The memorial of M.B. Wright in relation to the Medical College of Ohio : the official misconduct of its trustees, the maladministration of its affairs, and the dangerous position of the commercial hospital : made to the forty-ninth General Assembly.

  • Wright, M. B. (Marmaduke Burr), 1803-1879.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The memorial of M.B. Wright in relation to the Medical College of Ohio : the official misconduct of its trustees, the maladministration of its affairs, and the dangerous position of the commercial hospital : made to the forty-ninth General Assembly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the Medical College of Ohio, as any other three worthy individuals in community. Is it a truth that these three worthy individuals, have been with the faculty shoulder to shoulder, for so many years in sustaining the college, and at the same time be ignorant of its govern- ment or claims ? If they know nothing of the college, after so long an experience in its affairs, what amount of information do the revo- lutionists possess, who scarcely knew of the existence of the college, until within the last few months ? The question very naturally presents itself, what could have induced the revolutionists thus to jeopardize the interests of the college, by breaking or weakening its connection with the hospital ? One or two facts and a little reflection, will decide this point. Some years ago the Secretary applied to the Township Trustees, for the appoint- ment of Physician to the poor. The Trustees, ever mindful of their duties to this unfortunate class of our population, very respectfully re- jected the application. Again, the Secretary has been opposed to the continuance of the hospital as a prop to the college. At least, the undersigned was in- formed by an honorable Senator, that he was bound by a pledge given the said Secretary, to vote for a bill depriving the college of its medi- cal control over the hospital. Separate these two institutions ! Select men as Trustees of the college, who would deprive it of its great source of attraction and pow- er ! Accomplish this darling object of the revolutionists, and the col- lege would soon become, indeed, a heap of ruins—the certain trophy of folly and madness. In their pamphlet, the revolutionists claim that a professor must be a passive instrument in their hands, that they may dispose of his char- acter in any way satisfactory to themselves. But, your memorial- st has yet to learn, that the General Assembly has ever passed an ict justifying such an assumption of power. The medical college of Ohio should be made subservient to the wishes and welfare of the public ; and that public will surely never sanction the doctrine, that a orofessor shall have his reputation assailed and his prospects blasted, jy the Trustees, for the reason merely that it is satisfactory to them- telves. To a physician, and especially to a medical teacher, reputa- tion is dearer than life, for upon it every thing in life depends. And the idea, that because a few men are clothed with a little brief authori-