Year: 1870
Type: editorial
Abstract: A Whisper in Ascalon.The Albany dailies are jubilant over the admission to a chair in their Medical College, of an avowed Homœopathist, who is not only a Professor, but the President of the Faculty.The Evening Journal of that city discoursed!thus: " It is, indeed, gratifying, to know that the barriers which have hitherto divided the two schools of medicine are being removed, and to see our college taking the initiatory step towards such a desirable achievement.We believe this is the only allopathic medical institution in this country that possesses views sufficiently liberal to allow any of the chairs to be filled by men who firmly and practically believe in the homœopathic doctrine.It is also pleasant to know that several of the trustees of the college are firm believers in homoeopathy.The Sunday Morning Press is less hopeful as to this sign of the times, and lucubrates: "We remember some of the professors of this institution making vigorous war against homoeopathy, and now we find these same men associated in the institution with a professor who is a homoeopath.This astonishing incon sistency is reasonably explainable only on the theory that the Faculty believed when they secured the appointment of Prof. Harris, that it would encourage the patronage of the homoeopaths." Our medical brethren seem to us to have a chronic disposition to do things in a way a little different from anybody else.Thus, while the clergy and the lawyers have no peculiar laws to govern their respective professions, but yet effectually call their members to account when they overstep the bounds of propriety, the medical profession, on the other hand, establish a long series of laws (their medical ethics) to guide the conduct of its mem bers, apparently having little confidence in their good sense and discretion, and these laws they by no means observe.Thus, the medical profession,
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Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4383482341
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