The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10

the delartment of medicine at the
university of Pennsylvania in 1877, and
Immediately tookzhigh rank in his pro-
1esslon in Philadelphia, where for sew
eral years he practiced medicine with
marked distinction. He was one of the
! lecturers IN his alma mater. in the
chair OF comparative anatomy, and be-
| came authority on that subject For
/ IL years he served as brigade and di-
vision surgeon of the Pennsylvania
national guard on the staff of General
! Snowden, and was with the troops dur
ing the riot at Homestead. His zeal
IN the science of comparative anatomy
led 10 the chair of veterinary being
established in the university of Penn
sylVania, which he himself held till
1888. when he resigned and went to New
eorg. where he became lecturer in
the New York veterinary school, and is
now an accredited professor of COM
parative anatomy there. He is regard
ed in all the large eastern cities as
thinker in the vervs front rank
beg to respectfully say that The
Eeralds statement, in its issue of Sept.
80 that DR.. HuidekoDer had been dis
charged from the army is hardly cor
rect Some two or three weeks ago ne
resigned to resume his professional
duties at the New York veterinary
school. DR.. Huidekoper is really a very
brilliant man
Many will recall how during the trial
of President Garfield's assassin the
newspapers sought to poke fun at the
great alienist. DR.. Soitzka, who was
testifylng in the case, and called him
horse DOCTOR, but judge and jury
relied more on his testimony than any
other, for he is really profoundly versed
in naladies of nerve and brain. [ am
not positive, but my recollection is
and it seldom fails me on these points,
that DR.. Soitzka was then a professor
in the very same college where DR..
Huidekoper is now
Surely. il one be possessed of a vast
store of knowledge III any one direction
and he add to it information from an
other source it need not disDlace the
former, In other words. DR.. Huide-
koper may be an accomplished phySi-
clan and a fairly good horse doctor at
the same time. Very respectfully,
A. S. CONDOR.
DR.. Huidekoper advertised himself in
New yorI. as a horse doctor. and We
published his advertisement in an
article about him. Even DR.. Condor,
who undertakes his defense admits
that Huidekc2er is horse doctor.
Boiled down, Dr. Condon's defense is
a protest against calling a spade a
Dr. Condor says he is, but it is very
singular indeed that he should have
retired from the regular medical pro-
fession and taken up with the practice
of veterinary surgery because of his
great knowledge of comparative
anatomy. Owen, the greatest of the
comparative anatomists. never found
it necessary to do so.
DIR. Condon's reference to the Car
field case is very far-fetched. If the
doctor will recall, in that case the news
papers were justified in ''poking fun"
at the learned doctors who surrounded
the dying presidents bedside. They |
made 2 very learned diagnosis of the |
case and located the bullet with their |
wonderful scientific apparatus, and |
then began their probing. They didn't |
doubted the correctness of their |
or the infallibility of their |
scientific machine. at least not until |
the president was dead, when the |
autopsy developed the fact that they |
had been wrong from the beginning !
and that their wonderful scientific.
machine had been influenced by the
steel spring and not by the bullet in |
the presidents body.
DR. Condor objects to what The Her
aid has said about Huidekooer. This
paper said he was d horse doctor; his
professional cards show that he treats
horses. and even DR.. Condor, his de-
fender. admits that he is a horse
DOCTOR Whyfore do you kick" DR..
Condor?