l was to put in my extra
time at this work. have not pretended
TO practice medicine or surgery. But be-
fore l started out on the road l went to
several memb ers of the faculty and they
all agreed, some of them verbally and
some of them in writing, to assist me in
caring for any difficult cases, and in
which / would call upon them. Clar- |
ence McClintock signed an agree |
ment of that kind, but when he |
came to me a short time ago and said |
that / was doing unprofessional work, |
and that he was afraid he would be ex- |
PEELED from the society, If his connec- |
ton was known with my institution. l /
gave him back the written agreement | |
had with him. 1t was after that that he /
told me | was violating the state law by |
business on the road, and asked |
me to sign an agreement to quit l did |
not fully understand what he meant. but |