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Comes To The Rescue

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Day
3
Month
March
Year
1897
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In ;m interview published n yesterlay's Detroit Free Press, Dr. R. S. jopeland, secretary of the Homeopathie Paeulty, has this to say relative to tiie o the Homeopatliic Hospital: "I have observed," said he, "several irticle.s relatiag to this questioti, and ïave read them wi'h interest. ,hing that strikes my attention iuosI is heir inaccuraey. Figures are treacherius, and in this case they have been iiggled uith and made to lead to unfair onclusions. "Tlie physician quoted in your paper rday, whose voice is Jticob's bul yhose hands are Esau's, has laken the ■eport of President Angel for 18ytj uu wliich to base his conclusions. It is well known that last year. the firsf f the iiew faciilty, was a year of beginniugfl and naturally oí smal] things. i! the physieian quoted is thirsty lor statisúes, iet me give liim a few figures n,,';: the record. The receipts o homeopathie hospital last ear, Oetober i ti) July J, auiounted - the prominent physiciau to the contrary uotwithstaudin;r - to $2,498.40. This ye.ir is uow lialf goue and up to Mareh ! the rei uere inore than $2,900. At this rate o{ ase over last year it iill t.e seeu that the incoine of ihe homeopatliic hospital is now at least 7" per cent of tiie expenditure, whereas bat 66 per rent is claimed for tlie allopatiiic m hospital. This i inent made as follows: 'As the homeopathie hospital has run only partly full, it follows that the record is as íiigli as can ever be expected.' Not only does it in t follow tliat the record is as high as it. ever can be, bilt the prospi cl is good tiiat another year will find the hospital ly, if not quite, self-supportiug. Hospitals are rarely self-snpporling, and are not expected to be. Grace hospital here in Detroit, with au endowineni "Í $500,000, has each yeat a iarge áefleiencv. To (ja.ite froin a coinuuinieation of Dean Vauglian : 'li i.s supposed' that the public good niakes up the deliiienev.' If in the regular school hospital liinbs have been amputated, cataraots removed and lives saved, likevvise in mirs have liinba heen amputated, eyesiglit restored and lives saved. The arguinpiil that holde good in one case valid in the other. "It o imeresting to note the wide extent of tcrritoiy leaelied by the influeuce of our hospital. So lar this year, we tiave bad patienW from forty-five out of Ihe eigbty-seven counties of the state, and from six other states. It bas been said that patiënt from western .Michigan go to Chicügo for treatment. In view of tliis statement, it is pleasant to note lliat every county borderiug on Lake Michigan has coutributed to our clinics. "Sinall clinics are spoken of. In a Detroit paper of January, 1897, a former faculty member said: 'A small city must always lack useful clinioal material, tbe essential requiremeut of a modern medical school. While the allopatiiic departuient at Ann Arbor is sorely deficiënt in tbis feature, this disability is greater in tlie homeopathie hospital.' I have been wondering whether to believe tbe opinión of tbis tonner faculty member of 1897 or bis opinión in 1892, when be said: 'Tbe elinical advantages ofïered homeopathie students are more than ampie to meet the demanda of any school. Although not in the midst of a populous city, the college has no ditticulty in securiug all the elinical material that can be utilized enibracing almost every pathologisal condition likely to occur in daily practice. There are refere nee rooms for lying-in cases, of which there are aimuallyinore than can be aduiitted.' The conclusión is plain. ■'The, report went out a few weeks ago that 97 per cent of the homeopatliic profession of Michigan favored removal. We doubted it, and to test tbe question sent out copies of a letter denouucing agitation and pledging support to tlie cullege as at present administered. We had no tliought of such a response. Every mail l)rings us endorsemeut.s of tbe proposal for peace. Already we have tbe signature of nearly (0 per cent of the profession in Michigan. Could every doctor be reached, and bis vote recorded, I have no doubt that from 85 to 90 per cent would favor the college as it is. "Tlie fact is that every obstacle that in tlie past bas embarassed the growth of the college bas been removed. During the past few yearsthe president, tbe regents and oiücers of tlie universa v have demons tra ted in every possible wav that they desire tbe' school to ilourish. Distrust of the regents on the part of the homeopathie profession lias vanished, and on every hand the faculty members are meeting with bearty support and co-operation."

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