Reply to a certain document published by John F. Sanford, exposing his base falsehoods and dark designs against the medical department of the Iowa State University.

  • Hughes, J. C. (Joseph Clokey), 1821-1881.
Date:
[1855]
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Credit: Reply to a certain document published by John F. Sanford, exposing his base falsehoods and dark designs against the medical department of the Iowa State University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RE'PLT OF I. CM^HES,!, D. Dean of the Medical Department of the Iowa State University. TO A CERTAIN DOCUMENT PUBLISHED BY JOHN F. SANFORD.^'S- Exposing his BASE falsehoods and dark DESIGNS against the. Medical Department of the Iowa State University, During the last winter it became ray duty as Dean of the Med- ical Department of the Iowa State University, to report to the Su- perintendent of Public Instruction, and through him to the Legis- lature, the Scientific and Financial condition of said Institution. I was compelled to place before that body, not only my own transactions as Dean, but also the condition in which I found the business of the former Dean, JohnF. Sanford ; and in that report I endeavored to give facts in relation to his con<kict, which have since been more fully substantiated by sworn testimony. In presenting these to the Legislature, I aimed to couch tho facts in as mild language as possible, and without any semblance of bitterness, as the report itself will show. About two months since, a yellow covered document was heard of, purporting to be a reply of Dr. John F. Sanford to a report of the Keokuk Medical College, made to the Superintendent of Pub lie Instruction, Nov. 1854. It did not have a general circulation at home, (which I very much regret,) but after diligent inquiry for some two weeks, I succeeded in securing a copy. It opens, To the Medical Profession and the Public, and on the first half page speaks of a report of the Dean of the Medical Department of the State University—,ol the writer's anxiety of mind and wretchedness of feeling, which the aspersions contained occasioned him ; the consolation of friends, and above all, that his practice during his keenest persecution had quadrupled, &c., &c. It has now become my duty, in self-defence, to reply to this document. It is no longer a matter of the Mcdicai Department of the Stato University, nor of the Faculty of that Department, but * question of public justice, and of veracity between John F- San