An exposure of the conduct, of the trustees and professors of the Medical College of Ohio, and of the hospital or township trustees : in relation to John F. Henry, M. D.

  • Henry, J. (John), 1793-1873.
Date:
1833
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Credit: An exposure of the conduct, of the trustees and professors of the Medical College of Ohio, and of the hospital or township trustees : in relation to John F. Henry, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    f 6] fact, what sort of casuistry can eleven honorable men employ to justify their repeated attempts to detach a portion of the Miami Faculty? That they made such attempts is matter of history; that they were not repelled, that they were in fact encouraged by the Professors of Surgery and of Chemistry is plainly intimated by Dr. Drake in his letter to the Third District Society,and was a subject of common rumor at the time. This has never been denied by either the tempters or tempted. It has also been circulated through this community, that I refused to release Dr. Drake from his pledges to me, and that I entreated him and ihe other members of the Miami Faculty, not to desert me. These statements are false. Dr. Drake never desired to be released, so far as I ever knew. Had he done so, my consent would not have been withheld for a single moment. The other part of the al- legation is equally unfounded, but more humiliating. I have never degraded myself by soliciting that, which I had a right to demand ; and of this nature, I considered my claims upon Drs. Staughton and Mitchell. Here I cannot suppress a fact, which is worthy of remembrance, that Dr. Drake has at various times spurned the most tempting offers to desert each of bis associates; but that neither of those who are now in their pride of place, has ever shewn the least available aversion to desert him. In connexion with this subject, though somewhat out of place, I may be permitted to state, that when Dr. Drake contemplated resigning his station in the Medical College, on account of the limited nature of his chair, and the adherence of the Trustees to Dr. Pierson, after he had failed to come on, I proffered to him to resign, and thus afford the Trus- tees an opportunity of enlarging the sphere of his operations. This hs refused to permit, declaring that if I resigned, it would not for one moment, arrest the movement on which he had determined.— This proves the falsehood of another prevalent rumour, that by the tenacity with which 1 held to office, I was the cause of driving my friend from the school. Why I did not resign at the bidding of the Trustees, will be shewn in the progress of this narration. Recurring to the order of facts, we find that the Trustees with a perseverance worthy of a better cause, endeavored to detach first one and then another of our Miami associates: and that finally, Dr. Drake, as a compromise—an alternative, and not a choice, pro- posed a plan of consolidation of which the following is a copy. Cincinnati, July 7th, 1831. Gentlemen,—In further reply to your note, offering me the Professorship of the Institutes and Medical Jurisprudence, in the Medical College of Ohio, I beg leave to suggest the following plan of consolidation as the only one, as far as I know, that can leave me at liberty to accept a chair in the Insti- tution. PLAN OF CONSOLIDATION. Jlnalomy, Dr. Cobb, Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, Dr. Pierson, Theory and Practice of Medicine, Dr. Morehead.