Who, which, what and wherefore, or, A few facts for the homoeopathic profession.

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1860
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    ing, the chairs of Physiology, and Materia Medica and Therapeutics, occupied respect- ively by Professor Reed and Professor Hem- pel, were declared vacant. Our document, thanks to the Honorable President, did not abort. It enjoyed a regular delivery, and the result was Jacob Reed, Jr., received the following communi- cation : To Messrs. Sam. A. Jones, Francis II. Ehr- mann, Jacob Reed, Jr.: Gentlemen:—Your petition was received this evening making complaint of certain members of the Faculty ; the whole case has been referred to Doctors Williamson and Helmuth, who, assisted by Doctors Semple and Ward, will re-examine and report to the board. You will therefore please report your- selves for examination to the above named gentlemen, who will doubtless appoint a time for the purpose. W. E. G. AGNEW, Sec'y B. M. Horn. Coll. of Med. Jacob Reed, Jr., Esq.: Sir:—Please show the above to your co- complainants and oblige. Yours, &c, W. E. G. AGNEW, Sec'y B. M. At the time of receiving this document, Jacob Reed, Jr., and his co-complainants were in the following condition : They had gone through examination week'' with its long anxious hours of hoping and fearing, yearning and desponding, such hours as every earnest student has known and will yet know. They were aware of Professor J. Beakley's avowed threat that the expression of an honest opinion would prove fatal to them. They calculated the probable extent of his influence, and placing the vote expected from him and his particular friends at the lowest consistent point this side of a total black-balling they found themselves safe. The result of the ballot had shown them the fallacy of their even desponding estimate—for it was a desponding and not a deserving estimate. The votes of Professors Beakley, Coxe and Ward declared them totally ignorant in the branches of Surgery, Practice and Obstet- rics. Saturday night they went through the motions of sleeping ; encored the same motions on Sunday night, and ex- necessitate repeated the encore on Monday night. Wearied from loss of sleep; worn with anxiety and unavoidable nervous pros- tration ; stung with shame ; jeered and cursed by the sycophant traitors of the Class; disgraced before the Profession and friends, and asked to stand another examination, and part of it before Isaac M. Ward, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics—a man who had proven himself false at one examina- tion, and who was to be taken simply on the trust of a gene-ous credulity upon a second tria'. While in this state the following note was received: Philadelphia, Feb. 28<A, 1860. Mr. Jacob Reed, Jr. : Dear Sir:—Be kind enough to inform Messrs. Jones and Ehrmann, that, Drs. Helmuth, Ward, Semple and myself will meet them and yourself at the College this evening at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of giving you a re-examination, if you desire it. (Signed) Very respectfullv, W. WILLIAMSON. On the evening of February 28th, we pre- sented ourselves before the Committee for the purpose of submitting to such an exami- nation as was compatible with honor and justice. SamuelA. Jones was first called into the examining room. M. Semple, M. D., Prof, of Chemistry, proceeded to examine him upon the subject pertaining to his chair. Mr. Jones declined being re-examined upon Chemistry, Physiology, Anatomy, and Materia Medica and Therapeutics, but ex- pressed a willingness to be interrogated upon Surgery, Practice, and Obstetrics, those branches upon which Profs Beakley, Coxe, and Ward had pronounced him totally ignorant. Mr. Jones gave as his reason for refusing a re-examination upon the specified four branches the fact that, upon them he had received at the regular balloting, some white balls, at the same time asserting that if any Professor gave him one white ball it did not belong to him, as a student, to question the estimate his teacher avas pleased, or bound, to place upon his attainments. he only held that, when a Professor's vote bore an absurdity and a falsehood upon the face of it, he had the right of demanding an opportunity of proving that absurdity and falsehood. That there might be no equivocation upon what white balls he had received, he asked the committee to examine the follow- ing testimonials. Phila., Feb. 28, 1860. This certifies that Samuel A. Jones has been diligently examined by me, in Physi- ology and Hygiene, and has been found entitled to my full vote in balloting for candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. (Signed) WM. A. REED, M. D., Prof, of Physiology, Horn. Med. College of Penna. Phila., Feb. 28, 1860. This is to certify that Mr. Samuel A. Jones has been examined by me in Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and that I have found him entitled to my full vote, and that 1 cast my full vote in his favor at the balloting given on Saturday evening, Feb. 25th. (Signed) CHAS. J. HEMPEL, M. D. In addition to the above each of us now possesses a certificate similar to the following : Philoda., Feb. 2Hh. 18C0. I take pleasure in stating that I have carefully ex- amined Samuel A. Jones, upon Anatomy, t.nd that I