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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    [ 14] or Baltimore, but surely they are acquainted with that iu Lexington. Without entering into a comparison, which would be anything but uadvantageous ti> the Medical College, I have only to say, that no student or medical man, who will alternately spend a winter in each place, can for a moment hesitate to give the preference to Transylvania. I may be permitted to say, in reference to myself, that the ad- dress of the students to the Trustees was not the only testimonial I received of respect and confidence. After the delivery of my valedictory, a deputation of the Class waited on me, io request a copy for publication, as an act of justice to myself, arid a refuta- tion of theslanders with which I had been assailed.1' No other Pro- fessor but Dr. Drake received this houor; it was pointedly denied to all the rest. But the zeal of my young friends did not then cea3e. Twenty, out of the thirty two Graduates, who were in the city at Commencement, enclosed me the following memorial and remon- strance, which was never transmitted to the Board, because I was tired of accumulating evidence, which, if examined at all, served merely to create a more dogged resolution to dismiss me. Cincinnati, March 3, 1832. To the Honorable the Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Ohio. We, the undersigned graduates of the present session, have heard with regret, that your honorable body have for sometime had it iu contemplation to remove Professor Henry from his chair. It is now upwards of four months, since we began to have intercouse daily with that gentleman as our public teacher, and one of the examiners for our degrees. Throughout the whole period, he uniformly manifested a full and accurate knowledge of the various subjects of his course. In the demonstrative parts, he has been successful and instructive, in his reasoning clear and cogent, in his deportment honorable and gentlemanly, and acceptable to the Class. His attendance at the lecture room has been punctual, and his devotion to his duties, exemplary. On the whole, we believe that the interests of the College do not require his removal. We would therefore respectfully petition your honorable body to relin- quish the design. The reason which my young friends gave for getting up this me- morial on the same subject with that presented t© the Board in Feb- ruary, was, that they were then in a situation, in which the purity of their motives could no longer be questioned, and they could not go home without making every eTort to repair the injury the Trus- tees and some of the Professors had done me. A large part of the same graduates petitioned for the transfer of Dr. Moorehead to the Institutes, assigning, among other reasons, that he had not lectured on more than half the diseases belonging to his chair. I am re- jected by the Board, in despite of the wishes of the Cass, and Dr. Moorhead is transferred to my chair, although he had never finish- ed the subjects of his own.