Statement : a statement of the facts connected with the late re-organization of the faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College : together with a documentary history of said department, from its origin to the present time.

  • Wiltbank, John, 1806-1860.
Date:
[1856?]
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Credit: Statement : a statement of the facts connected with the late re-organization of the faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College : together with a documentary history of said department, from its origin to the present time. 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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    it. To others it was urged to sign it; for a majority of the Faculty request you to do so. One sick student, who was then under the medical care of Dr. Darrach, and who was greatly enfeebled by sickness, was visited at his bed-side, it is believed, upon good foundation, by Dr. Gilbert, and his signature, after repeated requests, extorted from him, and that at the very time he was receiving the professional visits of Dr. Dtrrach. Here was seen with clearness and force the harmful results of these quizzing classes. This paper originated with members of this clasa. Its signatures were altogether induced by appre- hensions of the power of rejection by this combined majority of the Faculty, or by a desire to obtain their favor and approval by acts accordant with their wishes. There can be no better evidence of this, than the regretful letters sent to us by most of the signers, expressing, with these reasons, sorrow for an act now felt to have been unjust and uncalled for. We have no patience with which to dwell upon these sickening and contemptible tricks. In the Appendix will be found letters selected from a large number received, which will fully sustain these statements, and still other letters selected from more than a hundred, are there given, showing how base and how untrue were these charges of unpopularity and incompetency. We have added to these; resolutions adopted by the Alumni of the Insti- tution, expressive of their appreciation of the conduct and course of these gentlemen, and of the affectionate remembrance and esteem they have for us. These resolutions were passed unanimously, after hearing patiently Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Dar- rach in explanation of their course. In the midst of sore trials it has been our greatest conso- lation, that with a voice almost unanimous, earnestly, heartily, impulsively, have the Alumni of this institution rallied to our support, and indignantly denying each imputation against us— have placed their names, their influence, and their services at our disposal to vindicate and redress the wrong done at once to them, to the institution, and to ourselves. On the 22d March, 1854, these five gentlemen, to whose