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-{{anchor:s2}}CHICAGO CITY HOSPITAL.{{anchor:s3}}-The following article we have received from GEO. E. SHIPMAN, M. D., of Chicago:
-{{anchor:s4}}In a previous number of this REVIEW, I took occasion to bring down the history of this Institution to the time of writing. {{anchor:s5}}An article in the last number of the <span grade2>Chicago Medical Journal,</span> published in this City, by Dr. Brainard, seems to require, that this history should be still further continued, as it contains false statements which cannot pass undenied. {{anchor:s6}}Under the caption "Chicago City Hospital," he says:
-{{anchor:s7}}"It is a source of no little gratification to us, to see this fine building, put at length to the use for which it was intended and so perfectly adapted. {{anchor:s8}}The opening of it has been effected in face of a strong opposition coming from the Homoeopathists, and a part of the medical staff of the so called Mercy Hospital, who in this matter have co-operated with a zeal and perseverance, indicating a full understanding."
-{{anchor:s9}}Now, any one would think, from reading this, that the City of Chicago had opened its hospital, and had given it in charge of Dr. Brainard and others, to the exclusion of Homoeopathists; but the truth is, that the city of Chicago never opened the Hospital at all, simply and solely from the financial troubles of the times. {{anchor:s10}}The Hospital is leased at present to Dr Brainard et <span grade2>al</span>, for the term of three years-he tried to get five, but could not-at the rate of one dollar per annum-the City to pay three dollars per week for all the poor patients, which it sends there, and Dr. Brainard being at liberty, to get what he can out of the paying patients. {{anchor:s11}}Why Dr. Brainard got the lease instead of the "medical staff of the so called Mercy Hospital," or any body else, was because he had more money to invest in that kind of risk than any body else, and because, forsooth, Rish Medical College, which is his offspring, needed the support of such an Institution. {{anchor:s12}}During the present year, another Medical School has been organized here, under the auspices of the Lind University, and three or four of its professors were taken from Rush College, among whom is Dr. Davis, who has had charge of Mercy Hospital-"so <span grade2>called</span>" as Dr. Brainard mirthfully has it. {{anchor:s13}}These two gentlemen stand to each other in the attitude of the Kilkenny cats; their mutual regard is of the same character, and the two rival institutions partake of the same feeling, to a greater or less extent, while the Homoeopathists look on as impartial spectators, wondering that so much anger can dwell in "regular" minds. {{anchor:s14}}Hence it is apparent what an imposition it is, to call this private institution a City Hospital; equally false is it to say, that Dr. Brainard got the lease in face of a strong opposition, coming from the Homoeopathists and a part of the medical staff of the so called Mercy Hospital, &c..
-{{anchor:s15}}The Homoeopathists did oppose leasing the building to any private citizen, alleging that, if money were to be made, the city was entitled to make it, or if to be lost, the city ought to lose it-they did oppose giving it into the hands of the Allopathists, actuated therein by the same motives, which induced Louis Napoleon to offer terms of peace to his august enemy-a desire to prevent further effusion of blood; but we had no understanding with, nor confidence in either party. {{anchor:s16}}In both faculties there are gentlemen and scholars, who would adorn the medical profession anywhere, and in both there are persons with whom no Homoeopathist could associate or consult, without degrading himself, but as faculties, as far as we have opportunity to know, both are alike illiberal and bigotted; we count them both as our enemies, hence when Dr. Brainard in. directly sent us overtures to induce us to stay our opposition, offering an equal footing to our students with their own. we gave them no heed.
-{{anchor:s17}}The lease of Dr. Brainard, as I said before, has three years to run-at the expiration of that time, if the city of Chicago feels willing and able to open the Institution as a public one, the Homoeopathists will be there and have their just portion, and that without any help from the irregulars, whom Dr. Brainard gives a parting thrust in this wise
-{{anchor:s18}}"How the physicians who are connected with it (the Mercy Hospital), and who have made every effort to defeat the opening of the City Hospital in concert with irregulars, can justify themselves, we are at a loss to conjecture."
-{{anchor:s19}}Who the "irregulars" are, we do not exactly know Report says, that Dr. Davis was called to account by the Cook County Medical Society-the Society which parades its dead members-in consulting with an eclectic-that he excused himself, and said it should not happen again-but that it did happen again, and the probability is that the Dr. is alluded to, but if so, it is very unfair, for Dr. Davis, is the father of the American Medical Association and several other useful institutions, besides having borne the brunt of the contest between Homoeopathy and Allopathy for some time past, while Dr. Brainard was enjoying life in Paris, and astonishing the Parisian savans with his rattlesnakes-we protect against any disrespectful terms being used to Dr. Davis, especially by his allopathic brethren, regular or irregular. {{anchor:s20}}In bitter opposition to Homoeopathy, and in blind devotion to Regular Medicine, if any body knows what that meant, he is head and shoulder above all his compeers, and if he is eventually cast out of the Cook County Medical Society, he will be a host of himself anywhere, and quite a match for any medical body.
-{{anchor:s21}}But, if anything were necessary to show the folly of this pretence of <span grade2>regularity,</span> what could show it better then this arrangement of Dr. Davis, that pink of medical propriety, whose garments were supposed never to have been polluted by the profane touch of any irregular? {{anchor:s22}}A similar case has recently occurred in Connecticut, where a member in good and regular standing, was expelled from the State medical society, without a hearing, because he consulted with a Homoeopathist in some surgical case. {{anchor:s23}}I do not protest against such a course, for while I mourn for poor human nature, that it can be so base and degraded, so fearful of encountering the least glimmer of truth, it rejoice my heart to see our adversaries thus asinine themselves, and I hope that they will never lose an opportunity to heap the vials of their wrath upon the head. of all those who venture to think for themselves, and thus bring upon their own heads all the sooner, the retribution which has been too long delayed. {{anchor:s24}}When they disagree among themselves in almost every respect, how can they call upon others to agree with them? {{anchor:s25}}Who can define what is now the self-styled Regular School of Medicine? call them Allopathic-they say that they do not practice by contraries-though every body knows, that in the main, they do- call them the Old School, they will fly in your face, and tell you with Braithwaith that "this is a total misrepresentation," that "medicine is a progressive science, and has wonderfully improved of late call them a new school, and they will talk to you about Hippocrates and Galen, as if they had inherited all their wisdom, and with it a proscriptive right to drug all the sons of men, for all time to come. {{anchor:s26}}But who among them can define the system of Regular Medicine so called, in such a way that even half of the nominal adherents of the school will subscribe to it? and if this cannot be done-if they cannot erect a standard to which they themselves conform, whence their right to arrogate to themselves the title of orthodox, and scout all others who choose to follow their own judgments. {{anchor:s27}}Where is the physician who never fails to cure cases which are curable-where the physician who has nothing to learn? {{anchor:s28}}Now, if I have something yet to learn, who cm tell but that it may be in possession of that man whom I look upon as an outcast, because he does not "<span grade2>conform</span>?{{anchor:s29}}" What is true of a physician is true of a school, and if the so called regular school of medicine is not in possession of all needful medical knowledge-and who has the impudence and assurance to say, that it has-who knows but what some other school has it-who knows what truth may be in the Homoeopathic system, or in the Eclectic, with one of the adherents of which Dr. Davis is said to have consulted?
-{{anchor:s30}}But these truths may be applied to others than allopathists; there are many in our school, descended evidently from some one of Job's friends-to whom he addressed the exclamation, "Ye are the people and wisdom shall die with you"-who tell us magisterially, that the course they dictate is the only true one, and all other plans are pursued by quacks and pretenders alone. {{anchor:s31}}Now since our allopathic brethren have desisted from purging to so great an extent, it would be well if the Homoeopathic school would take it up, and purge itself of such pestilent fellow?. {{anchor:s32}}If modesty becomes any man, it is a medical man, for "who knows so little, where he should know so much"-let us rid ourselves therefore of these perts, who would stereotype what little they know, and make us all swear by it, that having parted company with them, we may have the more leisure to seize upon truth, wherever found.
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-{{anchor:s34}}TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES.{{anchor:s35}}-We have lately received such meagre accounts of the proceedings of societies, owing to the small attendance during the summer months, that we have not considered them of sufficient interest to publish. {{anchor:s36}}We hope that now as cold weather approaches and the various societies are better attended, their secretaries will not forget to furnish us with their transactions.
-{{anchor:s37}}ILLINOIS STATE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.{{anchor:s38}}-The Fifth Annual Meeting of this Society will be held at Jacksonville, Illinois, on Tuesday the 2d of November Dr. R. Ludlam of Chicago is to deliver the annual address
-{{anchor:s39}}%%__________%%
-{{anchor:s40}}OUR POSITION.{{anchor:s41}}-A friend has received a letter, concerning our connection with the "memorial" presented to the American Institute of Homoeopathy at its meeting held in Boston in June just, and desires to publish his reply in the REVIEW, to which we cheerfully accede, and take occasion to publish a few remark.
-{{anchor:s42}}The existence of the paper referred to was unknown to us previous to its presentation to the "Meeting" its originators were in no way connected with the Review. many of the signers, among whom are several of our contributors, having informed us that it did not originate with them.
-{{anchor:s43}}That any personal allusions were embodied in the memorial we much regret, believing that, far from advancing Homoeopathy, they tend to rupture the bond of fellowship among us and thus weaken our cause.
-{{anchor:s44}}In the experience we have had in conducting a periodical, we have found that those who are the loudest in decrying the works of others, do nothing themselves to forward the cause whose best interest they profess to serve. {{anchor:s45}}Those who so strenuously denounce the eclectic tendencies and empirical practices <span grade2>of</span>some members of the profession, are very apt to be those, who, in private, use the same means they condemn in others, and contribute little or nothing to the support of what they call sound principle?; while those who render the most aid in the promulgation of our therapeutic law, do it, not by indulging in personalities and tirades of abuse against those in our ranks they call eclectic and empirical. but by a firm advocacy of what they esteem the truth.
-{{anchor:s46}}There are many physicians who, although they believe in the homoeopathic law of cure, acknowledge their ignorance of its applicability to all cases; or are not so well versed in our Materia Medica that they can depend on it in all cases, and therefore resort to other means as adjuvants. {{anchor:s47}}Most of our physicians have studied the Materia Medicas of the old school, and taken their diplomas from allopathic colleges, and many have for a long time practiced that method, who, when they fail to find the similimum, resort to other means of restoring health
-{{anchor:s48}}Again there are others who so pertinaciously adhere to the symptomatology of our Materia Medica, that they consider all tainted with eclecticism who use adjuvants. {{anchor:s49}}Thus we see how the standard, by which eclectism is judged, varies.
-{{anchor:s50}}It is the aim of the physician to cure, and it is an obligation he is under to the community and the patients who place themselves under his care, to use such means as in his judgment are best calculated to effect as surely and speedily as possible the desired result.
-{{anchor:s51}}The majority in our ranks we believe to be able, from close study and careful observation, to cure all curable diseases with the remedies administered according to the homoeopathic law.
-{{anchor:s52}}We believe in the infalibility of the law <span grade2>Similia Similibus Curantur:</span> but do not recognize in every physician the skill to apply it As stated in our Introductory: "<span grade2>If a drug fails to cure, it is generally because the practitioner has failed to find the true similimum or its appropriate preparation</span>," therefore failures and recourse to other means are of no benefit to the profession, and the publication of such would rather reflect on the physician than add to our knowledge of the law.
-{{anchor:s53}}Why decry the so-called eclecticism of others, not professed Homoeopathists who state they do not believe in the universal adaptation of the law? {{anchor:s54}}Why fear the "injury they are doing our cause?{{anchor:s55}}" Instead of the violent denunciations, let us rather prove the contrary of their assertions and leave the decision with an intelligent and discriminating community.
-{{anchor:s56}}NEW YORK, Sept. 13th, 1859.
-{{anchor:s57}}MY DEAR SIR:-
-{{anchor:s58}}In reply to your candid letter of the 7th inst., I beg leave to state that the movement against the North American Journal did not originate with any of the friends of the Homoeopathic Review, The memorial to the Institute was got up without their knowledge, and was not generally circulated among them.
-{{anchor:s59}}Though I differ materially, in regard to homoeopathic doctrines and practice, from the present controlling editor of the Quarterly, our relations personally have always been friendly. {{anchor:s60}}I had no knowledge of the memorial, nor had our editor. {{anchor:s61}}The conductors of the two journals have been mutually courteous to each other.
-{{anchor:s62}}Whilst the Institute approved of the homoeopathic views of the memorial, they tacitly ignored its main object, the establishment of a rival <span grade2>Quarterly.</span> {{anchor:s63}}Neither Quarterly applied definitely for papers; the Monthly did, and obtained in some degree the position of organ of the Institute, and that without attacking any journal present or prospective.
-{{anchor:s64}}For myself, I believe it important for the cause of Homoeopathy, to sustain one periodical in this country as strictly homoeopathic as the American Homoeopathic Review. {{anchor:s65}}This may be conducted without any unbecoming controversy with any other journal, and without any infringement of the liberty of individuals to express their own opinions through any medium with which they sympathize.
-{{anchor:s66}}I have argued against Allopathy, never maliciously, though sometimes playfully for illustrating more fully some particular points. {{anchor:s67}}I have never ceased to respect that vast amount of science which both sides hold as a common inheritance. {{anchor:s68}}Sympathizing with your charitable feelings, I remain
-{{anchor:s69}}Dear Sir, Truly Yours,
-{{anchor:s70}}B. F. JOSLIN.
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-{{anchor:s72}}NEW YORK HALF ORPHAN ASYLUM.{{anchor:s73}}-In our September issue we published a report of this Institution; since then we have been informed that although published this year the report was for the year ending Dec. 31, 1858. The report for this year is not yet published.
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-^ Source: | The AMERICAN HOMOEOPATHIC REVIEW Vol. 02 No. 01, 1859, pages 44-48 |
-^ Description: | Chicago City Hospital. {{anchor:s77}}Controversy regarding North American Journal of Homoeopathy. |
-^ Author: | AHomeo02 |
-^ Year: | 1859 |
-^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
-^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |

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