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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 17] tion of compacts, and the rights and feelings of individuals. It would be considered vain and arrogant, if I were to add,the inte- rests and honor of the institution over which they preside. I must not omit a passing notice of my late colleagues of the Mi- ami Faculty. I have already stated what were the rumours in reference to two of them before the reorgnization ot the Medical College in 1831. But let us look at their conduct in another relation. They were members of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine for summer Lectures. They were connected with some of the most re- spectable city practitioners. One course of Lectures had been de- livered, and arrangements were making for a second, when these three professors, without giving any notice to their associates, de- serted, and formed a summer School, under the exclusive auspices of the MedicalCollege of Ohio. Dr. Staughton, the Dean, without au- thority, from the Faculty, attached a notification of this new arrange- mentto the annual catalogue. When our late colleagues of the Acad- emy, saw it, their indignation was uttered in a tone,which could not be mistaken. This was followed by the most contemptible shuffling, and undignified prevarications, on the part of some of those who belonged to the College. These occurrences were simultaneous with the machinations for my expulsion from the College. My adhe- rence to those gentlemen who had united themselves with us, when in ourMiaini enterprise, we greatly needed the countenance of our friends, no doubt convinced my associates in the College, that I was altogether unfit for the selfish system, which they had adopted. It thus appears, that those who contemplated deserting me, when members of the Miami Faculty actually deserted me in the Cincin- nati Academy of medicine. As my colleagues in the Medical College of Ohio, they tamely succumb to the plans of the Trustees, and advise a reduction of the Professorships, knowing at the same time that this reduction was intended to operate upon me. No doubt exists in reference to the conduct of Drs. Mitchell and Staughton on this subject; but Dr. Eberle had declared to Dr. Drake and myself, that the trustees ought not to remove me. That it would be so flagrant an act of injustice that it would be impossible for the College to prosper un- der it, and that he had written an answer decidedly hostile to the reduction. The diminished state of the class establishes his claim to the title of a prophet beyond the posibility of a doubt. But as to the nature of his letter, I have received opposite statements. Two of the Trustees declared to two of my friends, that the Board interpreted it in favor of the measure. A Trustee repeated the same thing to me. I leave the discrepancy to be settled among themselves. The epistle was no doubt a master-piece of equivo- cation: looking to the promised chair of the Theory and Practice, and yet faintly dwelling on the obligations of faith, honor and jus- tice. Even so late as the 16th of March, in his letter to Dr. Drake he adopts the same duplicity of style, acknowledging that the ar- rangement which has since taken place, was agreed on by the 3*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2112811x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
