From Dr. Foote’s “Health MonthlyNew York, February, 1891. 
A Medical College’s Troubles. 
If the medical laws now in force in most of tlie States had been in operation fifty 
years ago, we should have had no school of medical Eclecticism or Homeopathy. 
Neither of these two new promising schools could have obtained foothold. 
We are led to make these remarks after reading a pamphlet from the pen of Dr. L- 
D. Broughton recounting the difficulties under which the Medical and Surgical College 
of New Jersey has been and is still laboring in consequence of the bitter opposition 
of the old Allopathic school of heroic kill or cure medicine. Dr. Broughton shows it 
to be sure kill in his pamphlet. Dr. B. in the pamphlet informs its readers of the 
struggles of himself and his co-workers to establish a medical school in New Jersey 
which was intended to do honest work in instructing students in medicine and sur- 
gery. But the new institution was not committed to any particular school, and was 
not sufficiently indoctrinated with the prescriptive methods of the old school. It 
sought to teach the materia medica of each of the schools and had a decided eclectic 
complexion in so doing, even if it was net openly eclectic. So the vultures of 
old-school medicine went for it with bloody bill and lacerating spur. The Hudson 
County Board of Health (under Allopathic control) refused to recognize the diplomas 
of the Medical and Surgical College of New Jersey, and the trustees applied to the 
courts for a mandamus to compel them. The enemies of the College found a former 
student who was willing to tell awful things about the facilities of the new institu- 
tion, but as a witness he must have proved a boomerang, for it was shown that the 
cause of his disaffection and willingness to say hard things of the faculty and its 
teachings was his inability to coax or bribe or browbeat the professors to grant him a 
diploma without fulfilling the reasonable requisites of the College. In other words 
the trustees of the latter were pledged to discountenance the issuance of anytliing 
that could be rightfully called a “ bogus diploma. ” They started out with the design 
of maintaining a high standard, such as the old school, for effect, in the popular ear, 
is always clamoring for. The new school men meant just what they said. There- 
fore this witness was a sorry instrument in the hands of those who consider themselves 
immaculate. We wish we had the space and time to point out the inconsistencies 
of the old school as exhibited on this trial, but must refer our readers to the pamphlet 
which can be had for the asking of Dr. L. D. Broughton, 70 South Washington 
Square, New York. The pamphlet is “a scorcher” which has so burnt off the 
feathers of the Allopathic vulture that he stands out naked with his voracious bill 
and spurs to match. 
The Board of Medical Examiners under the new law in New Jersey is well con- 
stituted to discriminate against the admission cf Eclectic physicians to practice in 
that State. It is made up of five Allopaths, three .Homeopaths, and (nominally) one 
Eclectic. To cap the climax of Allopathic conjuring it has been so managed that the 
one so-called Eclectic is manufactured for the occasion, being a druggist who belongs 
to no Eclectic society. His name it is said cannot be found on the roll of the New 
Jersey Eclectics nor on that of the National Eclectic Association. And this illustrates 
the infamous character of most of the medical legislation that has been effected under 
Allopathic lobbying in nearly all the States of the Union. 
The New Jersey Medical and Surgical College has been chartered by the New Jer- 
sey Legislature by a special act. Still its graduates cannot practice in that State. 
The Health Board arbitrarily and illegally refuse to recognize its diplomas. Then 
the Examining Board is so organized under Allopathic manipulation that an Eclectic 
will on some pretext be “ plucked ” the moment he presents himself for examina- 
tion. The graduates of the new college do not stand a ghost of a chance before this 
prejudiced Board. 
No one can read the history of the struggles of the New Jersey Medical College 
without being deeply impressed with one fact, viz. : the old-school physician while 
tickling the public ear with the idea that he is working for the elevation of the 
standard of medicine in procuring the passage of medical laws, does not care the flip 
of a copper for any such progress in medicine but is simply selfishly striving like the 
manufacturers of sugar, the oil refiners, and other commercial sharks to obtain a 
monoply. 
The legal struggle is not over yet, in New Jersey, and it remains to be seen 
which of the contestants is to come off victorious, but the friends of the new col- 
lege in New Jersey seem determined to obtain the recognition to which their char- 
ter entitles them, if there is any fairness in the courts of New Jersey. A Subject in which Bvery Body is Interested. 
TWELVE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SIGN THE PETITION TO REPEAL 
ALL MEDICAL LEGISLATION IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 
1st. Such laws are in direct violation of the constitution of the United States, and 
more especially of the Fourteenth Amendment. 
2nd. In every State of the Union where medical laws have been enacted, they in- 
variably have been used to crush out of existence all other systems of treating dis- 
eases except the Allopathic. 
3rd. The allopathic practice of medicine is injurious to the human system, and 
often leaves the patient with a weakened constitution. 
4th. The allopathic doctors cannot agree wTith each other in their method of treat- 
ing disease; therefore, how can a medical examining board do justice to all other sys- 
tems of medicine or even to the allopathic doctors themselves. 
5th. Suppose the Governor of the State of New York wished an examining board 
for ship captains, and in order to ascertain who were competent to be appointed, he 
should write to all the sea captains in the State under an assumed name (similar to 
Dr. Chapman, who signed himself Samuel Boyer, see page 18 of pamphlet) and would 
put to them a question something like this: “If a ship was anchored in New 
York harbor, what course would you take to land it in Liverpool, England?” Like the 
allopathic prescriptions sent to Samuel Boyer no two would agree. (See page 19 of 
pamphlet.) Suppose one would say to go up the North River, another down the river 
and still another up the East river, and so on. Under those circumstances how 
would it be possible to appoint an impartial board out of these captains? But if 
the captains agreed on one course (similar to the Homoeopaths on one prescription) 
the Governor would have no trouble in appointing such a board. 
6th. If we must have a medical examining board by all means let us have an 
homoeopathic one, or one of some system of medicine in which all the doctors would 
agree in the treatment of any special disease. Then the board would be respected, 
and we should have a class of physicians who, if they do not cure their patients, at 
least do not injure them. 
The laws in relation to malpractice, which have been enacted in all the States, are sufficient to 
suppress both ignorant and learned quackery if they are properly enforced. 
7th. The practice of medicine and healing the sick, like preaching the gospel, or de- 
votion to any trade or profession, ought to be left entirely free, and those who 
practice them permitted to go into any State or territory, so long as they obey the 
laws which govern all other classes of people. 
8th. It was to maintain these principles of freedom that the British parliament 
iand the common people of England fought King Charles and his armies; it was to 
enjoy these blessings that the Pilgrim Fathers left England in the Mayflower and 
landed on Plymouth Rock, and had to face the bitter cold winters, and the Red Indi- 
ans ; it was for these principles that the American rebels fought the British army, 
and suffered at Valley Forge; it was for these principles that the Union armies fought 
the Southern rebels, until negro slavery was abolished. 
9th. It is a well known fact in history that whenever Legislatures have enacted 
laws to compel the people to believe and practice any particular dogma or any system 
of faith, (and the practice of medicine is a system of faith) and the people did not 
■rebel against those laws, they have always been reduced to the lowest depths of igno- 
rance and superstition. 
10th. ,We have a specimen of the evil effects of medical legislation and medical ex- 
amining boards, and the allopathic practice of medicine, in both England and the 
United States in their treatment of Mr. Maybrick, and the prescriptions sent to Mr. 
Samuel Boyer in California. Can ignorance go further? And is it not advisable to 
make a change and leave the practice of medicine free, to fair competition, like all 
other trades and professions ? 
lltli. Let the people judge for themselves what system of medicine they will have, 
just as they choose what system of religion they will believe. 
12th. At one time in England a committee of physicians applied to parliament to 
•enact more stringent laws against what they termed “Quackery,” or all systems of 
medicine not allopathic; but they could not agree amongst themselves as to what 
they wanted Lord Palmerston said: “Gentlemen, go home and agree amongst 
yourselves, get the confidence of your patients and your neighbors, and you will find 
that you will require very few laws from parliament. ’ ’ 
Those interested in this subject can pursue it further by sending to Dr. L. D. 
Broughton, 70 So. Washington Square, New York, fora free pamphlet, entitled “ A 
Plain Statement as to the Medical and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey. ” TO 
A the Legislature of the State of New Jersey. 
To the Honorable the Members of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey. 
The undersigned citizens of the State of New Jersey appeal to your Honorable Body to repeal 
all existing statutes enacted for the purpose of regulating tlge practice of medicine aqd surgery, 
as they are inconsistent with tlge Constitution of the United States, aigd, incompatible with tlge 
liberty of a free Nation, and for thge reasoigs given iig the accongpaigying Circular or Pamplglet, 
To be returned to Dr. L. D. Broughton, 47 Montgomery Street, (College Rooms,) Jersey City, N. J. 
P. O ADDRESS. 
NAME. SSC03NTI3 EDITION. 
PLAIN STATEMENT 
AS TO THE 
Medical and Surgical College 
OF THE 
STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 
BY 
Luke Dennis Bkoughton, M. D,, 
President of the Board of Trustees. 
NEW YORK: 
No, 70 South Washington Square. 
1891. PREFACE. 
As the columns of tk.6* newspapers bothyin New York and New Jersey,' 
except the New York Herald, are closed against us, our' only avenue to the 
public is by circulars or pamphlets published at our own expense. 
When the Hudson County Board of Health succeeds in getting some 
one to make false statements under oath detrimental to the College, it is 
published under large head lines, as: “Astounding Evidence,” &c., 
“Against the College,” “The New Jersey Medical and Surgical 
School Has Now Little Chance,” &c., &c. But when the friends and 
professors of the College give their statements under oath favorable to the 
College, it is not even mentioned in the newspapers. One would think 
that the newspapers and the people of New Jersey are as much afraid of 
the first medical college which ever existed in their State, as they are of 
an epidemic of small-pox, yellow fever, or Asiatic cholera. 
I have avoided touching upon the merits of the law-suit, as I thought 
it best to leave it entirely with the Judges of the Supreme Court at Tren- 
ton, therefore I have only given the testimony of the witnesses ; but I 
think the reader will agree with me that it takes a long time to get out a 
mandamus in New Jersey. The excuse that they have made for delays are 
really ridiculous. Only imagine, Mr. Winfield (after wasting a whole 
year), getting the court to grant him an extension of sixty days, in order 
to have time to go to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and San 
Francisco, to see the deans of the various medical colleges and find out 
what they thought of the standing of the New Jersey Medical College. 
One would think that if the Board of Health had a case against the 
College, they would want to rush matters. They have just as good a case 
in the Supreme Court as they have to go to the Legislature at Trenton to 
get the charter repealed. The fight between the Hudson County Board of 
Health, and the New Jersey Medical College, is simply a battle of the 
“ pathies,” (even Dr. Gordon admits as much). And those who have the 
most endurance will be the winner. But sometimes in law, as in war, as a 
British statesman once said, “it is the last guinea that wins” 
I wish to draw the readers special attention to the last page of this 
pamphlet. 
L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D. 
January 15, 1891. 
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 
In this edition I have omitted the article from the New York Herald of 
Dec. 28th, 1890, headed “New Jersey Medics in Legal Hot Water and 
also the greater part of the mandamus proceedings, and have inserted instead 
“ The Last Treatment of General Washington” and “That Diploma Mill,” 
also a copy of the bill for the repeal of the charter of the New Jersey Medical 
College, together with copies of letters sent to the Governor and members of 
the Legislature, and “The Crusade against Eclectic Physicians.” 
We shall test the repeal of the charter in the Supreme Court of New 
Jersey, and in the United States Supreme Court if necessary. 
Perhaps the next generation may learn how long it takes to get a man- 
damus in New Jersey. 
April 20th, 1891. L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D. [From the Jersey City, N. J., “Evening Journal,” Nov. 14, 1890 ] 
LA.ST EDITION. 
ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE 
Given by a Student of New Jersey Medical College. 
A THREE MONTHS’ COURSE 
Yielded a Diploma—The Sexes Studied Together—A 
Female Corpse in the Back-Yard—How It Was 
Obtained—Extra Pay Demanded for a 
Section of It—Sheeps’ Heads and 
Calves’ Hearts for Dissection. 
Counselor Harry Winfield, of the county board of health, went to 
Trenton this morning for the purpose of asking the supreme court for an 
extension of time in which to take testimony in the mandamus proceed- 
ings instituted by the graduates of the New Jersey Eclectic Medical Col-* 
lege. The institution is now practically defunct. Its headquarters or 
“ college rooms,” at 47 Montgomery street, have been closed since May 1, 
and the faculty is anxiously awaiting the result of the pending legal suit. 
Even if the court, on the strength of the testimony adduced, grants a 
mandamus to compel the county board of health to register as physicians 
last year’s medical graduates of the college, it is doubtful if the college 
will be re-opened. 
The legal suit now in practice affects less than a .score of students 
who finished their course before the new medical law went into effect. 
Counsellor Winfield made a hit yesterday afternoon by the production of 
testimony that proved decidedly rich. Charles Ziemann, one of the stu- 
dents of the college, was the witness who furnished the testimony. Coun- 
selor R. B. Seymour, who looked after the interests of the college, objected 
to the introduction of Ziemann’s testimony, on the ground that the witness 
entered the college after those who instituted the present mandamus 
proceedings had left the college, and that therefore Ziemann’s testimony 
regarding the methods in vogue there is irrelevant and immaterial. The 
law under which the suit is being conducted requires that all the testi- 
mony, together with the objections thereto, shall be submitted to the 
Supreme Court, and therefore Ziemann had an opportunity to tell his 
whole story. It was to the effect that he entered the college in December, 
1889. He paid $50 admission fee, and was informed that he would gradu- 
ate and get his diploma on the following March, after studying three 
months. The prospects were alluring, and Ziemann entered into the 
“ work” with zeal. The lectures were held mostly in the afternoons be- 
tween 2 and 6 o’clock. The faculty included Fred. L. Fuchs, professor 
of surgery, theory and practice ; James E. Gray, teacher of anatomy ; A. 
H. Schonger, professor of physiology ; Joseph M. Ellis, professor of 
chemistry and materia medica; Albert B. Whitney, professor of obstet- 4 
rics and gynecology ; Mark Broughton, teacher of dentistry and surgery ; 
Luke D. Broughton, Sr., professor of eclectic materia medica and juris- 
prudence, and Dr. Holbrook, professor of hygiene. Ziemann stated that 
some of these professors rarely showed up at the appointed hours. He 
saw Dr. Holbrook only three times during the whole course. There were 
ten students altogether. Two ladies, Miss Rachel Broughton, daughter 
of one of the professors, and a Miss Sylvington, were among them. 
There was no separation of the sexes. Even during the lectures on obstet- 
rics and anatomy the two ladies sat among the male students. Dissec- 
tions were few and far between. Once the students dissected a sheep’s 
head, and at another time all hands cut up a calf’s heart. The students 
revived one day when the professor brought the news that there would 
be a dissection of a female body. The members of the class were invited 
into the backyard of Professor Broughton’s house on Fourth street, New 
York City, and there the expectant students had an opportunity to gaze 
on a female corpse. Professor James E. Gray explained to the assembled 
pupils that he had obtained the body by claiming relationship to the 
woman at the asylum where she died. The cutting up of the dead luna- 
tic, witness declared, was the most “ exhiliarating feature of the whole 
college course.” The students had to pay $10 extra for the privilege of 
cutting at the corpse. When commencement day came around last month 
Ziemann was told that he would have to pay $30 extra for a scholarship 
before he could receive a diploma. He objected to the extra fee, and 
therefore didn’t graduate. Several other students were also refused a 
diploma because they failed to pay the extra fees. 
Counselor Seymour’s questions brought out the fact that Zieman had 
been giving massage and “ electric ” treatments before he entered the 
college, and that he had been arrested on a charge of practicing illegally. 
Zieman denounced the college as a swindling concern. 
I have copied the whole of the above out of the Evening Journal, 
so that they could not say that I mutilated it, and to show what a sensa- 
tional article the newspapers can make out of nothing, especially when 
they can get a man like Ziemann to manufacture it for them. 
The article said he (Mr Ziemann) “paid $50 admission fee and was 
informed that he would graduate and get his diploma on the following 
March, after studying three months.” 
“When the commencement day came round Ziemann was told that 
he would have to pay $30 extra for a scholarship before he could receive 
a diploma. He objected to the extra fee, and therefore didn’t grad 
uate.” 
The reader will see from what follows how much of Mr. Ziemann’s 
story may be believed. The fact of the matter is he came to see me a 
number of times, and each time I endeavored to persuade him not to 
attend the college until it got through with the lawsuit, as I tried to per- 
suade all new students who made application. I told him as I told 
all the new students, that they had better attend a college that was not 
in law. But about the fourth or fifth time he came to see me he said he 
did not care, he would attend the college, as the Hudson County Board 
of Health could not injure the college. He said he had been to the Ber- 
gen County counselor, at Hackensack, and the counselor had read the 
charter and said the college was all right and the Board of Health could 
not injure it in any way ; and on Dec. 2d, 1889, he matriculated and 
paid five dollars (not fifty dollars). I did not say he could get through 
in one term, or two terms, or twenty terms. In fact he did not ask to get 5 
through in one term. He told me he had attended one term in a medical 
college in Chicago. I told him that if that college was a regular chartered 
medical college and he could bring proof of his attendance there, that 
Would count in his favor. 
On or about Jan. 2d, 1890, he sent word to me that he wanted to buy a 
scholarship, so that he could attend the college until he graduated. I 
had the scholarship made out for him, but when he came for it he did not 
have the money. I said: “Oh, no; people don’t generally pay in advance 
on credit.” 
On Jan 6th he paid ten dollars demonstration fee. On Feb. 9th he 
paid ten dollars, and on March 4th he paid $59, making eighty- 
five dollars altogether. 
At a faculty meeting, held Feb. 28th, 1890, A B. Whitney, M. D., in 
the clrnr, it was resolved and carried that James E. Gray, M D , F. Fuchs, 
M D , and A H Schonger, M. D., be appointed the committee on creden 
tiuls of the students coming up for graduation. 
At the f iculty meeting of the college, held March 3d, 1890, at 8p. m,, 
Dr. A. B. Whitney in the chair. After the committee of credentials or 
certificates of attendance of students from other colleges had made their 
report, it was resolved and carried that Mr. Ziemann be notified through 
the secretary to present further proofs to the committee on the creden- 
tials in order to come up for examination. 
After he was thus notified, he told me he was in a law-suit with his 
partner in Jersey City, N. J., and that his partner had taken all his papers 
and tickets of attendance at other colleges. 
I told him that we did not wish to take advantage of his misfortunes ; 
that if he would bring a letter from his lawyer engaged in his lawsuit, 
stating that such was the case, and if he could get his tickets before the 
commencement, then I had no doubt but that the professors would per- 
mit him to commence with the examination along with the other students; 
and he was permitted to be examined on those conditions, but he never 
brought any further tickets or proof that he had ever attended any other 
college ; in short, he brought no proof of any kind. But he did bring a 
letter from a lawyer, and when I sent to the lawyer to see whether it was 
all ri ght or not, the lawyer stated that he had never seen Mr. Ziemann 
before he called on him to write that letter ; that he did not know that 
Mr. Ziemann was in any lawsuit; and that Mr. Ziemann dictated .he letter 
to him. A copy of the letter follows : 
March 4th, 1890. 
Professor Ellis : 
Dear Sir : I beg leave to inform you that the papers belonging to 
Charles Ziemann are presently tied up and not attainable. 
Yours, resp., 
(Signed) Thomas Kearney, 
Attorney and Counsellor at law, 1458 Broadway, City. 
At a meeting of the college faculty, held March 15th, 1890 it was 
moved, seconded and carried that Chas. Ziemann * * * must come 
up to the full requirements of the college charter by attending two full 
sessions. 
During the winter and spring term of 1889 90 we only graduated 
three students, Thos. Luke O’Reilly, Frank Abbot Bucklyn and Anton 
Sieke. 
Mr. O'Reilly presented two full sets of tickets from the University 
Medical College of New York. The secretary called on Dr. Pardee, the dean of tlie University Medical College, and he stated that Mr. O’Reilly 
had attended two full terms in that college, and he was a third year student. 
Mr. Bucklyn presented two full sets of tickets from the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of New York, and we knew from friends and students in 
the college that he had attended two full sessions in that college. 
Anton'Sieke had attended two full terms in the New Jersey Medical 
College, besides matriculating in the Eclectic Medical College of New 
York and attending some lectures there, and being a regular graduate in 
pharmacy. 
No students have graduated in the Medical and Surgical College of New 
Jersey, unless they were graduates of some medical college, or had at- 
tended one or more full courses in a medical college, or attended two full 
courses in the New Jersey Medical College, besides passing a rigid exami- 
nation before the whole faculty and answering eighty or more per cent, of 
written questions in each professor’s chair (except Dr. Duffy, and he held 
a certificate from a medical society and was registered at the county clerk’s 
office of the county of New York, and had been.in reputable practice fifteen 
years ; he attended one full session in this college and passed all the 
examinations). 
When Mr. Ziemann found that he could not get a diploma by attending 
one term in the college, he went to Dr. Fuchs and stated to him that he 
wasn’t going to attend the New Jersey College again, but that he was 
going to attend the Medical University of New York, and he wanted a note 
to present to the dean of the university to show he was a second-year 
student; but as lie did not pass Dr. Fuchs’ chair he did not give it to him. 
He went to Dr. Schonger and wished a similar certificate from 
him, and said he had given up the fight with the New Jersey College and 
that he was going to attend the Eclectic Medical College of New York. 
Dr. Schonger gave him a note stating that he had attended his chair. 
He went to Dr. Whitney and requested a similar certificate from him, 
stating that he wished to attend Dr. O'Reilly’s college of midwifery of 
New York and that he had paid sixty dollars to Dr. O’Reilly, and that 
lie would lose that money if he could not get a certificate stating he was 
a medical student and attended lectures on Obstetrics. Dr. Whitney gave 
him a note stating that he had attended his lectures. 
I understand that he went to Brooklyn and procured certificates from 
Dr. Ellis and also Dr. Gray, stating that he had passed their chairs, and 
procured the certificates by similar representations. 
I have yet to learn that he ever attended any of those colleges or that 
he ever intended doing so. 
Ou or about April 8th, 1890, I received the following communication 
from Mr. Ziemann, which speaks for itself; and I might also add that the 
Trustees took no official notice of it: 
New York, April 8th, ’90. 
To the President, Secretary, Faculty and Trustees of the Medical and 
Surgical College ofjlie State of New Jersey: I do hereby demand from 
you a diploma signed by the President, Secretary and Faculty of said Col- 
lege, to which shall be affixed its corporate seal. 
Charles Ziemann, 
Care of T. L. O’Reilly, M. D. 
On or about April 9th, 1890, I received a summons from the police 
court on 57th St., New York, to appear there the next day to be examined", 
to see if a crime had been committed. The case was adjourned for a few 
days. At the trial Mr. Ziemann and his lawyer stated to the judge that 
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certain doctors, and particularly myself, as president of tlie college, were 
inveigleiog men to go over to Jersey City from New York to attend the 
medical college, that those men had no charter for a medical college ; 
that the courts of New Jersey had declared it a bogus college; that we 
had no lectures there ; and that we had no dissecting ; that the students 
did nothing but play cards all day long ; and that the professors had 
only bogus diplomas ; and that when we had got all the students’ money, 
that we would not grant them diplomas, even when they had passed the 
chairs. Mr. Ziemann laid on the desk before the judge those certificates 
which he had procured from the professors by misrepresentations, and 
Ziemann said that he had passed over eighty per cent, of the chairs and 
that we would not grant him a diploma after all; and he wanted the Judge 
to c >mpel us to either grant him a diploma or return him all his money ; 
aod he stated that the college was a perfect swindle and we had no charter 
whatever. 
When Mr. Ziemann’s lawyer made those statements, our attorney, 
Ex Judge Gedney, showed the Judge a certified copy of the charter ; as 
soon as he had seen the charter and seal of the State of New Jersey on it, 
he just pushed it one side and said this is no case for a police court. 
About a week afterwards Mr. Ziemann came to my house to have his 
diploma money returned, but he would not sign a receipt that he had re- 
ceived the money and that it settled all claims against the New Jersey 
College. The diploma money and certificate of attendance in the college 
lay on the table. Mr. Ziemann wanted to take his certificate, but I told 
him he could receive it when he had his diploma-fee returned to him. 
About three weeks afterwards I received another summons from the 
police court in 57th Street to appear at the court next day at 9 o’clock 
A. M., and when I appeared I was charged with being a thief by Mr. 
Ziemann—that I had stolen his certificate of attendance. I stated to the 
Judge that the certificate and diploma fee were in my lawyer’s, ex-Judge 
Gedaey’s, hands, and he could have both any time by going there and 
signing a receipt for them. The Judge asked Mr. Ziemann where I was 
when I stole the certificate. Ziemann said in his own house. The Judge 
smiled and dismissed the case. 
The puzzle to me is, how I could steal anything that had been in my 
possession as president of the college ever since it came into existence. 
Also by what law Mr. Ziemann could get a Judge in a police court in New 
York city, to compel a board of trustees of a medical college in another 
State to grant a diploma to him when both the professors and the trustees 
had rejected him as unqualified, and especially when, as he stated to the 
Judge, that he did nothing in the college but play cards to earn the said 
diploma. 
Also, the charter states, that the student must “ present testimonials 
that he is 21 years of age and of good moral character ” before he can 
graduate. Mr. Ziemann presented no testimonials of his good moral 
character, either to the professors or the trustees of the college. 
Also, I do not see how I managed to inveigle Mr. Ziemann from New 
York to Jersey City, to swiudle money out of him and to get him to attend 
the college there, as he stated to the police justice, especially as he told 
me that he was living in Jersey City, close to the college, and that was the 
main reason he wanted to attend that college in preference to any medical 
college in New York city, and he signed his name and residence Hen- 
derson Street, Jersey City, in the college register. 
He also stated that Dr. Gordon, President of the Board of Health of 
Hudson County, N. J., had sent the Clerk of the Board of Health to him 8 
to tell him that if he did not stop practicing massage in Jersey City he 
would have him arrested; also that he only wanted a medical diploma to 
practice massage, so that Dr. Gordon could not stop him or have him ar- 
rested. 
When I was trying to persuade Mr. O’Keilly not to attend the New 
Jersey College, but to attend some college that was not in law, he made 
answer “ that he went around selling surgical and obstetrical instruments 
to doctors, and he only wanted to be able to put M. D. on his card, so that 
the doctors he called on would treat him with more respect.” And he 
said it would not matter to him whether the Hudson County, N. J , 
Board of Health ever recognized the college or not, and “he would not 
want any dean of a medical college in New York to endorse the diploma.” 
Mr. Bucklyn’s excuse, when I tried to persuade him not to attend the 
college, was that there were no medical laws in Connecticut, where he 
came from, and it did not matter to him whether we lost the lawsuit with 
the Board of Health or not—it would be all the same to him. 
All the students who attended the college had similar excuses for 
attending, but I persuaded nearly forty not to attend, who applied for ad- 
mission. Even all those students who did attend, and paid any money 
received a receipt stating that the money would be returned if the college 
lost the lawsuit. But towards the end of the session we took those receipt 
up and gave the students the regular college tickets, as the lawsuit was not 
settled, on account of Mr. Seymour’s (our lawyer) illness, and all the stu- 
dents were satisfied. I do not see how we could have acted more honestly 
and fairly towards the students than we did. 
We should not have had any session for the winter of 1889-90 until 
the lawsuit was settled, only Mr. Seymour, our lawyer, stated that he 
could make a much better argument before the Supreme Court at Trenton 
if the college was going right on, and we did not want to place any imped- 
iment in Mr. Seymour’s path towards success in gaining the lawsuit, even 
if we made heavy sacrifices ; and that was the reason we admitted so few 
students at the beginning of our last year’s session, as we expected to 
return the college fees to all the students if we had lost the lawsuit before 
the session ended. 
Students Trying to Graduate in the New Jersey Medical College hy presenting 
Forged Certificates of Attendance from other Colleges. 
The Trustees have taken every precaution possible to guard against 
students who falsely represented that they had attended other colleges 
previous to attending the New Jersey College, and unless they have 
brought positive proof that such was the case they have not graduated 
from our college. 
Mr. Asher, a student of the college, brought a ticket of attendance of 
the Long Island Hospital College. We sent our secretary to the secretary 
of that college, who sent word ttiat they formerly had such tickets as that, 
but they had no knowledge whether Mr. Asher had ever attended their 
college or not. Therefore Mr. Asher could not graduate from our college 
with one term, no matter bow many chairs he might be successful in pass 
ing. Mr. Joseph Sieke, another student of this last term in the college, 
brought tickets of attendance, also tickets for dissection, with his name on 
them; also brought a receipt for a hundred dollars signed by the secretary 
(Mr. Fay) of the Eclectic Medical College of New York. Still the profess- 
ors were not satisfied, and he was told that he must bring a letter from the 
secretary of the college that he had attended a full session. The following 
letter was brought to the next faculty meeting by Professor Ellis; 9 
Mr. Joseph M. Sieke matriculated and attended lectures in one session 
in the Eclectic Medical College. (Signed) Fat. 
But afterwards, in looking the letter over and not seeing any date or 
address on the above letter, I thought it looked very suspicious, and I vis- 
ited two of the professors at their offices, and they also thought it did not 
look right. So I sent the secretary to the dean of the Eclectic Medical 
College of New York to inquire where the late secretary of the college, Mr. 
Fay, lived; our secretary saw Mr. Fay, and he wrote the following note to 
show that the tickets of attendance of the Eclectic Medical College of New 
York, also the receipt for one hundred dollars, were all forgeries, and were 
not in his handwriting. Mr. Fay’s letter reads as follows: 
New York, March 18, ’90. 
This is to certify that the annexed writing, in place of certificate of 
attendance at the Eclectic Medical College of New York, was not written 
or signed by me. (Signed) Thos. G. Fat. 
To the best of my knowledge Mr. Joseph M. Sieke never attended lec- 
tures at the Eclectic Medical College of New York from 1878 to March, 
1889 inclusive. (Signed) Thos. G. Fat. 
I need not tell the reader that Mr. Joseph M. Sieke did not graduate 
any more than Chas. Zeimann did. Mr. Asher and Mr. Jos. M. Sieke 
were among the “ several other students ” who “ were also refused a diploma be- 
cause they failed to pay the extra fees." 
I should like to know whether there is a medical college in the whole 
United States that would have taken more pains to see that the students 
were all right in every particular, before they could graduate in the Medi- 
cal and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey. 
Even if Mr. Ziemann had attended two full sessions in the college 
and had passed a satisfactory examination, and had been recommended to 
the Trustees, yet the Trustees might refuse to grant that diploma for 
reasons of their own, as they might know something of Mr. Ziemann s 
“ moral character” which the professors did not know, or they might have 
reason to believe that he would make an improper use of that diploma 
and bring the college into disgrace. In short the Trustees might have 
many reasons for refusing to act on the recommendation of the professors, 
and I do not believe that there is any court in the United States that 
would compel them to grant a medical diploma which they had once 
refused. 
There is no doubt but that Mr. Ziemann has been backed up by the 
Old School doctors of Jersey City, to come to the college and make us all 
the trouble he could, and if he could have succeeded by any kind of mis- 
representations in getting a diploma, then they probably thought that the 
Board of Health of Hudson County, New Jersey, would have a case 
against us. It is possible that a number of the Old School colleges in 
New York City may have “ chipped in ” to help to pay Mr. Ziemann’s 
expenses, and help forward the “good cause,” in trying to crush out of 
existence the New Jersey Medical College. 
In regard to charging ten dollars extra for the demonstration of aoat 
omy’s ticket, if that is a crime, it is a crime which is committed every 
year, by every medical college in the United States, and this crime has 
been committed ever since medical colleges began. 
While dissecting the calf’s heart and sheep’s head in the college, I 
have no doubt but that the students discovered as much courage in the 
one, and as much brains in the other as they would find in Mr. Ziemann’s. 
When I attended college it was a common occurrence for the practical 10 
anatomist to go round to butcher’s sliops, and buy, or beg, different parts 
of animals, such as oxen’s eyes, to show their structures and different 
layers, also the sheep or calf’s lights, to show the expansion and contrac- 
tion of the human lungs ; by blowing into the trachea of the sheep’s or 
calf’s lights, and so forth. But what is proper and right for professors in 
other medical colleges to do, is a crime when done by the professors in 
the New Jersey Medical College. 
Mr. Ziemann went to the New York City Board of Health and no 
doubt told a similar story to what he told the Judge in the 57th St. Police 
Court. The Board of Health came round to examine the premises, but it 
so happened that they did not find a graveyard. He also went to the New 
York Morning Journal and got a long flaming article iuserted about the 
“ New Jersey doctors coming over to New York to dissect, and they hoped 
that the Board of Health would make an example of Dr. Broughton.” 
Only to think of it, dissecting going on within three blocks of Broadway.” 
“How would people like parts of human bodies for breakfast.” “And this 
had been going on for years,” etc , etc. 
After the Hudson County Board of Health, N. J., had refused to allow 
the New Jersey Medical College graduates to register their names in their 
book of registry ; the Trustees of the college deemed it advisable not to 
dissect in New Jersey, until the application for a mandamus from the 
Supreme Court was settled, as we were informed that if they did dissect, 
they would all be arrested, and by the advice of the city editor of the 
Jersey City Evening Journal, and also of the advice of Lawyer J. Herbert 
Potts, we had our dissecting and most of our clinics in New York City. 
But we did not do our work like thieves and ghouls. We had a subject 
presented to the college by the relations of the deceased person for dis- 
section. 
When the Board of Health of New York City and the New York May nig a 
Journal began to investigate this matter, the anatomist, who was then on 
a visit to Canada, sent the following letter for my protection, in case any 
legal proceedings were commenced. 
Popular Hill, Ont., Canada. 
Saturday, June 28th, 1890. 
To the President of the Board of Health of New York City : 
Honorable Sir— 
Through a correspondent in Brooklyn I am informed that your Board 
is making inquiries into a certain matter connected with the Medical and 
Surgical College of New Jersey, of which I am the lecturer on Anatomy. 
If so, I beg leave to say that, in regard to how we succeeded in doing the 
practical part, there has been nothing of which I am afraid or unwilling to 
answer for ; in the first place I went to your board and requested the use 
of a body and privilege to dissect it. I was told that no such power rested 
in your board, but I must procure material through an incorporated medi- 
cal school. Your attorney was consulted, and said I could not receive such 
permit because the law laying such permit on the colleges of medicine ; 
and being asked about the penalty put upon the person procuring privately 
and performing practical work upon a human body, outside of such insti- 
tution, replied that the only danger dwelt in being found out by border 
residents, and subjected to unpleasantness on account of the publicity 
connected therewith. I had an interesting class of students striving after 
knowledge, and for them I procured material ; instructed them while pur- 
suing the practical part of anatomy, carried along with the corpse the 
proper permit, and put away the remains after completing the course. If 
there is improper action in this, there was no instruction given me by your 11 
board. I am but a young man, making my mark as well as I can, am a 
graduate of your University and would like to continue my connections 
with this college, believing it will rise to become one of the useful schools 
of science some day, by being brought into better repute and offering an 
opportunity for full practical observation and thoroughness ofwork. 
Very respectfully yours, Jas. E. Gray. 
N. B.—Dr. Gray was well known by the New York Board of Health, 
having been a physician on Blackwell’s Island for over four years. 
The Old School Doctors are trying to have only one School of Medicine 
and that one the Allopathic. 
A number of Old School doctors have told me that they propose to 
crush out of existence all sect in medicine, and they appear to be usiug 
the same methods which the Protestants and Catholics used in the differ- 
ent periods in English history, to crush out all t ut one sect in religion. 
They each in their turn, as they came into power, employed the same 
methods, and each racked their brains to iuvent new tortures, and delight- 
ed to see their fellow men and women suffering in ;t gony. 
The poet best expresses it when he says : 
“.They have used the rack, the boot, the screw, 
They have kindled high the martyr’s fire, 
All has been done, that fiends can do, 
By malice, sophistry, or ire,” 
All the medical laws which the “ Old School Doctors ” have had en- 
acted by the Legislatures in the various states of the Union, and also in 
Canada, are all done for that one object—that is, to crush out all sect in 
medicine. Take, for instance, the medical law enacted by the Legisla- 
ture of New Jersey, this last year (1890), consisting of-a Board of Medical 
Examiners, composed of allopaths, homoeopaths and eclectics. 
The law says that the Board is to consist of five allopaths, three 
homoeopaths, and one eclectic, to be appointed by the Governor of the 
State. Even if that Examining Board consisted in numbers as the law 
states, what chance would there be for an eclectic to pass it, even if the 
eclectic was a walking cyclopedia of medical knowledge. 
But the Governor did not even appoint the one eclectic on the Examining 
Board, but appointed a druggist, who is an Old School or allopath, aud who 
is not known as an eclectic, either in any Eclectic Medical County Society, 
or the State Eclectic Medical Society of New Jersey, or by the National 
Eclectic Medical Association.* If there can be anything more unfair and 
unjust than this, I should like to know where to find it. But I am afraid 
we shall have to go hunting for it into the “ dark ages” of the past to find 
its equal. What chance would one of the students of the New Jersey 
Medical College have in passing that Board. Ho would have a much 
better chance of being elected “ President of the United States.” 
It might be advisable for captains of vessels, generals of armies, and 
even doctors on shipboard, and surgeons in armies, to go through an 
examination as to whether they are fit for their positions before they are 
appointed by the proper authorities, on account of the difficulty of getting 
others to fill their places while on the wide ocean or in the battle-field. 
But doctors living in cities and who can be changed every hour of the 
day if the patient is dissatisfied, or feels so disposed, I cannot understand 
why those doctors should undergo an examination by other physicians, 
*The so-called Eclectic doctor who was appointed on the Medical Examining Board by 
Gov. Leon Abbott, admitted to me on Feb. 24, 1891, in the judiciary committee room at 
Trenton, N. J., that he did not belong to any Eclectic Medical Society in New Jersey. 12 
when those doctors have graduated and been examined by the professors 
in a chartered medic d college, and have studied with a practicing physici- 
an, any more than a tailor, rhoemaker, carpenter, baker, or plumber should 
go through an examinaton by others of their trades, after they had served 
an apprenticeship in their various trades, and can show their papers to 
that effect. 
The government will soon begin to find out that the people are equally 
as tenacious in choosing their own doctors when they pay their own doc- 
tors’ bills, as they have been in choosing their own ministers of the Gospel 
when they have to support that minister.* 
The Governor and the Legislature of a State do not employ all the 
people, neither can they discharge them all and send them home if they 
do not employ the doctors they choose for them; on the contrary, it is the 
people who employ the Governors and the Legislatures, and those Gov- 
ernors and Legislatures may find out that they are treading on the people’s 
liberties too much, some of those fine days. 
* A tew years ago. when I was practicing medicine In Saratoga, the head waiter at 
Congress Hall called all the colored servants together, and Introduced J)r. Whiting to 
them, who was living in Saratoga, and told them that It any ot them was taken sick 
they must employ that doctor. 
1 had a number 01 those servants who came to me to he treated, and took my med- 
icine even when they were not sick, and told me they would let the head waiter ot 
congress Hall see that, so long as they paid their own doctors bills, they were going to 
choose their own doctor. 
Now each on of those servants was liable to be discharged and sent home If they 
had been discovered coming to me, or even any other doctor except Dr. Whiting tor 
treatment. If colored people who have been held so many hundred years in slavery. In 
all parts of the world, rebel against being interfered with In choosing their own doctors, 
I cannot but t sink It a rather dangerous experiment to want to enslave or abridge the 
liberties of the Anglo-Saxon race in such matters. 
some seven years ago t here was a medical bill before the Legislature at Albany, 
New York, similar 10 the one that the New Jersey Legislature enacted in May, 1890, at 
Trenton. At my own expense 1 got up a petition against the bill, and sent it to Albanv to 
each of the members ot the Legislature 1 can assure the reader that that petition made 
a sensation Even the member who introduced the medical bill in the Assembly wrote 
to me stating that he had withdrawn the bill, and that there was not going to be any 
medical legislation that winter in New York. A number of members ot the Assembly 
and senate also wrote to me stating that they were opposed to any medical bill of that 
kind, also that they were opposed to any medical legislation whatever, unless the due 
tors of the various systems ot medicine could agree to some special bill ior them to act 
on. In getting up that petition 1 was astonished to find so many people who were will- 
ing to sign a petition against all kinds of medical legislation. 1 have no hesitation in 
saying that In the state or New York, a petition could be obtained containing over one 
million names who would sign a petition against any medical legislation. 
I have also no hesitation in saying that a similar petition could be got up In the 
United states, containing over ten million names, who are all opposed to any kind of 
medical legislation. 
The petition sent to the Legislature at Albany In 1842, to repeal all kinds of medi- 
cal legislation in the state of New York, was so large that they had to convey It in 
wheelbarrows to the State House at Albany. 
All those various medical bills that have passed the Legislatures of late, the people 
at large knew nothing about them, they were all got up by the doctors of the allo- 
pathic School for their special benefit, and to encourage monopoly. In the State of New 
York nearly every allopathic doctor Is taxed In order to raise moneyko influence the 
Legislature at Albany to enact those medical laws. I have been told of a leading doc- 
tor In New York who Is taxed $250 a year for medical legislation. 
The allopathic doctors of New York have been trying for years to get a bill enacted 
similar to the one passed in New Jersey last year, but without success so far, and It is 
hardly likely that they will ever succeed in doing It. I do not believe that there has 
ever been such a corrupt medical bill, that has passed any legislature In any age, and 
in any part of the world, outside of monarchical or despotic governments. 
Some twenty years ago the Canadian Parliament enacted a law creating a med- 
ical board consisting of twenty members-ten allopaths, five homoeopaths, and five 
eclectics. Since that time there has been over fourteen hundred certificates granted to 
allopathic doctors to practice In Canada, nineteen homoeopaths, and not a single eclectic. 
Therefore what chance will there be for an eclectic to pass the New Jersey Medical Board 
when there Is not a single eclectic physician on that Board. 
The first eclectic doctor who succeeds In passing that Medical Board ought to be 
canonized, and a life-sized statue made of solid gold erected to his memory. 13 
Some fifty years ago nearly all the States that were then in the Union 
enacted medical laws in favor of the “ Old School ” practice of medicine, 
and to put down old “ Samuel Thompson’s botanical practice of Medi- 
cine.” But the people rose in their might and sent large petitions to the 
Legislatures, which compelled them to repeal all medical laws in nearly 
every State in the Union, and they all remained repealed until 1874. 
Besides, if they should have medical examination boards, who shall be 
the persons to examine ? The practice of medicine is wrapped in such 
uncertainty, and there are so many different systems of medicine in the 
world, that there is no telling which is true and which is false. Besides, 
there is another point which to me is of vast importance, which is, that 
there are no two doctors (especially the Old School or Allopaths) that will 
agree in diagnosing the same patient and disease, and prescribe the same 
or similar medicines. I will even go further, and am willing to bet a 
wager, even money, that if we send a patient round to twenty leading phy- 
sicians in New York, and we will even let the physicians be graduates from 
the same allopathic college, yet they will each and all give the patient a 
different and almost opposite disease, and they will give a different and 
almost opposite treatment to any of those patients. 
This experiment has been tried in hundreds of instances, to my own 
personal knowledge, in the city of New York, and with unfailing success. 
“ Who shall decide when doctors disagree?” In ninety-nine cases 
out of a hundred Death gives the decision. 
If we suppose that there were only twenty doctors in a certain town, 
and they had an examining board composed of any particular number of 
those doctors, say seven, to decide whether the other thirteen shall practice 
their profession or not, you can depend on it, that the seven who were 
appointed on the examining board would decide that they {the seven) could 
all practice their profession. 
I have been supposing that all those twenty doctors were of the 
same school—that is, Allopathy—and all graduates from the same Old 
School College; yet when they all disagree in their diagnosis and in their 
treatment, how is it possible to appoint an examining board out of those 
twenty doctors that can do justice to all ? The thing is an impossibility. 
But when we come to think of the different systems and practices of 
medicine that have been in vogue since Hippocrates’ time, and even all 
those systems that are in vogue at the present day, the matter becomes 
overwhelming. It would be a thousand times easier to have an examining 
board to examine the ministers of all different denominations in the various 
religions, which are in vogue in all the different parts of the world at the 
present day. 
Only to enumerate a few of the systems of medicine shows that the 
matter, in regard to examining boards, to be an impossibility. And even 
if the examining board consisted of only one from each particular practice 
or system of medicine, and they could by some hocus-pocus be made to 
agree on some points on which to examine the doctors of the various sys- 
tems of medicine, their number would be so great and their ideas so 
various and opposite on eveiy point that it would be an impossibility for 
them to get along together. They would be like “ Gil Bias ” and his con- 
sultations. He and the other doctois went into a separate room for con- 
sultation, and instead of discussing the best treatment for the patient, in 
order to get the patient well, they began tearing the hair out of each 
other’s heads and having a regular prize fight all to themselves, until the 
friends of the patient went into the room and separated them. And bear 
in mind these doctors were all “old school ” or allopathic doctors. 14 
But there is one thing those twenty old-school doctors will all agree 
in; that is, that they will give the patient poisonous or destructive reme- 
dies, and such as would undermine the health of the patient or destroy 
life in any well person if persisted in. The reader would be astonished to 
hear of how many murders are committed every year, in a city like New 
York by those self-same old school doctors. 
Even in those cases of willful poisoning, it is sometimes an impossi- 
bility to find out after death whether the patient died from the poisons of 
the intended murderer or the poisons given by the old school doctors. We 
have a remarkable instance in that case, of Mr. May brick, in Liverpool, 
England, whom his wife tried to poison with arsenic, and whom the 
doctors finished the job for her. The doctors in that case ought to have 
been put on trial for their lives, the same as she was. I copy the following 
in reference to the Maybrick case from the New York World, September 6, 
1889 : 
MODERN MEDICATION 
Or the Allopathic Treatment of Mr. Maybricli. 
“ The practice of medicine in Liverpool is apparently in a state fully 
justifying the old definition of a physician as a “ man who pours drugs of 
which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.” 
During his last illness of something like three weeks, the late Mr. 
Maybrick took from the hands of his physicians the longest and most in- 
congruous list of medicines, of which public record has yet been made. 
Here is the catalogue, copied from an English druggists’ trade journal: 
Morphia suppositories. 
Ipecachuanha wine. 
Papain and Iridin solution. 
Cascara sagrada. 
Nitro-hydrochloric acid. 
Tincture nux vomica. 
Fowler’s solution. 
Plummer’spill. 
Dilute hydrocyanic acid. 
Tincture of henbane. 
Bromide of potassium. 
Antipyrin. 
Tincture of jabirandi. 
Bismuth. 
Sulphonal. 
Cocaine. 
Nitroglycerine. 
Dilute phosphoric 9cid. 
Solution of chlorine, sanitas, gly- 
cerine and Condy’s fluid as mouth 
washes. 
This list is justly characterized by the trade journal which published 
it, as “ a jumble of irrational empiricism,” and the question every physi- 
cian will ask upon reading it is, “ What sort of seventeenth-century 
quacks are permitted to practice in Liverpool in the last quarter of the 
nineteenth century ? ” 
Mr. May brick was dying of arsenical poisoning, and his doctors 
helped him tQ death by drenching him with pretty nearly everything they 
could think of except an antidote for arsenic. Calmatives, purgatives, ex- 
plosives and acids were indiscriminately jumbled in the poor man’s 
stomach.” 
I wish the reader to bear in mind that Mr Maybrick’s physicians 
were all allopathic doctors, and that these doctors have prevented 
by their opposition any homoeopathic or eclectic colleges from being 
atarted in Great Britain, and if any one wishes to study homoeopathic or 
eclectic materia medica, they have to study it out of the British domains, 
or study from books alone. 
At the commencement of the present century, the homoeopathic and 
botanical doctors went through the same persecutions in opposing the 
depleting and Heeding methods of the allopathic doctors in their day, that we 15 
are suffering at the present day. And yet I do not think there is a single 
allopathic doctor now but what will admit that the bleeding system in 
those days was altogether wrong, and that a great many hundreds of 
thousands of lives were sacrificed on account of it. And yet when a doctor 
went to see a patient fifty or more years ago, he must bleed, bleeds 
BLEED. (See the allopathic treatment of Gen. Washington on page 23.) 
Indeed Dr. Guy of London, in his book on “ Public Health,” gave an 
account where one hundred and forty patients were all bled for one dis- 
ease, and they all died. And yet Samuel Hahnemann and old Samuel Thom- 
son, and all their followers suffered martyrdom, for opposing those 
destructive methods. 
If it had not been for such men as Dr. Hahnemann and Samuel Thom- 
son and their followers, there is no doubt but that the allopathic doctors 
would have gone on bleeding and depleting up to the present day. But 
when the people saw the difference in the treatment of the two kinds of 
doctors, the allopathic doctors were compelled to make a reformation or 
lose a greater part of their practice. 
The allopathic doctors appear to be like certain religious denomina- 
tions which I oould mention, who are opposed to all improvements ; and 
any college, or indeed any doctor, that does not follow in the old rut, must 
be crushed out of existence. Indeed the allopaths appear determined to 
stick to destructive remedies and such as endanger human life. I could 
give a number of instances that have come under my own immediate 
observation, where had any other person but a doctor administered the 
drug, they would have been put on trial for their life. But if I had to do 
so, I am afraid I might wound the feelings of the relations of the patient 
who died. 
Dr. ltobert Koeli’s Lymph Treatment for Consumption. 
On account of continued wars of England but_few of their ancient 
kings died a natural death, and on account of the allopaths practice of 
medicine, the same can be said of the men of prominence in this country, 
but few have died a natural death. They have all been more or less 
helped out of the world by the doctors, even from the time of Washington 
to the present day. I might instance Gen. Washington, Yice-Piesident 
Hendricks, Brigham Young, Roscoe Conkling, General Grant, and num- 
bers of others too numerous to mention. Even in Europe they appear to 
be no better off in that respect. I might instance Louis Napoleon Bona- 
parte and the Emperors W iliiam and I'rederick of Prussia ; and a number 
of others. Even the great Dr. Koch’s remedy, that is making such a 
sensation all over Europe, and America, at the present day, is still a rem- 
edy that is certainly very dangerous to human life. Indeed some say that 
it is more poisonous than the bite of a rattlesnake. And besides its being a 
quack or secret remedy, its curative effects are yet to be proven. 
Even Mr. Pasteur of Paris, who has made such a great sensation of 
late years in his supposed cure for hydrophobia, is reported as saying : 
‘ Up to this moment, there has not been a single authenticated cure, not 
even of lupus. Dr. Bergmann' himself has seen a patient suffering from 
lupus return to his hospital, fifteen days after having been discharged as 
cured, a severe relapse having occurred even within that brief interval. 
Moreover, there is no real certainty as to the consequences of the treat- 
ment. The medicament is of unheard-of virulence, and the reactions 
which it brings on are terrible. 
No venom from a snake, if administered in such small doses (two- 
tenths of a milligramme) could cause such results. We have therefore a 16 
toxic of such indomitable energy that it may introduce into the organism 
disorders the consequences of which no one can surmise, and have yet to 
be studied. You may have seen a report in the medical papers of yester- 
day, that albuminuria and baematuria have been found in a patient who 
had been treated for tuberculosis, with very small doses of this lymph. In 
fact, it is the kidneys that are particularly affected by it.”—(New York 
Medical Record, Dec. 27bh, 1890.) 
I copy the following from the New York Herald of March 8, 1891. 
“ We all know, now, says Prof. Yerneuil, in a recent clinical lecture 
delivered at the Hotel Dieu of Paris, how prompt was the collapse of this 
famous discovery, and how much remains to day of the hopes that had been 
so lightly placed on a laboratory product, ill defined, untried, badly ad 
ministered and which, in spite of the guarantee of the government of the 
German Empire, has produced, since it was foolishly transferred from the 
guinea pig cage to clinical medicine, nothing but deceptions and disaster. 
Added to this comes the opinion of Professor Yirchow in a paper read be- 
fore the Medical Society of Berlin, in which he related the results of twen 
ty one-post mortems that he had performed of persons who had undergone 
Koch’s treatment. Dr. Virchow declared that the injections increased the 
number of bacilli and made them emigrate into parts of the body that had 
not been affected before that, creating in this way a new disease. The 
Professor adds that the lymph invariably produces intense hypersemia, 
which endangers the patient’s life. Up to the present time Dr. Koch’s 
treatment has not given a single case of recovery, not only of pulmonary 
tuberculosis, or even of lupus; on the other hand it has killed a relatively large 
number of persons who might have lived a long time. When we consider that 
even those who survive the treatment present extremely serious symptoms 
(intense fever, delirium, albumenuria, hematuria, &c.), we come to the 
conclusion that it will be better to wait until Dr. Koch can show the med- 
ical world undeniable cases of recovery before resorting to a therapeutical 
method which so far has only produced disaster. And until a case of 
authentic recovery can be shown I think it will be better to refrain from 
speaking of a remedy which all sensible persons have declined to use.” 
Yet, strange to say, that the moment that it became known in the 
United States that Dr. Koch had discovered a supposed remedy for con- 
sumption, Dr. Loomis, Dr. Jacobi, and scores of other doctors in the 
United States, started off post haste to Europe to get some of this quack or 
secret nostrum or lymph without even asking what it was composed of, or 
whether any cures had been made with it or not, and then commenced in- 
jecting it into their patients when at the same time they knew it to be a 
deadly poison—equal to that of a bite of a rattlesnake ; and it is astonishing 
how many persons have died from its use up to date, and without it pro- 
ducing a single cure or anyone patient being permanently benefited by it, 
and yet those Allopathic doctors talk about the science of medicine. Can 
there be a greater humbug ? 
I cannot but think that if human lives were only those of horses or 
cows, or even cats and dogs, the Allopathic doctors would have to treat 
those dumb beasts with a little more consideration and care, or else those 
doctors would be sued for the money value of those animals, and there is 
no doubt but an honest jury would render judgment against them. When 
the Epizootic broke out among horses in 1872, which spread through agrtat 
part of the Eastern and Northern States, the horse doctors commenced 
bleeding and depleting all the horses that became affected with that disease. 
But as they all died that were bled, they soon stopped bleeding as every 17 
horse was worth so much money, and the doctors knew they would have to 
pay their money value if they went on treating the horses in that manner. 
A number of years ago when the British government sent their con- 
victs to Van Diemans Land, the government paid a certain sum of money 
to the owner of the vessel for the passage of each of those convicts, when 
put on ship board at London, to be sent to their destination; and at one 
time for all they had allopathic doctors on the ship the mortality rose to 
over sixty per cent , or in other words, out of ev,ry one hundred convicts 
over sixty died on the voyage. 
But when the government commenced to pay the owners of the vessels 
for the number of the convicts that were landed alive in Van DeimansLand, 
and not for the number that was shipped at London. And the Allopathic 
doctor’s wages was regulated in proportion to the number of convicts who 
were landed in good health at their destination, the number of deaths on 
the passage was reduced to only one half per cent, that is, out of every two 
hundred convicts that were shipped at London, one hundred and ninety- 
nine were landed in Van Dieman’s Land in good health. 
I do not wish to infer that both the captains and the doctors of the 
vessels murdered the convicts, but it is certain that they neglected them to that 
degree that most of them died on the passage ; and had there been an investi- 
gation of the treatment of each of those sixty convicts who died out of 
every hundred, and the captains and doctors being punished for every 
death caused by neglect, the the death rate would have decreased very 
rapidly. Equally as rapidly as it did, when they were paid for the number 
that were landed alive, and not the number that was shipped at London. 
If there were laws enacted in every State of the Union, holding all 
those allopathic doctors responsible for every death that occurred in their 
practice, when using dangerous drugs, such as they are prescribing every 
day, and the doctor’s conduct were subjected to an investigation when in- 
jecting Dr. Koch’s lymph and using other nostrums. I cannot but think 
such reckless using of drugs and treatment dangerous to life, as was used 
in the case of Mr. Maybrick, and of Samuel Boy er, mentioned on page 18, 
and of Gen. Washington mentioned on page 23, and I might mention 
thousands of other instances, would very soon go out of fashion, aad the 
death rate would be reduced very considerably, but not ouly that but the 
health of the people at large would be considerably improved, but more 
especially the health of the patients of the Allopathic doctors. 
The death of sixty convicts out of every hundred on their passage 
from London to Van Dieman’s Land is not the only calamity to be looked 
at, although that is bad enough, but those forty who were lauded alive, 
would be far from being in good health, having been confined in the pest 
ship for some six months among the dead, and those dying of pestilential 
diseases, and no doubt that most of those forty would die within a short 
time after they were landed on account of being confined in such a pest 
prison. 
Of the 23 persons out of 146 who came out alive from the Black Holk 
in Calcutta, after being confined only one night, nearly all of those 23 per- 
sons died shortly afterwards of lung diseases of one kind or another. And 
yet there was no special pestilence in the black hole, when these prisoners 
entered it. 
Even if Mr. Maybrick or Gen. Washington had lived through the 
sickness referred to, they would have felt the effect of their treatment by 
the doctors for a long time afterwards, and might never have entirely 
overcome the bleeding and poisonous medicine that the doctors gave them. 
Even the great French Dr. Brown-Sequard’s remedy, the Elixir 18 
of Life, which made such a great sensation among all the allopathic doctors 
a year or two ago, both in Europe and in America, had to be stopped on 
account of the great destruction of human life which it caused, and the 
great number of cripples and permanent invalids which it made. 
A short time ago I read in the papers that an allopathic doctor in 
Australia had discovered a remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake, and the 
remedy was strychnine, to be injected by hypodermic syringes into the pa- 
tient, supposed to have been bitten by the rattlesnake. 
If the patient died, I should like to know whether he died from 
the bite of the rattlesnake or from the poisoning of the strychnine. This is a 
real specimen of Allopathic practice of medicine. Is it not time that the 
government of the United States cried halt I to this kind of doctoring. 
And like the British Parliament, in regard to compulsory vaccination in 
England, have an investigating committee appointed to see whether this 
quackery and destruction of human life shall continue as heretofore. 
It is a debatable question in my mind whether the liquor traffic or the 
allopathic treatment of disease, is the most destructive of human life, and 
which produces the most misery in all parts of the civilized world. 
Wlio are the Regulars and Who are the Quacks ? 
The reader may think that I am writing at random and making state- 
ments of which I have no proof; but, besides my own observations in regard 
to the allopathic practice of medicine, 1 find that there are other doctors who 
have made similar observations. During the year 1890, S. E. Chapman, 
M. D., of California, published a pamphlet named, “ Who Aim the Begu 
laks?” Previously to doing so he sent to all the leading physicians in the 
principal cities of the United States the following letter; 
“Dear Doctor: I am a great sufferer from indigestion, and apply to you 
for a prescription. My appetite is usually good, but a few mouthfuls cause 
a sense of fullness and repletion, as if 1 had really eaten a hearty meal. I 
cannot eat enough to keep me strong. There is more or less soreness in the 
region of the liver. Bowels usually constipated, with much flatulence of 
stomach and bowels. 
I don’t know but my kidneys are badly affected, for I have soreness and 
aching in that region, and I pass a good deal of red sand in my urine. 
Naturally I am of a lively temperament, fond of society, but am now 
often low spirited. One thing about my case strikes me as being peculiar: I 
am always worse from 4 to 5 or from 8 to 9 o’clock P. M. This I have 
noticed for years, and it is not imagination. 
Iam a married man, aged 42; fair complexion; weight 185 lbs; height 
5 feet 6 inches; occupation bookkeeper. 
Please send prescription by return mail, and find within post office order 
for $2.00. Very respectfully, Samuel Boyer, Box 26. * 
Watsonville, Cal. 
To the homoeopaths I was obliged to add, in addition to the above, the 
following postscript : 
Doctor, I am studying homoeopathy with a view to fitting myself for 
practice if my health permits. I am exceedingly anxious to know the name 
of the remedy indicated in my case. Will you be kind enough to tell me it. 
I shall be greatly disappointed if you do not comply with my request 
What college would you recommend me to attend ? 
Names of physicians to whom above was sent: 
HOMCEOPATHIC. 
J. B. Bell, Boston. 
J. C. Sanders, Cleveland. 
ALLOPATHIC. 
H. I. Bowditch, Boston. 
J. E. Darby, Cleveland. 19 
J. T. Kent, Philadelphia. 
W. J. Hawkes, Chicago. 
J. W. Dowling, New York. 
W. L. Reed, St. Louis. 
A. McNeil, San Francisco. 
Samuel Lilienthal, San Francisco. 
Wm. Boericke, San Francisco. 
C. E. Walton, Cincinnati. 
R. Bartholow, Philadelphia. 
Chas. T. Parks, Chicago. 
Austin Flint, New York. 
Isaac N. Love, St. Louis. 
W. R. Cluness, Sacramento. 
W. F. McNutt, San Francisco. 
S. O. L. Potter, San Francisco. 
J. T. Whitaker, Cincinnati.” 
The prescriptions obtained from all the homoeopathic physicians were 
simply lycopodium, and they all agreed on that remedy lor that disease, and 
no doubt if this experiment had been extended to Europe, Asia and Africa, 
or anywhere else where there are homoeopathic physicians, they would have 
all prescribed the same remedy. 
I shall not say whether lycopodium is the proper remedy for all 
the above-named symptoms in a sick patient. I leave that for the 
homoeopathic physicians to decide. I shall only touch upon the harm- 
lessness of the remedy. Lycopodium has been used for ages as a menstrum for 
a physician to make up his pills with, on account of its harmlessness, similar 
to what, physicians often use as a menstrum to make tip their pills, when 
they use wheaten flour. And lycopodium comes as near what is termed 
“ bread pills,” without actually being made of wheaten flour, as anything 
can do. 
But what shall we say about the conglomeration of all the allopathic doc- 
tors’ prescriptions sent to Samuel Boyer, either to kill or cure him? They 
are as different and as various as it is possible to make them. One would 
think to read them that instead of being prescribed for one particu- 
lar complaint, that they were almost a pharmacopoeia intended “for all the 
ills that flesh is heir to, ’’ and no two of them alike; and yet the allopathic 
doctors harp about the science of medicine. Can there he a bigger farce? At 
least the reader must admit that there is ro mfor improvement. 
In the prescriptions I find some of the articles which do not appear to 
me to be very harmless to the human system, such as Ac. hydrochl >r. d 11 , 
bismuth subuit., ext. nux vom., ext. hyoscyami, ext., colocynth, ac. muriatic 
dil., quin, sulph., strychnia sulph., potassii cit. pulv., sodii phos pulv.* 
* The allopathic prescriptions which were sent to Samuel Boyer, in answer to 
his letter containing two dollars for advice, are, when translated in plain English, as 
follows. They are printed so that the reader can judge of the contents himself. 
Dr. H. J. Bowditch, Boston, Mass.: 
Take of Harrison’s Peristaltic Lozenges. 
One or two at bed time. 
Pulverized Ipecacuanha, ten grains. 
Extract Nux Vomica, eight grains. 
Extract Hyoscyamus, fifteen grains. 
Extract Colocyuth, thirty grains. 
Mix and divide into thirty pills. Take one 
at bedtime. 
Dr. J. E. Darby, Cleveland, Ohio,: 
(1) Take of Compound Tine. Peruvian Bark, 
“ “ Gentian 
Of each one dram and a half. 
Diluted Hydrochloric Acid. 
Simple Syrup of each four drams mix, and 
take teaspoonful half an hour before each 
meal in a wine glass of sweetened water. 
(2) Pepsin, two drams. 
Subnitrate of Bismuth, three drams, mix. 
and divide into twenty-four pills. Take 
one after each meal. 
In case a gentle laxative were needed I 
could use one of the following : 
(3) Compound Glycyrrhize powder, three 
ounces. 
Take a teaspoonful at bed time. 
(4) Socotrine Aloes, one dram. 
Podophyllin, ten grains. 
Dr. Roberts Bartholow, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Refused to prescribe without personal ex- 
amination. 
Dr. Chas. T. Parks, Chicago, 111. 
(1) Tincture Nux Vomica, Diluted Muriatic 
Acid, of each, two drams. 
Compound Tincture of Peruvian Bark, one 
ounce. 
Bitter Orange Syrup, one and a half ounce. 
Mix. Take a teaspoonful after each meal. 
(2) Lady Webster’s Dinner Pill (these con- 
tain two grains of aloes each). Take one 
at bedtime until bowels are regular. 
Dr. Austin Flint, New York, N. Y. 
Salicin (i.e, this is a glucoside extracted from 20 
The reader will readily understand that no person could continue to 
use these drugs, for any length of time without injuring the coats of 
the stomach, if not the whole constitution, especially in a case of chionic 
dyspepsia which had continued for years, and whose coating of the 
stomach was probably in the condition of that of a drunkard. Whereas, 
lycopodium might be used for long periods without any detriment to the hu- 
man system. In short, when trituated with sugar of milk, in which condition 
all homoeopathic and eclectic doctors use it, the patient might live on it for 
years together as a daily food with only a little water added, and without any 
detriment to the constitution. In short, if lypocodium was a deadly poison, 
when trituated with the sugar of milk to the 30th dilution, the patient might 
then continue to live on it without any injury. 
Nelly Ely’s visits to a number of Allopathic doctors in New York 
City is well known to all the readers of the “ New York World.” She 
stated to each of them that she was suffering from headache; each doctor 
diagnosed the case differently, each gave her different treatment, and each 
ordered a different system of diet. One put her on a starvation diet, and 
another told her to eat hearty and of strong food five meals a day, and 
there is no doubt had she followed their prescriptions, if she was not sick 
to begin with, she soon would have been. 
“ Nellie Bly’s ten days in a Mad House” is certainly very interesting 
reading, at least, I think it will be to any person who has relations or friends 
in Mad Houses, or expect to become inhabitants there themselves. No 
wonder they make so few cures on Blackwell’s Island, or in any other insane 
asylum if what she says is true, both in regard to her own treatment and 
that of others with whom she became acquainted while in the Mad House. 
Yet, strange to say a lady from Philadelphia a short time ago published an 
article in a monthly periodical, giving an account of her confinement in an 
insane asylum for over twenty eight years, and yet she had never been insane 
at any time; but her father had her put in the asylum to save him from pay- 
Willow tree bark). Take ten grains be- 
fore meals. 
Snlphate strychnia, one grain. 
Sulphate quinine, one dram. 
Compound Rhubarb pill mass, fifteen 
grains. 
Podophyllin, one grain. 
Mix, divide into thirty pills. One after each 
meal. 
Dr. Isaac N. Love, St. Louis, Mo. 
No answer. 
Dr. W. R. Cluness, Sacramento, Cal. 
(1) Sulphate quinine, one dram. 
Extract of Aloes, two grains. 
“ “ Hyoscyamus, quantity suffi- 
cient. Mix and divide into thirty pills. 
Take four every night at bedtime. 
(2) Lactopeptine, four drams. 
Diluted Hydrochoric Acid, one dram. 
Bitter Orange Syrup, one ounce. 
Cinnamon Water, add four ounces 
Shake and take a teaspoonful before meals 
' in water. 
Dr. S. O. L. Potter, San Francisco, Cal. 
(1) Powdered Citrate of Potash, two ounces. 
A teaspoonful in a large glass of water be- 
fore meals for a week. 
(2) Powdered Phosphate of Soda, two 
ounces. 
A teaspoonful in a large glass of water be- 
fore meals for a week. 
Dr. J. T. Whitaker, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Diluted Hydrochloric Acid, one ounce. 
Ten drops in water before meals. 
Dr. F. W. McNutt, San Francisco, Cal. 
The above jumble of perscriptions from the leading allopathic physicians of the 
United States, are all intended for one special disease, which disease was well defined. It 
brings to mind the old saying of “man pouring poisonous drugs of which he knows little, 
into a body of which he knows less.” Compared with the one remedy, that is— lycopo- 
dium— thatiall Homoeopathic physicians prescribed for the above symptions, which remedy 
is perfectly harmless ; reminds us of the confusion of tongues in the building of the tower 
of Babel. 
And yet those Allopathic doctors are determined that there shall be no other system 
of treating diseases except their poisonous and destructive system, which is anything but 
scientific. In short we may call it empiricism or quackery of the deepest dye. 21 
ing debts that she had contracted. And it appears that none of the doctors 
or attendants ever discovered that she was not insane. There ought to be 
some law holding some one responsible for keeping sane people in insane 
asylums, and if the doctors and attendants cannot discover whether a person 
is insane or not inside of twenty-eight years, they ought either to be re- 
moved or confined in an asylum themselves as regular lunatics. 
All practicing physicians, especially the allopaths, ought to bear in 
mind, that there are certain conditions of the human system in which drugs 
have a much more marked, or injurious effect than at other times. The same 
may be said of all alcoholic beverages. 
Borne years ago, being in a police court on account of a case of poison- 
ing, and having to wait until all the “drunks” were disposed of, I was 
astonished to notice one uniform remark that all the drunkards had, as an 
excuse for being intoxicated and being locked up in the station, and which 
was “ that being tired and hungry they had taken a glass of beer, or whiskey 
and going home at night they became unconscious or did not know what 
they were doing, and in that condition the police had taken them to the station 
house. There was an account in the papers a short time ago of a lady from the 
country, calling on a lady in New York,and she being faint, tired and hungry, 
the New York lady presented her with a glass of brandy, and on going home 
she became intoxicated, and was locked up. But the police noticing her 
dress and general appearance thought she was not a common “drunk,” and 
instead of taking hereto the Tombs he took her to the police headquarters in 
Mulberry Street until she became herself again. I always advise my patients 
not to take beer or any liquor or stimulants on an empty stomach, on account 
of their injurious effects upon a person while the stomach is in that con- 
dition. 
I might give hundreds of examples of drugs prescribed by doctors 
affecting people similarly, and destroying life under certain weakened or dis- 
eased conditions of the human system. But I will only give one case. 
Some years ago the late Dr. Chas. Winterburn was called to a patient 
suffering from a rupture of a blood vessel in the bronchial tubes. The pa- 
tient was getting along splendidly and the hemorrhage had stopped under his 
homoeopathic treatment, but the family believing that the man was in great 
danger, telegraphed for his brother, who arrived late at night. The patient 
informing his brother how he had been affected, exerted himself so much that 
it caused the hemorrhage to return. The brother becoming alarmed sent for 
his own family physician (an allopath), and on his arrival he must have con- 
sultation with some other doctors (all allopaths) on the case. In their con- 
sultation they all agreed that calomel was the remedy in his condition, and 
perscribed it, but the patient’s mother being present, informed the doctors 
that calomel had never agreed with her son; they had another consultation 
and agreed that sulphate quinine was the remedy and it was perscribed. But 
the patient being in a weak condition from the loss of blood, the quinine 
soon went to his head and made him delirious. 
The physicians were called together again for consultation, and came 
to the conclusion that the patient was suffering from delirium tremens, 
although he had not been taking any liquor neither was he a drunkard. But 
they insisted upon prescribing Tr. Hyoscymus, and managed to kill the 
patient inside of about two days. 
The doctors wanted to give a death certificate that he had died of 
delirium tremens, but the relations were not satisfied and insisted upon a 
“post mortem.” 
The doctors found all the organs perfectly healthy, even including the 
brain, and all they could find was a slight rupture of a small blood vessel in 
one of the bronchial tubes. There is no doubt whatever that in that case, if 22 
it had not been for the allopathic doctors perscribing those drugs in his 
weakened condition, that the man would have lived thirty or forty years 
longer. 
What a slaughter of innocents must have occurred fifty or sixty years 
ago when they were bleeding the patients for every complaint in the nosology 
of diseases, and prescribing their depleting remedies. Even in my own time 
and what I have observed of the allopathic practice of medicine, in the words 
of Hamlets father’s ghost “ I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would 
harrow up thy soul and freeze thy young blood. ’ ’ 
Sickness and Death, and the Allopathic Treatment of 
Gen. George Washington. 
On page 15 of this pamphlet I stated that most of the prominent men 
of this country have been helped out of this world by the doctors. I re- 
ferred to the death of General Washington, Vice President Hendricks, 
Brigham Young, Boscoe Conkling, and General Grant ; and I might men- 
tion hundreds of other names. “I could a tale unfold,” in the treatment 
of the last sickness of any of these men; but I will only touch upon {he doc- 
tor’s treatment of the first named of these gentlemen. I choose this one on 
account of his name being more generally known in the United Statesthan 
any of the others; and for the reason that there cannot be a question raised 
in regard to the last treatment of Gen. Washington by the allopathic doc- 
tors, as we have the account of it signed by his attending physicians. Also 
I believe it is not generally known by the people of the United States that 
Geo. Washington did not die a natural death, but was murdered by his 
doctors. And bear in mind, in publishing these statements, that I do not 
refer to the lower class or the most ignorant of the allopathic doctors, but 
on the contrary to those who are the leaders in this particular practice, and 
which doctors are determined to have no other system of medicine. 
Gen. Washington appeared to have had a charmed life until he metwith 
those allopathic doctors. I believe in all the battles in which he was engaged, 
that he never received a wound, and was but seldom sick. During the re- 
treat of General Braddock, there was $n Indian who afterwards stated, that 
he (the Indian) took deliberate aim, and shot at Gol. Washington, some 
six or eight different times, and yet he missed him every time, although 
the Indian was counted “ a good shot.” Therefore he came to the conclu- 
sion that Washington was protected by the Great Spirit. But after the 
allopathic doctors began doctoring him, his charmed life soon vanished 
from the world. I copied the last treatment of Gen. Washington from the 
“ Botanic Medical Reformer and Home Physician,” published by Dr. Henry 
Hollembaek, in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 19th, 1840, Yol. 1, No. 7. Dr. 
Henry Hollembaek was professor of Materia Medica and therapeutics in 
the medical college from which I graduated. A copy of his sworn affida- 
vit in regard to my diploma will be found on page 39 of this pamphlet. 
I have seen the same report of Gen. Washington’s last sickness printed 
in an English allopathic medical work, and it was there published as a 
specimen of the American heroic practice of medicine. And no doubt the 
reader will come to the conclusion that it was even more heroic than the 
treatment of Mr. Maybrick, in Liverpool, England; as Mr. Maybrick 
was under the doctor’s treatment for near three weeks before they 
succeeded in killing him, whereas, Gen. Washington was only under 
his doctor’s treatment for a little over twelve hours. Yet during that 
short period he was bled copiously at three different times, and once the 
night before. And they gave him 20 or 30 grains of Calomeii, 5 or 6 23 
grains of Emetic Taktak, besides the blisters and other treatment, enough 
to kill any man. 
The Physician’s Report of Gen. Washington’s Last 
Sickness, is as follows : 
“Some time in the night of Friday, the 13th of December, 1799, having 
been exposed to rain on the preceding day, General Washington was 
attacked with an inliamatory affection of the upper part of the wind-pipe, 
called in technical language cynanche trachealis. Tne disease commenced 
with a violent ague, accompanied by some pain in the upper and fore part 
of the throat, a sense of stricture in the same part, a cough and a difficult 
rather than a painful deglutition, which were soon succeeded by a fever 
and a quick and laborious respiration. The necessity of blood letting sug- 
gested itself to the General, he procured A BLEEDER in the neighbor- 
hood, who took from his arm in the night, TWELVE or FOURTEEN 
OUNCES OF BLOOD; he would not by any means be prevailed upon 
by the family to send for the attending physician till the following morn- 
ing, who arrived at Mount Yernon at about eleven o’clock on Saturday, 
December 14th. Discovering the case to be highly alarming, and foresee- 
ing the fatal tendency of tne disease, two consulting physicians were 
immediately sent for, who arrived, one at half past three, tne other at four 
o’clock in the afternoon. In the interem were employed TWO COPIOUS 
BLEEDINGS, a blister was applied to the part affected, two moderate 
doses of CALOMEL were given, and an injection administered, which 
operated on the lower intestines—but without any perceptible advantage, 
the respiration becoming still more difficult and distressing. 
Upon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians it was agreed, 
as there was yet no signs of accumulation in the bronchial vessels of the 
lungs, to try the result of ANOTHER BLEEDING, when about THIR- 
TY TWO OUNCES of BLOOD were drawn without the smallest apparent 
alleviation of the disease. Vapors of vinegar and water were frequently 
inhaled, TEN GRAINS OF OAL0MEL were given and succeeued by 
REPEATED DOSES OF EMETIC TARTAR, amounting in all to live 
or six grains, with no other effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. 
The powers, of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the dis- 
order. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm 
of bran and vinegar to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the 
beginning now became almost impracticable; respiration grew more and 
more contracted and imperfect, till after eleven o’clock on Saturday night, 
retaining the full possession of his intellect, when he—expired, without a 
struggle ! 
James Cbaik, Att. Physician, 
Elisha C. Dick, Con. Physician.” 
Any one who can read the above article of General Washington’s death 
“ without a struggle” I give them credit for having stronger nerves than I 
possess, Yet, when those doctors tried themselves, and were their own judge 
and jury and convicted themselves, it is reasonable to suppose that they 
did not make their case any blacker than they could help. On the con- 
trary there is no doubt that “ not one half has been told,” I have read in 
several lives of General Washington that “he begged and prayed for the 
doctors to let him alone, and let him die quietly,” and there is no doubt 
but what they tortured him to death by their bleeding, blistering and pois- 
onous medicines. Dr. Craik and Dr. Dick published the above report as the regular 
treatment for Croup, and the abstracting of over a half gallon of blood in 
twenty-four hours, and the number of blisters and the quantity of poison- 
ous medicines administered in that short time, as in no way extraordinary 
in treating cases of Croup; yet I cannot but believe that if any doctor 
were to treat a similar disease in that manner at the present day, it would 
cause a sensation if it was published and the man died. 
Dr. Hollembaek in his comments on the sickness and treatment of Gen- 
eral Washington says, “ Had the physicians in attendance administered a 
syrup the basis of which should have been Lobelia Inflata with a little milder 
treatment on the botanic plan, they would not have deprived that great and 
good man the pleasure of beholding a little longer the freedom and pros- 
perity of that country for which he had so assiduously labored to achieve. 
The destruction of such a man as Washington by the means mentioned 
above should be indeed a warning never to be forgotten, and we sincerely 
hope that our friends and the public will profit by it. We hope this case 
will prove a warning not only to physicians of the allopathic school, but to 
individuals who may need medical aid. Let them shun this deadly instru- 
ment, the lancet, also calomel and all similar poisons as they would shun the 
fatal sting of that reptile which has been chosen as the emblem of the allo- 
pathic school of medicine. The wily and deadly serpent 
Dr. Sherwood of Cincinnati in his “American Eclectic Practice of Medicine” 
gives a remarkable instance of the fatal effects of the Old System of the 
treatment of croup. He states that while on his visits he called at the 
house of one of his old patients, to try and drum up practice, and in asking 
the lady of the house if there was any sickness there, she answered no, but 
then just bethought her that the boy that was sitting on the pavement eat 
ing a crust of bread was not feeling well, and just at that time the boy 
gave that peculiar cough called the croupy congh. As soon as the doctor 
heard it, he shook his head and told the mother that nothing could be 
done for the boy, and the child was dead the next day. But afterwards when 
Dr. Sherwood commenced treating diseases on the botanic system and using 
Lobelia, Blood Boot and Mandrake in such cases, he then began to regard 
croup as a very slight ailment, and had no difficulty in making cures in 
such cases. 
In my own practice I have never had any serious difficulty in treating 
cases of croup, and I have always used Lobelia, Blood Root and such 
botanic remedies, and sometimes homoeopathic medicines in such cases, and 
I never resorted to blood letting in any case, and I only remember ever 
losing but one case of that kind. I do not understand why such men 
as Dr Sherwood, myself and others should be persecuted for curing cases 
of sickness in which allopathic doctors always fail in curing, and regard 
them as fatal cases; and yet, these allopathic doctors are determined to 
crush out of existence all other systems of medicine except their own 
destructive and poisonous system. 
Having observed the evil effects of all poisonous drugs or remedies on 
the human system for over forty years, and also knowing the experience ol iny 
father and grandfather connected with such matters, I can say as the man 
said, “ I go against all manner of poisons,” wheu he fell through the drug 
store window. 
24 
The Persecution of the New Jersey Medical College by the Hudson County 
Board of Health and the Allopathic Doctors of New Jersey. 
The trustees of the college have done everything possible to conciliate 
the Hudson County Board of Health, to get them to recognize the gradu- 25 
ates of the college, consistent with honor, whereas they have done every- 
thing that lay in their power to crush us out of existence. 
When I found that they were opposed to my being president of the 
board of trustees, on account of advertising as a specialist, I resigned, and 
my son, who is a dentist, but does not advertise, was elected to the chair; 
but even that was not enough. About the 1st of October, 1889, Dr. Hoyt 
and several other allopathic physicians went over to Jersey City to see Dr. 
Gordon, and find out if some arrangement could not be made by which the 
college could continue, and the graduates be recognized. When ohey re- 
turned, a trustee meeting was called, and his answer laid before them. I 
copy the minutes of that trustee meeting : 
“ Regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Medical and Sur- 
gical College of the State of New Jersey, held at college rooms, 47 Mont- 
gomery street, Jersey City, N. J., on October 7, 1889, at 5 P. M., the 
president, M. A. Broughton, M. D., in the chair. Those present were : 
M. A. Broughton, M. D., L. D. Broughton, M. D., A. K. Hadley, H. V. 
Cole, R. B. Seymour ; W. E. Hilton, and Jas. Guthrie by proxy. 
“ The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 
“ The president stated that the meeting was called for the considera- 
tion of a proposition eminatiug from Dr. Gordon, president of the Board 
of Health of Hudson county, N. J. Dr. Wm. G. Hoyt, Dwight L. Hub- 
bard and bin brother, Dr. Hubbard, and Dr. Talley, all of New York, had 
been to see Dr. Gordon, and he had stated to them that if we would have 
all the professors of the college with only allopathic diplomas, he would 
then turn round and work just as hard for the college as he had worked 
against it. 
“A majority of the board of trustees, namely, L. D. Broughton, M. 
A. Broughton, A K. Hadley and H. Y. Cole signed a contract agreeing 
that so long as those allopathic physicians, if appointed to fill the differ- 
ent chairs, were not less in number than eight, and that said physicians 
delivered not less than four lectures a day, then the board of trustees would 
not appoint any eclectic, homoeopathic or hydropathic physicians to the 
chairs in said faculty, as long as those allopathic professors lived up to 
their contract. 
“ L. D. Broughton and M. A. Broughton were appointed to call upon 
the old-school doctors and to report to them the action of the meeting. 
“ There being no further business before the meeting, it adjourned. 
L. D. Bisoughton, Cor. Secretary.” 
Ex Judge Seymour refused to sign the contract, he giving as a reason 
by saying: “I have known Dr. Gordon since he was a boy; we were school- 
mates. You will have to beat him ; if you do not beat him now, you will have 
to beat him afterwards.” 
At the meeting of Trustees held March 17,1890, Dr. L. D. Broughton, 
chairman of the committee appointed to call on Dr. Hoyt and the other 
“allopathic doctors” who had been in consultation with Dr. Gordon, 
made the following report, which is copied from the minutes of the 
meeting: 
“ L. D. Broughton then reported that he and M. A. Broughton called 
on the old school doctors who had consulted with Dr. Gordon, President 
of the Hudson County Board of Health, on the evening of Oct. 7th, 1889, 
at the residence of Dr. Hoyt, 354 W. 30th St., N. Y., and we learned that 26 
all those old school doctors—namely, Dr. Hoyt, Dr. Dwight Hubbard and 
his brother, Dr. Hubbard, and Dr. Talley—had all declined to become 
professors of this college. They gave as the main reason that so long as 
there were any eclectics on the Hoard of Trustees they would not liave 
anything to do with the college. They also told us that if they had be- 
come professors of the college, that all those diplomas that had been 
granted to the students at the close of the session 1889, would have to be 
given up or returned, and destroyed, as they could not be recognized by 
them, or, in other words, those diplomas granted 28th of June, 1889, would 
have to be entirely ignored. Not only that, but the one or two sessions 
that the students attended, which was held at the college in the winter of 
1888 9 and the spring of 1889, was also to be entirely ignored, and could 
not be credited to the students graduated or who might come up at a future 
time to be graduated in this college. Or, in other words, the lectures and 
all that the trustees and professors had done was to be entirely ignored, 
bt. cause they were eclectics. A student who had attended our college, 
and also had attended any other charted medical college, one or more 
sessions, the attendance in the other medical college was to be put to 
their credit, if they attended our college in the future and came up for 
graduation. 
They also stated that if the trustees did not do just as those Old 
School doctors wanted them to do, they would all leave the college in a 
body, and the students without a faculty to instruct them. • 
In that case the trustees might easily have become involved in a 
lawsuit with the students whose money they had accepted for instruction. 
The report was accepted and the committee discharged. 
I need not tell the reader that our sole and only object in permitting 
allopathic doctors to fill the professors’ chairs and lecture in the college, 
was that the diplomas, that we had already granted to the graduates were 
lo be recognized at once, by the Hudson County Board of Health, and it 
was so understood by those allopathic doctors, if they were appointed by 
tue trustees. Indeed, Dr. Hoyt told me that Dr. Gordon had offered to sign 
a written contract, that both himself and the Hudson County Board of 
Health, would at once recognize both the college and the professors if we 
would appoint those allopathic physicians to the different chairs. 
I fought hard for three chairs on Materia Medica in the college 
—that is, allopath, homoeopath and eclectic—but the trustees aban- 
doned the two extra chairs in order to make peace if possible. 
I ought to state that those doctors whom Dr. Gordon insisted on the 
trustees appointing, were men altogether unfit to fill professors’ chairs, and 
had we appointed them, and we had had students similar to those twelve 
we graduated, they would have been a constant guy to the students. 
On the 28th of June, 1889, we thought we had turned out as intelli- 
gent a class of graduates as any medical college in the United States, and 
they were nearly all persons of family, who were dependent on their pro- 
fessions for a living. 
After what I have said about the allopathic doctors, the reader may 
blame the trustees for offering to permit physicians of this particular prac- 
tice of medicine, to become professors in the college; but when he knows 
all the facts, possibly he will not censure us. 
Two graduates of the college went to see Dr. Gordon, and he did not 
know that they were graduates of the New Jersey college. The Doctor 
told them that he had corresponded with all the deans of the medical col- leges in New York and Brooklyn, also with the county medical societies, 
and had told them that they must not endorse the diplomas of the New Jersey 
Medical College until he had recognized them himself. I could give a number 
of other facts, but you will see that we had our heads in the lion's mouth. 
However, there will come a day of reckoning. The trustees of the 
college got the charter in 1870. The Hudson County Board of Health 
got their charter some four or five years later. There is nothing in their 
charter from the New Jersey Legislature which says that they can interfere 
with a medical college, or any other corporation in the State. 
The Board of Health charter simply permits them to keep a registry 
book of births and deaths. That part of their charter which permits 
them to inspect Medical Diplomas was granted them (if I understand cor- 
rectly) by the Common Council of Jersey City, or Hudson County, and not 
by the Legislature, and the question will have to be decided whether a 
Common Council ordinance can interfere with a chartered corporation 
from the State and Governor, and also if they cannot be held liable for all 
damages which the students and the college have suffered on their account. 
When the Hudson County Board of Health refused the registration to 
our graduates, they gave as one of their reasons that if the Legislature of 
the State had granted the college a loose charter, they had no business to 
recognize it. 
No doubt the Hudson County Board of Health will find out some 
day that if they wanted an amendment to their charter, to permit them to 
inspect medical diplomas contrary to the law of the State, it would have 
been better for them to have applied to the Legislature at Trenton, and 
not to the Common Council of Jersey City, for that amendment. Iu short, 
in doing what they have done, they may have really forfeited the charter 
they had from the State Government. 
Mandamus Proceedings against the Hudson Co., N. J., 
Board of Health. 
As the Hudson County Board of Health refused to let the students of 
the College sign their names on their Book of Registery, Emil Kirckgessner 
applied to the Supreme Court at Trenton, N. J., to compel them, and Dr. 
Kirchgessner’s affidavit is as follows: 
NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT. 
The State, 
ex. rel. 
Emil Klrchgessner ( 
vs. 
The Board of Health and Vital Statistics 
of Hudson County, and Leonard J. 
Gordon, Pres., &c. 
On mandamus. 
On rule to show cause, &c. 
Examination of witnesses, etc., in the above entitled cause on part of 
the relator, taken before me, Isaac Romaine, a Supreme Court Commis- 
sioner, at my office, No. 76 Montgomery street, Jersey City, on Thursday, 
December 5th, 1889, at one o’clock in the afternoon, in presence of R. B. 
Seymour, counsel for the relator, and Harry W. Winfield, counsel for de- 
fendants. 28 
Emil Kircligessner, the relator above named, being produced and duly 
sworn, on his oath says: 
I am a citizen of the United States. I am thirty-two years of age. 
I attended lectures in the Medical and Surgical College of the State 
of New Jersey. I commenced the first week in October, 1888, and con- 
tinued until the last week in June, 1889. I attended two full courses. 
That College or lecture rooms is located at No. 47 Montgomery street, 
Jersey City. 
At the conclusion of my course of lectures I passed an examination. 
I was examined by the Faculty of the College. I passed the examination 
successfully. 
I wras graduated and received a diploma. 
Witness being shown a diploma dated June 28,1889, says this is the 
diploma I received. 
The names signed to this diploma are the names of the members of 
the Faculty of the College. 
It is also signed by the President and Secretary. 
After I was graduate! by the College, I was presented witU this 
diploma. 
All the Professors whose names are signed to this diploma lectured at 
the College during the time I attended. 
The diploma is offered in evidence on part of relator, and is marked 
Exhibit E, 1. 
I have established an office in Jersey City, for practicing my profes- 
sion as a physician. 
I filed a copy of my diploma with the County Clerk on September 18, 
1889. On the same day I applied to the Board of Health and Vital Sta- 
tistics of Hudson County, to register in the book of Registry, provided by 
said Board for the purpose of the registration of persons who pursue the 
calling or practice of physicians in the county of Hudson. 1 was refused 
permission to register. 
I had my diploma with me at the time for the inspection of the Board. 
I left the copy of my diploma there with the clerk of the Board, and 
the following day I called on the clerk and he informed me that the Board 
refused to allow me to register. 
List part of the answer objected to by counsel for defendants. 
I obtained my diploma from the clerk and have had it since. 
And being cross examined, says: 
I have been in this country since 1874. My native country is Germany. 
I have another diploma than this one produced. I have one from the 
Vermont Medical College. 
I entered the Jersey City College the first part of October, 1888. 1 
had studied with a preceptor three years before that; his name was George 
Dutton. He was not connected with this college; his office is in Boston, 
Massachusetts. 
I had a reason for selecting the Jersey City College. 
I have been in practice for some years before entering this College, 
and I was enabled to attend lectures in the afternoon and attend to my 
practice in the morning. 
I had consulted Luke Broughton, Jr., before entering this college; I 
consulted him about the middle of September, 1888. 
I received a notification of the course of lectures in that college be- 
fore I consulted Dr. Luke Broughton, Jr. 
I was not the first student who entered that College. I cannot tell if 29 
I was the first student graduated. I received the first diploma from that 
College; this is evidently the first diploma, because it has 1 on. 
In the first course, we attended lectures two days in the week, from 
ten o’clock until five o’clock, and three days more in the week the lectures 
commenced at one o’clock and continued until seven o’clock; the course 
was twenty-one weeks for each course; during this time I practiced every 
morning in New York, except Saturday. 
After the first of January, 1889, there were no morning lectures. My 
course there consisted of ten consecutive months. 
The names of the persons lecturing and their subjects are: 
Dr. George Day, Theory and Practice of Medicine, four hours a week. 
Dr. Robert Gunn, Surgery, three hours a week. 
Dr. A. B Whitney, Obstetrics and Gynecology, four hours a week. 
Dr. George Putter, Materia Medica, two hours a week. 
Dr. James Davis, Anatomy and Physiology; anatomy four hours a 
week, physiology two hours a week. 
Dr. Holbrook, Hygiene, one hour a week. 
Dr. Mark Broughton, Dental Surgery, one hour a week. 
John Herring Davis, Phar. D. Chemistry, two hours a week. 
Dr. Thwing, Nervous Diseases, one hour a week. 
Henry Cole, LL. D., Medical Jurisprudence; he gave several lectures. 
Mr. Seymour did not give any lectures on medical jurisprudence. 
His name appeared on the programme. 
The college had four rooms during the time I attended it. 
I think I can be sure in saying there were twenty matriculates during 
the first session. 
The tuition was one hundred dollars for the two courses, and matricu- 
lation and graduation fees beside; and also dissection. There was some 
dissection in those rooms. We dissected animals, but not human beings. 
We had no human bodies or parts of human bodies to dissect at any time. 
We held clinics there. 
The patients to be treated were patients of the Professors who brought 
them there to be treated. We had a clinic about once a week. 
Q. Did strangers to the students and faculty come there to be treated 
while you were there ? 
Question objected to. 
I don’t think they did; still I don’t say as a fact that they did not. 
I am practicing my profession now at 1166 Broadway. 
I have opened an office in this city, corner Grove and York streets. I 
am not practicing there. I have an office for the purpose of practicing as 
soon as I am permitted to register. 
And being again examined in chief, says: 
I have no personal knowledge of the system of the trustees in marking 
diplomas. 
There were eleven students beside myself graduated in my class. They 
were all graduated at the same time and were all awarded their diplomas 
at the same time. 
The only reason for my not practicing in Jersey City is because of the 
refusal of the Board of Health to permit me to register. 
Counsel for the defendant objects to the evidence on the ground that 
the witness does not know the reasons of the refusal or the law on which 
such refusal is based. 30 
It is my intention to practice in Jersey City as soon as I am permitted 
to register. 
I am deterred from practicing here by reason of the refusal of the 
Board of Health to register me. 
The Faculty held clinics for the benefit of the students outside of 
Jersey City; I attended several of them. 
And being again cross-examined, says: 
Q. When the diploma of the Jersey City College was presented and 
refused by the Board of Health, why did you not present the diploma from 
the Vermont Medical College ? 
Question objected to. 
I didn’t want to. I wanted to be registered under an Allopathic 
diploma and not under the Vermont diploma, which was eclectic. 
Q. What objection is there to Eclectic Colleges in the medical pro- 
fession ? 
Question objected to as irrelevant and because there is no evidence 
that there is any objection to Eclectic Colleges in the medical profession, 
and because it calls for expert evidence, and is immaterial. 
They are not popular, and I want to be a member of the Allopathic 
school in the best standing. EMIL KIROHGESSNER. 
Taken, sworn to and subscribed this 5th day of December, A. D. 1889, 
at Jersey City, before me. 
Isaac Romaine, Supreme Ct. Com’s’r. 
A number of other doctors and professors gave their affidavits in favor 
of the standing of the College and its Professors, but we do not publish them 
in this pamphlet, as they are almost a repetition of the one above. 
The respondent, or Hudson County Board of Health, have several 
other witnesses besides Dr. Gordon, and Mr. Ziemann, whose testimony 
was not published in the New York Herald, nor in the Jersey City Even- 
ing Journal, such as a private detective, the colored janitor, the agent 
from whom we rent the college rooms, and a clerk in the building. 
But as they all acknowledged that they did not know anything about the 
college or its workings, their testimony is altogether unimportant and not 
worth reprinting. 
In regard to Dr. Gordon’s testimony, I will say that he knows we did 
everything that we possibly could to get material for dissection in the col- 
lege. We went to “ Snake Hill,” and to Dr. Converse, the county physi 
cian, but were told that if we brought material into Jersey City for dis- 
section we should all be arrested. The other objection, that we did not 
have hospital or dispensary facilities, I will say the trustees and the pro- 
fessors were unanimous at the opening of the college, and they said that if 
we could get any professors from Jersey City who could be of any assist- 
ance in gaining admittance for the students to the dispensaries and hos- 
pitals in Jersey City, that the New Jersey professors should have their 
choice of any chair in the college faculty. But it was impossible for us to 
get any, although nearly every doctor in Jersey City was asked, but re- 
fused. Dr. Watson, Dr. Phillips and Dr. Converse, the county physician, 
I understood from some of the professors of the college, all agreed to 
come into the college as professors, but they afterwards declined doing so, 
and without giving any reason. 
In regard to the few students which Dr. Gordon wants to make out 
we had, I might say in that respect that we were not much worse off than 
a great many other medical colleges in the United States, at their opening, 31 
and that now stand very high in the community. I understand that 
the University Medical College of New York had only two students the 
first year, and no graduates. The second year they had three students 
and one graduate, whereas we had nine students and no graduates the 
first session; twenty-two students the second session, and twelve graduates; 
and nearly all those who graduated had attended other medical colleges, 
and some of them were graduates of other medical colleges. In short, 
there are very few medical colleges that started under more favorable 
auspices, either in the United States or in Europe, than the New Jersey 
Medical College. 
The other objection, in regard to only having four rooms for the use 
of the New Jersey College, which Dr. Gordon seriously objects to, I 
would like to ask him the question whether if a young couple had to get 
married, and commence housekeeping, in four rooms in Jersey City, if the 
Hudson County Board of Health would declare all their children illegiti- 
mate, because they did not commence housekeeping in a “ Vanderbilt” or 
a ‘‘Jay Gould” mansion? and whether it would not be a dangerous “prece- 
dent,” as they say in the British House of Commons, for the New Jersey 
Legislature to attempt to repeal or annul their marriage contract, for no 
other reason ? The excuse that housekeeping in four rooms had a tendency 
to degrade married life, would not hold good in law. And it is hardly 
likely that when the University of New York first opened its medical de- 
partment, and had only two students, that they would want to use the 
whole of the university building on Washington Square, New York, for 
those two students. If they did, I think they would be very unprofitable 
students. 
In regard to Mr. Ziemann, I will say that he reminds me of a colored 
servant we once employed, who left an old trunk in our house to be sent 
for afterwards. One day my wife met her in the street, and asked her to 
ccme and get her trunk, as we intended moving. She had forgotten all 
about it. However, she came, and as she had lost the key, she asked for a 
hatchet and broke it open. There was not two cents worth of rags in it, 
and she told my son that he could chop it up for firewood. 
Some months afterwards she sued me for four hundred dollars dam- 
ages, in the Jefferson Market Civil Court, for having broken her trunk 
open and taking out a number of silk and satin dresses, and other things 
too numerous to mention. 
While she was giving her evidence on the witness stand, the clerk 
of the court came from his desk and sat beside my wife, and whispering to 
her said: “ The Judge knows that she is lying.” 
In regard to the editors of the Jersey City Evening Journal, I will say 
that so long as they were likely to get the College printing they 
inserted several articles rather favorable to the college in their paper, for 
which we were thankful; but when they found that the college was 
“defunct ” as they say, and they were not likely to get any of its printing, 
then they turn around and begin stamping on us. 
The Evening Journal editors must belong to the same religious 
denomination as the man who said “ That as all the afflictions came from 
the Lord, when we see a man going down hill in the world, in order to 
help the Lord, it is our duty to push the man down further, and then 
begin jumping on him.” Now 1 can stand all the afflictions that a kind 
' Providence may infiliet on me, for my own good, and can stand being 
pushed down further by my fellow man, but when he begins jumping on 
me, then I commence to squirm and kick. But I would advise all those 
who do the jumping to look out for squalls, or a cyclone. [“ The Evening Journal,” Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 31,1890.] 
AGAINST THE COLLEGE. 
TIIE NEW JERSEY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIIOOL HAS NOW LITTLE CHANCE. 
Hudson County Enemies Re Enforced by the State Board of Health—The 
Latter’s Opposition Assumes a Very Active Form. 
The war on the moribund “ Medical and Surgical College of New Jer- 
sey,” of this city, is about to be reopened with renewed vigor. Counselor 
Harry Winfield, who is vigorously fighting the college in the courts, is now 
being reinforced by the State medical board and the district medical soci- 
ety for the county of Hudson. The medical board has given notice that it 
will ask the coming Legislature to repeal the charter of the college. The 
local medical society has adopted these resolutions: 
Whereas, A certain medical institute, called the “ Medical and Sur- 
gical College of the State of New Jersey,” chartered by special act of this 
State, approved March 17, 1870, was organized during the year 1888, and 
opened in three small rooms on the top floor of the general office building, 
No 47 Montgomery street, Jersey City; and 
Whereas, Said alleged college has graduated several students whose 
diplomas have been presented to the Hudson County Board of Health, and 
who have been refused registration; and 
Whereas, It has appeared to this society, by good and sufficient evi- 
dence, that several members of the faculty, nearly all of whom are non- 
residents of this State, are either incompetent to deliver lectures on the 
topics assigned them, or are graduates of disreputable or fraudulent medi- 
cal colleges; that the facilities for instruction in said alleged college are 
totally inadequate, and that no clinics, dissections or hospital practice have 
been or can be given; that the provisions of the charter of said college 
have not been observed by the authorities thereof; that the requirements 
of said charter, even if the same were strictly followed, are far below the 
standard of minimum requirements of medical colleges adopted and de- 
manded by all medical authorities at the present time, and that, therefore, 
the possession of a diploma from said alleged college is no proof whatever 
that the holder thereof has received a good and sufficient medical educa- 
tion; and 
Whereas, The State Board of Medical Examiners of this State will in- 
troduce a bill at the next meeting of the Legislature for the purpose of 
repealing said charter; be it 
Resolved, That the District Medical Society for the county of Hudson 
does hereby earnestly protest against the existence of said alleged college 
as an unnecessary, inadequate and disreputable institution, tending to de- 
grade and lower the standard of the medical profession; that the influence 
of this society and of the individual members thereof be given to the sup- 
port and passage of the bill to repeal said charter, and that a copy of this 
resolution be forwarded to the several medical societies of this State, with 
requests for their support and influence for the passage of said bill. 
The reader will readily see that the New Jersey Medical College has 
a hard fight for its existence, but possibly the Legislature will not be so 
pliant to the Hudson County Board of Health, the Hudson County 
Medical Society, and the State Board of Examiners, as they are calculating 
on,especially when the Legislature knows all the facts in the case. Besides, 
the New Jersey Legislature might learn a lesson from the Pennsylvania 
Legislature, when they repealed the charter of the Eclectic Medical Col- 33 
lege of the State of Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court of the State of 
Pennsylvania afterwards decided that the Legislature could not repeal a 
charter of a medical college, or hank, etc. The courts of the State could hold 
the trustees of a college, or the directors of a bank responsible for any mis- 
deeds or illegal acts, but the Legislature could not repeal their charters. 
When Ex Judge A. K. Hadley, (who has been connected with the New 
Jersey Medical College ever since its inception, either as a pr fessor or 
trustee), was speaker of the Assembly at Albany, New York, an ap- 
plication was made to the Legislature to repeal a bank charter. He, and 
a number of members of the Legislature, investigated the matter and 
I believe that Ex Judge Hadley wrote to Daniel Webster on the subject, 
asking for his opinion. However, the members of the Legislature gave an 
unanimous vote that they had no right or power to repeal a charter when once 
granted, and that a charter is perpetual when once it is granted. 
In speaking to Mr. Hadley one day on the subject, he told me that it 
would be a very mean legislature that would even attempt to repeal the 
charter of a medical college, hank, or a railroad, as there are so many different 
ways of reaching the trustees or directors by the courts, if they do any- 
thing wrong or illegal, without repealing their charters. 
In the above instances, when the Legislature of New York decided by 
an unanimous vote that they could not repeal a charter ; and that of 
Pennsylvania, where the Supreme Court decided that a charter could not 
be repealed, the Legislatures had witnesses to prove that the charters had 
been violated ; but in the case of the New Jersey Medical College I defy 
any person to prove that we have violated the charter in any way. 
In regard to Mr. Ziemann’s charge that the young ladies were present 
when the professors lectured before the male students on the sexual organs, 
it will be for the Legislature to decide whether they will believe a man 
like Mr. Ziemann, or the professors who have lectured in the College, and 
also all the other students, including the young ladies themselves. 
In regard to the “ Whereas,” of the Hudson County Medical Society 
“ That no clinics, dissections or hospital practice have been, or can be 
given.” I shall not dwell on the injustice of the students of a college, 
with a special charter from the Legislature, being compelled to go into an- 
other State to have their clinics and dissections, and in regard to “hospital 
practice,” that never “can be given,” is a matter which will have to be 
decided in the future. When the College has its own dispensary and hos- 
pital buildings they will have dissections and clinics, even in the county in 
which the college is located, without having to go into another State for 
them. Besides, the Legislature of New Jersey may enact a law compel- 
ling all dispensaries and hospitals who receive aid from the State or city, 
to admit for instruction the students of all medical colleges in the State, 
and that will mean the Medical and Surgical College of the State of New 
Jersey, as they cannot have another medical college until they amend the 
Constitution. 
In answer to the charge that the New Jersey Medical College is 
“ tending to degrade and lower the standard of the medical profession,” there 
may possibly be a difference of opinion among the people of New Jersey 
in that matter, and when they come to a vote, the majority may not agree 
with the allopathic. doctors of the Hudson County Medical Society, that 
their particular system of medicine is the only system of medicine which 
has a tendency to elevate “ The standard of the medical prof ession ” after 
they have read this pamphlet. 
Besides, the common people may attribute the opposition of the 
allopathic doctors, and the Hudson County Board of Health, to profes- 34 
sional jealousy, and say that it only proves the old saying true, that “ two 
of a trade can never agree.” 
I think it ought to be left to the people whether the practitioners of 
that particular system of medicine which has gone on slaughtering hundreds 
of thousands of people, and sending them to early graves, for the past four 
hundred years, or those doctors whose systems of medicine which, if they 
do not cure their patients, at least they do not kill them, to decide which 
they will have, and not for the Hudson County Medical Society to decide ; 
and as Abe Lincoln once said, “ that the people will generally decide right,’ 
except possibly on those exceptional cases where men or women are mar- 
ried unhappily, and who may want to get a cheap divorce without any sen- 
sation or exposure, and one that no earthly courts can annul or repeal, and 
where their former partners in life cannot “ turn up again like brother 
Tom’s first wife.” 
I think it is time the people themselves began to find out which system 
of medicine is tending to degrade and lower the standard of the medical profs ■ 
sion, and whether a doctor in extensive practico of a system of medicine, 
who was such a long time (over five years) between writing one death certifi 
cate and the second, that the Board of Health had forgotten all about him, 
or that particular system of medicine the professors of which are almost 
kept busy writing death certificates ; and whether it is not the undertakers 
how are joining forces with the Hudson County Board of Health, and ap- 
plying to the Legislature to have the New Jersey Medical College charter 
repealed, and not the Hudson County Medical Society. And possibly Mr. 
Ziemann may have been backed up by the New Jersey undei takers, and 
not by the Jersey City allopathic doctors, to make all the trouble he 
could for the New Jersey Medical College. 
However, I think it would be more in place for the people themselves 
to call meetings, and pass resolutions as to what kind of doctors they will 
have and employ, and not leave it to the judgment of the Hudson County 
Medical Society, as they might possibly have some self-interest in the 
matter. 
I cannot understand the philosophy of the laws in a free government 
that should permit a man to decide by his vote who shall hold political 
offices, from an Alderman to the President of the United States, although 
that voter may be incapable of reading and writing and almost an idiot, and 
yet the voter may possibly never be associated or come within thousands of 
miles of the man who has been elected to office. Yet no matter how in- 
telligent a man may be, he might be a Daniel Webster, or a Chauncey 
Depew, or might have been President of the U. S., like Grover Cleveland 
or Governor of a State like Leon Abbott, or David Bennett Hill, and yet 
he is not permitted to choose his own family doctor, although that doctor 
levies a direct tax in proportion to the number of visits he makes or that 
the man makes to the Doctor’s office, and the man has to receive that 
doctor as an intimate friend to his house, and I might say almost equal to 
one of his family, and he has to trust his own life, the lives of his sons 
and the lives and honor of his wife, his mother and daughters to that 
doctor, and yet he is not permitted to choose what doctor he shall have, or 
what particular system of medicine the doctor shall practice, but all those 
important and vital matters are decided for him, by a medical examining 
board. If this was not too serious a matter to be laughed at, it would 
be a capital subject for a comic opera. If a man is intelligent enough, and 
capable of making a choice and deciding by his vote who shall be President 
of the United (States, surely that man is capable of choosing his own 
family doctor, especially when he can discharge that doctor and hire 35 
another any time that he chooses. The reader may say that the previous 
doctor may have done the man serious injury before he was discharged, 
but does not the same reasoning apply to the President of the United 
States, and yet the President has never been discharged only at the end of 
the four years. 
This matter would be serious enough if everybody believed in doctor- 
ing, but the reader ought to bear in mind that there are hundreds of 
thousands, if not millions of people in the United States, who do no 
believe in any kind of medical doctors. I refer to such as Chribtian Scien 
tists, Faith (Jurists, aud Mind Healers, and yet, if those particular classes 
of people have any of their relations taken sick and die, and are without 
medical attendance, or a doctor chosen by the medical examining board, 
they are arrested and incarcerated in prison for months at a time. The 
choosing of doctors by medical examining boards for this particular class 
of people, becomes a doubly serious matter, and one that will have to be 
examined into within a reasonably short time, or else there may be danger 
of another rebellion or revolution in the United States. 
The reader may say that these Christian Scientists, &c., are all crazy 
and ought not to be noticed, but it is a craziness that appears to be catch- 
ing, and it is spreading very rapidly, and I do not see how the different 
Allopathic Boards of Health are going to stop it. These Christian Scientists 
are having their yearly National Conventions, and there are some reports in 
the newspapers that they intend nominating a president and vice president 
for the United States during the coming presidential election. . 
For a great many years the abolitionists were all deemed peifectly 
crazy, but some way or other that craziness spread, and in 1860 and ’61 it 
became epidemic in all the Western, Middle, Northern and Eastern States. 
When the Abolitionists first nominated their President and Vice-President 
they were made a common butt by all the newspapers in the United States 
except the Liberator edited by William Lloyd Garrison. 
If the Medical Examining Boards would pass professors of all those 
different systems of treating diseases that are known at the present day,even 
including the Christian Scientists, faith curists and mind healers (if they 
were intelligent and honorable people), there might not be any serious 
objections to medical examining boards, but when it is well known that 
these medical examining boards are appointed for no other purpose than 
to tyrannize over and crush out of existence all sect in medicine but the 
allopathic, it becomes then a very serious matter, and it is time that it was 
examined into by the United States Government, especially when it is 
known that those allopathic doctors were doing serious injury to the health 
of the people all over the civilized world, and when it can be shown and 
proven, as I have shown in this pamphlet that no two of the allopathic 
doctors agree in the treatment of diseases, it is time that all medical exam- 
ining boards were abolished. 
The words quack and quackery have been used in late years to stig- 
matize all systems of medicine not allopathic or orthodox, similar to the 
words heretic, blasphemer and witch, which were used against all parties 
who were not orthodox in their religion in former centuries. But is it not 
strange that we in our day should build monuments to those heretics, blas- 
phemers and witches and not erect monuments to such professors of the 
orthodox religion. Is it because we have become more wicked, or more 
intelligent ? 
Dr. S. E. Chapman, of California, names his pamphlet “ Who Are the 
Regulars ?” but I think a more appropriate title would have been 
“ WHO ABE THE QUACKS ?” And when the word Quack and Quackery 36 
is put on the right parties, that is, those mineral doctors who use mercury or 
quick-silver, from the German QUACK SALVER, there would soon be a 
different feeling spread throughout the community in regard to Quacks 
aud Quackery. 
Then if there are medical examining boards the allopathic physicians 
will be the doctors that cannot pass, or at least if they do, and they use 
drugs dangerous to life, they will be held responsible for tneir acts the 
same as other people. 
I see by the Jersey City Argus of January 10, 1891, that the allopathic doctors of 
New Jersey have given notice by an advertisement, that they are going to apply to the 
Legislature to repeal the charter of the New Jersey Medical College. The reader will 
see i hat. the allopathic doctors mean business,and no doubt Mr. Ziemann will give equally 
as ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE before the law committee at Trenton, as he did before 
Isaac Romaine in Jersey City, and the 57th Street Police Justice in New York City. If 
the trustees and faculty of the college were all allopathic, this persecution would 
stop at once. I leave it to the reader to judge for himself as to the standing of the pro- 
fessors who have giveti their sworn evidence in the mandamus proceedings. This fight 
is simply a battle of the “pathies,” and one (the allopaths), wanting to crush out all the 
others. 
'there is just as much need of “Medicine and State,’’ as there is for “Church and 
State,” and there is just as much need for a particular system of medicine established 
by law, as there is of any particular “religion established by law.” If the allopathic 
practice of medicine was the most perfect system of treating disease, there might be 
some excuse for wanting to crush out all the other systems, but the reader must by this 
time agree with me that it has been one of the most destructive systems of medicine 
to the human family, that has ever come into existence. 
The Bill to Repeal the Charter of the New Jersey 
Medical College. 
SENATE No. 25. 
STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 
INTRODUCED JANUARY 26. 1891. 
By Mr. WE RTS. 
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary. 
An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the eclectic medi- 
cal and surgical college of the state of New Jersey,” approved March 
seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. 
Whereas, On the seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hun- 
dred aud seventy, an act entitled “An act to incorporate the eclectic medi- 
cal and surgical college of the state of New Jersey” was approved; and 
whereas, on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred 
aud eighty eight, a certificate was recorded in the office of the clerk of the 
countv of Hudson, state of New Jersey, by which the name of the eclectic 
medical and surgical college of the state of New Jersey was changed to the 
medical and surgical college of the state of New Jersey, and which said 
certificate was filed in the office of the secretary of state on the twenty- 
Sicond day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight; 
and whereas, the charter of the said college should, in the judgment of the 
legislature be repealed; therefore, 
1, Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New 
Jersey, That the act entitled “ An act to incorporate the eclectic medical 
and surgical college of the state of New Jersey,” approved March seven- teenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, be and the same is hereby 
repealed. 
2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. 
The above bill was introdacedia the Senate Chambers at Trenton by 
Senator George T. Werts, one week before any of the trustees, faculty or 
friends of the college kuew anything about it. I bad requested a member 
of the Assembly at Trenton to let us know if anything came up in regard 
to the New Jersey Medical College in the Legislature of New Jersey, but 
the enemies of the college minded to keep it very quiet. As soon as we 
heard about the bill, I wrote to Senator George T. Werts, chairman of 
the judiciary committee, the committee the bill was referred to, statiug 
stating the trustees and faculty of the New Jersey Medical College wished 
to be heard by the judiciary committee on that bill before final action, 
also stating that I would write him more at length in a day or two. But 
Senator Werts took no notice of my letter. In a few days afterwards, on 
February 3, 1891, I sent each of the Senators a copy of this pamphlet, also 
a copy to each one, of the following letter: 
College Booms, 47 Montgomery St., Jersey City, New Jersey, 
February 3, 1891. 
Hon. George T. Werts, Senator. 
Dear Sir:—I have been informed that there is a bill before your hon- 
honorable body for repealing the charter of the Medical and Surgical Col- 
lege of the State of New Jersey chartered by the Legislature in 1870, and 
approved by the governor the 17th of March of that year. As it would 
take too long a letter to fully describe the New Jersey College case, I for- 
ward a pamphlet and enclose a circular which partly state the facts. 
The Trustees and Faculty wish to be heard by your committee before 
final action is taken. The Trustees are at a loss to know on what grounds 
the repeal of the charter may be thought desirable by unprejudiced 
persons; for they are not aware that they have done anything which may 
reasonably be called in question before your honorable body. But if any 
of the affairs of the college merit your investigation, I beg to suggest 
that the persecutions to which it has been subjected by the Hudson County 
Board of Health and the various allopathic physicians and allopathic med- 
ical societies of New Jersey should not escape attention. 
We have had students who previously attended the medical depart 
ment of Yale College, students from different institutions of New York, 
like the Homoeopathic College, the Women’s Homoeopathic College, and 
llie University Medical College, and others from Medical Colleges in Phila- 
delphia, and they agreed in the opinion and expressed the belief to the 
Trustees, that the professors employed and the instruction given in the 
New Jersey Medical College compared in all respects with those in any of 
the above mentioned institutions. Among our students, it is true was one 
person who has spread slanderous statements; but we have reason to be- 
lieve that this individual was sent to our College by the Hudson County 
Medical Society (allopathic) for the express purpose of breaking us down. 
The only persons who have been graduated from our College are 
students who were already graduates of some other medical institution, or 
had previously attended one or more sessions in some other medical college 
and one or more sessions in the New Jersey Medical College besides; or 
*who (having attended no other college) had been with us for two full ses- 
sions. How unjust, therefore, to charge us with issuing “bogus” diplomas. 
The only accusation having reasonable foundation is, that while our 
College has employed professors of all the leading schools—allopathic, 38 
homoeopathic, eclectic and hydropathic—the allopaths are determined to 
destroy the institution, simply because it lepresents other systems of med- 
icine than their own. This determination is similar to the spirit actuating 
the persecutors of new religious sects. 
I feel assured that, as practical and observant men, before taking final 
action on the application for repeal, you will take heed of the fact that 
very many thousands of the most respectable citizens of New Jersey are 
utterly opposed to legislation discriminating against particular schools of 
medicine. Of this fact you must be convinced. The desired legislation 
is advocated only by the allopaths, for their own peculiar advantage. If 
their arbitrary and tyrannical methods receive your official s motion, I can- 
not doubt that multitudes of your constituents will feel that they have 
ground for bitter complaint and adequate reason for resenting the act. 
There is surely no possibility of questioning this, provided only the facts 
are brought to public attention ; and no pains will be spared to spread 
these facts thororoughly over every part of New Jersey. 
The repeal of a charter, whether a charter of a bank, a railroad, a med- 
ical college, or any other institution, is a very serious matter. Such a re- 
peal cannot fail to shock invested capital and impair the interests of citizens. 
The reasons for and against a proposed repeal should therefore be exam- 
ined with the most conscientious scrutiny. Every one connected with the 
New Jersey Medical College invites from you a painstaking investigation 
of all the facts, confident that your action will then be in accordance with 
justice rather than persecution. Respectfully, 
L. D. BROUGHTON. 
I afterwards wrote again to Senator Werts begging of him to let the 
Faculty and Trustees of the College be heard before the judiciary com- 
mittee, and stated that our enemies in wanting the College charter repealed, 
was nothing more nor less than the persecutions of the allopathic doc- 
tors in New Jersey, but more especially the Allopathic Medical Society, and 
Board of Health, both of Hudson County, N. J., and we were in hopes yet of 
having this matter brought before the judges of New Jersey, and then we 
had no doubt but that the courts would give those allopathic doctors a little 
of the Jersey law, they had been giving the ballot box stuffers of Jersey City. 
But the Senate passed the bill repealing the College charter without 
any of the friends of the College being heard. The bill was then imme- 
diately sent to the Assembly and the chairman of the judiciary committee 
of the Assembly reported the bill at once, and recommended it for imme- 
diate passage; and it would have been rushed through the Assembly if it 
had not been for Assemblyman Van Syckels of Bridgeton, New Jersey. I 
copy the following from the Bridgeton, N. J., newspaper: 
“ Mr. Johnson of Monmouth county endeavored to rush through the 
House, Senate bill No. 25, repealing the act of 1870, incorporating the Eclec- 
tic Medical and Surgical College of New Jersey. 
“ Mr. Van Syckel objected to this manner and said although the State 
Medical Society was backing this up, yet he knew of many estimable phys- 
icians in the State who wanted to be heard upon the bill.” 
I sent each of the Assemblymen a copy of “Dr. E. B. Foote’s Health 
Monthly’’for February, 1891, containing an article headed “A Medical 
College’s Troubles” from the pen of Dr. Foote. I also wrote Assembleman 
A. E. Johnson the following letter: 39 
70 So. Washington Sq., New York. 
February 15, 1891. 
Hon. A. E. Johnson, Member of Assembly, 
Dsvr Sir:—I understand that you are chairman of the judiciary com- 
mittee, in which committee I am informed there is a bill for the repeal of 
the charter of the Medical and Surgical College of the State of New 
Jersey. The Trustees and Faculty wish to be heard by your com- 
mittee on the repeal of said charter before your final action. We were 
refused a hearing before the Senate committee who had that bill in charge. 
I understand that sometimes out West they hang a man first and try 
him afterwards, but I believe it is not common to go into that kind of busi- 
ness in New Jersey, and especially in the Legislature. Hoping that you 
will allow time for us to be heard, I am yours respectfully, 
L. D. Broughton, M. D., 
President of Trustees. 
As Mr. Potts, member of the Assembly from Jersey City told me, that 
the bill for the repeal of the charter wouhl certainly pass the Assembly on 
Monday evening 16th inst. On the morning on the 17th I sent the two 
following letters to Gov. Leon Abbott, also sent him this pamphlet and a 
circular. 
47 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J. Feb. 17, 1891. 
Hon. Leon Abbott, 
Governor of the State of New Jersey. 
Dear Sir:—Enclosed I send you a letter in regard to the repeal of the 
charter of the New Jersey Medical College. You will excuse me if the bill 
has not reached you, as I was afraid that after it was signed in the Assem- 
bly the enemies of the college might rush it to your office before the ink 
was dry, as they rushed it from the Senate Chamber to the Assembly. 
Respectfully yours, 
L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D. 
47 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 17, 1891. 
Hon. Leon Abbott, 
Governor of the State of New Jersey. 
Dear Sir Over twenty years ago, when my friends and I first con- 
ceived the idea of starting a Medical College in Hudson County, N. J., the 
late Wm. Keeney of Lafayette, Jersey City, wished me to call on you and 
use his name to get you to read the articles of incorporation before it was 
sent to the Legislature. But I took it to A. K. Hadley who was then in- 
terested with us and has been ever since. Little did I think at that time, 
that twenty years afterwards I should address a letter to you as Governor 
of the State making an application to you not to sign the repeal of the 
charter of the Medical and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey. 
As the Senate and Assembly have both refused to hear us in their com- 
mittees, possibly we may get a hearing before you. However, I send you 
the following letter. 
The Trustees, Faculty and friends of the college are at a loss to know 
on what grounds the repeal of the charter maj be thought desirable by un- 
prejudiced persons. As they are not aware that they have done anything 
which should call the managers of the college in question. It is true that 
we have been beset by many enemies and by much persecution, especially 
by the Hudson County Board of Health and the various allopathic doctors, 
and the allopathic medical societies in New Jersey who have spread slan- 
derous reports about the college and its professors, of which they know 
themselves that there is not a particle of truth in those reports. 40 
Along with this letter I send you a pamphlet and circular, but as you 
may not have time to read the pamphlet through, permit me to give you a 
synopsis :—We have had students who previously attended the medical 
department of Yale College, the Homoeopathic Medical College of New 
York, the Woman's Homoeopathic College of New York, tbe Ecletic Medi- 
cal College, and the University Medical College, both of New York, and 
other students from medical colleges in Philadelphia. And the students 
agreed and informed the Trustees of the fact, that the New Jersey Medi- 
cal College had better teachers and professors than almost any of the 
above named colleges. But there was one exception and we have reason to 
believe that, that person was sent by the Hudson County Medical Society 
and with no other object than to break us down Bat he did not grad 
nate. No student has graduated from the New Jersey Medical College 
who had not brought proof that he was either a graduate of some other 
medical college, or had attended one or more sessions in a medical col- 
lege, and also attended one or more sessions in the New Jersey Medical 
College, or else having attended no other medical college, he attended two 
full sessions in this college. 
There was one exception, but he had a certificate from a medical society 
and was registered as a regular practicing physician, and had been in the 
reputable practice of medicine for over fifteen years in the city of New 
York. He attended one session. 
The only charge the allopathic doctors can bring against the college is 
that we have not had all allopathic professors, but have had both allo- 
pathic, homoeopathic and eclectic professors in the faculty. And the allo- 
pathic physicians are determined to crush out of existence all systems of 
medicine except the allopathic. All new religious sects have endured the 
same kind of persecution. These persecutions are similar to those endured 
by people in different parts of Europe, and which caused the early emi- 
grants to flee from their native land and settle in this country. 
Before signing the repeal of the charter of the Medical and Surgical 
College of the State of New Jersey, permit me to call your attention to the 
state of affairs in regard to the slave power down South, which occurred be 
fore the year 1860. The Southern people succeeded in repealing the Mis- 
souri Compromise, and also succeeded in enacting the fugitive slave law, 
and the Virginians even hung John Brown, but all these high handed ac- 
tions did not accomplish the object sought for; on the contrary they brought 
freedom to over four million negro slaves. 
There are more than twice lhat number of white people in the United 
States who are very much opposed to the allopathic practice of medicine, 
indeed as much so, as the abolitionists were opposed to human slavery. Yet 
in a number of these States, when any of those people die 
without the attendance of a doctor chosen by a medical examining board, the 
deceased friends must meet with a double affliction by being arrested and 
confined in prison for months at a time. 
I cannot but think it is a very dangerous experiment for the allopathic 
doctors and their aiders and abettors, to try and imprison and enslave those 
eight or ten millions of people, whose number is constantly and rapidly in- 
creasing. Similar to the abolitionist in 1860-61. 
Repealing charters of all medical colleges except the allopathic wilt 
have a tendency to unite those dissenters into a solid body, and they will 
be numerous enough to decide any presidential election by their votes, un- 
less some means are taken to disfranchise them by repealing universal suf- 
frage, and those petitions which we are getting signed in most of the States 41 
will have a marked effect on all legislative bodies in the Union, in regard to 
the practice of medicine. 
To repeal the charter of a medical college, bank or railroad, without 
sufficient reasons, and without the Trustees, Faculty, friends or directors 
of those various institutions being heard, will have a tendency to under- 
mine confidence in a staple government, and give such a shock to invested 
capital that it may be a long time before the country recovers from it. 
By reading at your leisure the circular and pamphlet referred to, es- 
pecially on pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; also pages 32,33, 
34, 35, and giving the facts there stated due consideration and permitting 
us to be heard before you sign the repeal you will oblige 
Respectfully yours, L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D., 
President of Trustees. 
For some cause or other they did not pass the bill on Monday eveniug 
Feb. 16fch, and on the 24tli at 2 p. m. some of the members of the Trustees 
and Faculty were permitted to appear before the judiciary committee at 
Trenton. But the hearing was only a farce and as a member of the Assem- 
bly had told me, we saw plain enough that the judiciary committee and 
the House had been fixed, the same as the Senate had been fixed. 
The enemies of the college brought no charges against any of the Fac- 
ulty or Trustees of the College, or at least none that is worth mentioning 
in this pamphlet. Some of the members of the Medical Examining Board 
were handing around to the committee a pamphlet that I published a num- 
ber of years ago called “ Our National Weakness. Where is it ? And how 
is it to be removed ?”* Also they had a label on a twenty five cent bottle of 
an herb medicine that has been a family medicine, made by the Brough- 
ton family for about a century, called “ Broughton's Invigorating Syrup 
and Blood Purifier.” 
When it becomes a crime for a regular doctor to publish books and 
pamphlets on medicine and diseases, and to make medicine, there must 
be something radically wrong, and as Hamlet says “ There is something 
rotten in Denmark.” 
But, as a member of the Assembly told me, “You have the newspapers 
against you and all the (allopaths) doctors, and they have got the votes, and 
what are you going to do about it?” 
None of the professors, trustees or friends of the college appeared be- 
fore the Governor to oppose signing the bill for the repeal of the char- 
ter, as he did not notify us nor answer my letter and we knew that it was a 
foregone conclusion, as the Medical Examining Board of the State of New 
Jersey were moving Heaven and Earth to have the charter repealed, and 
they had appointed the Governor’s son their secretary and councilor. 
Three of the graduates of the college appeared before the Governor. 
He heard them, but it did no good, as he signed the bill. 
We shall test the repeal of the charter before the Supreme Court of the 
State of New Jersey, and if we fail there, shall carry it to the Supreme 
Court of the Uuited States. Any lawyer who reads the life of Daniel Web- 
ster by Geo. Tickner Curtis, in Vol. 1. page 163 to page 171 on the Dart- 
mouth College case, also reads Daniel Webster’s speech on the same sub- 
ject in Yol. V., will no doubt agree with me. that we have a very good 
case if it goes to the Supreme Court of the United States, although it may 
take a great many years to reach the United States Supreme Court, es- 
pecially when it takes over two years to get out a mandamus in New 
Jersey. 
* A copy of “ Our National Weakness ” will be sent free to any address on request. 42 
A Medical Diploma that is not bogus. 
There has been a great deal said and published, especially in New 
Jersey, about a number of the Professors of the New jersey Medical 
College having bogus diplomas. But it has already been proven that they 
are all graduates of regularly chartered medical institutions, although not 
all graduates of Allopathic Colleges, and there is where the pinch comes. 
Even Dr. Gordon stated under oath that I had a bogus diploma, and 
Mr. Zcimann stated before the police justice in New York city that I had 
one of John Buchanan’s bogus diplomas, and those statements have got 
published in a great many newspapers and medical journals in the United 
States. All the parties making these statements knew them to be false ; 
but they have repeated them so often that they really begin to believe 
these lies themselves. 
The charter of the New Jersey Medical College which we were work- 
ing under, does not state that the professors shall have diplomas of any 
kind, but simply states that the faculty “ Shall consist of at least four Pro- 
fessors, who shall be competent to deliver lectures for the proper instruc- 
tion of students in the various departments of medical science.” However 
as there are a number of ignorant persons, who may believe that a man 
cannot lecture on the various departments of the medical scien ce, unless he 
is a graduate, and has a medical diploma, I thought it advisable to show 
proof that my diploma is not a bogus one. Nearly thirty years ago, there 
were hundreds if not thousands of people, who knew that I was a graduate 
from a regular chartered medical college. But when I look around I find 
that nearly all of those people have gone the way of all flesh since that 
time. Dr. Morris N. Miller, who died a little over a year ago in New 
York city, and who was an assistant to Dr. Loomis, Dean of the Medical 
University, graduated in the same college, and in the same class, and at 
the same time when I graduated. 
Dr. Henry Hollembaek who was for many years postmaster of Burbng • 
ton city, N. J., and at the time I graduated he was the Mayor of Burling- 
ton City, N. J., and he is a man that has been well known nearly all his 
life, and he is now over eighty years of age. He was professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics in the same college and at the same time I grad- 
uated, and for a number of years afterwards. 
The following is his sworn affidavit in regard to my diploma. 
Burlington, Burlington Co., State of 
New jersey, Feb. 11, 1891. 
ss 
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned Notary Public of 
the State of New jersey. Prof. Henry Hollembaek, M. D., late Professor 
of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Eclectic Medical College of 
the State of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia, Pa., who does most 
solemnly swear, that he was a Professor in said Institution from 1851 to 
1870. That Luke D. Broughton, M. D., President of the Medical and 
Surgical College of the State of New Jersey, graduated January 14, 1853, 
after complying with the Curriculum of said College, with the highest 
honors. That in 1863 John Buchannan, M. D., was simply a lecturer in 
said College, and had no control in said College for eight years lator. 
That he regarded Dr. L. D. Broughton as a gentleman of the highest med- 
ical attainments at his graduation as stated above. 
HENRY HOLLEMBAEK, M.D. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 
Eleventh day of February, A.D., 1891. 
[seal.' 
HENRY S. PRICKETT, Notary Public. I think the above affidavit ought to settle the matter about my bogus 
diploma, especially as Dr. Hollembaek can be reached any time in one 
hour, either by telephone or by telegraph. 
Dr. Joseph Sities, who has since died, was also a Professor in the same 
college when I graduated. Professor Sities was re-elected to the City 
Council of Philadelphia for some twenty five years in succession. Those 
kind of men do not generally go into the Diploma Mill Business. It would 
not pay, and their political enemies would find it out. 
{From the Jersey City News, February 16f7t, 1891.) 
THAT DIPLOMA MILL. 
Ex-Judge R. B. Seymour Defends Broughton’s Alleged 
Medical College. 
The following letter from ex Judge [Roderick B. Seymour is published 
not because the News is convinced by its arguments or has the least sym- 
pathy with Broughton or his diploma mill.* It is given in the interest of 
fair play, in recognition of the right of every party to be heard in its own 
defense. 
The News believes in free platform and full discussion of every public 
question. Judge Seymour's letter is interesting reading anyway. Here 
it is:— 
To the Editor of the Jersey City News :— 
Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless a fact that in the great State 
of New Jersey, one of the original thirteen, not a single academy or col- 
lege of medicine was ever organized permanently until the New Jersey 
Medical and Surgical College organized a faculty and proceeded to instruct 
students in the knowledge of medicine. Although the allopathic doctors 
are numerous and strong in this State, although the State Medical Society, 
organized by them, is said to be the oldest medical society in the United 
States, no step was ever taken by these defenders of the old school prac- 
*Dr. Broughton appears to he like “Paddy Miles’ Boy” who was always doing 
everything that was bad, and never could do any that was good. 
The Editor of the Jersey City News must know that he was publishing a libel when he 
published the above article. As Dr. Broughton has done everything possible to prevent 
the New Jer*ey Medical College from being a “ Diploma Mill.” 
At one of the Faculty meetings some of the Professors got up and spoke in favor of 
Mr. Zeimann, and one or two other students being permitted to graduate with only 
attending one sesssion of the College, as they had formerly been in practice. I got up and 
said “ No matter what the professors of the college might do, 1 knew that the trustees 
would never grant a diploma to a student who only attended one session and never at- 
tended any other medical college. I further stated that it took more than three or four 
months apprenticeship to learn to be a shoemaker, tailor or carpenter, and surely it is 
more difficult to acquire a knowledge of medicine than any of those trades.” 
I knew from conversation with the trustees that they wouid be particular in regard 
to the students coming up strictly to the requirements of the college charter. 
I visited Mr. Seymour when he was ill and confined to his room, and told him what 
we expected to do at the trustee's meeting ; he made this remark, “ We must not let any 
one student graduate unless he can pass high! high!” 
Mr. H. V. Cole when he could not attend one of the trustee meetings sent the follow- 
ing note: “ I am too busy to attend the meeting, and send you my proxy and will sanction 
anything that you do, except granting a diploma to a student wlio has only attended one 
session. Ex-Judge A. K. Hadley’s constant remark to me when in conversation with him, 
also at the trustee meetings, was “ We must stick to the letter of the charter and then no 
one can touch us.” All the trustees were of the same mind in granting a diploma. 
Therefore the reader will see how difficult it would have been for Dr, Broughton to 
make a diploma mill out of the New Jersey Medical College. tice of medicine to found a school for the instruction of students or to 
organize an institution where the immense knowledge of medicine and 
supreme wisdom possessed by the allopathic physicians could beam upon 
and enlighten the minds of the youth of this State who might desire to 
follow in their illustrious footsteps. Princeton and Rutgers, have long 
existed and enlightened the youth of our land to the glory and honor of 
this State. The Stevens Institute, and other excellent academies of useful 
learning have been established throughout the State. But no effort was 
made bv the members of the dominant school of medicine to found even 
one academy in this State where students might receive a proper medical 
education, and having graduated, erect their signboards and endanger the 
monopoly which the old school doctors desire to preserve. Where in this 
country is there a more suitable location for a medical college than in Jer- 
sey City ? 
In this seaport town, this great manufacturing centre, this terminous 
of numerous railroads, this great city with its large population recruited 
from every nation, the student of medicine can receive practical instruc- 
tion in the treatment of every variety and form of disease, and knowledge 
of the most valuable methods of surgery. Yet, with all these advantages 
at their > ery threshholds, neither the celebrated WatsoD, nor any of the 
other famous professors and defenders of old school practice and monopoly 
in this city has made a move in the direction of making available the great 
advantages for medical instruction which our city possesses. 
In the year 1870 several New York gentlemen, interested in the diffu- 
sion of the knowledge of medicine and perceiving the absence of any med- 
ical academy in this State to be aroused into jealousy, and the great advan 
tages for practical instruction existing in this city, applied to the Legisla- 
ture of this State for a charter. That Legislature, composed of a Repub- 
lican Senate and Democratic House, incorporated “ The Eclectic Medical 
and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey.” That law was approved 
by a Democratic Governor. The charter of said college was therefore 
endorsed by the signatures of these distinguished gentlemen, viz:—Theo 
dore F. Randolph, Governor; Amos Robins, President of the Senate, and 
Leon Abbett, Speaker of the House of Assembly. 
No active opposition was made to this college until 1888, when the 
college rented a suite of rooms in Jersey City. It costs money to establish 
a school, and the trustees of said college were obliged to practice economy, 
and while their accommodations were of a limited nature, they would 
nevertheless compare favorably with the state of affairs attending the 
institution and birth of Yale or Princeton. This, too, notwithstanding the 
ridicule of certain allopaths who have never contributed a dollar towards 
the education of their fellow men. 
It was necessary to have some excuse to put forth to the public to 
account for their opposition. Not daring to avow the secret and real cause 
of their antipathy. They have proclaimed three reasons for their opposi- 
tion. The first reason is that Doctor Broughton, one of the trustees, is an 
advertising physician. The doctor, who is an Englishman by birth and an 
American by long residence and adoption, is over sixty years old, and has 
been practising medicine for over thirty years. He was appointed a trustee 
by the Legislature in 1870, and thereby declared a fit person for that posi- 
tion. Surely, his continual practice of medicine in New York City since 
that date, a period of twenty-one years, has not rendered him less fit. 
The second reason advanced has been that the faculty was composed 
of physicians from New York, instead of from New Jersey. Is this a valid 
reason ? If so, will the allopathic doctors in this city explain why they are 
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daily calling upon New York physicians to aid their Jersey City brethren 
with advice and assistance, at a heavy expense to their jersey patients. 
Another reason given, is that long, long ago, several of the faculty were 
students in colleges, which, subsequently to their graduation, were accused 
of improperly granting diplomas. To apply this rule to business affairs 
would require the repeal of the charter of any bank which has among its 
directors any man who was unfortunate to have been a depositor in ihe 
North Eiver Bank, or any other bank that has failed. The statement is 
sufficient to refute the claim, without further argument. 
But not one of the allopathic opponents of the college will dare claim 
that there was a single member of the faculty of said college who was not 
fully competent to give instruction in that, or any other college in this 
country. Neither can anyone say that said college ever granted a diploma 
to any person who was not fully qualified to commence the practice of 
medicine. The list of names of the faculty of said college contains the names 
of physicians who socially, morally and professionally are the equal of any 
physician of any school, old or new, in this State. No charge of incompet- 
ency or impropriety, has ever been alleged against any graduate of this college. 
Why, then, is there this bitter opposition to the college on the part of a 
few doctors ? Doctor Gordon, President of the Board of Health, has been 
active in opposing the college. The same energy and activity displayed 
by him in performing the duties which properly pertain to his office might 
have relieved many citizens of this county from the discomforts and sick- 
ness resulting from the pestilential uses of the Hackensack Meadows. In 
a conversation with Doctor Gordon, I invited him to become a member of 
the Board of Trustees of said college. I told him that if there was any- 
thing improper or irregular in the college that I would oppose it as strongly 
as he. I pressed him to become one of the trustees, and assist in building 
up a college which would greatly benefit our city, and be an honor to the 
State. He declined, giving as a reason a want of time. Now, I will make 
an offer to the allopathic physicians of Hudson County. You shall 
have the privilege of choosing from the citizens of this State, one third of 
the total number of the Board of Trustees of said college, and shall also 
have the right to establish a chair of Therapeutics which all the students 
shall be obliged to attend. You, however, shall be responsible for, and 
provide the compensation to be paid to the professor who may be selected 
by you to hold said chair. If you are in favor of a liberal medical educa- 
tion being provided for the people of our city, this will give you an oppor- 
tunity to assist in carrying out that object. If there is anything improper 
in connection with the college, you will be inside and have an opportunity 
to expose it, and base your opinion on facts, instead of upon slanders. If, 
however, your real opposition to said college is because of the system of 
medical practice which prevails in said college, then, of course, you will 
not accept the above offer. In that event, why not spend your time, 
energy and money in organizing a college in New Jersey, which shall be 
under your absolute control and which shall give our citizens practical 
illustration of the kind of college you favor? There is plenty of room in 
this State for two colleges. Why not found one in your own town, instead 
of attempting to destroy the only one ever organized in this State ? My 
grandfather was a regular, allopathic, old school physician, who sacrificed 
his life to his profession. I have inherited the greatest esteem and respf ct 
for the medical profession, which I believe has included among its mem- 
bers many of the noblest men that ever lived. But I do not believe that 
all these worthy practitioners are followers of only one school of medicine. 
Neither can I shut my eyes to the fact that there are many very narrow 46 
minded men in the medical profession. It is not so very long ago that the 
allopatliists loudly denounced the homceopathists as quacks, and refused 
to recognize or consult with them. 
Can the old school practitioners cure consumption, cancer, catarrh, 
asthma or numerous other diseases which might be mentioned ? Grant, 
Sheridan and Sherman of this country and Emperor Frederick William of 
Germany are notable examples to prove that the profession of medicine is 
not a science, but is often a miserable failure. These men all possessed 
good constitutions, great will power and indomitable courage which had 
frequently confronted death upon the battlefield without flinching, and 
could not be alarmed at his knocking at the door of their bedrooms. Yet. 
notwithstanding these men had the benefit of the highest skill, and the 
greatest knowledge and wisdom which the allopathic system can produce, 
they were all cut down in their strength, and passed away amidst the tears 
of the people. How about the thousands of less prominent patients for 
whom the mourners daily go about the streets ? 
Under these circumstances would it not be more becoming for the two 
or three doctors who are using the name of the Allopathic Medical Society 
of Hudson County in their crusade against the Eclectic Medical College of 
New Jersey, to devote their money and energy to increasing rather than 
diminishing the number of schools devoted to imparting a better knowl- 
edge of the discovery and application of remedies for disease. 
It would not be a remarkable feat to break down and destroy any col- 
lege just struggling into existance. But those who would engage in such 
an unworthy undertaking will not long boast of their success. An impar- 
tial press and an intelligent community will soon overwhelm them with 
confusion. Like the celebrated general of ancient times they will have to 
exclaim, “Another such victory will ruin us.” 
R. B. Seimoob. 
The Crusade Against Eclectic Physicians. 
I copy the following few paragraphs from the N. Y. Medical Tribune, 
March 15, 1891, by Alex. Wilder, M. D., 567 Orange Street, Newark, N. J., 
Secretary of the National Eclectic Medical Association; 
“ The basis of Medical Eclecticism is a principle. The men who began it 
were all sustainers of freedom of practice and equal rights before the law. 
They never sought privileges from which others have to be excluded, but 
only like good citizens and worthy individuals, to pursue an honorable call- 
ing without let or impediment. The preacher may preach if any care to hear 
him; the agriculturist may till the ground ; the mechanic majr work at his 
vocation if any will employ him The physician has morally the same right 
as a man and a citizen in a government of the people and for the people, to 
prosecute his calling with none to molest him. 
“In the matter of Medical Legislation our American Republicanism is on 
trial. The issue invoked in the Civil War was not so critical. When the 
Federal Constitution was framed an amendment was attached to it, as the con- 
dition of its adoption, that there should be no establishment of a national re- 
ligion. Yet at this very time is contemplated the erection of a National 
Church of Medicine, competent to dictate who may and who may not be phy- 
sicians, and to prescribe modes of practice, ethics and etiquette. / 
“ All this medical legislation is procured as the means to that end. Every 
art and finesse is employed to secure it. A fair discussion of the matter be- 
fore the public is carefully refrained from. A large majority of the newspa- 
pers and periodicals have learned that it is financially beneficial to exclude 
such discussions from their pages. 47 
“To affirm that this medical legislation is sought for the purpose of elevat- 
ing the character of the profession, or the standard of scientific qualifications, 
is preposterous. In this pretense there is hardly the shadow of truth. The 
men who enter it know this. They are after pelf and power. They have no 
higher motive. The lust of power, and greed of gain inspire them. 
“ A. registration statute was passed years~ago in New Jersey ; and now a 
State Board of Examiners has been created. Tfie power of the lobby is su- 
preme at Trenton. 
“The conditions created by the Civil War seem to have weakened the 
instinct of liberty. Personal rights are not respected as they were thirty-five 
years ago. These facts have given the Old School managers their opportu- 
nity, and they are taking the advantage of it. 
“Already there is reaction in the air. Loud protests against corporate 
monopoly, such as oil refiners, and sugar trusts are heard on every hand. 
Legislation in behalf of classes, of privileged individuals, of wealthy inter- 
ests has disgusted many tens of thousands of native born Americans. This 
legislation in behalf of medical privilege, medical monopoly, medical trusts, 
is adding its full contribution to the general dissatisfaction. 
“ Ail this indicates political parties disintregation.’’ 
Faculty for 1888-89. 
G. H. DAY. A. M., M. D., - - Prof, of Principles and Practice of Medicine. 
JAMES DAVIES, A. M., M. D., - - - Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. 
ROBERT A. GUNN, A. B.. M. D., - - - Professor of Surgery. 
G. E. POTTER, M. D., - - Professoi of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
A. B. WHITNEY, A. B., M. D., - Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 
L. D. BROUGHTON. M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Diseases of Women. 
CHARLES A. BARNES. M. I)., ... Professor of Diseases of Children. 
JOHN HERRING DAVIES. Phar. D. - Professor of Chemistry. 
EDWARD P. TIIWING, M. D. Pit. D., Prof, of Nervous Disease and Psycho Therapeutics. 
MARK A. BROUGHTON, M. D., - - - Professor of Dental Surgery. 
MARTIN L. HOLBROOK, M. D., ..... Professor of Hygiene. 
H. V. COLE, ...... Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. 
Graduating Class, Session 1888-89. 
EMMAD. BURD, New York. 
JOHN HERRING DAVIES, Phar. D., New York. 
MORRIS DROSSER, M. D. - - - - - - New Jersey. 
EDWARD ROBERT DUFFY. New York. 
JOSEPH MEZZETTI ELLIS. Phar. D. New York. 
ELIJAH BRETON-GAMAGE HAZZAN, A. M„ .... New York. 
EMILE KIRCHGESSNER. Connecticut. 
GUSTAV PFINGSTEN, A. M„ Phar. D , New York. 
GEORGE WILLIAM SALTER, New York. 
GEORGE RICHARD SMITH, New York. 
GEORGE EDGER WHIPPLE. New York. 
J. E. NEWTON WHITEHEAD, M. D. New York. 
Faculty for 1889-90. 
FRED’K L. FUCHS, M.D., Prof, of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Surgery. 
A. B. WHITNEY. M. D., - . - Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 
A. II. SCHONGER, M. D., ..... Professor of Physiology. 
JAS. E. GRAY. M. D. ...... Professor of Anatomy. 
JOS. M. ELLIS, M. D.. - - - Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica. 
L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D., Prof, of Eclectic Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence. 
Graduating Class, Session 1889-5)0. 
FRANK ABBOTT BUCKLYN, Connecticut. 
THOMAS LUKE O’REILLY* New York. 
ANTON SIEKE. New York. A NEW SOCIETY OR POLITICAL PARTY 
On&ALKTIZED. 
The trustees of the New Jersey Medical College on account of the 
oppression caused by the allopathic doctors, and their corrupt Medical 
Legislation, and the Hudson County, N. J., Board of Health, have inau- 
gurated a new society called: 
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF FREEDOM 
IN TIIE 
PRACTICE OP MEDICINE. 
oun is 
The same Liberty for the Different Systems 
of 
Medicine that there is for the Different 
Denominations of Religion. 
And have temporarily appointed the undersigned secretary and treas- 
urer. The object of this society is to raise money by subscription to test 
the repeal of the Charter of the Medical and Surgical College of New Jersey 
in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and if defeated there, to carry it to 
the Supreme Court of the United States, and also to agitate by means of 
petitions the different State Legislatures, asking them to abolish all 
medical laws and medical examining boards. We should be glad to 
receive any donations from 10 cts. up to $10,000 for that object. We 
shall also be pleased for all persons into whose hands this pamphlet 
may fall, if they cannot send donations at least to send their name and 
address, and also get their friends and relatives to do the same for these 
petitions ; and I have no doubt but that we shall get hundreds of thou- 
sands of names to send to the Legislatures. 
Any person sending one dollar will become a life member, and can 
vote at all regular public meetings of this society, and as ladies are equally 
as much interested in medical legislation, and as there are a great many 
female doctors, the ladies’ names will be received, and they will also be 
entitled to vote if they become members. Should there be any surplus 
funds after we have succeeded in gaining the lawsuit, and in abolishing all 
medical legislation in all the States, it will be applied to the building 
and endowment of a DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL to be located in 
Hudson County, N. J,, for the benefit of the poor, and for the instruc- 
tion of students of the Medical and Surgical College of the State of 
New Jersey. All names for these petitions, also donations, must be sent to.^ 
’Li. D. BROUGHTON, M. D , 
47 Montgomery St., Jersey City, New Jersey, or to his residence, 
70 South Washington Square, New York. OFFICE OF 
Dr. L. D. BROUGHTON, 
70 80. WASHINGTON SQUARE 
New York,/ 
1891. 
DearT.4Zr„/. 
After you have read the enclosed pamphlet 
and circular, if the arguments therein stated coin- 
cide with your opinion and love of freedom, in that 
case I take the liberty of asking you to sign the 
enclosed petition, and interest yourself in getting 
all your friends and acquaintances to do the same; 
I also ask you to become a life member of “THE 
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF FREEDOM IN THE PRACTICE 
OF MEDICINE,” and to persuade a number of your 
friends to become members also, by remitting Si.00 
each (to help pay expenses) to the undersigned name 
and address• 
By doing so, you will be simply working for 
yourself and for your own interest and your own 
liberty. If the Allopathic doctors can (by combin- 
ing) succeed in crushing out of existence all sys- 
tems of medicine but their own, and succeed in 
repealing all charters of Medical Colleges except 
the Allopathic, and if they can accomplish what they 
are aiming at, and what they brag they are going to 
have, ‘Only ONE SECT IN MEDICINE,” that is, “A 
National Church of Medicine, competent to dletate 
who may and who may not be physicians, and pre- 
scribe modes of practice, *e.” It will then be only 
one short step to "only one sect in religion,” and 
that "sect” to prescribe modes of belief, practice 
and prayers in that religion. 
If the Allopathic practice of medicine was the 
most perfect system of treating disease, then there 
might be some excuse in wanting to crush out of 
existence all other systems of medicine but that 
"sect.” But if we trace the history of that "sect” from 
1520, the time of PARACELSUS, the father of the 
mineral system of medicine, and whose followers 
were called QUACKS, in contradistinction to the Bo- 
tanical Doctors on account of their prescribing 
QUICK SILVER, from the German QUACK SALVAR, we find 
that that system of medicine has been a curse to the 
human family, and from 1520 down to the present 
time its path has been strewn with slaughter and 
BLOODSHED. In short, it has destroyed more human 
lives during the last four centuries than either 
war, pestilence or famine. 
I mignt give thousands of instances to prove 
this assertion, but I need only refer the reader to 
the Allopathic Treatment of General Washington’s 
last sickness (published by his physicians) and given 
on page 23 of the accompanying pamphlet. 
Is it not strange that these HEROIC DOCTORS 
should continue to have the control of all the 
Boards of Health, Hospitals, Public Dispensaries, 
Medical Colleges and Charitable Institutions, with 
but few exceptions? It reminds us of the Liquor 
Traffic, which has wrecked millions of happy homes 
and sent millions of human beings to felons* cells, 
insane asylums, poor-houses and untimely graves; 
having control of nearly all Municipal Governments 
and Legislatures in this country, except Maine and 
one or two other States. And is it not also strange 
that all the newspapers, with but few exceptions, 
in the United States should be controlled by those 
self same Liquor Traffieers and Allopathic Doctors? 
It only goes to show, as Hamlet says, “There is 
something rotten in Denmark-” 
Is it not time for honest people to combine to 
put a stop to such evils by signing petitions to 
Legislatures and forming Societies for that one ob- 
ject, and keep on agitating until Eclectics, Homoeo- 
pathies and ail other kinds of doctors have a fair 
representation in the Boards of Health, Dispens- 
aries, Hospitals, 4c., and until there is an amend- 
ment added to the Constitution of the United States 
stating, “that there shall be no establishment of a 
Medical Church and no laws enacted to prohibit the 
free exercise of any system of treating disease in 
any State of the Union? Respectfully, / / // '"