The San Francisco call., 1896-11-12
A Ne " SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE
Purpose Of the California
State Therapeutic
College.
Wealthy Men of the Country
Interested in the Under
taking.
NOW SECURING a FACULTY
In Two Weeks Names of All the
Officers and Many of the Fac.
ulty Will Be Known.

Last Monday articles of Incorporation
of the California State Therapeutic Col
lege were filed. This is really the incep-
ton of what promises to be a most novel,
and, from the work expected to be ac-
complished, gigantic enterprise under
taken in the medical world.
The objects of the incorporators, as set
forth by their declarations, are to en-
courage, reform, educate and qualify in
therapeutics, arts, philosophy and science,
and to give the right as physicians to pre-
scribe in the branches of electricity,
hemospasia, hypnotism, magnetism,
psychic and mental healing, materia
medica, astrology, occult forces and
science in the treatment of diseases, thus
guarding against the indiscriminate use
of said forces and arts.
So much for the declarations as set forth
in the articles of incorporation. But the
movement really amounts to vast deal
more than ttiat-it is virtually an attem IT
10 establish a fourth school of medicine
as may be cleaned from the following in
terview with DR.. T. G. Carpenter, one of
the directors and incorporators, and
named in the articles as the president:
There are now three medical schools. Z"
said DIR. Carpenter, "the allopathic, the
homeopathic and the eclectic. We are
now engaged in what promises to be a
successful attempt to found fourth school.
We will enlarge and teach in broader
sense than the other schools.
THE other schools do not teach elec-
tricity, hemospcsia, hypnotism, mag
netism, psychic and mental healing, or in
fact anything mentioned in our articles of
incorporation. Any method in the treat.
ment OF disease proving to be truly scien-
tific will be thoroughly investigated. In
this we Will not be bound down by iron
clad rules as are the other schools.
Il myself am a graduate of the Russ
Medical College of Chicago, an allopathic
institution, and the Goss Eclectic Medical
| College of Denver, and my experience iE
those schools has led me to advocate the
proposed new school with strength and
determination.
Another object we have in view is TO
protect the people from many who are
rracticing without due qualification All
who qualify in the branches taught in this
| school will be granted the same privileges
as the graduates of the old schools of med
\ iclne.
IA mum Der of wealthy men throughout
! the State have subscribed tc the under
| taking and are interested in it TO the ex-
tent of giving US most substantial aid"
Although the directors will not Glyulge
| the location at present it is known that q
block of land, loo feet front and $50 feet
deep, overlooking the bay and within easy
reach of the center of this City, has been
donated as a building site by the head OF
the astrological department, Rev. Isaac
| Rumford, an Fastener, who will come
here in January.
The directors and incorporators are: T.
| G. Carpenter, M. D.; Louise S. Drew, s. d.
a. T. Sherwood, MD; E. Mccarthy and
A. P. Merrill. DR.. Carpenter has been
elected president and Louise S. Drew Sec
retary.
| The college is logical offshoot of the
California State Therapeutic Society. le-
| gally chartered February 10, 1895. Some
| Of those connected with this society and
| interested in the sounding OF the college
are B. Sturman. MD; w. M. Park. MD.
J. NJ. PEBBLES. NJ. D., AM; w. Tanner,
MD; W. NJ. Forster, Md; Nellie
BeighIe, M. D.; Samuel H. Roberts, MD.
Lucy A. Chandler, MD; ]. n. Wilkins
MD; Professor Joseph Rodes Buchanan
| MD; t. G. Carpenter, Md; W. E.
| Pritchard, MD.
1t is stated that one of the best faculties
| to be had, men whose names are watch
words in the medical and scientific world.
is now being secured.
The next meeting of the directors will
be held the first Tuesday in December. al
which time something more definite can
be stated. The trustees are now at work
on design for the building.
Within two weeks The names of the trus
tees and the faculty, so far as secured. will
| be given forth for publication