The San Francisco call., 1899-07-26
HOMEOPATHS
DEDICATE THEIR
NEW QUARTERS
College for Disciples
of Hahnemann.
INSTITUTION FREE OF DEBT
MAYOR PHELANA ADDRESSES THE
MEDICoS.
Vice President Tisdale officiates at
the Exercises and DIR. j. w.
Ward, Dean of the Faculty,
Talks of the School.

The fine new Hahnemann Hospital Col
lege building at the corner of Sacramento
and Maple streets was formally dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies last evening.
Professor Charles L. Tisdale, vice .presi-
dent of the board of trustees of the col
Iege, presided and the spacious lecture
room was filled to oVerfiowing with
friends of the institution who had
sembled to listen to the addresses and ex
cellent music which made up the pro-
gramme. While the guests were being
seated Brandt's orchestra played the
Stars and Stripes" followed by "Caval-
Rev. DR.. Adams Professor Tisdale made
a brief address of welcome. He spoke as
follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of. the
trustees of the Hahnemann Hospital Col
lege | welcome you tonight TO the for
NAL dedication of this beautiful building.
! feel, my friends, that this is certainly
the most important event in the long and
honorabl history of homeopathy on this
coast, for after years of weary wander
ing the opening of the seventeenth SeS-
sion of the college finds US at last in our
home, surrounded by all the comforts and
luxuries that honestly belong to the dis
ciples of Samuel Hahnemann. In all the
pride and happiness of the present | can
of the past; those weary anxious years
when the darkened sky came down close
us in so hopeIessiy. How many of US
came near giving up the struggle dare
not say, for tonight in the joy and pride
of our new possession we are happy in
the substantial fulfillment of our fond
est hopes, and with faces set toward the
rising sun We are confident of a glorous
future for the Hahnemann Hospital Col
lege of San Francisco. On behalf of the
trustees l wish to thank most heartily all
the kind friends, both professional and
other, who by their matchlesS generosity
and cooperation have made our fondest
dreams a most useful reality. The mag
nifcent gift of $4,000 from the Southern
Homeopathic DispenSary. the substantial
donation from the physicians of Southern
California. the splendid assistance of the
Alumni of the college, the numerous prt-
vate benefaCtions for various specific
purposes, together with the generous
contributions from homeopathic physi-
clans from all parts of California, have
enabled US to erect and equip this beau
tiful building, which. | am confident VIII
contribute largely to the glory OF ho-
meOpathy and the constant advancement
of medical science.
Another selection by the orchestra fol-
lowed and then Professor Tisdale intro
duced Mayor Phelan. The Mayor warmly
congratulated the Hahnemann faculty on
the substantial evidence of the prosperity
of the college as evidenced by the pro-
gress 1t had made since its Incorporation
and also congratulated San Francisco on
its possession. The Mayors speech, which
was delivered in his happiest vein, was
warmly received. The feature of the ex-
ercises, however, was without question
the address of Professor James w. Ward,
NJ. D., dean of the faculty, brief sum-
mary of which follows:
The curtain is almost down on the great
est century in the worlds history. We are
tonight in the glorious twilight of this
magnificent century, whose close will for
ever cast into history the working of a
medical reformation which began over
of Northern Germany. Beneath the gray
skies of northern climate and from a
race impatient of ignorance where knowl-
edge is Impossible, most eager and enter
prising where the darkness is the thick
est the germ of truth in medicine took
its root, developed into a system and has
grown to mighty proportions. All this has
been accomplished by the great intellectual
courage of Hahnemann and his following.
There is nothing In the worlds history
that commands greater respect than cour-
age.
Hahnemann as a philosopher was an
opponent, aye, the very anttpode, OF the
modern system of materialism.
1t has been said that the great physi-
clan of the future Is the one who is to
prevent disease So Hahnemann was a
pioneer in hygiene. In his first original
LeipSic in 1884, at the time when almost
nothing existed of hygiene and sanitary
science, he showed fair knowledge and
appreciation of its value by recommending
exercise and open air. He recorded
brilliant achievement by suggesting the
benefits Of change and the seashore life;
agent, and the Importance of personal hy-
giene clearly made known.
He was probably the first physician in
the world to introduce the mild, kindly.
non-restraint method In the treatment OF
the insane. While in charge of the hos
ptal for the insane at Georgenthal, in 1882,
ceased to live He allowed no insane per-
son to be punished by blows or other Ill
treatment, for" said he, there can be
no punishment where there is no respon-
sibility; such parties cannot be improved,
but must be rendered worse by rough
treatment" Hahnemann foreshadowed
the successful antiseptic treatment of the
present half-century by referring to the
treatment OF diseased bone. He said: L
scraped the carrious bone clear out and
dressed 1t with alcohol" At the same
time he introduced nitrate of silver as a
powerful germicide. In 1879 he awakened
the chemical world to an admiration for
his genius by the discovery of the exact
mode of preparing the soluble mercury,
a secret long and earnestly sought like
the philosophers stone in olden time
In 1881 we find Hahnemann announcing
day in certain diseases as a recognized
cause the world over 1t was from the ef-
forts now put forth at this stage of his
career that there came out from the dark
ness Of ignorance superstition and error
the formula "Similia, SimilfbuS, Curan-
tur, a free Interpretation of which IS,
Diseases are to be cured by those medi-
cines which produce symptoms most near
ly resembling them in the healthy body.
To him belongs the honor of discovering
how to administer the materia medica,
namely, in the smallest doses that will
cure. In this advance the old school has
followed, and now everywhere they yield
to the administration of the smaller dose.
This one triumph alone would have been
worth living life to attain and would
have made his name immortal. 1t is there
fore the aim of this college to point out
scientific medicine he directed the way.
supplemented by all the more recent
methods of research. The medical science
of to-day has been erected on the sub.
stratum of centuries Of experience. The
mysteries of yesterday are the facts of
to-day.
Rev. DR.. Adams concluded the exercises
with a benediction and the orchestra
played when Dewey Comes Marching
Home" while the visitors were escorted
through the building on tour of inspec-
ton.
The idea of a new hospital building to
replace the old structure on Haight street