OF DR. FROTHINGHAM TO A MEMBER OF THE MICHIGAN STATE SOCIETY, ON THE SUBJECT OF HOMEOPATHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. (Reprint from the September Number of the Peninsular Journal of Medicine.) Editor Peninsular Journal of Medicine—In ynur August number is a letter from G. K. Johnson, M. D., of Grand Rapids, which I feel compelled to reply to, as it contains cer- tain unfounded charges against myself, and erroneous explana- tions of late action of the Michigan State Medical Society. In regard to the charges against myself, I will say that I have never “appealed from professional to popular tribunals,” nor “ enlisted a hostile press to assail the State Society.” I have never written a word for any paper or medical journal, (until my open letter to the Board of Health, published in this number of the Journal,) except to correct erroneous or libellous statements concerning myself or the faculty, of which I am a mem- ber. And whoever asserts the contrary is misinformed or delib- erately falsifies. It is not I who enlisted a hostile press to assail the State So- 2 ciety, but Dr. Johnson and others of the sixty-three who voted resolutions “ assailing ” the educational system of the State, making even a friendly press “ hostile,” and bringing popular contempt and ridicule upon a profession whose honor and good name they ought to have maintained. When those resolutions were reported I remonstrated against their passage, declaring that before no civilized people could such a position be sus- tained, and the result has corroborated my statement. I was by some answered that they did not care for the opinions of the press or the people. I can only say in this connection that whoever loves his profession more than his own interests, opin- ions and prejudices, will labor to increase the public respect and esteem in which it is held. It is that more than anything else that determines the average of morals and intellect that enters it, and the history of civilization shows nothing plainer than that a diminished public esteem and confidence in any profes- sion has been the unfailing prelude to its decay. If public sen- timent is wrong it is our duty to educate it and set it right, and not to demean ourselves and increase the contempt it already has for us. I also deny having “ loaded the State Society with epithets, or having carried on against it a wanton crusade.” Not until it had