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WHO,  WHICH,  WHAT  AND  WHEREFORE
A   FEW  FACTS
FOR THE
HOKEOPATHIC   PKOFESSION.
 " Vbi dolor, ibi digitus." "One must need scratch where it itches."
                                  Burton's Anatomie of Melancholie.

 " A puppet-play must be shadowed and seen in the dark: for draw the curtain, et sordet gesticulatio.
 " Imposture is a specious thing: yet never worse than where it feigns to be best, and to none discovered
sooner than the simplest. Imposture is ever ashamed of the light.
 " If I have anything right, defend it as Truth's, not mine, save, as it conduceth to a common good. It
profits not me to have any man fence or fight for me, to flourish, or take my side. Stand for Truth, and 'tis
enough."
                                       Ben Jonson's Discoveries.
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PHILADELPHIA:
       1860. 
IS  Co
In the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the
  Evening Journal of March 1st, and in the
  Public  Ledger of March 2d,  appeared a
  notice of the Twelfth Annual Commence-
  ment of the Homoeopathic Medical College
  of Pennsylvania, and also the following :

                CARD

      To the  Homoeopathic Profession.^
  Gentlemen:—The undersigned, candidates
for the  Degree of  Doctor of Medicine and
Doctor of Homoeopathic Medicine, have been
"black-balled."
  Actuated by the holiest attributes  of our
common  nature, honor and filial duty, we
ask a suspension of opinion  until the cir-
cumstances are presented  to the profession.
          (Signed)    Samuel  A.  Jones,
                      Jacob Reed, Jr.
Philada., March 1st, 1860.

  The purpose of this paper is the presenta-
tion of those circumstances.
  Between the dates February 19 and 25,
S. A. Jones, J. Reed, Jr., and F. H. Ehrmann,
submitted themselves to the regular examin-
ations for the degree of the above-mentioned
College.  The method of balloting in this
institution is,  that each professor shall cast
five balls ; that twenty-five "white balls " is
the smallest number entitling the candidate
to a degree, and that less  than twenty of the
same color, shall prevent  the recipient from
entering that  realm of felicity yclept "The
Omnibus Class," i. e. being again examined,
but in the presence of and by all the chairs.
  The candidates,  S. A. Jones, J. Reed and
F.  H.  Ehrmann  received  each  eighteen
"white  balls," and as the chairs are  seven,
and the votes of each  five,  we  received
seventeen "black balls."  These votes were
cast as follows:
  Jacob  Beakley,  M.D.,  Prof,  of Surgery,
five black; John Redman Coxe, Jr.,  M.D.,
Prof, of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathology
and the  Practice of Medicine,  five  black;
Isaac  M. Ward, M.D., Prof, of Obstetrics,
Diseases of Women and Children, and Medi-
cal Jurisprudence,  five black;  M.  Semple,
M.D., Prof,  of Chemistry  and Toxicology,
two black and three white.  [We do not say
we are  exactly struck  by the somewhat
significant  correspondence   between  our
respective votes  from Professrs Beakley,
Ward and Coxe; stiU we may be pardoned
if we happen  to consider it rather peculiar.']
  Thus  after  six  days  of  that  agreeable
suspense common to "examination week,"
during which period the vis  circumstancia.
quarrelled  with the vis  vitce,  and  played
sundry scurvy tricks upon those portions of
our individual anatomies known as Nervous
System and Digestive Apparatus, producing
the consequent depression of spirits; after this
time we found ourselves  "black-balled."
  I more  than half suspect we were "bad
boys," for, upon hearing the  result of the
ballot, observing the coincidence in the number
of our votes, and finding  out  beyond doubt
who had  favored us with "blackies," we
endorsed Hamlet's remark : "There's some-
thing rotten in Denmark," exception being
only taken with regard to  the geography.
  On the  morning  of February 27th, S. A.
Jones, J. Reed, Jr.,and F. H. Ehrmann waited
upon the  Hon. A. V. Parsons,  President of
Board of  Managers of  the  Homoeopathic
Medical College of  Pennsylvania,  and pre-
sented the following protest,  which  the
Honorable  President  submitted   to  the
gentlemen  of the Board  on the evening of
the same date.
To the Honorable the President and the Gentle-
  men  of the   Board  of Managers of the
  Hommopathic  Medical  College  of  Pennsyl-
  vania.

  Gentlemen :—We, the  undersigned, Ma-
triculants  of  the  Homoeopathic   Medical
College of Pennsylvania, request the Degree
of Doctor  of Medicine from the Honorable
President and  Board of ^Managers,  and for
the following reasons :
  We have complied with the requisitions
demanded of the  candidates for the Degree
of Doctor  of  Medicine  according  to  the
"Regulations of the College."
  We  have broken no  law,   violated no
regulation,  infringed upon no privileges.
  Our course  of study  has  been of  the
required length of time,  our tickets are of
the required number,  and in  this respect
we are entitled to the Degree of Doctor of
Medicine.
  Our examinations before each Professor
were of such a character as to  entitle us to
a number of votes  sufficient to secure the
Degree;  and  we  were  assured that  our
examinations were  satisfactory by the very
ones who we believe "black-balled" us.
  We believe, know,  and are prepared to show,
that we have  been  foully dealt with, and
that threats have been uttered which will prove
that we were rejected from personal motives.
  We are prepared to show that the  cause
of our rejection is in the following:
  In the early part of the present course a
feeling of  dissatisfaction was  entertained
with regard to the manner in which Profes-
sors Beakley and Coxe performed the duties
devolving upon them as the  incumbents of
the chairs  of  Surgery and the Practice of
Medicine.
  This dissatisfaction was not  confined to
"second course"  students,  but  was  ex-
pressed by the majority  of those attending
their first  session.  A number of candidates
for graduation, not fearing "the powers that
be," not bound by the chains of policy, nor
intent only upon getting a "degree," did 
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openly  express  their disapprobation,  and,
actuated by a love for the science and art of
Homoeopathic Medicine, and by  a desire to
further the  best interests  of  the Homoeo-
pathic  Medical  College  of Pennsylvania,
prepared themselves to take action  in this
matter.
  A paper was drawn up expressing a candid
opinion of the Professors Beakley and Coxe,
which paper was  intended  to  be submitted
to the  students of "59 and 60," at  a time
when  the  honest expression of  their con-
victions could  not bring  upon  them the
vindictive wrath of the interested parties.
  Information of this intent was conveyed
to  Prof. Beakley ; he  then awed many of
those  at one time concerned  in the move-
ment and they withdrew from policy ;* their
opinions are still  unchanged, though sup-
pressed.
  Prof. Beakley then  threatened the  chief
movers in this  matter, and the  result is, as
it is, we are defrauded of our legal rights.
   We ask the Honorable President and Board
of  Managers, as  men, to  give  this  matter
an unbiassed, unimpassioned  and thorough
investigation.   We  ask  for  justice.  We
have truth on our side and justice is not far
off.
   If partialities and the influence of cliques
 are to  deprive us  of our just rights  we
 shall  exercise our privilege and appeal to
 the medical profession at large,
   Our case is  without a precedent,  but, if
 necessitated we will establish one, even at
 the expense of our insulted, injured and
 nearly ruined Alma Mater.
   We  pray this may  not  be  received as a
 braggart threat, the  fruit of thwarted  ambi-
 tion, of spleen,  or of malice.
   There is a time when all that is manly in
 man will arise  and exercise its godlike pre-
 rogative of demanding its  alienable  rights;
 and there is also a time when man,  hearing
 the  demand, must  deal godlike justice or
 forfeit the name of man.
         Very  respectfully,
                your humble servants,
  (Signed)  SAMUEL  A. JONES,
             JACOB  REED, Jr.,
             F.  HAHNEMANN EHRMANN.
   At  the  same  time Professors   Thomas
 Moore, M.D.,  Wm.  A. Reed, M.D., and C.
 J.  Hempel, M.D., members of  the  Faculty
 of  the Homoeopathic  Medical  College  of
 Pennsylvania,  did offer to the same conclave
 the following protest:
                liPhilada., Feb. 27th,  1860.
 " To the Honorable  President: The Members
   of the Board of Managers of the  Homaoputhic
   Medical College of Pennsylvania.
   The undersigned, members of the  Faculty

  *Th<y were at  the time of writing, but bi-fore the
 degree* were given some of these very  stuieiit-i signed
 a paper endors-iug  sentiments the very reverse of tnose
 we mention.  This paper was gotten up wliolly, or in
 p rt, by a student who had denonncd Prof. Beakley,
 a* a surg.-on, in no measured terms.  We nre now con-
 vinced Mint some  students will  "blow hot and cold"
f-r a degree.  All honor to their principle?!
of the College,  do hereby protest  against
the rejection  of Samuel  A. Jones,  Francis
Hahnemann Ehrmann and Jacob Reed, Jr.,
candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine, for the following reasons :
  I.  Each of these  gentlemen has complied
with all the requirements of the College, as
declared in their published regulations,  ne-
cessary for the qualifications for the degree
of the College.
  II. Each gentleman has  been fairly and
impartially examined by the undersigned,
and, witliout exception,  has   been found
completely furnished  in  the knowledge of
the several  branches of Medical Science as
taught by their respective Chairs.
   III.  We have reason to believe that they
have all  of  them  given  such  evidence of
their attainments in  the  other  branches as
should warrant  their approval by the rest of
the Faculty.
   IV.  We have reason to believe that their
rejection  has  been  the  result  of personal
malice, excited  by their  free expression of
opinion respecting  the merits of Professors
Jacob Beakley and John Redman Coxe, Jr.,
as teachers of Surgery  and the Practice
of Medicine.
   V. We do know  that threats were  made by
the Dean  of the  College that an  expression of
opinion concerning  the merits of himself  and
Dr.  Coxe " would be fatal" to those gentlemen
who  would venture to express such  opinion.
 These threats were uttered on several occasions
before the  time for the balloting for condidates
for the degree.
   We do  therefore earnestly appeal to you,
representing the corporation of the  College,
to allow the degree of the  College  to  the
above  named gentlemen, believing that it is
now improperly withheld in consequence  of the
exercise of personal malice and from wounded
pride  rather than by a fair ballot intended
to declare a just estimate of the  attainments
of the several candidates."
           Very respectfully,
                Your humble servants,
   (Signed) THOMAS MOORE,  M.D.,
                       Prof, of Anatomy.
            WM. A. REED, M.D.,
                      Prof, of Physiology.
            CHAS. J.  HEMPEL, M.D.,
           Prof, of Mat. Med. and Therap.
   Professor  Wm.  A. Reed, as  spokesman,
 arose  for the  purpose of submitting  this
 document to the  Honorable President  and
 Board of Managers.
   Henry Homer,  Esq.,  of  the Board  of
 Managers, moved  that nothing be  received
 by them  unless presented through the Dean
 of the  Faculty, Prof. Jacob Beakley.  This
 motion was seconded and carried.
   Prof.  Reed  then  begged to  leave   the
 protest  with the  Honorable President  for
 his personal inspection and instruction.
   Later in the evening, and when Professors
 Moore, Reed and Hempel had left the meet- 
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ing,  the  chairs of Physiology, and Materia
Medica and Therapeutics, occupied respect-
ively by Professor Reed and Professor Hem-
pel, were declared vacant.
  Our document, thanks  to  the Honorable
President,  did not  abort.   It  enjoyed  a
regular delivery,  and the result was Jacob
Reed, Jr., received the following communi-
cation :

" To Messrs. Sam. A. Jones, Irrancis H. Ehr-
  mann, Jacob Reed, Jr.:
  Gentlemen:—Your  petition was   received
this  evening  making  complaint of certain
members of the Faculty ; the whole case has
been referred to Doctors  Williamson  and
Helmuth, who, assisted by Doctors Semple
and  Ward, will re-examine and report to the
board.
  You will therefore  please report your-
selves for examination to the above named
gentlemen,  who  will  doubtless appoint a
time for the purpose.
                 W. E.  G. AG-NEW,
          Sec'y B. M. Horn. Coll. of Med.

Jacob Reed, Jr.,  Esq. :
  Sir:—Please show the above to  your  co-
complainants and oblige.
                 Yours,  &c,
                   W. E. G. AGNEW,
                           Sec'y B. M."

  At the  time of receiving this document,
Jacob Reed, Jr., and  his  "co-complainants"
were in the following condition :
  They had  gone  through "examination
week'' with its long anxious hours  of hoping
and fearing, yearning and desponding, such
hours as  every earnest student has known
and will  yet know.   They were  aware  of
Professor J. Beakley's avowed threat that the
expression  of  an honest opinion  would
 "prove  fatal" to them.  They calculated
the  probable  extent  of  his influence, and
placing the vote expected from him and  his
particular friends at  the lowest  consistent
point this side of a  total  "black-balling"
they found themselves safe.  The  result of
the  ballot had  shown them the  fallacy of
their even desponding estimate—for it was a
desponding and  not a deserving  estimate.
The votes of  Professors  Beakley,  Coxe and
Ward declared  them  totally  ignorant  in
the  branches of Surgery,  Practice and Obstet-
rics. Saturday  night  they "went through
the motions" of sleeping ; encored the "same
motions"  on  Sunday  night,  and  "ex-
necessitate" repeated the encore on Monday
night.  Wearied from loss of sleep;  worn
with anxiety and unavoidable nervous pros-
tration ;   stung   with  shame ; jeered  and
cursed  by the  sycophant traitors of  the
 "Class;" disgraced  before  the  Profession
and friends,  and asked to stand  another
examination,  and part of it before  Isaac M.
 Ward, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics—a man
 who had proven himself false at one examina-
 tion, and who was to be taken simply on  the
 trust of a generous credulity upon a second tria'.
  While in this state the following note was
received:
          " Philadelphia, Feb. 23M, 1860.
Mr. Jacob Reed, Jr.:
  Dear Sir:—Be  kind  enough to inform
Messrs.  Jones and Ehrmann, that,  Drs.
Helmuth, Ward,  Semple  and  myself will
meet them and yourself at the  College this
evening  at  8 o'clock,  for the  purpose  of
giving you a re-examination, if you desire it.
    (Signed)   Very respectfully,
                    W. WILLIAMSON."

  On the evening of February 28th, we pre-
sented ourselves  before the Committee  for
the purpose of submitting to such an exami-
nation as was compatible  with honor and
justice. SamuelA. Jones was first called into
the examining 'room.   M.  Semple,  M. D.,
Prof,  of Chemistry, proceeded  to examine
him upon the subject pertaining to his chair.
Mr. Jones declined being re-examined  upon
Chemistry,   Physiology,   Anatomy,   and
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, but ex-
pressed a willingness to be interrogated upon
Surgery,  Practice,  and   Obstetrics,  those
branches  upon which Prof.'s Beakley,  Coxe,
and  Ward   had  pronounced  him  totally
ignorant.  Mr. Jones gave as  his reason for
refusing a re-examination upon the specified
four branches the fact that, upon them he had
received at the regular balloting, some '' white
balls,'' at the same time asserting that if any
Professor gave him  one  "white ball"  it did
not belong to him, as a  student, to question
the estimate his teacher  was  pleased, or
bound, to place upon his attainments.  He
only held that, when a Professor's vote bore an
absurdity and a falsehood upon the face of it,
he had the right of demanding an opportunitg
of proving that absurdity and falsehood.
  That there might be no equivocation upon
what  "white balls" he had  received, he
asked the committee to examine the follow-
ing testimonials.

                 "Phila., Feb. 28, 1860.
  This certifies that Samuel  A. Jones has
been diligently examined by me,  in Physi-
ology  and  Hygiene, and  has  been  found
entitled  to  my  full vote  in balloting for
candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine.
    (Signed)    WM. A. REED, M. D.,
                       Prof, of Physiology,
             Horn. Med. College of Penna."

                 "Phila., Feb. 28,  1860.
  This is to certify that Mr. Samuel A. Jones
has been examined by me in Materia Medica
and Therapeutics,  and that  I  have  found
him entitled to my full vote, and that I cast
my full  vote  in  his favor at the balloting
given on Saturday evening, Feb. 25th.
     (Signed)   CHAS. J. HEMPEL, M. D."

  In addition  to the above each of us now possesses
a certificate similar to the following :
                     "Philada., Feb. 28W. 18C0.
  I take pleasure in stating that I  have carefully ex-
amined Samuel A. Jones, upon  Anatomy, and that I 
   The gentlemen to whom these were sub-
 mitted, declined examining them, with the
 exception of W. Williamson, M.  D., who
 said  he   "would  look  at   them out  of
 courtesy."
   The  Committee would not examine Mr.
 Jones on the conditions stated, and he with-
 drew.  J. Reed, Jr.,  was next  called.  He
 declined  a full examination;—asking only
 the privilege of proving  how  false and foul
 was  the  vote of Prof.'s Ward,  Coxe and
 Beakley.   He was dismissed without an ex-
 amination.
   F.  H. Ehrman submitted himself to a full
 examination, and was again " black-balled ;"
 though, thanks to the presence of Drs. Hel-
 muth and Williamson,  not so  badly as at
 the Faculty  ballot.*
   Prof. Moore, not approving  of the conduct
 of Drs. Beakley, Coxe, and  Ward, tendered
 his resignation to the Board of Managers.
   After  his resignation had been handed in,
 reports were circulated among the students, stat-
 ing that the Professor of Anatomy was resign-
 ing from pecuniary considerations.
   Upon  hearing  of these statements.  Dr.
 Moore presented the following document to
 the Hon. President  and Board of Managers.

           "Philadelphia, March 1st, 1860.
 To the  Honorable President  and  Board of
   Managers  of the Homoeopathic Medical Col-
   lege of Pennsylvania:
   Gentlemen :—The Dean  of the Faculty
 will present  you my resignation as Professor
 of Anatomy  in the Homoeopathic Medical Col-
 lege of Pennsylvania.   I deem it  my duty
 to you, as  Managers of the  Institution, to
 state plainly the  reasons inducing this  step.
   Firstly. I cannot consent to remain a mem-
 ber of  the Faculty, when I am convinced
 that questionable influences have prevented  a
 fair ballot in the case of some of our candi-
 dates for  the degree of Doctor  of Medicine.
   Secondly.  I hold  that no  Professor  has a
 moral or legal right to allow any influence
 to  come  between him  and  the ballot-box,
 except the medical attainments of the candi-
 date.
   Thirdly. Each  of the candidates,  S. A.
 Jones, J.  Reed, Jr.,  and F H. Ehrmann, had
 been declared by the Faculty entitled  to an
 examination  according  to  the  requisitions
 expressed in the fourth paragraph of the
 published regulations   for  the session  of
 1859 and  '60.
   Fourthly. The  fact of their  having  been
admitted   to the examinations  before the
cast my full vote in his favor at the ballot given on
Saturday, 25th iasU
   (digued)        THOMAS MOORE, M. D.,
                           Prof. Anatomy.
                    Horn. Med. Coll. of 1'euna/'

  * You will remember that at the Faculty ballot Mr.
Ehrmann was declared totally ignorant upon the branches
of Surgery, and the Practice of Medicine. As a comment
upon this allow us to state that at the re-examination
Mr.  Khrmanu was catechised upon Anatomy, Surgery,
Practice and Materia Medica, by Drs. Helmuth and
Williamson; and their votes were 5, 5, 5, 4. Well done
Beakley, Coxe <£. Co. 1
 Professors shows that they had complied with
 every requisition  laid down  in  the above
 mentioned paragraph.
   Fifthly.  I have had personal acknowledg-
 ments made to me by the Professor of Practice
 that, he had the right to  be  influenced in his
 ballot by other considerations than the merit of
 the Student:  and by the Prof,  of Chemistry,
 that  F.  H. Ehrmann could not have pas-ed
 even if the first ballot had been conducted uith-
 out bias; thereby  implicitly admitting  that
 such bias existed.
   Sixthly.  I  cannot consent  to  remain a
 member of a Faculty where colleagues,  who
 have discharged their duty as  teachers  and
 gentlemen,* can be removed by the Board
 of Managers upon the ex parte testimony of
 avowed enemies.
   Seventhly.—I  cannot afford to sacrifice my
 time  and money to  assist in  sustaining an
 institution where  such things are  allowed
 and justified.
   In  conclusion, let me state that I shall be
 found ever ready to work for your institu-
 tion,  if I can be associated  with colleagues
 in  whose  ability  and devotion  to  Homoe-
 opathy I can have  full confidence ;  and that
 even pecuniary sacrifices shall never deter
 me from performing my whole duty in this
 sacred cause.
   (Signed,)    THOMAS MOORE, M.D."
   On  Thursday,  March  1st,  the  "Com-
 mencement" transpired, and Prof. Beakley's
 threat, that the  expression of our opinion of
 him as a surgeon should  " prove fatal," was
 fulfilled to his complete satisfaction.
   We were told, by a respectable  Homoeo-
 pathic physician, that the publishing of this
 paper would injure the School, and we were
 advised to await the  annual meeting of the
 corporators of the  College,  to lay our case
 before them,  and  to publish only if  they
 denied us justice.
  The Corporators  met:  the party  were so
 strong (numerically) that a  most  unconstitu-
 tional motion to omit reading the  Minutes of
 the Board of  Managers for the past year was
 put, and although protested against, carried.
 Of course, we obtained no hearing.
  This ends  the chapter.   We have stated
 the facts of  our case; we have  told '' the
truth, and nothing but the truth," yet, not
 "the whole  truth," for  there are circum-
 stances which we  can  only state from the
 witness-box;   we are without our  degree;
disgraced before the Profession and  our
  * Notk.—Henry P. Lloyd, (one of this " Board of Man-
ogers,:' in  a conversation with S.  A. Jones, raid: "We
have a right to turn out a professor without asking him
any questions."  This was a reply made to a remark of
Mr. Jones', that the Board of Managers had turned out
Profs Hempel and Keed, without allowing them the
prerogative of the guiltiest criminal: the right to be
hfard in their own behalf; and, aiJded Mr. J., you should
have granted this to Drs. Hempel and Reed, inasmuch
as they were turned out upon the  ex parte testimony of
their enemies.
  Gentlemen assuming a professorial chair in  the  Ho-
moeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, will do well
to consider in what a position they  place their profes-
sional character. We hope this is a logical deduction. 
friends, and may we not be allowed to write
a few  words for ourselves ; to explain  and
justify our conduct ?
  Gentlemen of the Profession, we are poor
and can afford to seek no other redress  than
an appeal to you,   Your influence sustains
the colleges of our school, and  your voice
can rebuke the wrongs perpetrated therein.
Therefore, we ask from you all for which we
now need care—a hearing, and a j udgment.
  Herein is our sin : We ventured from the
student's humble seat to  condemn palpable
ignorance and culpable inefficiency, though
it was throned in a  Professor's chair.
  When a professor of Surgery teaches  that
 "the Ninth pair of nerves is composed of the
Pneumogastric, the  Spinal Accessory and the
Descendens Noni,"  must the student, because
he is a student, shout Amen !
  When  the  same Professor teaches  that
 " the  Crystalline Lens is held in  its place by
the  Hyaloid Membrane—that the  Hyaloid
 Membrane  splits  and is  reflected round the
 Lens,  thus retaining it in its place," must
 the student cry—So be it!
   When  this identical Professor (?) teaches
 that '' the inner layer of the Retina is vascu-
 lar, and is  formed from the Arteria Centralis
 Retinae by  its  expansion," must the student
 echo—Even so !  0 infelix we! for we could
 not do it.
   Let us assert that we are not  joking  ; we
 have  been  thus taught.   We  need not, here,
 multiply instances ; but if occasion requires,
 our note-books shall give up all these choice
 droppings from such professorial lips.
   Is  there  a  time  when  the student  may
 judge the Teacher? If you rebuke such an
 attempt  as presumption,  what will you do
 when the  even student's judgment  is the
 offspring not of vain conceit,  but of absolute
 necessity ?
   Can man say what  he will see, and what
 he will not ?*   Seeing, can he help forming
 an opinion ?  If the student holds an honest,
 undeniable and irrefutable opinion, may he
 not,  on  his own responsibility,  give it ex-
 pression!  If personal  profit says not, must
 he  selfishly act from policy,  and be  dumb,
 though he cannot be blind?  If, however,
 the truths on which his opinion is based, are
 injurious,  yea, fatal to a cause solemn as life
 itself, may not  even  a  student, throwing
 aside personal profit and selfish  policy, con-
 demn unpardonable ignorance, though  it be
 throned in the very Holy of Holies of his
 Alma Mater?
    The buyer  judges the thing  bought, and

   * Note.—At S. A. Jones' final examination upon Sur-
 gery, Jacob B< akley, M.D., afrer giving Mr. .1. a delight-
 tul perspiration, (Anglice •' quiz.") told him, that would
 do. Mr. Jones was nimbly leaving  a place and  person
 so Allopathically sudorific, when the said Jacob Beak-
 lev, M.D., called him back to have a "talk with him."
  T,al conversation wa« a "quiz" upon  the part Mr. J.
 had taken in the expression of opinion concerning Dr.
  \i akley's capability as  a Surgeon, and the student "de-
  fiued  his  position" to the Teacher  in these words: "I
  believe the Chair of Surgery in the Homoeopathic Medi-
  cal College of Pennsylvania can be better filled than it
  n .w is."  Then the Teacher-said to the student, "You
  have no right to form an opinion, sir!   You insult
  lue, sir!"
may not the student judge the teachings for
which he has paid ?  A violation  of a  con-
tract for certain articles, of a certain quality,
at a certain price, is made amenable to the
law;  but,  tell  me,  what redress  has the
student who bargains for the best article,  at
the best  price,  and receives what  his  own
text-books  teach him to contradict,  and con-
tradict upon tenable grounds?  Will the law
reach knavery  when it steals the  garb  of
Wisdon ?
   We claim the right to judge what we buy,
even  though Jacob  Beakley, M. D., be the
seller; and we  will say to that gentleman,
we believe  the honest tradesman need never
blush for his wares, nor the true workman
ever be ashamed or  fearful  of his  work ; it
bears the *sme  cera  stamp of truth, and he
need not fear the trial.
   A student's opinion is  simply a  student's
opinion :  if faulty it will receive a j ust  con-
demnation,  and the judged one need not fear;
but if even  a student's dictum be based on an
immutable  truth, it will make a knave and a
charlatan  tremble:  and more than this, it
will not, it  cannot be suppressed.
   S. A. Jones and J. Reed, Jr., declined a full
examination from the Committee:  allow us
to explain the motives which induced such a
course.
   We hold that,  having received even  one
"white ball" from a Professor, we  have no
right to question  his estimate of  our  pro-
ficiency in the teachings of his chair ;  but if
declared  totally ignorant  by any  teacher,
knowing such  an estimate  to be  false, we
claim a student's right to prove the falsity
of his vote, and  vindicate our character  as
students.
   We declined a  full  examination on  this
ground ;  but there are  other considerations,
viz :  by  the regulations  of  the  College we
were not entitled, by the vote we received,
to a second examination, and when the Board
of Managers, having received our protest,
granted us a re-examination, it showed that
they did not like the aspect  of affairs,  and it
evinced a lack of confidence in some  of the
Faculty. As our protest expressed our opinion
of Drs. Beakley and Coxe, and as the protest
of Drs. Moore,  Reed and Hempel testified to
their desire to give us justice, the suspicion
of foul dealing must have rested just  exactly
where  it belonged.    Such being  the  case,
when we were  offered a second examination,

   * As Jacob Benkley, M. D.,  has declared me  totally
 ignorant of Surgery, allow me to display a little " larnin,"'
 lest, from having failed to pass his examination,  a well-
 grounded charge of total ignorance in everything be
 brought against me.
   At the Roman potteries many jars were cracked in bak-
 ing These defective utensils the Roman potter, with Yan-
 kee shrewdness prepared for market by filling the cracks
 with  wax which wlieu covered with glazing could not be
 perceived. Upon being used the fire soon revealed the
 fraud; nnd the people when wanting a genuine article
 would not buy unless the potter, balancing a jar would
 strike it with his hand and say '• sine cera," without wax.
 (The Romans took a salesman's word: the Yankees are
 smarter)  From this we derive the word sincere, with-
 out deceit. Sincerity compels me  to acknowledge  that
 since 1 have lived In Philadelphia, I have became  v ry
 Intimately acquainted with some men who are dc.idtdly
 waxy! 
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we could not honorably allow ourselves to be
re-examined upon those branches in which we
had already been thoroughly "quizzed"  and
examined by gentlemen of unquestionable
probity.   We felt that the imputation which
the investigation by  our being  catechized
before the Committee would nail upon Profs.
Beakley Coxe  and Ward, should  not even
cast a  shadow upon Profs.  Moore, Reed and
Hempel.
  May we not ask, was it fair to permit Isaac
M.  Ward to sit in judgement upon us for a
second time.   We hold that he, by his  vote
at the first ballot, did forfeit all claim to our
confidence.
  In the case of  S. A. Jones the foulest vote
of the three blanks  was  that  of  this same
Isaac M.  Ward, M.  D.  Will he give S. A.
Jones the opportunity of proving this  in a
court of justice ?  We put the question to him.
  This Isaac M. Ward, M.  D., had received
sufficient testimony to prove that during the
session  of 1859 and '60, S. A.  Jones  had
attended at least one Obstetric case, and in
which instance the placenta had been retained
(by adhesion) one hour and a  quarter  after
the delivery of the child :  it being then re-
moved by Mr. Jones  in the manner directed
by W. Williamson M.D., in his lectures at the
Homoeopathic Medical College of  Pennsylva-
nia, during the session of 1858 and '59. Under
these circumstances, what  could we think of
this Isaac M. Ward I a man, who, in the face of
such facts pronounced a student to be totally
 ignorant of the teachings of his chair 1 a man
having once cast such a vote, and then pre-
suming to sit in second judgement upon the
recipients of his justice at a first ballot! a man
crowned with the grey hairs of age ! a man
 who  spake so  solemnly of morality,  yea,
 whose every lecture was tinctured  with the
 "moral  element"!  who  ever entered his
 chair leading Religion by the hand, that She
 might impress  his teachings, stimulate our
 endeavours and----point his periods :—such
a man falsifying himself once,  and accepting
the opportunity of doing it again—0 Shame,
 where is thy blush !
   We would not omit doing justice to Doc-
 tors  Helmuth and  Williamson.    We  had
 all confidence in their integrity.  We were
 willing  to abide by their decision  upon our
 attainments in Surgery,  Practice and Obste-
 trics, but we could not allow an examination
 upon  the other branches,  before even  these
 honorable men, to impugn the character of
 Professors Moore, Reed, and Hempel.   We
 are confident we could have had justice from
 Doctors  Helmuth  and Williamson, but we
 could not pay the price demanded.
   We here present the protest which Jacob
 Beakley avowed should "prove fatal" to the
endorsers thereof.
 " To  the Honorable President,  the  Board of
   Managers, and the Faculty of the Homoeo-
   pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania.
 Gentlemen:—
   We, the undersigned, Graduates and Stu-
dents of the Homoeopathic Medical College of
Pennsylvania, actuated by a love for the Art
and Science of Homoeopathic Medicine, and
by an earnest desire  to promote  the best
interests of our Alma Mater, do  respectfully
present this  expression of our opinion con-
cerning the present incumbents of the Chairs
of the Practice of Medicine, and  the Practice
of Surgery.
  We regard John Redman Coxe, Jr., M. D.,
as unworthy of the position he now occupies
in the Faculty of  the above-mentioned Col-
lege,  and for the following reasons :
  First.—We most emphatically dissent from
the views he expresses of Homoeopathic Insti-
sutes : the principles he inculcates being re-
pudiated by the best  Homoeopathic Physi-
cians of America and Europe.
   Secondly.—We  declare his lectures to be
most inefficient, inasmuch as in the whole
period of our attendance he has not presented
one  single specimen designed to  teach the
changes transpiring  in the various viscera
during the progress of various diseases.
   We feel that we cannot censure his conduct,
in this respect, too strongly, inasmuch as  a
parallel course of teaching has not been pur-
sued by any incumbent of the Chair of Prac-
tice  in any College  with which  we are
acquainted.
   Thirdly.—We find him very remiss in the
substance of his lectures.  They  are the fruit
of reading, rather than of experience ; and
the course of reading is not, from its nature,
at all calculated to interest, impress, and in-
struct the  student.
   We place but little value upon theories, yet
we desire  to  be presented with  such as are
generally considered the nearest approxima-
tions  to truth.  In this respect  we condemn
Doctor Coxe's puerile  and pedantic proclivi-
ties to quote from the most obsolete of the
Ancients rather than from  the Philosophical
investigators of the past  and  the present
century.
   The Semeiology of the Ancients is good ;
 but  the iEtiology,  and the Pathology  of
 Modern Medical Science is far better, and we
 have had too little of this from Dr.  Coxe.

   Fourthly.—We  must condemn the method
 of his lectures.   We  are confused  by  their
 lack of order and continuity.   Doctor Coxe
 also diverged from his sphere, for we submit
 that the  Professor  of Practice should  not
 assume to treat  those  diseases universally
 assigned for explanation, to the  Chair of
 Surgery, and particularly as Doctor Coxe's
 Surgical treatment differed with that dictated
 by Doctor Beakley.
   We are obliged  to  complain  of Doctor
 Coxe's delivery.  His enunciation is harsh,
 abrupt, and indistinct, adding another obsta-
 cle to the comprehension of his  teachings.

   Fifthly.—We do not believe Homoeopathy
 consists in prescribing from the '' totality  of
 symptoms," ignoring  Pathology, and  we do
 not,  for this reason,  consider J.  Redman
 Coxe Jr.,  M. D.,  a fit exponent of Homoeo-
 pathy. 
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   We consider Jacob Beakley, M. D., as posi-
 tively and undeniably unfit to fill the  Chair
 of Surgery in the Homoeopathic Medical Col-
 lege of Pennsylvania, and for the following
 reasons:—

   First.—He is  shamefully ignorant of Ana-
 tomy.

   Secondly.—He is not even a  second rate
 operator.  We have seen  him fail in one of
 the mmor operations.   We have witnessed
 an operation of  his  so  faultily  done  as to
 demand even a  student's  condemnation.
 Charges of malar praxis are sometimes based
 upon very similar cases.

   Thirdly.—We know  that   his teachings
 vary from the most  tenable positions taken
 by the  best Surgical writers: variations of
 which we  can judge, and which we know to
 be unequivocally erroneous.

  Fourthly.—In his teachings he  contradicts
 himself, thereby confusing the student, and
 destroying that confidence which it should be
 the hope and aim of the Teacher  to inspire.

  Fifthly.—His course of lectures is  incom-
 plete to  even a greater degree than is necessi-
 tated  by the  time  given.  He is  too fond of
 expressing opinions upon extraneous subjects,
 and  wastes  valuable time  in  so  doing:
 " Beakley's flights  of fancy" are  a by-word.

  Sixthly.—His lectures are a disgrace to the
 Homoeopathic  Medical  College of Pennsyl-
 vania, inasmuch as the commonest teachings
 of English Grammar and Orthoepy are daily
 disregarded    We  desire not  to  be hyper-
 critical.   We  are not so;  we only ask for
 lectures, which will not disgrace us when
 heard by Alkeopathic visitors.  We feel this
 all the more keenly, as his ignorance in this
 respect  is  not atoned for by  a skill in the
 "Practice," or a knowledge  in the  ''Prin-
 ciples"  of Surgery,

  Seventhly.—Of all the Faculty, the Professor
of Surgery is the only one who has  shown
 any dogmatism.  Every chair save his has
allowed  us to exercise our  own reason.   He
has required  of us "the very letter of the
law,'' and that only as expounded by Jacob
 Beakley, M. D.
   It is a well-known fact that we as Homoeo
 paths, are taunted with knowing little of Sur
 gery;  and in the face  of the humiliating
 truths, we here express regarding the chair c
 Surgery, we do appeal to the Guardians  o
 our Alma Mater that this disgraceful state  o
 things be remedied.  Let us, for the sake  o
 Homceopathia, in this the first fortress, fron
 which she did battle  with the  time-wor
 shipped systems  of Alloeopathy, let us, w
 pray, have such men in the chairs of Surgery
 and of Practice, as shall do honor to our cause
 and enable us to cope more successfully wit'
 our enemies.

   We are indebted to Professor Semple, for
 hiding the  prosy  principles of so precise  a
 science at Chemistry, behind  the poetry of
 its marvellous mutations, and inscrutable
 mysteries ;  thus wooing us to  seek  wisdom.
   We are justly proud of Professor Moore,
 and boldly  ask Allceopathia to produce his
 superior.  Well would it be for Homoeopathy
 were all its exponents like him.
   We are indebted  to  Professor Reed, for
 sounder  views of Pathology and  Practice,
 than any we have received from  Professor
 Coxe; and  we can ask nothing more from
 the  chair of Physiology  than he has given
 us.
   We most seriously espouse Homoeopathy
 as it is taught by Professor Hempel, and we
 can  ask nothing  more  from  the  chair of
 Materia Medica than he has given us.

  We are sorry to  present this, but love for
 our cause and the best interests of our almost
 solitary Alma Mater demand the truth  We
offer  these  facts with  regret, untainted by
malice, and earnestly ask your consideration.
          SAMUEL A. JONES,
          F. HAHNEMANN EHRMANN,
          JACOB REED, JR.
               And nine others."

  "Non  mihi credendum sed  veritati,"
believe not me but the truth ; you have the causa
belli,  and the  consequences ; judge for your-
selves.
         SAMUEL A. JONES,
         JACOB REED,  JR.,
         F. HAHNEMANN EHRMANN. 
 
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