American versus European medical education : a comparison of American medical college work with that of European medical schools, including some thoughts on free trade in medical diplomas of foreign manufacture / by Samuel O.L. Potter.

  • Potter, Samuel O. L. (Samuel Otway Lewis), 1846-1914.
Date:
1890
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Credit: American versus European medical education : a comparison of American medical college work with that of European medical schools, including some thoughts on free trade in medical diplomas of foreign manufacture / by Samuel O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Board of Health, visited Montreal during the small-pox epidemic that raged in this city some months ago. Dr. Rauch was able to speak in terms of high commendation of the general sanitary regulations of Montreal, and the means it has at command for coping with zymotic disease. Dr. Rauch, it seems, put up a young journalist of Spring- field, 111., to try for a medical diploma from the Bellevue Medical College, Boston, Mass., the President of which is a rabid anti-vaccinationist. The diploma was granted and the reader will be interested by the perusal of the thesis on the strength of which this license to kill was issued. ‘ VACINATION. ‘The Grate increase of Disease in thease Late years Calls for Explanation Undoubtedly the Doctors of this day is to blame for very much of it. But more than any- thing Else in my opinion is the Inseartion into the Pure Blood and Vitle fluid of our Inosent offspring of that vile Diseas of the animals cowpox So grate has the Curse Be- came that Privelidges of School Edication is denied in this and Many other States to those who wisely refuse to Submit to this Curse that is just a Peace of the Nou- sensikal Medica teachings of the Day when Theory and Imagination Rool instead of Practical Expearance and which keaps its Studends in close Confinement a Big part of three or four years to hear the Nonsens which is thear peddled out to them consumtion Siffles and Skin Disease Runn Wild among the people This calls for a Strong Kick on the Part of our noble Profession which should seak to build upp the Health and Streangth of the People instedd of Planting the see'ds of Diseas in them To Prove that Vacination Don’t do no good we nead ondly to say that Thear has Been More Small Pox in this Place in the last year than thear was in the last Nineteen or Twenty year and more deaths from it I neadnt say no more About a Thing that is so Plane to Eny thinking Man or Woman Eather we should all Band ourselves togather in all Parts of the Country to Shutt off this Cursed Practiss the People Should be Tought Better But the Days is Cumming when Enlightenment will take the Place of Ignoranse and Prejudice and when that Time Comes these fannatics who live by Scaring People will have to step aside and Vacination will not be Heard of any more.’ ” [To save us in England from the deluge of worthless American degrees, there ought at least to be a law com-