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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![[5] The ' remarks' are uncandid and offensive. ■ The gpntleman who was run by the college,' had been expelled less than twelve months before; and his friendship for the Professors, is exceedingly problematical, whatever may be his love for the college. .Wheth- er it be intended to embrace me, under the category of disappoin- ted ambition, or neglected vanity, I pronounce the insinuation, that I exerted, or attempted to exert any influence, to procure my election, utterly untrue. I did not vote for mvself, as my accu- sers have done ! I considered these movements, as a declaration of war against me; and they would instantly have called forth the statements, which it is the object of these pages to communicate, had I not known, that the proceedings of the Third District Medical Society were about to be published ; and I thought it expedient, on that account, to wait for the belligerant operations which I supposed would succeed it. My forbearance has not been without its utility ; for although it may have encouraged my adversaries, it has, at the same time, afforded me an opportunity of answering, in asingie pamphlet, all that has been, and I presume, all that can be said against me. I am next assailed by the Trustees of the Medical College of Ohio, who in reply to the Third District Society have insinuated, as they had done in their annual circular, that I was incompetent to the discharge of the duties of my Professorship, and the Township Trus- tees assisting on this occasion, as they did on a former one, have also entered the lists against me, and proved conclusively their title to be considered lJriends of the College,' by abusing all who are ob- noxious to the Professors and to the College Board. With this combination of College Trustees, Medical Professors, and Town- ship Trustees, armed with the simple weapons of truth and justice, I enter without dismay into the contest. The public will'observe, that since my expulsion, I have done nothing to obstruct the opera- tions of the Collage. I have desired peace. I have sought it, not by degrading supplications, but by abstaining from hostility. But with that illiberality which marks the conduct of my enemies, they have driven me from my repose by goading me with their taunts and their revilings, and to them attaches all the blame of provo- king this controversy. It is known to all, that I was one of the Professors in the medi- cal department of Miami University—that I was a co-guarantor to a large amount to Drs. M'Clellan and Eberle, by which they were induced to accept stations in the School, and that of course, I ought to be considered one of the founders of that School. I do not allude to this as confering honor, but as implying obligations, not merely on me, but on all who entered the Institution. This the Trustees of the College stramicly narrowed down, when they rep- resented Dr. Drake as alone bound to me by pledges of fidelity : Were they ignorant of the fact, that Drs. Staughtou, Mitchell, Drake and myself entered into solemn and mutual pledges not to desert each other, or Dr. Eberle? and with the knowledge of this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2112811x_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
