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the Medical Profession, or "Allopathy," or any particular class.
I am not conscious of any particular interest in any class or
party, on this subject. So far as I am personally concerned,
it might be more politic to say nothing on the subject, but as a
custodian of the interests of the University, I must express
what the interests of sound education seem to me to require,
irrespective of party, or sect.
Observe then, first, that we have no Professor of "Allopathy"
in the University of Michigan. This is no subterfuge, but a
solemn fact. If a grant of money was offered to the University on condition that a Professor of Allopathy should be appointed, Ishould be compelled to show the unreasonableness
of the condition. We do not want in a University professors
of special ideas or theories, who believe'tthat their special ideas
or theories embrace all truth in their respective schools, and
that all outside of their special ideas or theories is false and to
be rooted up and condemned. You make the University, by
such a course, a place of strife and discord, and not'a place for
the harmonious inculcation of all truth. What we want in
the Department of Medicine and Surgery, is a number of Professors who shall present all the subjects and all the in formation
properly belonging to the science and art cf Medicine and
Surgery. They should be, as they are, Professors of Anatomy,
Ph/ysiology, Pathology, PSurgery, Diseases in General, Diseases
of particular classes, Chemistry, llcateria lieedica, &c., &c.embracing the whole orb of the science and art of Medicine
and Surgery,-but not Professors of "Allopathy," " Homeopathy," "Hydropathy," or any other special theory; and the
graduates should receive, not a title-" Homeopathic Doctor,"
or " Allopathic Doctor," or " Hydropathic Doctor," or Doctor of any particular kind, but simply the old, time-honored
M. D.-Doctor of Medicine.
rT'lhis is no sublimated, unapproachable theory, but the only
proper basis of a University. The University does not establish a Department of Medicine and Surgery in the interests of
any particular class of physicians, or in the interest of conflicting classes of physicians, or with the special purpose of making
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