The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31
" Eclectics' Trying Their Best
to Get Into the County
Hospital.
"ALLOPATHs" BAR THE WAY
Sarcastic Remarks Being Made as We'll
as Vigorous Threats to Go
to Law.

DR.. MaCLean OF Jne CdllfOrnla Medical
College threatens to go to law to determine
the question whether or no eclectic stu
dents shall be barred the privileges OF
the City and County Hospital.
Twice has he raped on the doors of the
Board of Health and asked permission fol-
the students Of his college to enter the
County Hospital and get some of the bene-
fits of a course there, and twice has the
door, figuratively, been slammed in his
face.
Pasted on the door is the little irscrip.
ton: "None but allopaths admitted here"
That rule relegates the homeopathic and
eclectics to range the wide, wide world and
pick up experience anywhere they can
except on the allopath grass.
DR.. MacLean, DR.. Wilcox and other
mem bers of the faculty of the local eclectic
school say they propose to change all this.
They declare that their school is incor-
porated that they are citizens and tax
payers and, therefore, the law must recog-
niZe them.
DR.. Williamson quoted the code in re-
ply at the last meeting of the Board of
Health in order to show that the appointees
of the County Hospital must be selected
from the two allopathic classes.
al, +" retorted DR.. MacLean, and then there
were some naughty things said about mot
regular physicians, - "old fogies, 5" "bi gots. -
professional jealousy" and the like.
Health Officer Lovelace takes the stand
that the board cannot admit the students
of the eclectic school to the hospital, be-
cause the law does not allow them to
do so.
"The Medical College of the University
of California; he said, ''and the Medical
College of the Pacific have wards in the
City and County Hospital, and they are
the only colleges who have the right to the
lectures and clinics under the code. Yes,
they are both OF the allopathic school. If
the other colleges wish to introduce their
students there they must first have the
law changed. AT present the State and
Federal law does not recognize them
They are not in the army, navy or in anv
State institution that | know of. Yes, if
the Governor had so minded he could have
made appointments from other schools on
the Board of Health. AS constituted at
present, though, | don't see how Dr. Mac
Lean and his students are going to get into
the County Hospital through any loophole
in the law. What they re really aiming at
is to get the benefits of paid lectures and
clinics at the hospital.
DR.. MacLean simply sneers at all these
assertions and makes sarcastic remarks
dDOuL Jue OlSlllCllOuS IldQ6 Nv the bOarQ
of Health. He says that the two visiting
physicians of the County Hospital are not
legally appointed and that he may take
action to GUST them. These gentlemen are
appointed from the Cooper Medical School
which claims to be the successor of the
Medical College of the Pacific mentioned
in the code. DR.. MacLean SCOTS at the
claim. How can any corporation" he
says, succeed defunct institution under
the law? It's preposterous. The Medical
College of the Pacific has passed out OF ex-
lstence and all its rights and privileges
under the law have ceased. Our college
has Just as much right to claim them as
has the Cooper College.
"By the way" said the speaker, with q
CLEAN in his eye, who are these gentle
men who say that we are not regular physi-
cians2 All of them belong to defunct
medical colleges. Not one of them can
claim a healthy alma mater"
DR.. w ilcox said fatty that the allopathic
school had very eminent representatives in
old fogyism. "Of course, we never will
get any concession from the Board of
HEALTH. he said, unless we force it from
them. Well do it, too, mark my words.
The world has progressed too far for any
school to hold its rivals in check with the
old rusty chains of bigotry. The rights of
homeopathic and eclectic students are ig-
nored and this contemplate jealousy can
not be allowed to obstruct their way any
longer. We are entitled to all the privi-
leges allowed to allopaths, and we propose
to get them. We're in the fight now and
we propose to win"
The allopaths say very little in reply.
They simply point to the law
Change it then" say the eclectics, and
they're going to try and do it if it's neces-
sary. Thus far the homeopathic are only
offering sort of negative support in tn e
contest.