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ECLECTIC    MEDICAL    INSTITUTE.
  With the causes which rendered it necessary, and an exposition of the slanderous and
       factious course which has been pursued  by th^offcasts from the Institute.

                          BY  W.  SHERWO<
   For several years past, a feeling of dissatisfaction
 with the professional conduct and capacities of Dr.
 R. S. Newton has been steadily increasing  among
 the Faculty, students and graduates of the Eclectic
 Medical Institute.   Every member of the Faculty had
 more  than oace expressed, privately, to his col-
 leagues his dissatisfaction with  Dr. Newton,  as a
 professor, disapprobation of his course, and a convic-
 tion of the necessity of opposing his machinations.
 Three members of the Faculty, (Drs. Bickley, King
 and Sherwood) had threatened a resignation of their
 posts, on account of their dissatisfaction with his
 character as a colleague;  and one (Dr. Bickley) had
 actually written his resignation on that account, but
 subsequently witheld it.   In addition to this dis-
 satisfaction, which  at  times threatened the disor-
 ganization of the Faculty, Dr. Newton himself, from
 personal enmity, pursued a  course  of  public and
 private warfare  against  Dr. Cleaveland, and en-
 deavored (notwithstanding he could find no fault with
 him as a faithful and able teacher) to procure his
 rejection from his chair, by the  Board of Trustees.
 It  was  evident,  therefore, that  Dr. Newton's  con-
 tinuance in the Faculty, even if he had been com-
 petent to discharge his  duties in a superior manner,
 was incompatible with the permanence and pros-
 perity of the College, and that a dissolution would
 be  inevitable.  This discord was brought to a crisis
 by the  attempt  of  Dr. N. to overthrow the entire
 Faculty.
   He was  hostile to Dr. King, because  Dr. K. re-
 fused to allow his [Newton's] name  to  appear any
 longer in  the American Eclectic Dispensatory as
joint author of a work to which he had not con-
 tributed a  line, nor  bad then seen a single  page,
 and because Dr.  King charged him with endeavor-
 ing to defraud him of the copy-right, and declined
 any longer to bolster up Dr.  Newton's  literary pre-
 tensions, by writing matter to  appear under his
 (Dr. N's) name.
   He was hostile to Dr. Cleaveland, because that
 gentleman refused to recognize  adulterated medi-
 cines, proved inch by chemical analysis, as worthy
of  heing recommended to the medical class: and
because he denounced the fraud as it deserved.
  He was  hostile to  Drs.  Buchanan, Hoyt and
myself, because we would not co-opernte with him
in making  war upon Drs. King and Cleaveland, and
because,  like  our associates, we disapproved of
much of his conduct, and considered the manage-
ment of the clinic unsatisfactory, and not in accord-
ance with his promises.  He  was bitterly hostile to
Drs. Cleaveland and King, because they sometimes
privately expressed  their true  opinions, or  rather
knowledge  of  his scientific deficiencies as a Pro-
fessor.  Dr. Freeman alone was tolerated  by him,
as he had been induced by self-interest to co-operato
with Dr.  N.
  Under these circumstances a conspiracy was form-
ed by Dr. Newton, with his inveterate enemy, L. E.
Jones, during the Winter and Spring of 1855-56, to
gratify their  common malice against the Faculty,
and remove the old Board of Trustees.
  It was true that Dr. L. E. Jones despised Dr. New-
ton more heartily than any  other member of the
Faculty, and  that  Dr. N. reciprocated his  feelings
with  interest; but he knew  that Dr. L. E. J. was
willing to co-operate with him for revenge, while
he supposed the Faculty would submit no longer ta
his presence.  Hence, the combination was formed to
unite  their votes in  the April election,  remove the
old  Board of Trustees and Faculty, and place in
their  stead  Drs. Newton, Jones, Baldridge, Ac, as
Trustees and Professors.
  The conspiracy was carried out—but the conspir-
ators  had not enough of stock to carry the election.
New stockholders took stock  at par, for the benefit
of the Institute, and  voted for the  old Board, thus,
defeating the  conspirators, whose purchase of stock
below par, at  a heavy discount, for the  purpose of
controlling the election, did not avail them.  Never-
theless, they pretended to have carried the election,
proceeded to  organize themselves as a Board of
Trustees,  and instituted legal  proceedings to obtain
possession, and to enjoin the  Faculty and Trustees
from further action.  They were twice defeated in
the Superior Court, after disturbing greatly the pro-,
gress  of the session, by their factious litigation, and
then resorted to mob violence, broke into  the College
building at  night, and held possession, by  a force
of armed  men.  In  which position they continue
the contest,  until the result can be legally decided
and their  possession terminated by law.  When this
course was adopted, the Board of Trustees did what
should have been done some years since—expelled
Dr. Newton and his  accessory Dr. Freeman, after
giving them repeated opportunities to defend them-
selves from the charges preferred by the Faculty.
  The members of the Faculty declined to  engage
in a riotous  contest with  the mobocrats, for the sake
of a few week's occupation of their Hall, and con-
tinued their lectures, in another hall, to the  close of
the session;  attended by all of the class, except a
few individuals, who had been seduced or deceived
by Drs. Newton and Freeman, and who attended
their lectures at the clinical lecture room.
  Since the end of the session an incessant publi-
cation and circulation of the most extravagant false-
hoods, and the most  malicious slanders  throughout
our country,  has been  kept up  by  Dr.  Newtoa
                                  1 
CAUSES OF DR. NEWTON'S EXPULSION.
and his  associates, who  are  so  thoroughly  des-
perate  that  they  have lost sight of  all ordinary
prudence, and take no pains to keep their falsehoods
within  the limits of credibility, but  fabricate  the
most notorious untruths,  statements known to be
false by the students of the Institute, as if, despair-
ing of  receiving  any  support from the  intelligent
and honest,  they  hoped  merely  to impose  upon
young men from  a distance, who know nothing of
the  history  of the Institute, or  character  of its
Faculty.
   It has been a matter of great doubt whether such
falsehoods deserve any  notice at all.    With those
who know that "Xeicton's  Express " has  no reputa-
tion at present, among  the  respectable newspapers
of Cincinnati, that its editor has been publicly de-
nounced  for  his  "venality"  and  dishonesty;  its
statements have  no influence.   When  Dr. Newton
was a member of the Faculty, a resolution  of  cen-
sure  against his  newspaper was  prevented  from
being adopted, only by his assurance  that nothing
should appear in its columns calculated to convey,
in any manner, the idea that his Express had  any
connection with the Eclectic Medical Institute.
   If there are any who have allowed the falsehoods
of that scurrilous sheet  to have an influence upon
their minds,  I would call  their attention  to  the
evidences which are to be  offered, that the  sources
of its calumnies,  Drs. Newton and  L. E. Jones, are
both  notorious  calumniators, and both  destitute of
veracity; that although they now co-operate in  re-
venge, each knows and has proclaimed the other to
be a liar, utterly unprincipled, as regards the circu-
lation of slander, and what  is more emphatic still,
this accusation of each  has  been fully sustained by
proof.   I propose, as briefly as possible, to show
that  nothing which  they  say is  entitled  to  any
credit, when  they have any strong motive to violate
the truth.  I propose also, to show  the  degradation
and quackery in which  the Eclectic Medical Insti-
tute was involved by the presence of  Dr. R. S.
Newton,  and  the  consequent  necessity for  his  re-
moval, and finally, to exhibit, by their own admis-
sions and publications, the true character of  the
spurious  faculty,  now combined with him to  destroy
the old organization of tlje Institute.

      CAUSES OF DR. NEWTON'S EXPULSION.
  1. Illiteracy.—That a professor should have  been so
long tolerated (for five years), who was so imperfectly ac-
quainted with the  principles  and practice  of grammar,
rhetoric, or even orthography, was certainly a remarkable
fact.  Dr.  Newton was not chosen on account of his scien-
tific attainments, but it was not known how defective he
was.  He was  supposed to  be  a good surgeon, as he  had
pushed himself into notoriety, and supposed, also, to be a
very successful practitioner, and to be capable of learning
to spell correctly,  and cultivating bis mind up to the
standard of what  would be  respectable mediocrity,  but
all  these suppositions fell short of being realized, and the
Faculty had the mortification  of hearing some  of their
most intelligent students express themselves as  being
ashamed to have students  from other Colleges visit  their
Ilall while Dr. Newton was lecturing.  Confused in his
ideas and  in his modes of expression, the  student often
failed to find any interest or profit in his lecture.  One of
the most intelligent graduates of the Institute remarked,
that, during his first course of lectures he derived benefit
from all  the other professors, but supposed that his in-
ability to  be instructed by Dr. Newton was  owing to his
own ignorance; during the second session, however, (hav-
ing more confidence in himself) he came to the conclusion
that the difficulty was owing to the ignorance of the Pro-
fessor himself.  The difficulty was partly overcome by
reading his lectures from books.   When  lecturing on
Surgery he read from Hill,  and when lecturing on Practice
he read from Dr. Powell's manuscript, until the book was
published, and then from the book itself.  Very few books
are fit to be read as lectures, even if read by a good reader,
and Dr. Newton's bad reading, with his clumsy comments,
 made his department the feeblest  in  the  Institute.  Yet,
 his colleagues wen> not disposed to be critical, or inquire
 Into his lectures, so long as he kept the class pacified  by
 his affability ; and several sessions elapsed before all fully
 understood what kind of instruction was given  by him in
 the department of Practice, how  imperfectly their grad-
 uates were taught, as regards that department, and how
 unscientific the  character of the course.
  The illiterate  character of Dr.  Newton was  carefully
 concealed  from  the  public by  every  possible  stratagem.
 He requested Dr. Buchanan (confessing his own ignorance
 and inexperience) to  take the entire  management of the
 Eclectic Journal, that his editorials might be made suitable
 for the public eye.  He procured from  Dr. King, Dr. Powell
 and others, essays, which he adopted and published as his
 own, or as the productions of his '• learned brother," and,
 thus,  always appearing before the public in this borrowed
 plumage, and before  the class with borrowed lectures, he
 was supposed by many to be really a literary and well ed-
 ucated physician.  This was carried to such a disgusting
 extent,  and  for such obviously deceptive purposes, that
 Dr. Buchanan and Dr. King declined to aid him any longer
 in what at length appeared to be designed for systematic
 deception of the public.  Dr. Cleaveland was  then applied
 to and liberal pecuniary promises made to secure his lite-
 rary assistance,  but Dr. C. refused  to allow his own edito-
rials to pass under the name of  Dr. Newton.
  A desperate effort was also made by Dr. Newton to pro-
cure for his  name a  position on the  title-page of  King's
Dispensatory, but Dr. King refused to  permit him to have
any connection with  the book.
  The following  memorandum, which  has been furnisheu
by Prof. King, from his private diary, exhibits the method
by which the Newtons have made an exhibition of profes-
sional intelligence before the public.  I take the liberty
of publishing it, because it exhibits what the public ought
to know.
  Articles  written for  Dr. Newton,  dt Dn. J.  Kino por
A LIBERAL PECUNIARY  COMPENSATION, WHICH WAS  PROMISED,
BUT NOT REALIZED.
  "June 11, 1849, Communication for  Cincinnati Gazette,
Bigned " K. S. Newton, H. D."
  Let  Dr. Newton have an  essay on Cancer, intended for
Dr. King's own use, and which  Dr. N. has continued to
publish as his own.
  Wrote communication, headed " Treatment of Mortifi-
cation," by It. S. Newton, M. D., and published in Eclectic
 Medical Journal, May, 1849.
  Wrote communication in reference  to Dr. J.  C. Ken-
 nedy,  published in  the "Cincinnati Bi-monthly," Sept.
 15,1851.
  Wrote communication, headed " Prof. L. M. Lawson vs.
 Eclecticism," by  R. 8. Newton,  M. D., published in the
 Eclectic Medical Journal, March, 1851.
  Revised, and corrected the grammatical errors, and read
 proof of''Our Salutation," in Ec. Med. Journal, April, 1851.
  Wrote Editorial, signtd N., concerning ." Hairpin," also,
 "Notice to Eclectic Practitioners," in  Ec. Med.  Journal,
 April, 1851.
  Wrote " Cases in Practice," in  Ec. Med. Jour., May, 1851.
  Wrote editorial, signed N., " Errors in Diagnosis," in
 Ec. Med. Journal, May, 1851.
  Wrote editorial, concerning the " Chemical Department
 of  the Institute," and Dr. Sanders, in Ec. Med. Journal.
 May. 1851.                                           '
  Wrote editorial, headed " Medical Progress," in Ec. Med.
 Journal, May, 1851.
  Wrote Editorial, signed N., relative to an article on blue
 cohosh, in Ec. Med. Journal, August, 1851.
  Wrote editorial in reply to '■ Medicus," in Ec. Medical
 Journal, 1851.
  Wrote editorial on page 527, Ec. Med. Journal, Nov. 1851.
  Wrote editorial on page 5fr3, Ec. Med. Journal, Dec. 1851.
  Wrote editorial on the "Beauties of Drugging" in Ec.
 Med. Journal, Sept. 1852.
  Revised and  corrected the grammar of communication
 relative to Dr. J. Fowlkes, and  Farmers' and Merchants'
 Bank of .Memphis, for Cin'ti Bi-monthly, March, 15, 1852.
  Wrote editorial, signed N. on  "Treatment of Cholera,"
 and, also, read the pi-wf of the article, published  in Ec.
 Med. Journal, July,  lsn2.
   Revised and corrected the grammar of Editorial headed
 " Error in Diagnosis of two of our oM gchool  physicians.
 lie,"  in Ec. Med. Journal. July. 1£52.
   Wrote editorial headed '• Chloroform," in Cincinnati Bi-
 monthly, Sept.  5, l*o 2.
   Wrote editorial, signed N., headed "bad Surgery,"  in
 Ec. Med. Journal, October, 1852.
   Wrote editorial in relation to "Dr. Jessup," in Ec Med.
 Journal, April, 1853.                    "             ' 
CAUSES  OF THE EXPULSION.
3
  Edited for Dr. Newton, and read proof of Cincinnati Bi-
monthly from August, 1851 to June, 1852.
  Wrote small editorials, corrected  grammar and  ortho-
graphy of Dr. N's remarks, read proof, prepared copy, &c,
of Ec. Med. Journal, from April, 1851 to January, 1853.
  Read proof of " Chapman on Ulcers," by R. S. Newton,
M-  D., and corrected, as well as could he done, the gram-
matical errors of the editor's notes.
  Placed Dr. R. S. Newton's name on the "American Ec-
lectic  Dispensatory," as co-author, ti  work in which he
never wrote a word, and concerning which  Dr. Newton
never fulfilled his original agreement with Dr. King, for
the title of co-author, &c.
  Wrote Dr.  Newton's part (the  Practice) of "Newton
and Powell's Practice of Medicine."
  ■'Written for O K. Newton.— July, 1851, page 196, Ner-
vous  Headache.   August,  1851, Bad  Midwifery.   July,
1852,  p. 300, Woman, and  the laws regulating  her health.
October, 1852, p. 572, Stricture Dilator.  January, 1853, p.
43, Fistula in Ano.   February, 1853, p. 68, Report of
Cases."
   As a portion of Dr. Newton's general course of pretension,
 boastiug and  failure, in professional  matters, it may be
 mentioned that in  1851 he procured the  appointment of
 his brother, 0. E. Newton, as Demonstrator of Anatomy—
 an arrangement submitted to with some reluctance upon
 assurances that he  would go to Philadelphia  and prepare
 himself for the  post.  When the  session  arrived,  he was
 found to be utterly unqualified—the class were disgusted
 with his incompetence—he was disgusted himself with his
  irn failure, and amid the general disgust he  resigned, to
 •the  general satisfaction of all.   Always  ready, however,
 to  cover  up their  ignorance by extra pretensions, they
 procured  the publication of a newspaper notice, speaking
 of Dr.  R. S.  Newton and Itis learned brother, Dr.  0. E.
 Newton.
    2.  Encumbrance.—Drs.  Newton and Freeman, in the
 general opinion of  the Faculty, were  decided  encumbran-
 ces ; for  although  the one might  have been useful as a
 demonstrator of Anatomy, and the other  as a  business
 agent,  neither  was adequate  to  the  satisfactory  perfor-
 mance of the duties he had assumed.
    The  relation  of  the College to  its  Professors presents
 frequently two opposite  conditions—they  may be either
 its supporters or its parasites.   If they are  men  of ade-
 quate  abilities to sustain and  enhance  the reputation
 of the College  they  are its supporters, and with such
 talents they  are generally able to  achieve more, both
 of profit  and  reputation in  other pursuits.  Hence,  to
 the  true  supporters  of the  Institute a  professorship is
 not  a  position of value.   They  do  not  need the  Col-
 lege,  but  the  College  needs them.   They do  not in-
 trigue  for  places,  but places are offered  them, and  they
  are begged to remain in  them as long as possible; and
  unless they are thus wanted they can  not be retained; in-
  deed it frequently  happens that they  can not be procured
  at all.   The opposite  class, unfortunately, is much more
  numerous.  Men who have not been able to achieve a satis-
  factory reputation  for themselves wish to borrow from the
  reputation which  others  have  established  for a  College.
  Charlatans wish to obtain respectability from a professor-
  ship—young men without talent or any species of superi-
  ority, delight to obtain,  by appointment, positions which
  brio'" them into association with men of high reputation.
  Wheu such individuals, from the scarcity of suitable can-
  didates, receive appointments, they cling with desperate
  tenacity to their positions.  If they  prove to be an en-
  cumbrance or  a discredit, no hint  is broad enough to
  remove them.  It  is a difficult matter for a Faculty to get
  rid of such members, and when  removed, they generally
  become revengeful against those  by whom they were dis-
  placed. Thus, Colleges have two great obstacles to success;
  it is difficult to cet rid of a true parasite, and it is difficult
  to obtain and retain a true supporter long enough to give
  stability  to the Institution. They are often drawn off  by
  their own urgent business or repelled with disgust by the
  presence of parasites, with whom they are not willing to
  be  associated, and  with  whom they are reluctant to  be
  drawn into a controversy.   As  a general rule,  all who
  cling to their places aud  make war against the unanimous
  decisiou of their colleagues, belong to the class of parasites.
    To illustrate by personal references—Prof. I. U. J on us,
  an able supporter, could not be obtained  by the  most ur-
  gent persuasions  of  Professors Morrow and Buchanan,
 until the death of the  former produced a  crisis, which
 called for some sacrifice from the supporters of Eclecticism.
  The Faculty have,  urgently and unanimously, desired to
  retain  Prof. Jones, but his health has prevented him from
 serving since 1851.                          ,.  ,      ,
    Hon7 J. B. Stallo was induced to serve as Professor of
Chemistry, but as a man of learning and genius, his legal
pursuits were too important to permit him  to  continue
long his term of service, and he resigned to the  regret of

  I might here mention also. Prof R. who was sought for
the chair of Chemistry, after the death of Prof. Morrow,
but who could  not afford to leave bis own eminent and
lucrative position.  Prof. P. and  Prof. R. being both un-
attainable, J. M. Sanders was appointed, and occupied (but
not satisfactorily) this position.
  Prof. J.  R. Buchanan was obtained, and has  been for
ten years retained, by the earnest  and unanimous wishes
of his associates, although  he has  given  notice for five
years past that he was ready to resign  his  position when-
ever a satisfactory arrangement for sustaining the pro-
fessorships could be made.  During the Spring of 18o6, he
gave notice that he would resign at the close of the session,
and but for the factious conspiracy against the Faculty,
he would have resigned at that time.  The  condition of
the  Institute, in his  opinion, calls for exertion and sacri-
fices by its friends, and he is willing to respond to the call.
  The"Profession will  not forget their debt of gratitude to
Prof. Buchanan, who has done  more to  sustain the Insti-
tute and elevate its reputation  than  any  other  living
individual.                            „ „ _  x
   Professors J. King, C. H. Cleaveland and J. W. Hoyt, were
each selected  for their positions by the unanimous wishes
of the remainder of  the Faculty ; and each would have
willingly surrendered his position if his services had not
 still been desired by the majority of the Faculty.   Nothing
 but the urgent persuasions of his colleagues prevented
 Dr. King from resigning in disgust at the  course pursued
 by Drs. Newton  and  Freeman.   The members of the Fac-
 ulty know that my own resignation has  been repeatedly
 proffered,  if they were willing to accept  it.  Professors
 Hoyt and Cleaveland occupy a similar independent position;
 willing  to serve in the cause of science, if they are needed,
 and have suitable colleagues, but on no other terms.  Such
 have been the supporters of the Institute  heretofore, and
 such, it is believed, will be Professors Burnham and Howe.
 The profession at large will perceive the absolute necessity
 of their supporting  such  men, if they do not  wish  the
 College to be sacrificed.
   Of parasites, the most flagrant examples are  found in
 Drs. Beach, Baldridge, L. E. Jones, R. S. Newton, Z. Free-
 man, and the would be parasite, 0. E. Newton.  Each  has
 been  adjudged  a heavy incumbrance, has  been unani-
 mously condemned and  turned adrift against  his own de-
 termination to hold  on as  long as permitted, with  the
 exception of 0. E. Newton, who bad not sufficient strength
 to take hold of a position in the dissecting room before he
 found it necessary  to make a precipitate retreat.
   Drs. Newton and Freeman belong to the class who need
 a  medical College  to uphold their respectability, but a
 respectable  College does not need them, aud can not afford
 to carry them.  Each intrigued to obtain his  position, held
 on as long as possible, and gave distinct intimations that
 if they were  not  retained in the  E.  M. I. they would
 attach  themselves to some other school.   If they had not
 been parasites, they would have withdrawn peaceably when
 they  found it  was  necessary to the  prosperity  of  the
 College-
   3. Disreputable Conduct.—In the publication of "New-
 tori's Express," so little regard  was paid to the  principles
 of honesty aud manliness, and there was such a propensity
 displayed  for making clandestine and slanderous attacks
 upon worthy individuals, that it was considered dishonor-
 able to the school to have the  editor and publisher of such
 a sheet connected with the Faculty.  In 1854, the Faculty
 came near disorganizing and separating themselves from
 Dr. Newton,  on account of the discredit which he  had
 brought upon them—one of them actually wrote his resig-
 nation  (See 9th page of the  Announcement of the Spu-
 rious Faculty for a full explanation of this  matter).  Be-
 fore the Faculty finally determined on his expulsion, Dr.
 Newton gave unmistakable evidence that he relied upon
 his Express and Journal to coerce and control the Faculty,
 and actively engaged in defamatory attacks upon his col-
 leagues, the dishonorable itiature of which was  hightened
 by his entering into an agreement to change the course of
 his Express (at the Faculty meeting, March, 1866), and in
 the very next issue disregarding and violating his pledge.
 His habitual disregard of truth and violation of pledges,
 whenever  he  had a  motive for  such a course, constituted
 one of  the principal causes of  his rejection and condemna-
 tion by the Faculty.
    The  objectionable style in  which Dr.  Newton pushed
 himself into  notoriety—his  general boasting—his exag-
 gerated pretensions  to success in the treatment of cancer,
  (pretensions which  were  denied by one  of his  colleagues 
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QUACKERY AND FACTIOUS CONDUCT.
who had a good opportunity of deciding upon their truth)
together with his various unfortunate failures in his sur-
gical operations, gave him so low a reputation with the
majority of the profession and a great portion of  the pub-
lic, that the effect was felt in its reaction upon the Insti-
tute.   The  name of Dr. Newton was extensively known
as that of a quack.  One of the most intelligent  students
of the  Institute was driven, chiefly by this circumstance,
to seek a College of less objectionable reputation  at the
East.   Others  have declared that, notwithstanding their
esteem for the rest of the Faculty, they could not support
the Institute while it retained such  men as Newton and
Freeman.   Physicians of intelligence, who spoke with re-
spect of other members of the Faculty, spoke of Dr. New-
ton as  a discredit to the College,  bo familiar, indeed, has
the public mind become with the  recognition of Dr. New-
ton as a quack, that his name had come to be classed with
the names of the most  notorious, and a prominent phy-
sician,  writing  in  the Cincinnati Medical Observer, a
monthly medical review, introduces his name as follows,
when  speaking of quackery:  "All  such practitioners,
whether they  belong to the regular profession or not,
must be placed in  the same category with such  noto-
rious quacks as Filch,  Newton, Pancoast and Root.'''*
  Frequent complaints were made to members of  the Fac-
ulty, by students and  by intelligent graduates, who rea-
lized the  necessity of  a change  in the departments  of
Practice and Surgery.  The following is extracted from a
letter received  by the Dean, in  Mar.h, 1856, from  one  of
the most  intelligent graduates,  and is  published as  a
specimen of sentiments which had become very  common
among the friends of the Institute.
  " Please accept my best wishes  for your success in the
field of Anthropological science ; and, also, for still greater
success, than it has  hitherto enjoyed, of the Eclectic Med-
ical Institute,  with  which  your  interests are so closely
identified.
  " Though  I can not hope, for the latter, while such inferior
men as Newton and Freeman occupy chairs iu the school—
notwithstanding the high estimation in which I hold the
abilities of the other members of  the  Faculty, I  can not
recommend young men to attend the Institute while these
two occupy professorships in it.
  " The Eclectics, I  hope, will not longer submit to having
inefficient and 'totally depraved'  men at  the  head  of
their schools.   That abominable hybrid work on practice,
issued  by Newton & Co., has brought the system  into dis-
grace, wherever it has fallen into the bands of intelligent
practitioners, or students who were becoming favorable  to
Eclecticism, and who had no other  means of ascertaining
the estimation  in which it is held by that branch  of the
profession,  than the Eclectic Medical Journal and the
circulars of  the  Institute.  The character of the school;
and the interest and character of Eclectic practitioners,
demand a just exposition of the ill-begotten affair.  Purge
the fountain-head and the stream that pours thence shall
be pure.    ******
  " P.  S. A friend at my elbow, a member of the Eclectic
branch of the profession, says he fully and freely  indorses
all that I have said with  regard  to  the Faculty  of the
Eclectic Medical Institute."
  4. Discordant, Factious, and  Disoroakizinq  conduct
toward Professors Kino  and Cleaveland.— Having ob-
tained the  confidence  of Dr. King, and made use  of the
productions of Dr. K.'s pen, to obtain for himself literary
standing, he endeavored to support his  reputation still
further by  Dr.  King's abilities, and to compel Dr. K. to
publish his name as joint  author of King's  Dispensatory.
Dr. K. however bad lost confidence in him ; he complained
that Dr. N.  had taken advantage of him, and bad tried
to obtain  his  copy-right unfairly.   He refused to insert
Dr. Newton's name on his  title page, or to surrender the
copy-right of his own  book. Dr.  Newton endeavored  to
compel Dr. King to submit to his terms by various threats,
among which were declarations that he would bring out
  *Dr. Newton's reputation as a quack, was first estab-
lished  by his cancer practice.   He gained considerable
notoriety by advertising certificates of his cure of cancer,
which he professed were made by u secret nostrum. When
applied to for his remedy, by physicians, he refused to give
it, on the  ground  that he  was under obligations  to the
amount of $1,000 to conceal his remedy.   Old school phy-
sicians would  not  forgive this use of a cancer nostrum;
but  it was  forgiven by  Eclectics, in consequence of Dr.
Newton's declarations that  he had given  up secresy and
taught all that he knew upon  the subject, in his  lectures
at Memphis            .
another work at a lower price, and supersede the Dispen-
satory by underselling it.  Various efforts were  made by
Dr. N. to bare such a work written by competent persons.
Dr. Cleaveland was applied to, but did not prove available;
an  announcement of such a work was  printed iu a clan-
destine maimer in the Express;  and finally, his opposition
was bought off by the publishers, who gave him a number
of copies of the Dispensatory.  A rigorous effort was made
by  Dr. N. to prevent  the  Faculty from recommending
King's Dispeusatory, and various accusations against  it
were made by him, which were  ascertained to le grossly
untrue. He represented, for  example, that  it mentioned
about a hundred concentrated medicines which had  never
been manufactured!   The grossuess of his misrepresenta-
tions served  only to destroy confidence in his  veracity,
and excite astonishment at bis recklessness.
  Dr. King offended Dr. Newton deeply again, by denounc-
ing the impure  medicines of Keith & Co., and publishing
in medical journals  his analysis of them.   Dr. Newton
refused his communication a phice in the Eclectic Medical
Journal.  The performance of his duty in  this mutter, by
Dr. King, with the co-operation of Professors Cleaveland
and Hoyt, caused  violent attacks  upon  Drs. King  and
Cleaveland, and upon King's Dispensatory, to be published
by Dr.  Newton.   These attacks, which  were written by an
attache of the Keith  establishment, produced a  Faculty
meeting on the  6th of March, when Dr. Newton promised
reformation, only to break his promise as soon as he could.
Dr. King, af;er the course  pursued by Dr. Newton in  1M65,
did not hesitate to  express his opinion of  Dr. N's profes-
sional course and capacities, and to say what  he  thought
of Dr.  Newton's claims  to extraordinary success in  the
treatment of cancer, which he discredited.
  The course pursued by Dr. Newton toward Dr. King, in
reference to his book, was such that Drs. Cleaveland, Buc-
hanan, Sherwood  and Hoyt, who were made acquainted
with the facta, and endeavored to settle  the difficulty as
disinterested  parties,  became  thoroughly satisfied   that
Dr. Newton's conduct was  entirely inexcusable and dis-
creditable.
  His course toward Dr. Cleaveland was equally censurable
and equally reckless of the interests of the school,  for,
notwithstanding  his personal warfare against those gen-
tlemen, he  always felt, and has often  expressed his high
appreciation of  them  as scientific teachers,   lie was  es-
pecially urgent for the appointment of Dr. Cleaveland, and
expressed the wish that  Dr. C. should, after a while, take
the chair of  Practice.   The appointment of Dr. C. bad
been proposed and thought desirable in 1852 ; the arrange-
ment was not made, however, until 1854.   Upon his arri-
val, Dr.  Newton formed  literary engagements with  Dr.
Cleaveland, whose writings he proposed to publish, which
engagements  were violated ;  about the  same time, also,
Dr. Cleaveland refused to allow Dr. Newton to appro) riate
as his own, articles written by Dr. C, and to publish them
in the Eclectic Journal over his signature N.
  Dr.  Newton finding Dr. Cleaveland  not  available  as a
literary tool, and not willing to assist in his warfaie against
Dr. King,  became unfriendly,  and endeavored in  every
possible way to render his position unpleasant, and to pro-
cure his rejection as a  professor, by the Board of Trus-
tees, in 1855 ; (the Board did not meet in 1854.) Dr. R.
S. Newton  and  his •' learned brother," Dr. O. E. Newton,
busied  themselves, not only in circulating reports against
Dr. C, and giving out privately that he was a traitor to
the school, and that he would soon be expelled from  the
Faculty, but made frequent complaints against Dr. C. to
members of the  Faculty, which,  when investigated by
them, proved to be gross misrepre-eutations of the  facts.
In self-defense Dr. Cleaveland could not refrain fiom ex-
pressing, occasionally, his opinion of Dr. Newton's scien-
tific deficiencies.
  Dr. C, as Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics,
lectured  upon the subject of Therapeutics  to show  the
proper use of medicines, and  the Faculty, knowing that
such instruction was necessary and valuable, ami was not
adequately given by Dr. Newton, would not censure his
course at the request of Dr. N.
  Dr.  Newton, not content  with his  own department of
instruction, kept up a controversy with Dr. Cleaveland on
account of his  own  course  of  lecture*,  because Dr. C.
would not co operate with bim  in advocating ar.d recom-
mending Keith's adulterated medicines ; aud, not content
with private opposition, announced a course of lectures on
Materia Medica,  at the clinical amphitheater, in whi- h  it
was privately given  out that he would show up the de-
ficiencies of Dr. Cleaveland's course.  The members  of the
Faculty attended  the first  lecture, aud the course sud-
denly  aborted—tho proposed remarks were not made. 
DISCORD, TREACHERY, AND QUACKERY.                            5
  To settle the controversy as to the genuineness of the
medicines, which Dr. C. was  forbidden  to condemn, Pro-
fessors King, Hoyt and Cleaveland, in 1855, made a chemical
analysis,  which demonstrated beyond  doubt  that  they
Were  ba-e adulterations ; but this, instead of procuring
an apology  from Dr. Newton for his course, only made
him vindictive against them for making such an exposure.
  A great amount of discord  was  produced in  the school
by niachiu itious aud gossip, in which it was believed Dr.
Newton  was  concerned.   This  being traced towards its
source, a member of the class, W. M. N., an intimate asso-
ciate  and protrgi of Dr. Newton, was found guilty, upon
trial  before the Faculty, of improper conduct, falsehood,
and abusive language toward the Professors, and was con-
sidered worthy of immediate  expulsion.  At the  request
of Dr. Newton, however, he was  let off with a public rep-
rimand, aud the announcement that any repetition of his
conduct would result in expulsion ;  this was  the unani-
mous action of the  Faculty.  At the  next session he was
refused admission.   As the conduct which merited expul-
sion  was  believed by the Faculty to  be instigated  by Dr.
N., this  necessarily increased their disapprobation of his
course.
   The maneuvres  of Dr. N. did  not  succeed  in injuring
the standing  of Dr. Cleaveland—on the contrary, the mem-
bers  of the class were strongly impressed by the fact that
he hud  been persecuted  and annoyed in  the midst  of
zealous and faithful efforts to  perform his duty,  and to
indicate their approbation and esteem, publicly presented
Dr. C. with a case of surgical instruments at  the close of
 his first courte of lectures (at the public commencement
 in Masonic Hall), to the great annoyance of Dr. Newton,
 who  took the liberty of suppressing the fact in  the report
 of the commencement exercises, in  the Eclectic  Medical
 Journal—a paltry but characteristic stratagem.
   Finally, having failed to  injure Dr.  Cleaveland  in  the
 estimation  of his colleagues and of the  class (and having
 injured himself in the  attempt),  he took advantage of the
 fact  that the  Board of Trustees had  not met,  aud conse-
 quently had  not confirmed Dr. Cleaveland's appoiutment,
 and  attempted, July 2d, 1*55, after  Dr. C. bad delivered
 two courses,  to induce  the Board to refuse their sanction.
 Two  meuibers of  the  Board (Drs. Buchanan  and Sher-
 wood) were privately addressed in  the most humble and
 persuasive manner, to induce  them  to consent  to  Dr.
 Cleaveland's  dismission.   After exhausting his persuasive
 powers, hk pledued himselt to us  in the most solemn
 and   unqualified  manner, that he  would never  deliver
 another course of lectures  with  Dr. Cleaveland as a mem-
 ber  of  the  same  Faculty.  There  were no qualifica-
 tions, conditions or circumstances to this pledge.   It was
 as distinct, unqualified, and, apparently, as sincere a pledge
 as he could make, and yet, it produced no effect whatever.
 It inspired a  faint  hope, it is true, that he might  keep his
 pledge  aud  resign;  for  we regarded that  as the best
 thing thut could happen, but  we hud seen  so much of
 bis  insincerity that we regarded the  pledge  as a mere
 stratagem  to carry his point, and paid no regard to it.
 The  Board would not  accede to Dr. Newton's demand, and
 he quietly  gave up  the point and went  on to lecture again
 as usual, without  a blush or an  apology for  his violated

   Against  Professors  J. R. Buchanan, I. G. Jones, J. W.
 Hoyt, and  myself,  personally, Dr.  N. had  no  complaint;
 but  they had each observed his  course of intrigue  and
 falsehood, and had become, by degrees, familiar with his
 deficiencies and quackeries, and conscious that his pre-
 sence was a deep injury to the Institute. He knew enough
 of their sentiments to  feel that  he would not be upheld
 by them, aud  to feel  it necessary to  make exertions in
 other directions to enlist friends  and supporters.   Hence,
 bis  physopathic intrigues.
   The treacherous course  pursued by Dr. Newton against
 the whole Faculty, was conspicuous iu the fact  that having
 been eutrusted as  treasurer with the management of the
 financial business of the College, he advised and urged the
 is«ue of stock for  the  payment of dividends in 1853  and
 IS ,4   This  measure, he assured the  Faculty, was per-
 fectly le?al, and he, in conjunction with the  majority of
 the "stockholders (excepting Dr.  L. E. Jones) accepted the
 arrangement as satisfactory.  But, as  soon as  his conspir-
 acv with I>r.  L. K. J. was matured, he  took ground that
 this  i sue. urged and carried out for  three  years  by him-
 self  was illegal, and that the Faculty were  bound to raise
 the ca^b  fr the benefit of Dr. L. E. Jones,  and cancel the
 Stock  To perfect  his treachery,  he actually refused to
 "sue about eight hundred  dollars of stock, actually due
 the Faculty,  for money recently  advanced.
   6.  Achve  support  of  Quackjskt.-TIw efforts of Dr.
Newton to convert the Eclectic Medical  Institute into an
appendage  to  a  quack manufactory of medicines, consti-
tuting so  prominent a part of his career, and  a leading
cause of discord with the Faculty, require a satisfactory ex-
position, that  all may see how  much the  honor of  our
profession is involved in this  matter.  The history of thia
quackery is as follows :
  A few years since, a Mesmeric  exhibitor  in tbe city of
New York, a man of very little science, undertook to es-
tablish a  shop, especially for the manufacture and sale of
the Eclectic concentrated  medicines.  This establishment
bore the title of Franklin Institute.  Such titles given to
common  shops are  generally evidences of quackery and
false  pretensions.  The establishment did not, I believe,
realize much, either of character or money, and was suc-
ceeded by B. Keith  4 Co.  Mr. Keith (formerly a Thom-
sonian or Botanico-medical practitioner) appears to have
had a natural propensity for sinister movements. He an-
nounced  the  establishment as the American   Chemical
Institute ;  advertised extensively, and procured a book to
be written, entitled  " Positive medical agents," to advertise.
his busiuess, in which the origin of the new remedies was
very  carefully concealed.  lie also announced himself,
when expedient, as  belonging to the old school  organiza-
tion in sentiment.
  His medicines were sent forth  as nostrums, their mods
of manufacture being concealed, and it was very soon dis-
covered that they were in many cases  gross adulterations
and  impositions. Great complaints were made in  every
direction of the  spurious character of his  concentrated
medicines,* and the matter at length attracted scientifie
investigation. The professors of Materia Medica and Chem-
istry iu the Eclectic Medical Institute, and Prof. King, the
author of the new Dispensatory, thought it necessary to
examine these preparations, as they were extensively ad-
vertised and were actively recommended by Dr.  Newton.
  There was another remarkable  circumstance  connected
with them.   It  was given out by Dr. Newton that the
parties concerned in the manufacture of these  medicines
at New York, had a large amount of capital, and were de-
termined to establish, on a liberal scale,  a splendid  medi-
cal college, which would co-operate harmoniously with the
Eclectic  Medical Institute, and  form its Faculty chiefly
from the  Faculty of the  Institute.  Places were tendered:
to members of the Faculty, tbe new college was mentioned
in the Eclectic Journal, and it appeared that, by co-operat-
ing  with Keith's drug business, a  brilliant prospect was
to be opened for the Faculty, in a new and imposing school,
The Faculty, however, were not captivated by empty boasts
and promises, and  did not believe  that a medical school,
established for tbe purpose of aiding a druggist,  would ba
any thing honorable and important; nor were they to be
bribed into the  support  of quackery by any prospective
pecuniary benefits.  If capital was  really pledged to such
purposes, they were determined that the Eclectic Medical
Institute, and the majority of its Faculty, should have no
connection with any such schemes,  unless they  were truly
of an honorable nature.   As the Keith medicines appeared
to be the foundation of the whole  scheme, their first in-
vestigation of them dissipated  into air  the whole  of the
New York bubble, by showing its rotten foundation—since
which, the  great New York College has  been among the
things that luive been dreamed of.
  A regular aualysis of the Keith medicines was made by
Professors King, Hoyt and Cleaveland.   The results were-
  * The American Medical and Surgical Journal of May
and June, 1865, remarked, editorially, (P- 262)
  " I have been perplexed aud  chagrined  the  past  year,
because a great  quantity of the  concentrated  remedies
were either  inert, or proved severe irritants.  There wa*
not that uniformity in their  action,  which had before
characterized their therapeutic action.   Numerous letters,
from many among the brightest lights  in  the profession,
have been received, making inquiry of me, if "something
can not be done  to correct the  progress of adulterations,
and expose  the  black-hearted, infamous  scoundrels, who?
make merchandize of human health, suffering aud life;
as also, hesitated  not to rob all our classes of practitioners
of their hard-earned professional characters."
  This j.'rave and weighty consideration, induced a  large
number^of those of us who have been instrumental  in
bringing the new remedies into  general use, to investigate
and expose the nature of these frauds, and the  unprin-
cipled  perpetrators of them.  We  have a  rich time of  it,
aud have begun to unravel and reveal  the  secrets, by the
unerring result of correct chemical  analysis.   1 am an
eye witness to the investigations." 
6                   ADULTERATED MEDICINES-FACULTY  RESOLUTIONS.
given in the lectures of Prof. C, and  an article on the
subject, which was offered by Dr. K. to the Eclectic Med-
ical Journal, and refused publication by Dr. Newton, was
published in other medical journals.  For the same reason
Dr. Cleaveland had  to  publish elsewhere the statement
first made by himself, from which the following extract is
taken:

  " Dr. Hill, of the firm of F. D. Hill & Co , of this city, has
given me the following slight memoranda.  He is to test
these agents still further.
  "'R. Hydrastine, grs. 22.  Asclepidin,grs 40. Hydrastin,
grs. 22.   Irisin. grs. 30.  Lobelin. grs. 40.  Gelsemin, grs.
29.  Podophyllin, grs. 40.   Boiling Alcohol, 98 per cent.
above proof, 4 ounces.'
  '• I digested the  above for three hours, with repeated
agitation  The Podophyllin and Hydrastine are both solu-
ble in boiling Alcohol.   The other five articles threw down
a copious precipitate.  In the Lobelin, 1 found Magnesia
and Lobelia seeds, and  a white substance on which the |
Sulphuric  Acid  would  not  act.  The  following are tbe
weights of  the precipitate I obtained from the Alcoholic
solutions.  From the Hydrastine, 30 grains; Asclepidin,
29 grains;  Irisin, 20  grains; Lobelin, 25 grains, and from
the Gelsemin, IS grains.  All and each of the precipitates
are soluble in Sulphuric Acid.
  " Others  who  have tested these articles, have  obtained
similar  results.   Mr. Gordon found that  Xanthoxylin
yielded  60 per cent, of Magnesia, and that Lobelin yielded
80  per  cent.  Some of these specimens  examined were
taken from bottles sent by Keith & Co. to Dr.  R. S. New-
ton.  Those tested by Mr.  Wayne were sent by the manu-
facturers to me,  as samples of their agents."

  As Dr. Newton  was  determined  to  pay no regard  to
chemical analysis, or any  other proof of fraud,  he soon
came into  collision with his colleagues.  Knowing very
little of chemistry, but familiar with  the arts of the scur-
rilous demagogue, he seemed to suppose that a liberal dis-
charge of abusive language would more  than  match the
simple  facts of  chemical  science.  The contest began by
an attack  upon Dr.  King's Dispensatory, in the  Express
and Eclectic Journal, and an assault upon the editors of
the College Journal, as  guilty of falsehood and depravity
(March, 1856).
   Dr. King, tired as he was of association with Dr. New-
ton, refused to continue any further his course of lectures,
until the difficulty was  in some manner settled,  by resig-
nation  or  compromise.  A meeting of the Faculty was
called on  the afternoon of the  tame day, and while the
Faculty were thus engaged, a meeting of the class was
held, and resolutions were passed, strongly sustaining Dr.
King, aud  hoping that,  whatever else might be  done, his
services would be retained in the College.  At the Faculty
meeting Dr. King laid down his ultimatum, and after con-
siderable discussion, Dr. Newton acceded to his demands.
Dr. Kiog  also insisted  (having  very little confidence  in
Dr. Newton"s  integrity) that the matter should  be put in
writing and  signed  by  the parties.  The agreement was
reduced to writing  on  the spot, by Dr.  Buchanan, and
signed  by  Drs. Newton and King.  Dr. Newton also agreed
to retract  and apologize for his assault upon the editors of
 the College  Journal, and  a specific form of apology w as
 written out, and, after considerable discussion  as to  its
 language,  agreed upon by the parties;  which apology was
 subsequently published in the Eclectic Journal, but with
 a little alteration from the form which had solemnly been
 agreed upon as a settlement of the matter—a paltry trick,
 which was considered to be  in keeping  with Dr. N.'s whole
 course.   His charge  of falsehood was  malicious;  he
 knew it to be untrue,  but he did not appear to under-
 stand how an honorable man should  apologize  for gross
injustice.

       Extract  from the Minutes of  the Faculty.

   "The following is a  copy of an 'Agreement of Dr. R. S.
 Hewton and Dr. John King::

    " 1.  Dr. Newton to abstain from publishing in the Ex-
 press, and Eclectic Medical Journal, any thing which has a
 personal bearing against members of the Eclectic Medical
 Institute, or agaiuat the College itself.
    •' 2.  Dr. Newton is not to use the influence of the Ex-
 press and  Eclectic Medical Journal, to advocate and uphold
 the so-called National Eclectic Medical Convention, or
 Association, which  is to  meet  in New  York next June,
 and which  has been repudiated  by the Faculty of  the
 Institute.
    «• 3.  Dr. Newton is not to keep before the public as asso-
ciate editor any gentleman known to  be connected with
the manufacture and sale of nostrums.
                                     " R. S. Newton,
                                     «'J. Kino."
  "Prof. R. S. Newton also agreed to make the amende
honorable, by recalling his  remarks made in the Eclectic
Medical Journal, concerning the editors of the  College
Journal, and the article  headed  ' New Remedies—How to
test them,' in  both  the  Eclectic Medical Journal and the
Express.  He also agreed, that as the obnoxious  article of
Dr. Grover Coe, relative  to  King's Am. Ec. Dispens., was
already printed on one side of the Express, to disavow and
repudiate the  incorrect statements  therein made, on the
other side.                     John Kino. Secretary."

  Remarks of the Editors of the  College Journal.
  " In justice to  Prof. Newton, lest he should appear in too
inconsistent  an attitude  in  view of all the facts, we  deem
it  proper  to state, that during the  discussion which re-
sulted  in  the final  action  given  above, he  expressed  as
much hostility to the so-called Nat. Ec. Med Ass., as any
of us, and that his publications in  its favor were meant
as strokes of policy, whereby  we might gain influence
in the  Association, have its next meeting  held  in Cin-
cinnati, and then appear in sufficient'strength 'to kill
it.'
  " Respect  to the fidelity  of history, also requires us to
call special attention to the fact, that notwithstanding the
solemn pledges given to his colleagues, as  above copied
from the  minutes,  he did, in the  next number of the
Erjiress, reprint  his  former article  in  favor of  the Nat.
Ec. Med.  Ass.,  and did  not! 'disavow,'  nor 'repudiate,'
any of the ' incorrect statements' of ' Dr. Grover Coe.'
                            '• J. R. Buchanan, M. D.
                            "J.King, M. D.
                            " W. Sherwood, M. D.
                            "J. W. Hoyt, M. D.
                            "C. II. Cleaveland, M.D."
  The Faculty were disgusted, but not astonished, to find
that the whole  written  pledge was  entirely disregarded,
and speedily violated, by re-publishing in  the Express the
very article  indorsing the N. Y. meeting, which had been
thus repudiated ; and the  same abusive articles against
Dr. King,  without any correction.  This gross violation of
the written  pledge,  Dr. N. has since  attempted to excuse,
on the ground  that a city newspaper, just started, con-
tained  an editorial article reflecting upon  himself, that
copies  had  been sent to the College for distribution, and
that the Faculty were accessory to the proceeding.  The
members of the Faculty had really nothing to do with this ;
on the contrary, when they saw the  newspapers, they re-
commended the gentlemen  who received, not to distribute
them, as they did not wish  such matters spread before the
class.   It was tbe misfortune of Dr. Newton, that his con-
duct in the Martha Washington business, and other mat-
ters, had long been  known to the editor of the Freeman,
and be deemed it his editorial duty to speak out.  Having
been well acquainted with members of the class he  heard
the news of the College, and thought it worth publishing.
This false and flimsy pretext of Dr. Newton, for violating
a pledge, needs no comment.
   The  following resolutions were  adopted  at  the  same
meeting of the Faculty (March  6th,  1856), in  order to
define  the  position  of  the Institute,  before the  public,
which had been somewhat compromised by Dr. Newton's
publications:
   "At a meeting of  the Faculty of the Eclectic Medical
Institute, held on March 6th, VZ6, Professors J. R. Buc-
hanan, C. H. Cleaveland, R. S. Newton, W. Sherwood, Z.
Freeman  and J. King, being present, the following reso-
 lutions were unanimously passed:
   "Resolved, That  the  Faculty of  this  Institute  do not
 recognize any existing organization in the United  States,
 as'The National Eclectic  Medical  Association,'and will
 not authorize any person or persons to represent us in any
 body so styled, as at present constituted.
   "Resolved, That this  Faculty fully indorse ' King's Ec-
 lectic Dispensatory,' believing it  to be as free from error
 as any other similar work, and believing the author to be
 fully capable and willing to correct and improve the work
 as truth  and progressive science may require.
   "Resolved,  That with reference to pharmaceutical pre-
 parations, this  Faculty require, as a prerequisite to their
 being  employed or  recommended  by us as therapeutio
 agents, that the following rules shall be observed :
   "First, A method must be made  public by which each
 agent may be produced. 
MANEUVERS WITH  THE PSEUDO-ECLECTIC CONVENTION.
7
  "Second, Where agents are incapable of being  tested by
chemistry, the  names  and proportions of  all the ingre-
dients entering into their composition, or used  in their
preparation, must be made public.
  '■Third, Agents purporting  to  be pure alkaloids,  resi-
noids, acids, etc., must not  be adulterated, or combined
with  other substances, unless the  fact be stated on the
labels.                         j. r.  Buchanan, Dean.
  "J. King, Secretary."
  Drs. Newton and Freeman  did not venture to oppose
these resolutions before the  Faculty.   Dr.  F. voted  for
them, and Dr. N. heard, without objection, the remark I
when the vote was  taken, that  they were  unanimously |
passed.   Nevertheless,  they perceived the position in which
they  were placed, and disavowed supporting the resolu-
tions, when they were  published;  thus,  placing them-
selves distinctly on the platform of quackery.
  The treacherous  and  inconsistent course which  they
pursued, in reference  to the pseudo Eclectic Convention,
was very characteristic.   In  May, lS/il,  Dr. Buchanan,
then  President of the  National Eclectic Medical  Associa-
tion,  perceiving that it was impossible to  gather, in  any
convention or meeting,  a  national  representation of the
Profession, and that each meeting would be nothing more
than a gathering of the  physicians  of the  neighborhood,
with  perhaps a dozen  from a distance, recommended  such
a course as honesty ard truth required  under  such circum-
stances, viz., the omission of the title "national," which
was untrue and deceptive; "leaving each Eclectic Medical
Association to be designated  by the locality at  which it
meets."  This policy Dr. Newton agreed to sustain when he
attended the meeting at Pittsburg, but it was not adopted.
Probably he did not sustain it.
  Subsequently, the leading editorial of the Eclectic Jour-
nal, July, 1853, contained the following  sentiments, in
which Dr. N.  fully coincided,  although he  was not the
author of the article (page 311).
  " True, we have, through courtesy, given to these meet-
ings  the  title  which  they assumed as national; but  we
would now say that these poetical liberties in the use of
language, should terminate; and  we can not recognize any
local meeting  of physicians (not large enough to fill a pri-
vate parlor) as a national assembly. Whether such meet-
ings  are held in New England, Florida, or California, we
shall recognize them  for  precisely what  they  are,  and
nothing more.   Meetings at the eastern  border of our
republic are not central to the Eclectic medical profession,
and consequently they merely serve  the  purpose of en-
abling a few gentlemen residing iu that quarter, to present
themselves and their  personal views or wishes before the
public  as national matters, emanating from the repre-
sentatives of the entire profession.     *     *    *     *
  "In fact, the National Eclectic Medical Association has
Substantially ceased to exist. The constitution and by-laws
are here; and the parties who  are  carrying  on  the  cere-
monies and keeping up the name, are probably not aware
of  the rules of the society, or that  their proceedings  are
informal, if not a legal nonentity.
  " We have no objection to the  meeting of  the friends of
medical reform anywhere and everywhere; on  the con.
trary, we deeply regret that our conventions and associa-
tions are not kept up with more  spirit and extensive  co-
operation ;  but we do object to having  small sectional
meetings trumpeted abroad with national titles.   Such
operations resemble too closely  the policy  of Dr. Beach,
and we hope to see no  more of it.
  " P. S. Since writing the above, we have been  informed,
to  our surprise, by one who had conversed  with a mem-
ber of the Philadelphia  meeting, that it was ridiculously
small—so small that we can scarcely credit the  fact that
such a meeting could have assumed  the title of a National
Association.  If our informant was correct, we think  the
gentlemen concerned would have acted with  more dignity
by  laughing over the  failure and adjourning sine die on
the spot."
  In  July, 1S55, Dr.  Newton published, in the Eclectic
Journal, the  following protest, to which he,  and  others of
Faculty, had previously given  assent, but appended to it a
qualifying postscript of his own, by  which  le individually
repudiated the  idea of  calling  the meeting a  national
association.
      "AMERICAN ECLECTICISM— A PROTEST.
  "In the New York Tribune of the 6th and 7th of June, I
observe a report of what  is somewhat facetiously called  the
'National Eclectic Medical Association,' consisting of an
assembly, according to the reporter's  count  of the votes,
of twenty-five medical gentlemen.
  " It will be presumed, of course, from its high sounding
title, that  this assembly bore some resemblance, in its
character, to the National Medical Association, and is to
be considered an  authorized  national representative of
not less than  three thousand physicians, who are known
as American Eclectics.  As such an impression would be
erroneous and unjust, permit me to remark that  the so-
called National Eclectic  Medical Association is in no sense
a national affair, and does not represent the views  or  sen-
timents of American Eclectics.
  " It appears to have consisted of a miscellaneous  gather-
ing, in which Eclecticism, Botanico-Medicalism, Thomson-
ism, Physio-Medicalism,  and other indescribable forms of
independent radicalism, were harmoniously  jumbled to-
gether.   As for being represented before the medical pub-
lic by this accidental olla podrida  meeting, I beg leave to
enter a very decided protest, not only in behalf of myself
as an individual and a medical professor, but  as Dean, in
behalf of the Faculty of the Eclectic Medical Institute, who
do not desire to have the little reputation they may have
enjoyed  rendered entirely  ludicrous by  the  position in
which  they would be placed, if  the New York meeting
were recognized as their representative.
  " The  Eclectic  Medical Institute of Cincinnati is the
parent school,  in which the  title of Eclectic was first
adopted, as a designation of liberal American principles in
medicine; anterior to which time, the title  of American
Eclectic was unknown.
  " In  this school a majority of those educated American
Eclectics, who are fully acquainted with the American sys-
tem, have  received  their education—the number of ma-
triculants in the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati,
since its establishment in 1845. having been 2,143.
  '• We  hope that the press and the public  will  not be
deceived  by the high soundiDg but baseless title of National
Eclectic  Medical  Association, or attach an undue impor-
tance to such unauthorized or promiscuous meetings, or
hold others responsible  for their proceedings, who  dis-
tinctly and totally disavow all responsibility for and con-
nection with  the  New York  meeting, with which they are
not and will not be professionally identifibd.
                                 "Jos. R. Buchanan.
  "Cincinnati, June 22,1855."

  " We copy the foregoing  from the Daily Columbian, of
this city.  So far as we are concerned individually, and as
a member of tbe Faculty of tbe Eclectic Medical Institute,
we protest only against a few physicians claiming to rep-
resent all the Eclectic profession, by using the title of the
' National  Eclectic  Medical Association.'  That  body of
men had the right, in their own name, to make such laws,
rules and regulations for themselves, as best suited them,
and to such a course we have no objections.   Yet, we are
of the opinion that their action should be regarded by the
profession as  tbe doings of a local society, and not those
of a national body.                               N."

  Yet, after this protest, in 1855, Dr. Newton found him-
self, in 1856, desperately in want of friends and  supporters,
and determined to  reverse  his course, to secure  the co-
operation of  the New York meeting, with  its spurious
title, which he had already condemned as an imposition
upon the public.  The spurious pretensions of that meet-
ing were perfectly in harmony with his own  position and
character, and he knew that it was available for any hum-
bug purpose that he desired.  Hence, he  commenced ad-
vertising and  puffing  it in  the Eclectic  Medical Journal
and Express, thus repudiating the policy and  position of
the Institute, as well as the principles of common honesty.
This course of duplicity and intrigue, designed to array a
spurious organization  against the Faculty, aroused their
attention,  and the  result was as shown  above, that Dt.
Newton, under the moral force of their indignation, which
his conduct had excited, was made not only to pledge him-
self, but to sign a written pledge to change his course, and
cease to uphold the New York  imposition—a pledge which
he violated without scruple or hesitation.
  The character of this  intrigue is further developed in
the following article on "conglomeration." from  the Col-
lege Journal, and in the indorsement of the  convention
by the Botanico-inedical organ of Dr. Curtis, as follows:
  '•The National Eclectic Medical  Association,  which  con-
vened in New York last June, embraced within  its folds
such staunch  l'hvsio-mcilicali.-ts as H. M.  Sweet, I. M.
Comings, J. D. Friend,  P. .NOtesbury, and H. A.  Archer.
The Convention had a  rough  synopsis of the Baltimore
Platform presented  to  it,  and,  upon full  deliberation,
adopted that platform as the expression of its own senti-
ments.   This was a  result so wholly unlooked for, that 
•             PSEUDO-ECLECTICISM, CONGLOMERATION  AND ADULTERATION.
Prof. Buchanan, in the name of tbe Eclectic Medical In-
stitute of Cincinnati, publicly denied  the validity of the
Convention, and repudiated their proceedings and resolu-
tions.  Recently the Fatuity of this Institute, in a formal
meeting, refused to recognize  the  existence of any such
Eclectic Association, and determined to not be represented
In the ' so-called' one which is to meet in New York City
next month.
  "To our mind,  this is  the most open and consistent
thing which this Faculty has done for many years.  The
New York meeting  adopted  the opinion,  that ' Irritation.
lever and Inflammation are not di.-eases, but Physiological
efforts to remove  Disease.'  This is a doctrine  to which
the Eclectics of this city, and of the whole West, are most
positively opposed ; and it constitutes  the great ground of
difference between  them and the true medical reformer.
We were not surprised, therefore, to see Dr. Buchanan
repudiate the convention which sanctioned any such sen-
timent.    *      *      *      *      *      *      * |
  " We hope that our eastern friends will  now see the pro- |
priety of drawing a distinction between truth  and error, :
and cease to barter their  birth-right  by  paying  court to
to the term Eclectic.  Buchanan and  his confreres origi-
nated that name, and have  the  best  right of  explaining
what it means.  They have, in a negative sense, done this
by repudiating the Convention of 1855. held in  New York.
They never have and never will stand on the  platform
there adopted, and  it seems to us the bight  of folly for
the friends of that platform to he willing to " welcome with
open arms " a set of men so proscriptive and so  completely
Allopathic as the Faculty of the Eclectic Medical Institute
of  Cincinnati. If principles are to be  valued as any
better than straws, let those who have faith in the Balti-
more Platform stand firmly by themselves, and not  again
lend their names to the farce of reiterating the truths of
that platform  in the name of Eclecticism."
  The  above explains why  Dr.  Newton amalgamates 60
completely with the Physopaths.  Their  leading doctrine
is the doctrine of  his bl/ok  and lectures.  He has  aban-
doned the  fundamental doctrines which have been taught
by all the  leaders  of American Eclecticism, and substan-
tially united in sentiment with  the most inveterate and
rancorous  opponents  of the Eclectic  Medical  Institute 11
These doctrines were taught in bis lectures before they
were observed by the  Faculty ; and when he attempted by
a cunning stratagem to commit the Institute, through his
Journal and  the  pseudo-Eclectic  meeting, to  this  union
with Physopathy, the Faculty thought it necessary to re-
new their repudiation of such schemes, as well as of tbe
adulterated medicines, upheld by tbe Eclectic Journal,
and favored by the pseudo-Eclectic, Physopathic conven-
tion.  The  following notice of the subject, from the Col-
lage Journal,  explains more fully this intrigue.

                " CONGLOMERATION.
   " In science we object to the confusion of technical terms—
in pharmacy,  to adulterated drugs—in literature and pro-
fessional life,  to the  general conglomeration of distinct
and incompatible elements.
   " We  take it for granted, that no  honorable  physician
can either engage  in or sanction pharmaceutic  frauds, and
consider it equally clear, that  no true Eclectic can desire
to confound in the public mind, tbe position of the  Eclec
He Medical Institute and its graduates, with  that of the
physopathic party, the leaders of which, in Cincinnati
and elsewhere, have, ever since  the early labors of Pro-
fessors  Morrow and  I. G.  Jones, at Worthington, been
among the most malignant and  untiring opponents of the
 Institute and its Faculty.  Without meaning any disre-
spect whatever, to worthy physicians  who have been mis-
led by  the physopathic views of medical science  (with
whom we have no collision), we can not forget  the amount
 of charlatanism of the quasi-Thomsonian  party in this
State, as shown in the course of its principal  demagogue.
If more respectable individual* have since come forward,
 they have not succeeded in repudiating  the leadership of
 their pioneer, and the character which he has  given to his
 faction.
   " With  these views we have felt compelled  to protest
 against the New York conglomeration of between twenty
 and thirty individuals, which assumed  to itself, without
 right, the title of" National Eclectic Medical Association,"
 and which was recently  claimed by the Physio-Medical
 Journal, as an affair of its own stripe.
   "Recently, we observe, a few individuals have met in
 New York, June 10th, under  the title of the ' New York
 State Botauic  Medical Society.'  How many were  present
 we are not informed.  We merely note the fact that they
 met in the room of the Physopathic school (the Metropol-
itan), that Samuel Tulhill, M. D., was president, and that
'Professors Newton, Freeman and Sunders, of Cincinnati,'
are recorded as having been present and ' invited  to par-
ticipate in the deliberations of tbe meeting.'
  •' We observe also, in the  proceedings of this  society,
that the  following report was presented in reference  to
Keith & Co.'s concentrated adulterations :
  '•' The  committee on concentrated medicine reported  as
follows:
  " ' Your committee to whom the subject of concentrated
medicines was referred, would make the following report.
We have  examined the j reparations of B. Keith « Co., of
this city, and have been much pleased with  the courtesy
shown us, in the full and clear explanations given  us of
his method of concentration, and with the extent of bis
business, showing conclusively, that there is an increasing
demand for the indigenous remedies of the country.  Tbe
inertness and worthlessntss of some  of the preparations
which  have been  manufactured by Keith  A Co., are now
fully accounted for, by the isolated separation of some of
the principles, and supposing that the medical virtue re-
sided in certain portions,  where now, by later discoveries,
they tell  us they unite all the parts of  the plant, and thus
the practitioner  gets just what  he wants, viz:  the whole
article in a concentrated form.  If the representations of
B. Keith  4 Co. are correct, aud their establishment is mak-
ing discoveries every day in the preparation of our reme-
dies, we can  but  feel  a confidence  iu  their manufacture,
and would express the hope that the patronage which has
been so liberally bestowed by our profession, will  be con-
tinued to them.'
  "This learned report, which communicates no informa-
tion whatever in  relation  to concentrated remedies, but
consists entirely of an apology and a puff for Keith & Co.,
probably prepared by some one  personally interested, was
just the  apology and indorsement which that miserable
imposition required.   Whether Messrs. Newton  & Co.,
succeeded in getting a similar indorsement of Keith & Co.,
from their pretended Eclectic convention, we kuow not,
as a full  report of its proceedings has not yet reac bed us—
but we anticipated nothing more from the first, than that
this pseudo-Eclectic affair was to be used as a puffing ma-
chine for  these pharmaceutical frauds and other spurious
enterprises.  The above report is itself a concentrated fraud.
The 'inertness and worthlessness' which they confess (for
it is sub.lantially the report of Keith  &  Co.), and which
they knew was due to magnesia and  other adulterations,
they would  ascribe to their having  made their remedies
too pure.  How very stupid they ruuBt suppose the medical
profes-ion to bel  With  all the faults  of the old school
party in  medicine, they never tolerate  any such  corrupt
and bare-faced charlatanism as this.  The parties who at-
tempt it  are compelled to stand outside  of all respectable
associations, and  it is an  insult to Eclectic physicians, to
suppose that they, as a profession, can be brought to tole-
rate any thing so degrading.
   " So much for the iV". Y. State Botanic  Medical Society,
which gives this precious  report as a part of its prooceed-
inga, without protest or rebuke !
   "The  next day the pseudo-Eclectic convention met,
consisting, we presume,  of the same parties.  Drs. New-
ton and  Freeman are present each day.  Dr. S. Tulhill is
president of  both meetings, and the names of their officers
and members as given, show that both affairs were sub-
stantially the same.
   Drs. Newton & Co. are  entirely welcome to amalgamate
with physopathy, and to unite their amalgamated materials
in a rich compound, with the adulterations of  Keith A
Co.; and the latter are  equally welcome to win  the pa-
tronage of old-schoolism, by claiming professional affinity,
and  by  concesling the origin  of the Eclectic  medicines.
It is all a very amusing piece of private intrigue, conglom-
eration and fraud, entirely worthy of the parties concerned;
but we most decidedly protest against  the respectable name
of Eclecticism, being in any way whatever mixed  up in
such a hotch-potch of charlatanism.
   "V. S—We have just seen the proceedings of the abor-
tive, so-called National  Eclectic. Association, in whic h we
discover  not a single  contribution  to medical  science.
The only thing resembling a medical contribution, was  a
 verbal narrative by one  gentleman, of  the common treat-
 ment of two cases of erysipelas, by ' muriated  tincture of
 iron.'  It is obvious,  therefore, that the meeting had no
 scientific objects in view, and as it was nearly a failure in
 every point of view, we should not occupy any more space
 in noticing it, except for the reason that  as ' straws hhow
 which way the wind  blows,' small matters may be quits
 significant. 
CONGLOMERATION—ADULTERATED MEDICINES.                      8
  "The leading business of quack puffing was well per-
formed, as Dr. Newton dwelt largely upon the value cf
Keith's concentrated [adulterated] remedies, which he es-
pecially preferred to those of all other manufacturers, and
Dr. Freeman followed  in a similar strain, telling  how he
used them.  As for the rest of their proceedings, the mem-
bers talked about  the progress of reform, complained of
the non-attendance of persons whom they needed to make
out a respectable number, and adopted a report on medical
publications, which merely announced the successful pub-
lication of the Eclectic Journal, the  Worcester Journal, and
several physopathic journals—from  which we infer that
they all claimed  as belonging to one clique.  But it is a
little remarkable, as the College Journal was omitted from
the group (for which we are sincerely thankful), that they
did not strike out the  Worcester Journal, which  refuses to
recognize  Keith's adulterations as honest  medicines, and
tries  to uphold the respectability of the profession.
   We think that the  fusion of spurious Eclecticism and
physopathy is pretty plainly made out.   In order to finish
the maneuver handsomely, a report was  adopted, which
exhibits a great deal of very short-sighted cunning, in which
the learned gentlemen in aiming a blow at Dr. Buchanan,
cut their own heads entirely off, by repudiating the plat-
form of doctriues upon which the American Eclectic phy-
sicians now stand, and have stood, ever since  their  first
promulgation.  Their report, or rather resolution spoke
as follows:
   "' Whereas, Certain documents written by  Jos. R. Buc-
 hanan have found their way into the public prints, purport-
ing to emanate from  tbe press of the  ' National Eclectic
 Medical Association,'we beg leave to inform  the  medical
 profession and the community generally, that he  is not,
 nor has he licen for the  last five years, a member of this
 Association, having lost  his membership by neglecting to
 attend tbe meetings of the Association, and failing to pay
 his yearly dues during that period ;  and
   "' Whereas, The course he has pursued has been indorsed
 by others, whose claims to our confidence and to authority
 are quite as untenable as his own: therefore,
   " 'Resolved, That we caution the profession and the pub
 lie against receiving anything emanating from said sources,
 as expressive  of the  principles or  policy of  the  Eclectic
 medical profession.'
   "A more paltry trick than the above was never contrived
 by a demagogue.   The  resolution  apparently warns  the
   Eublic against spurious  documents, issued  by Dr. Buc-
   anan,  in behalf of  a National Eclectic Association, of
 which he is not a member.  There are  no  such documents
 in existence—none such  have ever existed.  The Associa-
 tion  has not, aud never bad, a press;  and Dr. Buchanan
 has written no documents'purporting  to  emanate' from
 the National Eclectic  Medical Association, except what are
 contained in  the  proceedings of that  body,  at the time
 that  Dr. Morrow participated  with  him in its meetings.
 The  documents of that  body, written  by Dr. Buchanan,
 were  unanimously received by American Eclectics, and
 still  embody the sentiments of the profession.   Dr. Morrow
 and Dr. Buchanan, in perfect  union of sentiment, agreed
 in the principles of  the Eclectic movement.   They were
 recognized as  its leaders—they attended  in conjunction
 the first three meetings of the convention  held in Cincin-
 nati, and at its last meeting, Dr. Buchanan was nominated
 by Dr. Morrow as the President of the  Association  for the
 ensuing year, and elected to that office.  Dr.  Morrow di?d
 a few mouths  after this, and  neither  Dr. M.  nor Dr. B.
 ever  attended another meeting.  Consequently, in repu-
 diating everything written  by Dr. Buchanan, these gen-
 tlemen have through either ignorance or design, repudiated
 the authentic  expression of the principles of Eclecticism,
 adopted  and sustained,  not only by Dr. Morrow aud  Dr.
 Buchanan, but by all who have heretofore  been concerned
 in founding and sustaining the Eclectic movement.
   " This is all  very well; for tbe miscellaneous clique that
 met in New York fa small doctor's office would  have  held
 them all) whs not an  Eclectic  meeting, but a hotch-potch
 of physopaths, spurious  Eclectics and  unknown individ-
 uals, aDd ought to have a platform of their own, after the
 Baltimore pattern.  What we  object, to is the impudence,
 the imposture, of getting together a little coterie, chiefly
 physopathic, aud attempting to palm it upon the public as
 a National Eclectic Medical Association, when  it  did  not
embrace ten Eclectics out of the three thousand in America.
 They  did not recognize the meeting, aud would  not attend
 it.
   "A  Voice from Georoia.—Since  writing the foregoing
article, our attention has  been re-called  to  a resolution
adopted by the Reform Medical Society of Georgia, at its
late  annual meeting, which, coming as it does from an
Association allied in professional views to  the  New York
society, stands out in bold and refreshing relief by the aids
of the report adopted by the latter.  It is  but  justice  to
our Southern  neighbors, to show that they have on this
subject, a highly creditable record.  It is as follows:
  "' On motion the following resolution was unanimously
adopted :
  " 'Resolved, That this Society is convinced, not only from
analyses  conducted in this  Institution, but from their use
by our practitioners, that the concentrated  medicines sold
from  the American Chemical Society, in  New  York, and
prepared by B. Keith & Co., are spurious and  adulterated,
and entirely unworthy our confidence;  and  that we re-
commend to this society to discard them in their practice."*
  It  may appear  singular that a  Faculty should have
thought  it necessary to adopt formal resolutions against
spurious  conventions,  nostrums  and adulterated medi-
cines, and still more  singular that two of  the  Faculty
should protest against being considered as supporting such
resolutions. But, though singular, it was true : Dr. Newton
had exerted all his moral  energy to compel  the Faculty
and  class to go with  him  in the support  of adulterated
medicines, and he could not consistently support the reso-
lutions by which they were repudiated, while  some feeling
of shame prevented him from openly opposing them.  Ths
Faculty  knowing  the history of  these frauds, could not
submit to having the Institute and  the cause of Eclecti-
cism  identified with them.  Their whole history was dis-
creditable.
  The success of Eclectic remedies,  and, especially, of ths
concentrated preparations,  inspired  the idea of  making a
fine  commercial speculation by bringing  them before ths
profession at targe and concealing thtir American Eclectie
origin.   B. Keith,  a botanico-medical practitioner, under-
took this delicate task, to accomplish which, he procured a
book to be written by Dr. Bickley, (the name of its author
not appearing  on the  title-page,) in which  the concen-
trated remedies were described  and lauded with a careful
avoidance of any  reference  to the fact that they wers
already in  extensive use as the Eclectic remedies.  This
stroke of policy was not pleasing to the Faculty, and physi-
cians generally of Eclectic  sentiments, and was decidedly
condemned by tbe majority of the Faculty.
  But a  much more serious objection to Keith, k Co., was
found in the  character of their  medicines.  Aside from
other objections, it was found that  they were extensively
adulterated, chiefly with magnesia.  Dr. Cleaveland, as pro-
fessor of Materia Medica, criticised and discussed the char-
acter of every remedy upon which he lectured, and in
reference to the concentrated medicines, he did not hesitate
to mentiou  the fraudulent character of those manufac-
tured in  New York by B. Keith & Co.  This  created violent
opposition  from Dr. Newton, to  whose department  this
subject did not belong, but who, for some  mysterious rea-
son, was  singularly interested in  the success of B. Keith
k Co., whose  preparations he continually  recommended,
and whom he defended with a Damon and Pythias friend-
ship.   The analyses by which these frauds were detected,
chemically, were of an unquestionable character.  Pro-
fessors King, Cleaveland and Hoyt, all detected  the presence
of magnesia, and in some of the articles (especially Hy-
draatin,  Apocynin, Lobelin.  Hyo<ciamin,   Gelsemin, As-
clepin,)  in  quantities of  from 75  to 80  per  cent., in
medicines represented to be pure concentrated  alkaloids
and  resinoids,—and published their analysis.  Dr. New-
ton, instead of engaging in the same chemical analysis,
for his own satisfaction, or acknowledging that a fraud
had  been detected, devoted his energies  to covering up,
concealing and  denying this fraud, thus virtually ac-
cusing bis colleagues of imposition.  Neither  Dr. Newton
nor B. Keith ever met the question of adulteration directly,
as honest men—they never appealed to the unerring test
of chemistry, or made  any such effort to vindicate them-
selves as honorable men would have done.  A  continued
quarrel with Dr. Cleaveland—a continued circulation of
petty calumny—a refusal to allow the facts to appear in the
Eclectic Medidd Journal—a continued puffing of B. Keith
<t Co., and the establishment of an agency in Dr. Newton's
office for Keith's preparations (in the name  of Dr. New-
ton's clerk,) exhibited the determination  of  Dr. Newton
to sustain right or wrong the detected imposition and fraud.
He was willing to sink himself to this professional degra-
dation, knowing that  he  was  thereby destroying what
respectability he retained;  and the Faculty were grieved
to observe a man  in the  position  of professor evincing
such  moral ohtuseness, and  exerting its injurious influence
upon young men in the class, as well as dishonoring the
Institute before the public; hence the necessity which they 
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MEDICAL ADULTERATIONS EXPOSED.
felt for publicly defining the position of the College in
reference to nostrums and adulterations.
  Additional evidence of fraud, to any extent, would have
had no influence upon  Dr. Newton.  The adulteration of
Keith's medicines was detected, chemically, by physicians
in Georgia as well as Cincinnati, and the result published.
When a visit was made to Cincinnati by B. Keith himself,
and specimens of his medicine left with Dr. King, declar-
ing that they were pure, and that he could give $10,000
if any  adulteration was detected in them, it was supposed
they might be pure, but when analyzed by a good chemist,
they also proved to be adulterated.  Specimens which had
been obtained from the agency at Dr. Newton's office were
analyzed by E. S. Wayne, of Cincinnati,—a chemist of
considerable reputation — and similar adulterations de-
tected, which were published in  the College Journal for
January, 1856.  This accumulated evidence would have
satisfied  any honorable physician who might  have been
imposed upon, and if Dr. Newton had not been an inter-
ested party to the fraud, he should have thrown away the
agency at once and denounced the imposition.  But in-
stead  of this,  additional private gossip and billingsgate
articles in  the Eclectic Journal constituted the response.
Mr. Wayne was  personally abused.   Dr. Kiug's and Dr.
Cleaveland's writings were assailed, and  a determination
evinced to fight with desperation  for the fraud, but not a
particle of  evidence was adduced to vindicate the guilty
parties, whose course is considered equivalent to a confes-
sion of guilt.
  It was thus regarded by the Worcester Journal of Medi-
cine,  which,  in an editorial article   on "concentrated
remedies,"  used the following language :

  "We have heretofore referred  to the  Positive  Medical
Agents, or medicinal concentrations of various herbs and
plants, prepared by Messrs. Keith & Co., at what was the
American Chemical  Institute, New York.   We have ex-
pressed our honest  disapprobation of the secrecy main-
tained in their manufacture, a secrecy which almost infal-
libly  indicates the  worst kind  of quackery.   We have
regretted, too, to be obliged to express our doubts as to
tbe purity and real therapeutic  value of the medicines
prepared by that  firm.  We have also admitted  into our
columns-some articles  professiug  to give  a chemical ana-
lysis of some of their preparations, showing them, at least
in some instances, to be greatly, moustrously, and wick-
edly adulterated.  Our own  observations and our  own
analysis have, to some  extent, confirmed  the observations
of others, and have compelled us, much to our own regret,
to join  in  the common censure  of Keith & Co.,  for their
attempt to palm  off  miserable   adulterations  for pure
articles, upon an unsuspecting public.     *    *    *
  "As conductors of a public journal devoted to medicine,
we shall never shrink  from the faithful discharge of  that
duty.  Nothing would  give us more pleasure  than to be
able to speak in high terms in commendation of the con-
centrated preparations of Keith & Co.   But with tbe suspi-
cions  thrown  around them, ripening  into certainty from
repeated analysis,  that  they are base adulterations, a
splendid humbug, we can not do it.  We can hardly  con-
ceive of any greater wickedness than the sale, to medical
men,  of base, worthless, perhaps dangerous medicines,
which  they are expecting to deal out to the sick.  The ad-
vertising quack  is  a saint in comparison with him  who
would thus pollute the every fountains of those  medical
means which  are to be placed in the hands  of  scientific
men.   These are reasons, which we think amply sufficient,
for the course we have taken in relation to the preparations
ofKeith&Co.    *****
  '• One remarkable fact stands  out prominently, if not
fatally, in relation  to this whole  matter.  Though boldly
challenged and frequently accused of adulterating their
preparations. Messrs. Keith, & Co. have never seen fit to
make a distinct and positive  denial of the charge.  They
have never bid defiance  to chemical  analysis, and chal-
lenged investigation.  Nor have  their friends done it for
them.   If  they are innocent, why have they failed to do
it?  With  the current of public opinion  setting strongly
against them, why have they failed to do it ?   Their silence
on this subject is of the most ominous  kind." •

  As for the abusive attack upon Mr. Wayne for publish-
ing his analysis, the Worcester Journal remarks that " it
aims to ridicule Mr. Wayne, and  utterly fails to meet the
important point of a direct denial of adulterations on the
part of Keith & Co.   And worse than all, it bears the
marks of having been  got up for  the occasion and  for the
pay I"
   An  attempt to  defend  these  adulterations  by " Dr.
Grover Coe," (which is the nommt de plume of J. M. San-
ders,) elicited the following remarks from the Worcester
Journal for June, 1856:
  "Adulterations Confessed.—We have received from Dr.
Grover Coe, another missive in relation  to  the  concen-
trated preparations of B. Keith & Co., which will be found
in another place in this number of our Journal.  But we
regret to say, that  in  every essential  particular, it is a
total failure.  Instead of taking a frank and manly course
—instead  of making a direct  reply to the  oft-repeated
charges of adulteration against that firm, the author has
attempted to divert public attention from himself and his
employers, by preferring similar charges against another
gentleman.   In doing this,  however,  he  has indirectly,
and perhaps  unintentionally, admitted the truth of the
charges.    ********
  " We respectfully submit that it is an imposition upon
the public to offer for sale, as reliable medicine, as a pure
chemical principle,  a miserable melange  of  gum, resin,
orgauic  acids, extractive  matter, vegetable alkalies, and
other  unknown substances, including ' reagents' 'formed
during the process' of manufacture, without  any intima-
tion that such is the case!  Any body can run his herbs
through a percolator with  alcohol, acids, water, or alkaline
solutions — evaporate to dryness,  pulverize,  and bottle;
and thus  compete, in the manufacture of reliable medi-
cines, with 'the ablest  chemical ability in this countryI'
What then avails all that 'chemical ability,' if it can do no
more than the  humblest and most  ignorant' Indian doc-
tor' with his 'rates and yarbsf   But this is not all. This
profound ' chemical ability'  seems  to  stand  below even
the 'Indian doctor' himself, and is obliged  to leave, in
combination with the 'active principles of plants,' a part
of its table salt, its magnesia,  its  chloropbyl, and other
substauces which ' can  not be got rid of.'  We thank Dr.
Coe for this confession.     ******
  'They will allow us to suggest, that  they hereafter
throw aside, at least, a large part  of this chemical put-
tering with reference to medicine—bring out articles that
are fixed in their physical character and uniform in their
strength ;  and send these out for trial and examination,
but never  send  them forth without a full explanation of
their  mode of preparation, together with all the know-
ledge they possess of their therapeutic properties.   This is
always essential in  new medicinal  preparations.   In old
preparations, like morphia or quinia,  if the alkaloid is
really obtained, the mode  of obtaining  is not of so much
consequence.  But in those  that are comparatively new,
and especially in the confessed melange of B.  Keith & Co.,
this is one of the most important things for the profession
to understand."
  Prof. J.  N. Loomis, of the  Macon School, Georgia,  re-
ported (February, 1856,) that concentrated medicines which
he had analyzed, including those of B. Keith A Co., con-
tained from 75 to 80 per cent,  of foreign matter.  He con-
demns these impositions as follows  : " It is not to be won-
dered at that men  should lose confidence in such base
fabrications, purporting to be concentrated remedies.  We
should denominate them concentrated swindles, for  we
know not  a  more unmitigated, unmixed swindle in the
history of rommerce."
  In the September No. of Vol. 27, that standard work,
the American Journal  of  Pharmacy, published at Phila-
delphia, under the authority of the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy, (an honorable and influential society, not a
mere sham or a private shop, like the so-called American
Chemical  Institute of B. Keith  & Co.,) the second article
is the analysis by Mr. Wayne of the concentrated prepara-
tions  of B. Keith &  Co., which demonstrates  them  to be
gross impositions.  Of their Hyosciamin, the writer states:
  '• The  analysis of this substance proved it to be not as it
is represented, a resinous product obtained from the Hyos-
ciainus  Niger,  hut  to  be carbonate of magnesia, upon
which tincture of Hyosciamus has  been poured, tbe alco-
hol evaporated, and the resulting mass  reduced to powder,
the bright green color of  which is due to the chlorophyl
taken up from the leaves by the alcohol. It contains little
or no resin, the fatty greenish substances, chloropbyl
alone being separated upon the evaporation of the tincture
obtained in the first experiment."
  Of their Hydrastin he  says: " It was heated  like  the
Hyosciamin,  and found to contain 20.25 grains of car-
bonate of  magnesia, out of 25 grains used in the  experi-
ment."  "  This resinoid, like the former, the analysis proves
to be nothing  more than carbonate  of magnesia, upon
which tincture of Hydrastis has been  proved, the alcohol
allowed to evaporate, and  the mass then powdered."
   Of their Gelsemin, he says : " It was heated as the  two
former substances, and proved to be, like them, carbonate 
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of magnesia, upon which a tincture had been poured."
" The weight of carbonate of magnesia obtained from 25
grains was 21.25 grains."
  " The other resinoids I have  examined (be continues),
and with the same comparative results;  the only difference
being a slight variation in  the  amount of carb. magnesia
found.  I have examined in all, eighteen specimens of the
products of the American Chemical Institute, called resi-
noids and alkaloids, and have found but four specimens
to be as represented."
  Can the ethics of the medical profession be so far  cor-
rupted as to tolerate  such frauds  as the above—frauds
which are utterly without defence ?  if so, our profession is
degenerate indeed, and we shall expect  to see Brandreth,
Holloway, and  tbe host of minor quacks, affiliated with
medical schools and medical journals.
  Is it  any  apology  for such impositions, if the  parties,
warned by an exposure, are induced to sell pure medicines
in other cases, or to vigilant customers?  By no  means;
those who engage  in such a course, are never to be trusted.
The first exposition did  not arrest the frauds, nor have we
any  evidence that they have yet been discontinued.  A
party arrested for manufacturing and passing counterfeit
money, would not find  it any mitigation of his offense if
   To the numerous petty calumnies and misrepresenta-
 tions of Dr. Newton,  so industriously  and widely circu-
 lated, there is one general  answer, viz: that Dr. Ni.wton
 is unworthy of belibf,  and consequently his calumnies,
 unless  supported  by some  respectable  testimony, are
 worthy only of contempt.  That his assertions are worth-
 less, I propose to show by reference to some of the most
 marked examples of his disregard to truth, in matters of
 public notoriety.
              EXAMPLES  OP  HARD SWEARING.
   The very first step of Dr.  Newton, in litigation with the
 Faculty—his petition for an injunction, opens with a start-
 ling falsehood  in the first paragraph—an assertion which
 he knew to be false when he wrote it. The dividend which
 is guaranteed  to  stockholders upon the  stock of the In-
 stitute is from six to ten per cent., according to the amount
 of the dividend fund.  Dr. Newton, having been for several
 years a stockholder and Treasurer of the Institute, having
 given  more  attention than any other individual to  its
 financial  affairs, was perfectly familiar with  the  rate of
 the interest  or dividend which  he  paid out as Treasurer
 and received as stockholder.  Nevertheless, in petitioning
 for an injunction against the officers of tbe Institute, and
 demanding money ($1,000) to  be paid  over to him, he
 Bwears  in the  first  paragraph of his petition, that he is
 bound to collect and  pay over to the stockholders of the
 Institute twenty  per cent  on all the capital stock of
 the Institute!  which is double the largest amount that
 can ever be appropriated in  that way.
   "*  *   and as such Treasurer he is  in duty bound to
 collect and receive from the students of said Institute, and
 other sources, an  amount of money equal to twenty per
 cent, on all the capital stock subscribed to said Institute,
 and to  disburse the same to all holders of said stock, ac-
 cording to their respective shares.''
   " Sworn to this 10th day of April, 1856, before me,
                               " Thomas Spooner,
                         " By Deputy, Titos. Winter."
  What does this mean?  He could  not have  expected to
 Impose upon any body or accomplish any purpose by such a
 flagrant  falsehood.  The only reasonable explanation  of
 such swearing  is, that  having  his  mind zealously bent
 upon obtaining money /row. the  Faculty to benefit himself
 he felt disposed to intensify or exaggerute all his claims in
 that direction,  and therefore wrote his claim at  twenty
 per  cent,  instead  of ten,  without pausing  to  reflect
 whether it was true or false.   This instance shows,at least,
that even  his sworn statements are not to be received
without great caution and skepticism.
he should prove that he had a considerable amount of
good money also.
  The expression " concentrated swindles," was very prop-
erly applied to these preparations by the Georgia Professor.
Adulterated medicines are not to be regarded as mere com-
mercial frauds, like sanded  sugar  aud watered brandy.
Nor are they of the same grade as counterfeit hank notes,
which merely rob their victim of so much money; for, in
addition to robbing the purchaser of his money, they ren-
der all  prescriptions  uncertain, and  endanger  life and
health in patients, to un extent beyond pecuniary compu-
tation.  If the forger of bank notes is esteemed infamous,
a double infamy attaches to the manufacturer of fraud-
ulent, adulterated medicines, and to all who are accessary
to his crime.
  In tbe present instance, the  accessary not  only fights
the battles of his principal, but  employs for that purpose
a periodical, called the  Eclectic Medical  Journal; and,
unless the Eclectic Physicians of the United States repu-
diate that Journal, by withdrawing their patronage, it will
do much to fasten upon the entire profession the charge of
being friends and  sympathisers with  the vilest form of
quackery that has ever dishonored human nature.
  2d and 3d.  The oath of Dr. Newton that official meet-
ings bad been held by tbe Board of Trustees under in-
junction, and that he  had  been totally excluded  from
the College is expressed as follows :  •
  " and that Defendants have disregarded the said order
of said Court, by holding meetings as Trustees, and giving
orders, and by retaining exclusive possession of the prem-
ises  described in said  petition, as  Trustees, as described
therein : and Defendants, as such Trustees, have not only
assumed to act. but have really acted as Trustees as afore-
said, and excluded plaintiff from all participation  in said
premises, all which is contrary to law, and in contempt of
the said order of this court."
  Amendment added during trial, " and  on Monday, the
14th of  April, actually locked  the  door  and excluded
Plaintiff from said Institute."       ,
  The first portion of the oath, that the Trustees has held
meetings and given orders, was based upon no fact, hut
was  contrary to the fact.  Having a suspicion that such
might be the fact, and a strong desire that it should be, he
swore that it  was, as he wished it to be. The fact was,
that no meeting of the Board had been held at all.  Dr. Buc-
hanan, supposing that the meeting would be held accord-
ing  to adjournment, notified him  to be present,  and  in
about an hour after, sent him a written notice, that the
previous information was a  mistake.   He  received and
read these  notices, and  therefore, knew that he had no
evidence of a meeting being held.  How then could he have
the audacity to swear to a meeting which was not held, and
of which he had  no evidence at allt  Just as he has the
audacity to publish many statements which are  equally
groundless.   It is the apparent improbability that any man
of average  intelligence  will fabricate such  tasdess false-
hoods that gives  them currency.  It  is difficult to  believe
at first that such depravity and folly should he found  in
an  educated  physician;  but  I believe they never were
found associated in any  well-educated man.
  Dr. Newton's affidavit, that he had been " excluded from
all participation " in the College edifice, was  based  solely
upon tbe fact that the outer door of the College had once
been accidentally locked at the commencement of his lec-
ture hour,  as I  had gone to tbe  College to unlock  it,
but forgotten to do so.  The  door was  consequently
locked until one of tbe students could find me and obtain
the key, which was immediately returned  with an apology ;
and additional time was offend  to Dr. N. to compensate
his accidental loss, which he refused to accept.  Yet, know-
ing these circumstances, he amended his affidavit in  court,
by adding a specification  of the time and place when he
                VERACITY   OF  DR.   NEWTON;
AN  EXHIBITION  OF  HIS  HABITUAL VIOLATION  OF  TRUTH, AND  A  BRIEF  NOTICE
                                        OF HIS  CALUMNIES. 
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FALSE SWEARING AND  RECKLESS CALUMNY.
had been excluded from aU participation.   According to
Dr. Newton's charges, the Trustees and officers of the Col-
lege had  violated the temporary injunction, and  were
guilty of  contempt—and be  boasted of the punishment
that would be inflicted.  But, upon the trial,  his own
cross-examination  by Judge Probasco, dissipated  and re-
futed his  whole  story.  He  was forced  to  confess that
he  knew  of  no Trustees' meetings, and  that tbe  acci-
dental cause  of  the door being closed  had been  ex-
plained to him; and  he was asked how he could  swear to
such meetings when he had no evidence of theiroccurrence?
This question, to  which he could give no satisfactory an-
swer, exposed his falsehood and annihilated his case, which
was specially dismissed by the Court, as groundless.
  The exercises of the College were repeatedly interrupted
by these legal proceedings which were all  based  upon a
false  and  groundless  charge.  Would the man who brings
his falsehoods into court  hesitate as to publishing any
amount of falsehood in an irresponsible newspaper?
  4. To sustain his  groundless claim to be considered
Treasurer of the  Board of Trustees (after he had been
removed.) he swore that he bad  been first elected by the
Board of Trustees, and subsequently re-elected every year
by the Board. The fact was, however, that Me Board never
elected him by name, and never re-elected him at all.  There
is no  record of any such re-election, but only of his being
once recognized by the Board in consequence of his rela-
tion to them ex-officio, viz.:  that while Treasurer of the
Faculty he was ex-officio Treasurer of the Board.  So far
from the Board holding such elections, they were not even
possible, as the Board did not hold a single meeting from
January 26,  1653, to July  2, 1865.  His re-election thus
wbj purely fictitious, like  his official  meetings and acts
of the Board at a  time when they neither met nor acted.
Does not this show that he swears with great facility to any
thing which he wishes and hopes may be true, without wait-
ing to know whether it is or is not t

  EXTRACT PROM THE AFFIDAVIT OF DR. NEWTON.
  "On the 26th of January, 1863, by a Resolution of the
Board of  Trustees, he was chosen as Treasurer of the
Faculty, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees—which latter
office had from the time affiant came into the Institute up
to that time been  filled by Dr. L. E. Jones. So far as affiant
knows aud believes, there has never been sny election of
Treasurer of  the  Faculty since that time, except tbe pre-
tended election of Dr. Wm. Sherwood on the 6th of April,
185(5.  [This  was  a regular election by the Faculty, to
Which not a Hhadow of objection could be adduced.—W. S.l
Affiant has continued to act as Treasurer of the Board of
Trustees, from said 26th of Jauuary, 1853, until the present
time, and  still holds that office.   He was regularly elected
Treasurer by each new Board  of Trustees,  although no
record has been kept of such  election, nor of the election
of any other officer of the Board, except in 1855, and the
last election, which was on the 7th of April, 1856.
  "Sworn to April 23, 1856, before John A.  Lynch,
                                   '• Notary Public."

       FROM  THE  AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN REEVES.
  "This affiant being first sworn, says: That he has been
a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eclectic Medical
Institute of Cincinnati, since April 7, 1851, as shown by
the records of the Institute, and although not a stockhol-
der, he has felt interested in the prosperity of  tbe said
Institute, and has generally, when practicable, attended
tbe meetings of the  Board of Trustees, and so far as he
knows, no election of officers of said Board was held during
the years 1853 and 1854, but  that he believes the officers
of 1852 beld  over until 18)5, except that W. S.  Merrill,
was,  as be is informed, appointed by consent  of  some
members of the Board, without  a meeting, to be secretary
after A. S. Chew left the city."
  The simple affirmation of such a man as John Reeves
would outweigh the testimony of a score of Newtons.
  My own affidavit, April -3, 1856, is clear and explicit on
this subject:
  "Affiant further states that although the plaintiff, R. S.
Newton, has, for  so  long a time, until April 5. 1856, been
Treasurer of the Faculty and of the Board of Trustees, he
held such offices solely because of his appointment by the
Faculty on the  25th  day  of January, 1853.  That the
Board of Trustees did not meet  to organize in 1853 and
1854. and the action of the Board on July 2,1855, was a
mere recognition  of its own rule, that the Treasurer of the
Faculty shall be the  Treasurer of the Board.  This, affiant
distinctly remembers, and knows to be true, from the fact,
that the said action was taken upon information given by
this affiant of said Newton's being  Treasurer of the
Faculty."
  Moreover, I would add, that the  record of the Board of
Trustees, produced in court, shows  this to be the fact, vis.,
that I>r. Newton was not elected, but simply recognized as
being Treasurer ex-officio in 1855.  Dr. Newton, therefore,
was never either elected  or  re-elected to this office, as
stated  in  his affidavit.  He wished it  had been so, and he
swore that it was so. With the aid of another affidavit-
maker as courageous as himself, what could he not havs
proved ?
  Although there  is, of course, no official record of the
period  during  which meetings were not held, there is a
written record which he can not deny, and which will yet
be produced, if he should persist in his statement.
  5. An equally deceptive  but more ingenious perversion
of truth was made in reference to  the financial condition
of the Institute.  The report of Dr.  Newton to the Faculty,
presented  a very  erroneous  view  of  financial  matters,
especially  in suppressing the  important fact that he had
received $775 in the form of diploma fees, as collected from
the students by himself.  In his affidavit in the injunction
case, this  financial  report  was embodied  and read as a
portion of his affidavit, without any correction or expla-
nation on  this subject.   The counter affidavit of Dr. Buc-
hanan  charged him with this suppression  of the diploma
fees.   An affidavit was then made  by Dr. Newton, in
which he again declined to admit that he had received them,
and by general  denial, produced the impression on every
mind, that he entirely denied that statement.  When Judge
Storer  asked  if Dr. Newton admitted  receiving  these
diploma fees, his counsel, Mr. Hoadley, replied that he did
not, and that upon that subject there was  a direct conflict
of testimony.  This, though more  artful, was as  flagrant
an attempt at deception, as tbe previous examples.   Other
instances of falsehood might be quoted from Dr. Newton's
testimony, but they relate to matters of a less  publio
nature.

       EXAMPLES OF RECKLESS FALSEHOOD.
  6. Tbe assertion of Dr. Newton in the Express, that the
court had  ordered the last stock issued by  the Faculty to
be brought into court and canceled, is  in his usual style
of mendacity.  The question of cancellation had not been
acted upon by the court at all; it is yet under trial.  The
court, instead of ordering cancellation, gave the plaintiffs
leave to petition for it—the petition has yet to be acini on.
And we are confident, from the best legal advice, that the
petition can not be granted.
  7. In tbe same style of recklessness is his assertion in
the Express illustrated by cuts, that in consequence of this
order of cancellation, the Faculty have left  Cincinnati for
Texas  and other parts of the  United  States.  Not one of
the Faculty had changed his residence or place of business,
when that falsehood was published.
  For additional illustrations  of  intellectual  profligacy,
observe the fact that, after having repeatedly denounced
Dr h. E.  Jones for his  malicious  mendacity, having pro-
nounced him to be below the  level  of humanity — and his
pamphlets to be filthy and unworthy of notice — he goes
down to the level of Dr. Jones, and allows him to publish
extensively, in  the  Journal and the  Express, the same
"filth" which was once  beneath  notice of Dr. N., and is
still beneath the notice of all who respect themselves.  Hav-
ing responded to Dr. Jones' attacks upou  Dr.  Buchanan,
by denying that he had said any thing derogatory to Dr.
B., and by certifying that be  believed in Dr. Buchanan's
system of Anthropology as a true science, he now  opens
wide his  columns, to  disseminate Dr. Jones' scurrility
against it.  Having labored vigorously for the expulsion
of  Dr. Jones, accusing him of falsehood, and charging him
publicly with infamous conduct (before the medical class)—
having looked  upon him with contempt for three years,
which was reciprocated with  compound interest—he finds
it necessary to obtain  Dr. Jones' co-operation, and forth-
with puffs him in the Journal, calls him professor, and
congratulates the public on bis appointment, as  an act of
justice.   In tbe relations between  them  in 1852-3, either
Dr. Jones was infamous or Dr. Newton was a slanderous
knave.   If his charges against Dr. Jones, so extensively
proclaimed in  1853, were  false, his conduct was  infamous
then ; if  they were true, as was universally believed, he is
infamous now, for associating with such a man, and aiding
 him  in   his scurrilous labors.  Dr. Jones has retracted
 nothing he has said of Dr. Newton, for he still considers it
 all true, and expects to castigate him again as soon as their
 conspiracy explodes.  Dr. Newton has not specifically re-
 tracted, but has smothered his accusations in compliments,
 which he can easily retract, and leave Dr. Jones as before, 
PSEUDO-ECLECTICISM, CONGLOMERATION AND ADULTERATION.           13
beneath the level of humanity, in his "filth" and "mala-
ria."  It is no tax upon Dr. Newton's conscience to shift
his ground  or break his  pledges from week to week, ac-
cording to convenience.  It brings no blush to his face,
for he counts largely, very largely, on human gullibility,
and  fully believes that, even  when convicted  of a total
disregard of truth and honor, he can  sustain himself  by
clamorous abuse, and by raising fictitious charges against
those who may expose his tergiversations.   In short, he
regards the  medical profession  as a gullible mass, easily
caught, and controlled by the  shallowest  tucks  of the
demagogue.  He firmly believes that a lie well  stuck to is
as good as the truth, for as fast as one lie wears out it can
be  replaced  by another.   When his oath, charging the
Faculty  and Trustees with   violating the  injunction of
the  Superior Court (which he gave  out would procure
their imprisonment), was proved  in court, by his own
cross-examination, to be  a falsehood, it was no matter,
another fiction was ready: he could swear  to  enough to
suspend the whole action of the corporation, by injunction,
and his half a dozen followers were  exulting iu the pros-
pect ;  but the allegations  upon which he based his hopes
were again proved false in court, and the injunction dis-
missed  or dissolved.  No matter, another falsehood will
answer the  purpose.   He forthwith proclaims that the
court has ordered the cancellation of the last issue of stock,
and this new falsehood will answer for hundreds, who  see
no contradiction until they hear the result of the trial.
And to help the matter along, he proclaims at the same
time, that  the Faculty,  alarmed at  the  decision of the
court, have taken their departure for Texas and various
Other  regions, and he is quite confident that all who  see
this monstrous  fabrication  will be  convinced that Dr.
Newton  is triumphant, and that the  Faculty have aban-
doned the Institute, and left Cincinnati in despair. And
probably a number, who do not know the infamous char-
acter of Newton's Express, are really of the  opinion that
such is the  fact, although it is a pure fabrication, without
the  semblance of a fact upon which to base  it.   The Fac-
ulty have all been at home, engaged in their usual  avoca-
tions.   By circulating large  editions of tbe lixpress,  the
impression may thus be made, that the Faculty of the  In-
stitute are extinct, and that Newton, Jones ft Co. are  the
only representatives of Eclecticism in Cincinnati.   Under
that impression he expects to enlist a considerable number
 in his support, and he feels entirely sure  that  this mam-.
moth lie will answer his purpose until the Faculty  an-
nouncement has been sent throughout  the country; but
Still hopes that his widely disseminated  lie will flourish in
some  out  of the way places, for a year  or two, and yield
him a harvest of gulls, with  all the patronage they can
give.   If these falsehoods wear out by the first of October,
they are only a small part of his stock in trade;   he  hoe
 fifty others sown broad-cast at the same time, the majority
 Of which, on account of their contemptible nature, will
 never be noticed.  In addition to these  he has malignant
epithets, in which is conveyed a large amount of concen-
centrated falsehood.  The regular  issue  of  stock  by  the
 proper authorities, in accordance with all the forms of law,
 is  called a  "forgery" and a "fraud."   As  fast as these
 fabrications wear out and become  unfit for use, a f™*™
 and livelier batch of falsehood? and coarse epithets will be
 ready ;  and he expects, so dull  is  his  own moral  sense,
that the community generally, will forget his exploded
fictions in the interest created by his latest  fabrications.
   It rests with the intelligence of the public to say whether
the man who habitually sows falsehood and slander broad-
cast, shall reap  any thing therefrom but a harvest of m-

   IMs" last and  most scandalous attack upon myself, by
 mis-stating the treatment of a case of poisoning, so per-
 fectly exhibits tbe character  of the man, and the course
 which  he generally pursues  in his  controversies, that 1
 will introduce it  here, as a specimen  of the Newtonian

''it hUhe commonyi>olicy of unprincipled men to cover up
their own misdeeds by raising false charges  against others^
Hence,  Dr.  Newton, after his turbulent seizure  of  the
College edifice, with guns, pistols, knives, &c, charged the
Faculty with  endeavoring to break  the  peace I which in
reality they prevented being done.  Having made a false
and fraudulent report as  Treasurer, and h^in^uPP^sed
"he truth in bis affidavit, by concealing the fact  that he
bad received $775 of diploma fees, he charged Dr. Buc-
hanan with disguising the facts, and holding concealed the
cX"e funds, when Dr.  B. had made a pub ic exhibit in
fCrf   A* the Faculty had  requested  Dr.  Buchanan  last
£uo take charge of tne  books and not   tosM^i
fo collect the funds, he now asserts  in his  Express, Wat
toe Faculty  have refused to  permit Dr. Buchanan to  col-
lect the funds of this session, which he knows is false, a*
Dr. Buchanan declared in Court last spring that be merely
took charge of the collections  at the request of the Fac-
ulty, because of their unwillingness to leave  the matter
with Dr. Newton—and that, as the office of Treasurer was
now  suitably occupied, he would  leave the collections en-
tirely in the hands of that officer.  Dr. Buchauan gave up
the business as soon as he could, because he never desired
to perform it at all.  Dr. Newton gave it up very reluct-
antly, because the books were taken from him.
  On  the  same priuciple we  must explain Dr. Newton's
attack upon  my own professional reputation.   His own
professional blunders and mal-practice probably suir.ested
the idea.  He is now under prosecution (damages $5,000)
for mal-practice in a ense of fracture of the  arm, an I Mr.
--------. who is now lame from an  injury of the thigh,
mal-treated by Dr. Newton, is a limping illustration of his
surgical ignorance.  If it becomes necessary to tell the
whole truth,  I shall show up his mal-practice and surgical
quackery.
  The facts as they actually occurred in the poisoning case
were as follows:
  The patient (a;t. 26) under feelings of mental depression,
took Z]/z grains of strychnine, dissolved in water acidulated
with acetic acid, and about half an hour later I found him
in convulsions.
   1 wa.s the first one called to the  patient; administered
Tinct. Lob. and Cap. Com., as stated in my report, stepped
across the street to procure some lard oil, but failed to get
it, returned within three or four minutes, called for some
sweet oil,  aud on approaching the patient, found Dr. 0. B.
Newton offering him a glass of sweet  oil.  I  at once en-
treated the patient to take it,  which he did.  At this time
Dr. R. S. N. came in aud found me officiating, but neither
of them spoke to me.
   A  special friend of the patient took me  aside  and  re-
quested me to do all in my power in  connection with the
others to save the man.   I replied that they did not seem
disposed to speak to me, and proposed to retire and leave
the case in their bauds   He insisted that I should remain,
and  at his request I spoke to them, proposing  to carry out
my original design of removing the first draught of oil with
the stomach  pump.  They strenuously objected, but after
considerable  argument,  Dr. R. S.  N.  consented.   I pro-
duced my pump, removed the  oil from the stomach, and
injected adore of lard oil, which had  now been  procured
at my request.   The Alcoholic  Tine of Camphor was intro-
duced into the second dose of oil by Dr. N. himself, while I
held and used the pump.     About  one o'clock  be had
another spasmodic attack, at which time 1 gave him it fluid
drachm of tiuct. camphor with half a pintof strong coffee.
   After 1 o'clock, when  the second spasmodic attack had
passed  off, Dr. It. S. N.  came  in.  1 told him  what had
been done; he nodded and left the house.  I did not meet
either  of the Newt'.us  afierward, though I continued ts
visit the case until I considered all danger past.
   The  prescription of Oleo res. Xauihoxylum, etc., was
made, if at all, by Dr. N. in the absence of any emergency,
and without consultation, and I nevSk knew the fact till I
saw  the  statement in  print.  My  wwn brother-in-law
stayed  with  tbe patient all night, and no such  powders
 were given while he was there.
   In his hot haste  fur slander, Dr. Newton, before my re-
 port had  been  Usued, publi>hed the following  mis-state-
 ments.  I had carefully avoided any reference to the Ne»-
 tons—to their uuscientitic course in objecting to the  use
 of the stomach pump   I  ha I not  mentioned their names
 for I disliked to engage  in such petty contests.
   Dr. Newton specified in his report the administration  of
 sweet oil and  lard oil  by himself and  brother—entirely
 omitted all reference to the most important measure in thi
 case, the use of the stomach pump—aud made no statement
 of my own agency in the  case, except to say,  '• we then
 learned that Dr. Sherwood had  been there and  had ad-
 ministered alcoholic tinctures  and left the patient ;"  and
 again,  '-before 1 arrived  there  Dr. Sherwood bad volun-
 teered a prescription of camphor water,*  He adds:
   •' We leave the profession to form  their own  opinion  of
 the effect of introducing alcoholic  tinctures into an empty
 stomach (as in this case) containing 3]^ trains of Strych-
 nine.   Is it soluble in this medium ; and would it not by
 this means be diffused more rapidly through  the sjsteui.?
 I think it was well that he got the oil before it had much
 time to act on tbe poison.                    R 8. N.'
   Could  there have been a baser falsification  than the
 above 1—my own  treatment  was  by oil, Tinct. Lob. dip.
 Comp., the stomach pump, and camphor in coffee  at tbe
 time of  the second attack; Dr. Newton's  wns  by oil
 camphor and xanthoxylum without the stomach pump— 
U                  CONCENTRATED  FALSEHOODS —ATROCIOUS  AVOWAL.
  any intelligent physician can perceive which was most
  rational.  He basely suppressed the most important mea-
  sure in the case, the use of the pump, and charged  me
  with endangering the patient's life  by using alcoholic
  tinctures (concealing their names in his statement) to dis-
  solve the strychnine, when  ha knew that it was  taken
  in solution.  Disgusting as the subject  is, I shall  briefly
  notice  a few more of Dr. Newton's calumnies, by copying
  from the College Journal for June  :
     "CONCENTRATED EXTRACTS OF  FALSEHOOD.
    "With the assistance  of  the very  notorious Dr. L. E.
  Jones, and his old budget of vituperation, Dr.  Newton has
  succeeded in filling many pages of his journal and news-
  paper with scurrilous misstatements,  many of which he
  has heretofore treated as wretched  slanders.   His anxiety
  now to revive the  stale  falsehoods upon which  he once
  trampled in disgust, illustrates tne  desperate nature of his
  case.  We do not propose  to give much attention  to these
  matters, but merely  concentrate a few of his falsehoods,
  to show our readers the character of his warfare.
    " Falsehood 1st.  ' The  following  resolutions  were written
  by Dr. J. R. Buchanan, and  acquiesced iu by a minority
  of the  students—that portion  of the class who were  in-
 ' duced by the five expelled Professors to go  with  them.'
  This falsehod is  entirely pure—there is  no magnesian
  adulteration  here.  Dr. Buchanan  had  no agency what-
  ever, direct or indirect, in the preparation of those resolu-
  tions of the class here referred to.   They were the unbiased,
  uninfluenced  sentiments of the class, and were  not only
  adopted, but were actually signed  by a large  majority of
  the class.  Their signatures are preserved, and the state-
  ments  of the gentlemen by whom the resolutions were
  written could easily be obtained, if necessary. The only
  suggestion made by  Dr. Buchanan was publicly given,
  viz: to express their sentiments honestly and freely, but
  to be careful to use prudent and temperate language.
    " Falsehood 2d.  That the capital stock of  the Eclectic
  Medical Institute is not $60,000, as enacted  by the  Legis-
  lature.  The fact that the amount is sixty thousand dollars
  being certified on every stock certificate, over the  signa-
  ture of  R. S. Newton, who now denies it.
    " Falsehood 3d.  ' One  .of the attorneys who  stated to
  them that there was no  remedy but a resort  to  physical
,  force, as there was no legal process by which we who ovsned
  a large majority of the stock, could be driven from our own
i  house.'  The attorney did suggest that the rioters might
  be treated properly by physical force,  as any  other  burg-
  lars, if we thought proper to do so, which would  be more
  summary than tbe  tedious process of law, but he never
i  for a moment intimated  that they  could not  be removed
I  by the due course of law.
    " Falsehood 4th.   'The Court has  already  pronounced
<  the $7,000 of stock to  be illegal, and has  ordered  it into
}  .the Court to be canceled, which order they seem disposed to
  resist as long as the rules of the Court will allow them.' A
l  very impudent assertion.  This is merely whut Dr. N. has
  petitioned for; when he gets such an order as he says the
i  Court has already  given, he will  feel a great deal more
)  comfortable than  Us dees  in  his present predicament.
i  The above falsehood is altogether too modest.  Why did
i not Dr. N. say at once that the Court had granted the in-
  junction he prayed  for, and suspended the old Board of
> Trustees and Faculty ?
    " Falsehood 5th.  ' He  (Dr. Buchanan) conceals the fact
  that he collected the tuition fees both of the  Winter and
  Spring  sessions,' Ac, etc.  This fact is not only public in
; its own nature, but the whole history of the management
.  of the funds was detailed by Dr. Buchanan in  his affidavit
"  during the late  trial, in  which the Faculty were trium-
;  phant.  The only suppression of facts was the suppression
  by Dr. Newton himself in his financial report of the  Di-
 • ploma fees (between seven and eight hundred  dollars) col-
,  lected by himself.  He was publicly charged in court with
  this suppression, and could not  vindicate himself from
 ' the charge.
.'   "Falsehood 6th.   Is  a miserable  slander against Dr.
  Morrow, representing him as having written a letter abu-
': give of Dr. Buchanan, while his published language and
■  expressions to friends were the very reverse. The letter
  was long since  pronounced a forgery—it bears  intrinsic
•  evidence of fraud upon its face, and it has not been  nor
  can it be produced.  The evidence is that the veracious
  Dr. Jones says that somebody else  says that that this pro-
  duction is an extract from Dr. Morrow's letter—the letter
  and its reporter  are both  invisible.   Every expression
- against Dr. Buchanan, which Dr. Jones reported as having
 i been  used by  living professors of  the  Institute, they
  promptly denied—it is safer to slander the  dead than the
 '  iving.
  " Falsehood 7th.  The assertion that Dr. Buchanan de
sired and urged  tbe removal of Dr. Morrow from the In-
stitute.  A pure fiction.   Dr. Morrow and Dr. Hill  were
the only members  of  the  original faculty whom  Dr. B.
cons'dered of any importance ; and but for their presence
he would  not have been willing to  be a member  of the
Faculty himself.  The relations of these three gentlemen
were always  intimate, courteous and friendly iu every
respect.
  " Falsehood 8th.  The whole story of Dr.  Buchanan s
'abusive efforts to drag  Dr.  B<ach  before the public'  The
Faculty of the Institute were unanimous when they dropped
the name of Dr. Beach,  in the sentiment that it was neces-
sary to disconnect the I nstitute from Dr. Beach's unfortu-
tunate reputation ;  and  so have the Fuculty been from
that time  to  the present, including  the very individuals
Drs. Newton and Jones, who now identify themselves with
a reputation of which they  were  ashamed as long as they
held a respectable position  in the Institute.   They  are
welcome  to the association.   Instead  of dragging  Dr.
Beach  before  the public, the Faculty decided  that they
wuuld drop his name without passing any resolutions on
the subject, as  quietly as  possible,  to avoid attracting
notice to the fact that Dr. Beach had received an honorary
emeritus title from the  Institute.
  " Falsehood 9th. ' Taking the whole spring class, a large
majority were decidedly  opposed to  the conduct  of  the
expelled members throughout the whole  session.'  The
class, in publishing their resolutions, stated that they were
adopted by  forty out of about fifty then in the  city.   Wo
presume they counted  carefully, and we can  exhibit  the
signatures  of nearly that number in addition to  others
who voted for the resolutions but did  not attach their sig-
natures.
  "Falsehood 10th.  'Buchanan & Co. did everything in
their power to deter students from expressing their opinion
by intimating that if they expected to graduate, they had
better  look out,' etc.  Equally false and silly—every one
knows  that if he wanted a diploma from  Dr. Newton he
•ould very easily get it."

  Among the latest slanders of Dr. Newton is the follow-
ing avowal  of his desperate  purposes, which deserves to be
placed  on record.  It is self-evident to any true gentleman
that the author of such an  article is unfit  for the honor-
able position of  a  medical  professor.  He  admits and
boasts  that in order to maintain an imagined right, which
had not been  established by law, he deliberately prepared
to sacrifice the lives of  the members of the medical class,
if they should dare to assert the right to sit in their Hall,
to which they were entitled and for which  they had paid.
The remainder of his statement is in his  usual style of
falsehood ;  tbe members of the medical class who applauded
in their resolutions the  peaceful course of the Faculty,
would  refute his statement  if appealed to.  Dr. Buchanan
simply advised the students to demand,  peaceably,  ad-
missioD to their lecture room, in order to establish beyond
all doubt that they were excluded by armed force, and to
fasten  the  charge upon  the guilty parties.   He accom-
panied them iu doing so, and stood upon the stairway face
to face with the rioters, demanding admission,  until this
matter was clearly established.  He then urged them to
forbearance, and  took pains to prevent any pos.-ible col-
lision from the indignation  produced by the insulting de-
portment of the rioters.  No disrespect was shown to Dr.
B. by the rioters, nor was  any pistol pointed at him or
exhibited to him.  Their insolence was displayed against
members of the class.   The circumstances stated  by Dr.
N. are purely fictitious.

  " Dr. Buchanan then  made  a  speech, urging forward
the few deluded students  who  went with him and his
party [Dr. N. carefully conceals the fact that upwards of
three-fourths or about four-fifths of the class were  united
with the Faculty; they felt a vivid indignation against hii
riotous course,  and rejoiced  in  his expulsion.—W. 8.]
to forcibly enter the college ; and that too when he knew
it could be done only over the dead bodies of its defend-
ers—which we had the  good fortune to hear in part.  After
be had got the  few students worked  up  to  the fighting
point, as he thought, he secured his spectacles more firmly
on bis nose, and  thus appealed to or commanded them:
'Go on.'  The students moved forward as thcugh they in-
tended to  force their way  up stairs; at which  instant we
could not help smiling  (even though  the danger was im-
mineut, and we well  knew that every one  of the mob
would have been shot down by the guard, had they pushed
the attempt) to see Dr. Buchanan, as soon as he bad given
the order, 'Go up, boys,1 dodge his head behind the  door,
whenever a Colt's six shooter came  in contact with his 
DR. NEWTON'S SLANDERS —VERACITY OF DR.  L. E. JONES.               15
visual organs.  While the Doctor was in this heroic pos-
ture, he reminded us very much  of an ostrich  which
thinks but little of the body, if the  head be hidden.  We
said to this mob then, as we do now, in the language  of
the Yankee officer, when commanded to surrender, 'Come
and take us.'"
  Why  does  Dr.  Newton thus coarsely assail  Dr. Buc-
hanan ?  There never was any personal difference between
them.   It is simply because Dr. Buchanau felt compelled,
by a sense of duty, to condemn the  course of Dr. N.—be-
cause, after Dr. Buchanan had announced to  the Faculty
his intended resignation at the close of the spring session,
he  found Dr. Newton conspiring to overthrow his col-
leagues, and determined that he would sacrifice  his  own
objects rather than leave  his colleagues in  the  midst  of
their difficulties, brought on by pursuing an upright pro-
fessional course ; hence, Dr. N's continual intimations, that
there was something wrong in the financial matters of the
College, when he knows that Dr. B. is both able  and will-
ing to meet all hie liabilities, and that the  course which
he has pursued was sustained by bis colleagues.  Although
generally considered irresponsible himself, he charged Drs.
Buchanan and Sherwood with insolvency ; this  charge
was refuted in open court, and was pronounced untrue by
Judge Storer.  It will appear upon  tbe settlement of ac-
counts that Dr. Newton is himself a  debtor to the Faculty,
for money for which  he has never acemtnted, and  that
every dollar which Dr. Buchanan has collected was col-
lected legally aud fully accounted for.
  The following notice o£ one of Dr. Newton's charges, in
the College Journal of September, will terminate this se-
lection of choice specimens of malignant slander.
  "Impcdknt.—Dr. Newton, whose whole literary career is
nothing but a plagiarism—whose lectures,  editorials and
essays  are all bought, borrowed, or  stolen goods (having
never in his life written ten consecutive pages of scientific
matter himself), charges Prof. Cleaveland with plagiarism 1!
and has the folly to publish at the same time matter  upon
which the charge is based: viz., an essay by Dr. Collins and
a contribution of Dr. Cleaveland to King's Obstetrics.  The
articles resemble each other simply because they advocate
similar doctrines, and are no  more  alike than any other
scientific essays from different authors, embodying  similar
views.  The  same doctrines were originally presented  by
English authors, from whom  Prof. Cleaveland long since
derived them in  the first instance.   But Dr. Newton, in
his profound ignorance of Hit literature of the profession,
              VERACITY   OF  D

  To most of/he old students and friends of the Institute
little need be said upon this subject, for Dr. Jones' char-
acter is too well kuown.  1 write for the benefit of those
who have not seen the facts  which I have to adduce.
  After Dr. L. E- Jones had, by  a course of turbulence,
malice, and ungentlemanly conduct, compelled the Faculty
to  procure his legal  expulsion  by  the Board, his un-
bounded rage and malice had no other channel in which
to vent itself than a  warfare of words.  He accordingly
devoted his time for the rest of  the session to lecturing
daily over a coffee-house on Western  Row, to all whom
he could induce to hear him, repeating over and over his
tirades against the Faculty, without making any serious
impression upon intelligent  students.
  He also  issued three  pamphlets, containing malicious
falsehoods of so infamous a character, that they were uni-
versally condemned, and deprived him  of  all the litrTe
sympathy he had left.
  Of these pamphlets, Dr.  W.  B. Powell remarked, (see
proceedings of the  Eclectic  Physicians of Cincinnati and
Covington,) that Dr. Jones, unfortunately, " yielded to the
suggestions of his animal man, and has fallen below the
possibility of redemption." Whether Dr. Jones can  be re-
deemed by associating with one who has fallen equally low
in veracity and honor, or whether they will bold each
other down with leaden weight, I  leave to the reader.
  Many of the falsehoods of Dr. Jones were in relation to
the lectures and proceedings of the  Faculty, which were
well known to the medical class, and so disgusted were
the gentlemen of the class—the very same to whom Dr. J.
had lectured, who  had  heard his tirades, and who were
supposed they had never been  presented to the world
until  Dr.  Colling advanced them.  The  ideas may have
been entirely original with Dr. Collins, but Dr. Cleaveland
did not obtain them from him, and did not present them
as original with  himself.  If Dr. Newton wishes to know
with what contempt Dr. Collins regards such trickery, he
will not find it difficult to ascertain.
  '•The vindictive enmity of Dr. Newton  against  Dr.
Cleaveland,  appears to  have completely stultified him,
otherwise he would not have had the consummate folly to
publish a charge, and publish the refutation with it.  It is
indeed honorable to Dr. C, that his industrious enemy who
has been looking out in a secret and unbecoming manner
for some materials for a personal attack, should have been
able  to trump up nothing but this  barefaced absurdity.
We expect him, when he perceives that he is defeated, to
trump up other charges equally malicious and  false, for
he has been thus engaged  ever since  he discovered  that
Prof. C. would not serve as a literary tool, aud co-operate
in upholding adulterated medicines.  We would commend
to his attention  the remark of a philosophic moralist:

  "' If a man wishes to put himself down effectually and
thoroughly, for  this world aud the next, let him  persist
in endeavoring to put  down  some one else.  The experi-
ment has never failed, and never will.'
  " The truth of this doctrine has been exemplified by Dr.
L. E. Jones, and is now being exemplified  by Dr. R. S.
Newton."

  An irresistible feeling of contempt and disgust prevents
me from  following up any further  the  numerous little
falsifications and misrepresentations of Dr. N. and Dr. J.,
in College matters.  To honorable men, it is  sufficient to
show, that a witness has been repeatedly guilty of inex-
cusable and  unquestionable  falsehood, knowingly, mali-
ciously or  recklessly; and when that has been established
bis whole story is discredited.
  A controversy with such  men as Newton and Jones, who
have no regard for truth, nor sense of  strict honor, is end-
less in its nature, and becomes lower and lower as it is pro-
longed ; but an exposition of their true character appeared
to be necessary to arrest their impositions upon credulity.
The task is performed,  and I leave them to propagate their
"malaria," with the conviction that intelligent and honor-
able men  will  not  be  greatly influenced by the  super-
abundant  falsehoods and  scurrilities  of medical dema-
gogues.
R.   L.   E.   JONES.

 fully acquainted with both sides of the question, that Dr.
 J. had  scarcely a friend  left  in the class  to shield him
 from condemnation as an infamous slanderer.  The fol-
 lowing resolutions were adopted by tbe class February 18,
 1853, near the close of the session, and as  stated by the
 report of the Committee of  Eclectio  Physicians, "one
 hundred and twenty-eight were counted in the ball of the
 Institute, of whom but two were opposed to adopting the
 resolutions.  I omit tbe proceedings of the previous meet-
 ing, and six of the resolutions for the sake of brevity.
  " Whereas, We have carefully read a pamphlet against
 the  Eclectic Medical Institute, recently put forth by Dr.
 L. E. Jones, signed by A.  II. Baldridge, M.  D., President,
 and S. Kyle, M. D., Secretary, purporting to represent the
 sentiments of the Eclectic Physicians  of Cincinnati  and
 vicinity; and, whereas, we know of but one Eclectic phy-
 sician entertaining such  sentiments,  excepting the  two
 whose names are signed to tbe pamphlet:
  '• 1st.  Resolved,  That we regard this pamphlet as an im-
 position on the public, whom it addresses under the false
 pretence of expressing the sentiments of the Eclectic phy-
 sicians of Cincinnati and vicinity, when in reality it only
 expresses the ideas and language of Dr. L. E Jones, which
 are prompted solely by the desire to inflict injury upon the
 most successful, talented, and  efficient  school of medical
 retbrm now in existence.
  " 2nd.  Resolved,  That the entire pamphlet is filled with
 a scries of slanderous misrepresentations, which render it
 entirely unworthy of public confidence, and prove that its
 author has but little regard to  the claims of truth and
 honor. 
16         OPINION OF THE CLASS—OPINIONS OF  DRS. POWELL AND  NEWTON.
   "3d.  Resolved,  That the assertion that the elass gene-
 rally sympathize with L. E. Jones, and approve his course,
 is a slander upon the class.
   "4th.  Resolved, That  the  assertion that seventy or
 eighty students left the Institute on account of the ex-
 pulsion of Dr. L. E. Jones, and the ' inefficient teachings
 of the Faculty,' is grossly false, as it is well known to the
 entire class  that  the number of students in attendance
 upon the lectures immediately after the expulsion of Dr.
 Jones,  instead of being diminished was actually greater
 than it was immediately previous to that act.
   " 6th. Resolved, That the imputations of chicanery and
 fraud against the present Faculty are utterly groundless,
 and are disgraceful only to the slauderer who  utters the
 ridiculous charge.
   "7th. Resolved, That the expulsion of Dr. L. E. Jones
 was an act of necessity, for the preservation of the Insti-
 tute, and that  the assertion  that he was  expelled  on
 account of his opposition to Homoeopathy, is a falsehood so
 totally groundless as to prove its author capable of fabri-
 cating falsehoods without a scruple.
   " 8th.  Resolved, That  when  the announcement was
 made that Dr. L. E. Jones had been  expelled from the
 Institution — that the  class received the  announcement
 with 'sadness and silence,' 'with surprise and mortifica-
 tion,' by the  members of the class  in general,  is very far
 from truth ; the  truth being, that the announcement was
 received and applauded with unusual interest, as the class
 knew that he could not longer remain in his chair and
 harmony prevail in the Institution.
   " 12th. Resolved, That we can not too strongly disap-
 prove of tbe thrusts made at  Prof. Buchanan, which de-
 serve tbe prompt condemnation of all favorable to the cause
 of Eclecticism, as he has done  more than any other indi-
 vidual, except the lamented Prof. Morrow, to forward the
 cause,  and as much depends on him  as the able and de-
 voted supporter  of Eclecticism, such slanderous attacks
 ean not  too promptly meet the disapprobation of all true
 Eclectics.
   " 14th. Resolved, That the assertion of Dr. L. E. Jones,
 that be was expelled because be opposed the doctrines of
 Hahnemann, is utterly false and groundless, as the subject
 of Homoeopathy, so far  as we know, was never a  matter
 of discussion or  difference between tbe  members of the
 Faculty, and he was never, as  far as we know, censured
 or opposed by any one for the views which he expressed on
 tbe subject.   In all  the charges  against him we have
 never heard  the subject of  Homoeopathy even  alluded to,
 although we have heard many other charges against him
 •f a very serious character.
    " 16th. Resolved, That the  assertion that the teachings
 of Prof Buchanan are  etherial,  wild, incoherent, and
 visionary fancies, and that they are calculated to  subject
 the graduates aud students to ' unmerited reproaches and
 contumely.' we feel it our duty to deny, as we have heard
 from the chair which he occupies nothing but a clear and
 simple  explanation of the physiological and pathological
 subjects which belong  to his  department presented in a
 peculiarly original  manner, and embracing much impor-
 tant and practical matter, not obtainable from any work
 with which  we  are acquainted, or taught  in any other
 medical school of which we have any knowledge.
    " 17th.  Resolved, That those who  have  become ac-
 quainted with his wonderful accessions to science do uni-
 versally accept his teachings as supplying a great vacuum
 in science, that they are in perfect accordance, as  we
 most firmly believe, with the great laws controlling tbe
 animal  organism, and that his discoveries in physiologi-
  cal science  have rendered parts of the science, heretofore
 obscure and mystified, clear  and  plain  as  any fact  in
  science.
               "Barton Pickering,  "1
                •'Thos. R. Ward,
                " W. S. Severance,     \   Committee."
                " T. C. Ellis,
                "George Keller,      J

    Dr. Jones attempted to weaken the force of this terrible
   condemnation,  by asserting  that the  resolutions  were
   written by  Dr. Buchanan.  This  was but another false-
   hood, as was shown by Dr. Buchanan in his reply, and at
   the close of the  spring session, another batch of Dr. Jones'
   falsehoods, which bad just been issued, was answered spon-
   taneously by tbe members of the  class, in still more pun-
   gent resolutions, which were  unanimously adopted, so  en-
   tirely free from the influence of Dr. Buchanan, that he
   did not even know what the action of the class had been,
,   "until a week  after the class bad dispersed" The class,
   on this occasion, unanimously  pronounced Dr. Jones'
statements "as vindictive as false, and infamous as untrue."
They met  and  contradicted  his  various  calumnies in
detail.  They  indorsed Dr. King's lectures and  declared
that they regarded "him as one of the best practitioners
of the age," and spoke of Dr. Buchanan as follows:
  " Resolved, That the assertions that Dr. Buchanan is a
'poor teacher, capable of selecting and impressing but
little of any importance—that he is hard to understand,
wild and visionary,'are grossly unjust, reflecting dishonor
on one of the best physiologists of the age, and if regarded
would be  detrimental to the progress of physiological
sri'-nce; and that, though hi* indefatigable labors and lofty
deductions may not be appreciated by hunkers,  nor un-
derstood by the  stupid, we highly appreciate them, and
regard his lectures as all that could be asked by the stu-
dents of physiology."

  The mendacity of Dr. L. E. Jones, thus branded on his
forehead by those who knew him best—who  had heard all
that he could say In his own behalf, became a generally
conceded fact.  The  committee of  Eclectic  Physicians, of
whom W.  Byrd Powell was chairman, remarked  in  their
report (1853.) that '• Dr. Jones  has not himself at this time,
sufficient character for veracity  to assaU the veracity of
others."
  If Dr. L. E. Jones could have been supposed to have any
character worth demolishing after such universal condem-
nation— after he  had been condemned and degraded,
first by the  very  gentlemen for whom he had  voted as
Professors, who unanimously requested him to  resign—
next by the gentlemen for whom he had voted as Trustees,
in short by those whom he prefferred to all others—and after
the very students who had sat under his lectures  rose and
denounced him as a slanderer, an  utterer of " infamous "
falsehoods — it is certain  that  it was entirely annihilated
in the exposition of his course given by Prof, Buchanan.
To those who are  fond of seeing justice administered, I
would recommend a perusal of Dr. Buchanan's address to
the public, appended  to tbe report of the proceedings of
Eclectic Physicians, in which the  totally false and  mali-
cious character of Dr. Jones' publication is fully exposed.
That pamphlet was Dr. Jones'deathblow — he sunk into
general contempt—so degraded was he, that when reeking
with infamy and burning with malice, he prepared another
foul mass of calumny—a pamphlet of 40 pages fine  print,
of which he circulated a large edition in every direction—
the gentleman assailed would not even condescend to make
any reply.  The author was beneath the level of a contro-
versy.  Dr. Newton  alone noticed the production, which
he  did in the following  language on  the cover  of the
Eclectic Journal, the peculiar elegance and grammatical
correctness of which  would mark it as the unadulterated
production of Dr.  Newton, solitary, alone and unassisted,
even without his initial " N."

           "pamphlet extraordinary.

  "The would-be persecuting enemies of the Eclectic Med-
ical Institute in this city, have  issued another edition of
their filthy pamphlets, and it exceeds  all the specimens of
 vulgarity, falsehood, bigotry, and premeditated malicious-
 ness which we have ever seen, and could only be equalled
 by its  authors;  and none  but those who, having sunk
 so far below every thing that gives to  man an elevation
 beyond the brute creation, would  ever think of reviewing
 or  answering so  much  filth  and intended 'malaria.'
                                                "N."
   If Dr.  Newton  had to sink to the level of the  brute
 creation  before he  could review  Dr. Jones' " filth" and
 '■ falsehood," it  has not  required  many years for  him to
 accomplish that descent.   In  less than three years, he is
 found, cheek by  jowl, with Dr. L. E. Jones, retailing by
 word of mouth, a portion  of Jones'  calumnies, and pub-
 lishing choice  portions of the  "filth " in his Express and
  Eclectic Journal.  Yet, such an association is entirely na-
  tural—the  man who has been expelled from  honorable
  associations for charlatanism, intrigue  and falsehood, has
  not many downward steps to  take to reach the  level of
  Dr. L. E. Jones, nor could two better associates be found
  for the work of scurrilous calumny.  Never has the  his-
  tory of   the medical  profession in America  been  dis-
  graced by such a warfare of scurrility as Jones,  Newton
  A Baldridge have carried on against the Faculty of tbe In-
  stitute.
    What can such  men as Drs. Newton, Jones and Bald-
  ridge, all notorious for mendacity, effect  by tbeir present
  combination, after living for years in mutual disgust—each
  having  pronounced the other unfit for any honorable
  medical  position—the testimony of each refuted  by the 
CORRUPT COMBINATION —
END OF THE IMPOSITION.
IT
othei ?  Any impartial spectator can answer, and perhaps
a sufficient answer  is furnished by the  language of Dr.
Newton's especial  friend,  Dr. W. Byrd  Powell, in 1853, at
the meeting of Eclectic physicians (as  written  out by
himself).

  " W« now find that ex-professors Jones and  Baldridge
were a>, the head of this secretly gotten up convention of
Eckcticf Physicians, and under all the  circumstances con-
nected with this subject can anv one imagine it to be pos-
sible that opposition to the Ins'titute, inculcated, hatched
and promoted by these gentlemen, can  effect any thing
more than a public contempt for themselves?  Gentlemen,
I have nore confidence in the wisdom of the public mind,
than  to  believe it."   The result verified  the prediction.
Jones a»d Baldridge  became objects of public contempt,
and no one had a  profounder contempt  for them than Dr.
R. S.  Newton.
  Misery makes strange  companions—but it is very na-
tural that  men who have sunk to a common level, and
who are outlawed beyond the pale of professional respect-
ability, should cling together for mutual  defense.   Yet, if
a hundred  such should he found and brought into a com-
mon  league, by their common dishonor, their loud assev-
erations aad mutual indorsements would uot constitute
  After the riotous usurpation of the College building a
proposition was immediately made by  the mobocrats to
submit to a legal arbitration the question between them-
selves and the authorities of the Institute.  This was ad-
dressed to us by advertisement in the newspapers, while for
form's sake, a copy was also privately sent us.  A reply to
this banter was at once prepared;  but, upon reflection, it
was deemed useless to engage in a warfare of newspaper
advertisements with parties  so undignified and  unprin-
cipled.
  The reply was not sent—the matter was simply referred
to our counsel, with instructions to procure an arbitration
as early as possible. Dr. Newton continued to publish his
proposition, falsely boasting that he was as eager to settle
as the Faculty were to protract the controversy.   Our
counsel having no faith in the sincerity of the proposition,
and being very much occupied in their business, allowed a
few weeks  to pass  before taking measures to secure the
arbitration.  This delay was cousidered expedient, as our
opponents were thus allowed  to continue  the proffer  and
beast of their readiness to engage in arbitration,  so as to
be fully committed to the proposition, from which  they
could  not withdraw, without  additional dishonor. When
they were approached by our counsel to make an  appoint-
ment  for arbitration, their attorneys professed  entire wil-
lingness to carry out the proposition in good faith, and we
had some confidence that it could be done, in consequence
of their assurance.  The matter was, however,  repeatedly
postponed, on the plea that one of the attorneys was called
away from the city by his engagements.   And no appoint-
ment could he obtained until Saturday, the 20th of Sep-
tember.
  During all this time Dr. Newton maintained his falsehood

             2
truth, nor give any plausibility or respectability to their
pretensions.   Such, however, is  the weakness of human
nature, that  any combination of individuals, embracing •
considerable  number,  no matter  how far depraved or dis
honored,  will exert considerable  influence in misleading
ignorant  or  inexperienced  individuals, and corrupting
those whose moral principles have not acquired  maturity
and firmness. The mere toleration and polite recognition
of such a nucleus of corruption is sufficient to propagate
its baleful influence among the rising young men of the
profession.

      u Vice is a  monster of that hideous mien,
       Which to be hated needs but to be seen;
       Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
       We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

  There is no method of saving the ranks of reformatory
medicine  from the corrupting influence which is now or-
ganized, hut  by a stern refusal to tolerate or countenance
in any manner, that which is thoroughly corrupt.  Wit-
hold all  patronage or professional  sympathy from such
fungus organizations, from their publications and lectures,
and their morbid growth perishes by ligation, leaving the
profession healthy and pure.
before the public without correction—that the Faculty had
refused to submit the  matter  to  arbitration, and were
relying upon legal delays for their protection.
  On the 20th of September, the same attorney who made
the appointment to mee't on that day and select three arbi-
trators, failed in his appointment—although in bis office
within a square of the place, at the time of the  appoint-
ment—he violated the  engagement, and, as we were told,
left the city without any explanation.  The other parties
(the Newtons and their attorneys)  who were present, re-
fused to act, but promised to  give  their answer in a few
days.  On  the  22d of September, they finally refused  all
arbitration, by a message to Judge  Probasco ; thus, prov-
ing their whole maneuver nothing but a cunning trick, to
impose upon the public  by a false pretence of confidence
in their own cause, and prevent any summary measures
from being taken by the Faculty.
  The Faculty, therefore, made arrangements for lecture
rooms in College Hall (Walnut street) and applied  to the
Court  of Common Pleas for an injunction to arrest the
mobocrats in the use of the  building, and  in tbeir false
assumptions as Trustees and Faculty.  The injunction was
granted, and the whole imposition and spurious organiza-
tion are now legally  annihilated, until  they can show
some justice in their claims, which they have not done,
and can not  do.
  They are prohibited from using the College edifice  and
College property, from  granting diplomas, matriculating
students, or performing any other act, whaUTXr, as Trustees
or Faculty of the Eclectic Medical  Institute.   Thus ends the
imposition.   Falsehood and violence are  prostrate  be-
neath the law ; the old organization of the Eclectic Med
ical Institute stands as firm as ever and  without a rival.
                                  October 11th, 1856.
END   OF  THE   IMPOSITION-THE  INJUNCTION. 
18            ECLECTIC  PUBLICATIONS — ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
        PUBLICATIONS

BY THE FACULTY OF THE INSTITUTE.
THE
Collt0c   Journal
     MEDICAL  SCIENCE,

Is a monthly journal of  forty pages, estab-
lished under the following resolution, adopted
at a regular  meeting of the Faculty of  the
Eclectic  Medical  Institute,  November  26,
1855:
  "Resolved, That in  order to aid in the advancement of
Liberal Medicine, the Faculty of the Eclectic Medical In-
stitute of Cincinnati  deem it expedient that a monthly
periodical be established, subject to the Editorial control
of a majority of its members."

TERMS:—ONE  DOLLAR PER ANNUM,
                   in advance.
  The Journal has been put at the lowest possible figure,
and advance payment  is the invariable rule.  Paying sub-
scribers are, therefore, exempt from the tax usually levied
upon them to offset " bad debts."
  55" l'ersons to whom specimen  copies of the College
Journal are sent need not return them,  as no one will be
held as a subscriber for the Journal without an express
order from bim.
  Communications for and letters on business connected
with the Journal, should be addressed to

    WM. SHERWOOD, M  D., Publisher,

            No. 243 Court St. Cincinnati, 0.
            THE  AMERICAN

Eclectic  Practice  of  Medicine;
    Br Prof. I. G. JONES & Prof. T. V. MORROW.
  In two volumes.—Price $7.  The first edition has been
exhausted.  A new edition will soon be published.
                   THE

American  Eclectic   Dispensatory;
              By JOHN KING, M. D.
  One volume, royal 8vo., 1,395 pages.—Price, $6. Third
edition within a year.
American  Eclectic  Obstetrics;

             Bt JOHN KING, M. D.,
  Author of the Eclectic Dispensatory.—One volume, Oc-
tavo, with seventy illustrations—Price, $4.

  "We have carefully examined Dr. King's work, and can
honestly recommend it as a safe and  judicious guide, both
to the student and to the practitioner of midwifery.—Bos-
ton Medical and Surgical Journal.
  " nis work on Obstetrics is elaborate and thorough in
all its details, and will be found of  great  service in this
department of medical science."—Worcester Journal of
Medicine.
Buchanan's System of Anthropology;
            By J. R. BUCHANAN, M. D.
  One volume, 8vo., with numerous  illustrations.  Price,
$2 by mail, prepaid.  Address the author, Cincinnati.
  BUCHANAN'S SYSTEM OF ANTHROPOLOGY will b»
forwarded, free of postage, upon  the remittance of $2 ai
the Author's risk.  Opinions of  the Press:—-'It is cer-
tainly indicative of ability and industry, no less than sin-
cerity, on tbe part of the  author."—(North  Anerican
Review.)  "Beyond all doubt it  is  a most extraordinary
work, Jexhiting  the workings of  a  mind of no common
stamp."—(Gospel Herald.)  "It  supplies the deficenciel
in the phrenological system of Gall and  Spurzbeim."—
(.Louisville Journal.')


     Buchanan's Journal of  Man

Is published bi-monthly (64 pages), at $2 per vilume, ot
12 numbers.   Remit at the Editor's  Risk.  Language of
the Press:—"A pioneer in the progress of science.-'—(Louis
ville Democrat.')  "One of  the  ablest publications  jd
America."—(Brandon Post.)  "It possesses mere  origin
ality than any other work with which we are acquainted."
(WMsviOe Herald.)       Address,
                       " DR. J. R. BUCHANAN."
ECLECTIC  MEDICAL  IMSTITUTfi

   The  Fall and Winter Session  of 1856-7,
will commence on

   MONDAY,  THE 20TII OF OCTOBER,

preceded by a preliminary gratuitous course,
from the 1st to the 20th, which will present
much interesting and important matter to the
student.
   The  Faculty  of the  Institute will be  as
follows:
         I. G. JONES,  M.  D.,
Emeritus Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine

         A.  J. HOWE,  M. D.,
Professor of General, Special, and Pathological Anatomy.

         J. R. BUCHANAN, M.  D.,
Professor of Physiology, and Institutes of Medicine,

         C. H. CLEAVELAND, M. D.,
Professor of Materia Medica,  Therapeutics, and Medica]
                    Botany.

         WM. SHERWOOD,  M. D.,
Professor of Medical Practice and Pathology, and Lecturer
               on Clinical Medicine.

         WALTER BURNIIAM,  M. D.,
Professor of Surgical Practice, and Operative Surgery.
         JOHN KING,  M: D.,
Professor of Obstetrics, and the Diseases of Women and
                    Children.
J. W. HOYT, M. D„
Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Medical Jurispru-
                    dence.

  As the Faculty will not he embarrassed by inefficient and
factious members, and as the class will have access to the
Commercial Hospital, in addition to whatever Clinical In-
struction can be introduced from private practice, the text
course of lectures may be looked to  as more scientific,
thorough, and satisfactory, than any which has ever been
given in the Institute.  The reputation of Professor Burn-
ham, as a Medical Professor, is well  known in the Kast.
As an operative surgeon he is one of the foremost of the
profession.   Professor Howe has been recommended to
the Board as one of the best lecturers on Anatomy in the
United States.
  The terms for the next session will be the same  as for
the last, viz.: Matriculation, $6.00.   Tuition, $20.00.
Demonstrator's Ticket, $5 00.  Every student is required
to engage in dissection one session before graduation.  Grad-
uation,  $25.00. Ticket to Commercial Hospital (optional),
$5.00.   J. R. BUCHANAN, M. D., Dean of the faculty. 
                                     AS.',I.
                                                                    fin   c^
                                   THE ONLY TRUE
                                         (     AND

         ACCURATE   ANNOUNCEMENT
                             BY  THEMSELVES.
Of the character and abilities of the Spurious Faculty, who now  pretend to represent
  the  Eclectic Medical Institute.   Compiled from the manuscripts and publications of
  said Faculty, with a running commentary.
  The following publication needs no apology.   It
is customary in Collegiate announcements  to speak
of the facilities  of the Institution announced, and
latterly it has become the fashion  to  state pretty
freely the qualifications of the  Faculty as they are
known  or  believed  by the  parties most familiar
therewith.   This is believed to be  a good custom,
if honestly observed by  true  hearted men.  The
men who unite together must know each other, and
they must  know each other  favorably, by personal
knowledge or by report, or they could not unite; con-
sequently,  when they express  their opinions  can-
didly, they express the truth with the most favorable
construction, of which the said  truth may be  sus-
ceptible; and, at the same time, they are bound by
politeness not to reveal  each other's faults.  Hence
it may be said that a college  announcement  cor-
responds to the old maxim, "put the  best foot fore-
most." Nevertheless, it ought to be a true and honest
document as far as it  goes.
  Since the establishment of a  new  school by Drs.
L. E  Jones, Newton, Baldridge, & Co., it is to be
regretted  that their bashfulness has prevented their
speaking right  out,  and  explaining each  other's
qualifications, to the best of their ability ;  for  they
know each other so well,  that no one could do bet-
ter justice  to their own  endowments.  Moreover,
these parties have, within three years past, described
each  other so fully, so minutely, and with  such en-
tire  and commendable frankness, that no one can
fairly doubt  the  honesty of their opinions publicly
expressed,  or hesitate to  believe that they possess
the  various  distinguishing  characteristics which
each  has discovered  in the other, after a long and
intimate acquaintance in professional intercourse.
  It is  proposed, therefore, to assist these bashful
gentlemen  in circulating their  honest opinions of
each other, which have recently become unaccounta-
bly scarce in the market.  It is  to be  hoped they
have  not entirely consigned to the flames those
memorials of their recent friendship, of which such
large editions were  printed.  Some of the choice
passages are perfect gems in their way, and although
the poet has said,
      " Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
       The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear,"
Some individuals are not willing these gems  should
be entirely lost to mankind.
  To  preserve due respect  for seniority,  I shall
first allow Dr. Jones to describe somewhat at length
the character of  the younger individuals whom he
has chosen for comrades, on  account of a peculiar
congeniality of character  in  pursuit of a  common
object
  What does Dr. Jones think  of Dr. Newton after
an acquaintance of several years standing ?  From
a careful perusal  of his various writings, it appears
that he considers Dr.  Newton  a mere pretender to
science, not acquainted with the principles of Eclec-
tic Medicine, which he professes to teach, and  not
yet purged of the errors of the old school practice
in which he was so recently engaged. He considers
him a humbug in pretending to be an author of books
which  everybody knows he did not write,  and a
mere burlesquer of Eclectic practice which he does
not understand, [although he has learned something
of it from  Dj. King],   [The reader will pardon  the
abruptness and severity with which Dr. L. E. Jones
demolishes his quondam friend. This is but a con-
centrated  statement of his  views, which are quite
familiar to the few who have  had the  opportunity
of hearing his benevolent and refined language for
the last three years.]
  Although Dr. L. E. Jones considered Dr. Newton
not yet free from the  old school errors in which he
was educated, he  regarded  him as capable, at  the
same  time, of mixing up with old school errors a
few of the errors  of  Samuel Thomson, making al-
together a "sickly course " of  medical lectures, and
a " burlesque" on  medical reform.
  Moreover, he regards him  as a consummate  in-
triguer—a man who   is all things to all men, and
who, fearing Eclecticism  would'nt pay, announced
himself and colleagues as regular orthodox  old
school men (at Memphis); but finding that wouldn't
work smoothly, tossed another somerset in the dark
and came  out a full  fledged Eclectic.  It was  not
Dr. Newton only who  engaged  in this double sorner-
setting between Memphis and  Cincinnati, according
to Dr. Jones, for his associates, Sanders, Freeman,
and Powell, were  all concerned in it alike—the  an-
nouncement that they were regular, orthodox, Allo-
pathic—having been  written and published by San-
ders, [according  to Dr. L. E. Jones]  under  the
orders of Newton  in their "Bulletin."  [That such
an announcement was published extensively is well
known to the public—it is Dr.  L. E. Jones who  ex-
plains that it was  regularly determined on by New-
ton A Co.]
  In addition to all this, Dr. J. considers him  not
only an  intriguer, but a "scoundrel," on account of
his taking sides  clandestinely with  the  Martha
Washington prisoners, and publishing a villainous
attack on  that noble  man, Sidney  C. Burton, to in-
stigate his assassination while  he was attending the
trial of the prisoners.  Dr. L. E. Jones fortifies him-
self on  this  point by the general testimony of the
press, which, at that  time, denounced Dr, Newton 
2                       ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SPURIOUS FACULTY.
as an unprincipled man, for circulating secretly these
assassin-like attacks.   Dr. Bickley agreed with Dr.
Jones at that time on this subject, for he considered
Dr. Newton's conduct so disgraceful that  he wished
him expelled immediately,  and  actually wrote his
own resignation to get out of Dr. Newton's company.
  To illustrate these opinions  by quotations would
require a  great  deal of space.   But I must spare
room enough to enable Dr. L. E.  Jones to express
himself in his own elegant and ornate language.  In
his third pamphlet, page 11, he says:
  " King and  Newton's names appear as the  authors of
the l-.clec tic Dispensatory.  It is well known that the entire
credit l/elongs to Dr. King,  yet Dr. Newton receives tbe
principal share. So in reference to ' Newton and  Powell's
I'ractice,' very nearly the entire labor devolved upon one
man, yet the other receives  the credit."
  In  this Dr. Jones says correctly that Dr.  Newton
furnished no intellectual capital for that book, but
he  omits to  state the fact  that the portions  of the
book which  Dr.  Newton  pretended were furnished
by  himself, were written  by Dr. King—not that Dr.
King was their  author in a scientific  sense, for  he
would not write such matters in his own name—he
merely  performed the literary labor of converting
Dr. Newton's crude  notions  into  readable  matter.
If Dr. Newton had attempted to  write without as-
sistance,  it  would have been a confused  jumble,
without even grammatical correctness.   So  long  as
Dr. Newton has literary men about him, he will not
be apt to expose  his intellectual nakedness on paper.
When Dr.  Newton first published the Eclectic Jour-
nal, he wished to appear  as editor by writing a little
now and  then, but his articles were s«  crude and
puerile, that  Dr.  Buchanan always prepared each
article for  the press, unless  it was a mere dun  or
short notice.   In many cases the whole article was
written  by Dr. Buchanan, and adopted  by Dr. New-
ton, for the  former  was not willing  to  have the
Journal disfigured by Dr. Newton's bona fide writ-
ing, and Dr.  Newton himself confessing his "igno-
rance and inexperience in writing," requested Dr.
Buchanan  to manage the whole matter.  When Dr.
Newton wns  attacked by Dr. Latta, his defence was
written  by Dr.  Buchanan.   Any one,  by  looking
over  back volumes of  the  Journal, can  pick out
clumsily written articles of Dr. Newton, which, with
all  the correction that could be given, still revealed
their  illiterate paternity.   Not a single article was
published  by Drs.  R. S. and  0.  E. Newton, which
has any pretensions to  respectability, which was
not written by some one  else.  A full catalogue of
the articles  which they have borrowed thus from
Dr. King, Dr. Buchanan, Dr.  Powell, J. M. San-
ders,  and  several others—would strip them entirely
naked of all pretensions to literary capacity.
  On page 17  of his 40 page pamphlet, Dr. L. E. Jones
expresses himself very freely:  he maintains that
it is a " base  slander," to call Dr. R. S. Newton the
equal of Dr. I. G. Jones, (which is very true, but
I have  never known of any one  who considered
him a man of the same grade,) or to call Dr.  G. W.
L. Bickley the equal of Dr. L. E. Jones.  (This may
be  so, but which is slandered  by the comparison  I
would not here  undertake to  decide, not liking to
interfere in family quarrels.)   He affirms, also, that
it is a very short time since  Dr. Newton pretending
to be an Eclectic, was prescribing calomel;  that he
was "Pro-slavery and  Allopathic in Arkansas and
Memphis—Abolitionist in Ohio, and Eclectic  in Cin-
cinnati," but so  incorrect, meagre and confused in
his notions of practice that his treatment is "a mere
burlesque."
  The following is the language of Dr. L. E. Jones,
 condemning Dr. Newton and  Bickley as unworthy
 successors of Drs. I. 6. Jones and himself.

       L. E. JONES ON NEWTON AND BICKLEY.
  " Those individuals  who gave ' entire  vitality to the
 school.'or gave 'i-hape to its practical teachings viz; I.
 G. Jones and L. E. Jones, are not there ; and to assert that
 their substitutes are their equals on these  departments,
 can  be viewed, as I believe,  only as a base slander.  I
 again repeat that I knew not at that time  that Prof. New-
 tou had  so recently prescribed calomel, nor did  I  then
 know that he bad authorized the publication of ihearticlo
 in the Memphis Bulletin (his paper), asserting  that his
 College was a Regular  Orthodox School.'  Since then I.bave
 received the most satisfactory proof that such was the case,
 his assertions and others to the contrary notwithstanding.
 It is in perfect  accordance with the feelings and acts of
 some, to  be pro-slavery and Allopathic in Arkansas and
 Memphis—Abolitionist  in Ohio,  and Eclectic in Cincin-
 nati.   Prof. Hulce informed Prof. Baldridge  that he acted
 according to a preconcerted agreement of the Faculty, and
 of course was authorized to declare publicly that the Mem-
 phis Institute was ' orthodox' or Allopathic.  I know of
 no good reason for disbelieving the disinterested testimony
 of Prof. Hulce, and accepting  that of his interests d  oppo-
 nents ; and is it no! self-evident, if he had, unauthorized,
 published what purported to be their (his colleague's) sen-
 timents, wilful falsehood of such moment, placing  thein  in
 a position they did not  occupy—declaring their school Al-
 lopathic,  and not Eclectic, that they would  have lost no
 time in correcting an impression, if so erroneous and false
 as they now assert it  was, through the  same channel 1
 This I believe was never done in a " Southern Edition "—
 self interest required it in a "Northern Edition," and it
 appeared, though contradictory and very unsatisfactory.
  Again,  his treatment of our student, Dr. Harris, who
 died  of Pneumonia, as reported by experienced Eclectics
 who witnessed it, was any thing but Eclectic.  To illustrate
 my position, I will  give  his  treatment in two or  three
diseases, as published in his late work on  the Practice of
 Medicine:
                ACUTE  NEPHRITIS.
  Treatment.—'During  the whole course  of the disease,
the surface of the body mu-t  be bathed frequently with
an alkaline wash, and the Compound Tinciure of  Virginia
Snake-root should be given to allay pain,  soothe  nervous
irritability, and keep up a tendency to  the surface.  The
patient should be kept quiet and free from  excitement.'
               CHRONIC NEPHRITIS.
  Treatment—' In long  standing and obstinate cases,  more
active counteraction to the lumber region may be required,
and we have frequently obtained the most gratifying re-
sults from the  intermittent  application of irritating
plaster.'
                 ACTTE  CYSTITIS.
  Treatment.—'The treatment recommended in Acute Ne-
phritis  is  applicable to  this : the local  applications, how-
ever, are to be applied overthe pubis instead of the lumber
region.'
  Eclectics, call to mind the writings and lectures of Beach,
 Morrow and I. G. Jones, on these same diseases, also, your
own  practice, and draw your own conclusions.   If his
practice is Eclectic, theirs and  yours is not—their teac h-
ings are in vain.  The  treatment laid down  in these dis-
 eases, in a work designed as a text  book  for Keformers, is
so meagre, indefinite, and confused, that I  can view  it as
 ' little less than a burlesque upon the  friends of liberal
medicine.'"
  Dr. Jones tells some thing very near the truth in
 reference to  that work; a  book  so defective  that
 Dr. Newton's colleagues would not  notice or  review
 it, because they couid say so little in its  favor.  Dr.
 Buchanan would not read  it for fear  he should be
 asked  to give  his candid opinion and have  to say
 some thing offensive.  All that redeemed it was the
 literary  ability of Dr. Powell.   There was some
 surprise  felt that Dr. J. had not more thoroughly
 exposed  its character, but  this task he renewed in
 the American  Med.  and  Surg. Journal, and Dr.
 N's colleagues could  not say a word in his defence.
 They were as  much dissatisfied with the book us
 they were with Dr.  N's lectures, which were  read
 from the book, verbatim, after it  was published, and 
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occasionally from Dr.  Powell's manuscript, before
it  was  published—some  of which  lectures, written
by Dr.  Powell, were published as lectures of Dr.
Newton!!
  The  following extracts  from  Dr. L.  E. Jones'
articles in the American Medical and Surgical Jour-
nal, show his estimate of the work:

    "ERRORS TAUGHT  IN MEDICAL COLLEGES."
  "The question which he proposes to discuss is this:  Is
Inflammation a healthy or unhealthy state of parts ?  or is
it a diseased or sound  condition of the organs or tissues
involved ?   In short, is inflammation a disease, or the mere
manifestation of it?   Does it constitute any part of the
disease, or is it simply a' healthy' effort of nature  to  re-
move or cure some other affection ?
  I am led to make these inquiries in consequence  of the
labored  efforts of Prof- R S. Newton, of that College, to
establish his favorite hobby, that it [inflammation] is not
disease,  but a healthy  effort of nature to cure disease.
  If his position be true, it should be understood and ap-
preciated by all classes of the profession; if erroneous, it
should be  as widely known, that the remedy may be  co-
extensive with  the injury inflicted by the  inculcation of
such doctrines."

   Dr. Jones, after   showing plainly the  gross ab-
surdity of such doctrines, continues as follows :
  " I can not leave this subject without an expression of
surprise that Prof. R.  S. Newton should consume so much
important  time in zealously  advocating the doctrines of
Dr. Samuel  Thomson.   I  believe Prof.  A. Curtis of the
" Phj sio-Medical College " of this city, and Prof.  R. S. New-
ton of the " Eclectic Medical Institute," are the only gen-
tlemen  claiming respectable scientific  attainments who
walk in the foot-steps  of Dr. Thomson.  Most of his early
proselytes have long since renounced his doctrines; but he
still has two zealous  friends (both Professors in Medical
Colleges), who advocate and proclaim his doctrines to their
pupils, pure and unadulterated as when they came from
the fountain some forty years ago.  If these doctrines  ac-
 cord with  science, and the enlightened and progressive
spirit of the age—if they be  rational and demonstrable,
they should certainly  be promulgated by the professors in
all Medical Colleges.  If, on  the  contrary, they are irra-
tional and  erroneous,  they should not be made to consume
the limited and valuable time of Medical Students."

    " IS FEVER  DISEASE ?  BY  L. E. JONES, M. D."
   Messrs. Editors:—
   " It is strenuously maintained  by Prof. A. Curtis, of  the
" Physio-Medical College " of Cincinnati, and by  Prof. R. S.
 Newton, cf the " Eclectic Medical Institute," that Fever is
not a Pathological condition, in other words  not disease,
but a healthy " effort  of  nature " to cure something else,
which they call disease.   In this  connection, it should be
remembered that Dr.  Samuel Thomson vehemently  advo-
cated the same doctrine, in the small work which he pub-
lished on his method of treating diseases, for which  he
obtained a Patent from Congress some 40 or 50 years ago.
   " While most of his early proselytes and admirers, have
long since  discarded  his  doctrines respecting Fever and
Inflammation,  as  erroneous,  Profs. Curtis and Newton
 fearlessly maintain the same old  Thomsonian theories in
their purity.   *     *       *       *     *      *
   "If it should be contended that tbe excited action of  the
heart ti:.d  arteries alone constitute the Fever,  regardless
 of all the  other morbid  phenomena present,  still, it does
not prove  them  healthy.   If violent arterial  action  be
healthy, then are tbe cramping and excessive vomiting
and purging iu cholera  morbus—the  extreme vascular
 excitement caused by great  loss of blood—the frequent
pulse observed in most febrile and inflammatory diseases,
and that excessive action  of the heart and arteries, observ-
ed in the last  moments,  or in the collapsed stage  of  Ty-
phus Fever, when the pulse  beats from 150  to 160 in a
minute. The writer can not conceive that the presence of
any of those elements of disease,  prove them  to be mani-
festations of health.   If Fever is  a  healthy  action, it
Should be promoted in true Tbomsoniaii  style, by the  use
of Alcoholic stimulants, cayenne  pepper, and  other potent
agents of this class, for the more  there is, the  better  for
the safely  of the  patient.   There can be no  danger, if
raised to the highest possible point of excitement, if it be
merely a healthy effort of nature to cure; and  the physi-
cian who would modify or  subdue it, proves himself  an
ignorant pretender, a mere quack—he proves that he knows
nothing about the great laws of life and health.
  "To be consistent, Prof. Newton must teach his pupils to
view " Fever as a friend," and resort to all possible means
to augment its strength, or  increase its curative power.
I leave those who have heard his lectures on Fever  and
Inflammation, to judge  for  themselves as to the consis-
tency displayed.
 '•One thing is certain, if Prof. Newton's teaching, (which
is purely Thomsonian, so  far  as regards Fever and Inflam-
mation,) be correct,  the  Medical Profession should know
it, and inculcate the same doctrines to their pupils.  Un-
fortunately (perhaps) for the cause  of truth and science,
none of the  Professors,  in  any of the Medical Colleges,
have become properly enlightened on this subject, with the
exception  of Professors Curtis and Newton, to whom  it
remained to review Dr. Thomson's doctrines, and to prop-
agate them in their Colleges, in their pristine purity."
  In his second pamphlet, pages  14 and 15, Dr. L. E.
J. denounces in strong  language the defective teach-
ing  of Drs. Newton  and  Bickley, complaining that
the doctrines of Dr.  Buchanan are "now  said to be
fully  endorsed by the entire Faculty," which  was
strictly  true, except  that nobody had  asked  Dr.
Freeman what his opinions were on that subject, or
whether he  had any at all.   He condemns severely
" the exceedingly  defective course  of teaching  on
 Theory and Practice and Materia Mtdica," and says
that students will  not  be able to sustain an  honor-
able examination on these departments.   [Observe,
reader, this is on page 14 of the 2d pamphlet of 24
pages.   Do not allow Dr. Newton k Co. to offer you
the 3d pamphlet of 40  pages for  the second, and tell
you that  these quotations  are   not in  it;  all  our
quotations are made with the utmost Tsare.  Thero
is no quotation or statement which does  not faith-
fully and fairly represent  the original.]
   In his third pamphlet,  page 29, he  says that tho
graduates of the  Institute are  no longer  qualified
to practice, as they were in former days, on account
of the deficient teaching of Newton and Bickley.
  "When it is recollected tbe students of the E. M. I.havo
but a sickly course of lectures on the two most important
departments. Theory and  I'ractice, and Materia Medica. bow
must their graduates compare with  those, of former years."
  To illustrate further Dr. Newton's  unfitness, ho
publishes with approbation and  eulogy a letter from
an  intelligeut student, who had graduated, saying,
among other things—
  " Prof. Newton was always looked upon, during my at-
tendance at the Institute, as an automaton, in  the absence
of a competent Ircturer  on Surgery,  employed to read Dr.
 Hill's work on that subject."
  Complaints of a similar character against the  Col-
 lege, for employing a Professor  to read lectures out
 of  books,  had been accumulating and  increasing
 so long that it is not strange the Faculty and Board
 determined, at  last,  to put an end to such  incom-
 petency.    While  Dr.  Newton was  a  Professor, the
 by-laws of the  College prevented the  Faculty from
 exposing his  deficiencies  when  they saw them.   As
 the  Professors  do  not  attend each other's lectures
 they only find out the  defects by the  complaints  to
 which  they give  rise in  the class.   For various
 reasons students  seldom  complain, but in the  case
 of Dr. Newton it was  discovered in the  spring of
 1856,  that at least three-fourths of the class were dis-
 satisfied or disgusted, and as soon as he was expelled
 they expressed themselves as follows :
  These resolutions  and  the  report of the meeting,
 were prepared  by the  students  themselves, without
 any aid or influence from the Faculty; hence, they
 are  written in strong  and pointed  language, under
 the  influence of the  indignation and disgust which
 had been excited by the conduct of Dr. Newton and
 his  associates.   There were a few, who, for various
 reasons, did not  unite in denouncing Dr. Newton,
 for we believe  no man  was  ever a  Professor  in  a
 medical school, whatever his character,  who could 
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not ingratiate  himself sufficiently to make  a few
personal  friends, even  if they considered  him  in-
competent
  The class contained gentlemen of such a grade of
intelligence  that they were entirely disgusted with
his lectures read from books, and interspersed with
his own ungrammatical comments.

           RESOLUTION'S OF THE CLASS.
  At a meeting  of the Students  of the Eclectic Medical
Institute of Cincinnati, at which forty members  of the
Class were  present (the entire class consisting, at this
time, of about fifty Students,)  the following preamble and
resolutions were unanimously  adopted:
  Whereas, We, the students  of the Eclectic Medical In-
stitute of Cincinnati, beiug sensible of the loss which we
have sustained, during our attendance as students at the
Institute, both from the utter incompetency of R. S. New-
ton, Professor of Theory and Practice, as a teacher, and
from his gross neglect of  duty; and in consideration of
the fact, that he  uses  in  his  practice and advocates the
use of Medicinal agents, which are known to tie base adul-
terations, and that there  is at  this  time in his  office an
established agency for the  sale of said preparations, and
further  in  consideration of the fact  that he has  taken
forcible  possession of the College building, by stealthily
entering it with his friends, in  the night, that he and his
coadjutors  have, by means of deadly weapons, prevented
the class from entering the lecture room, with the  excep-
tion of the  few whom  he knew to be in favor of himself
and his machinations ; in  consequence of which, the stu-
dents are now deprived  of the instruction which is due
them ;  that he is in alliance with individuals who are, and
have been, avowed enemies of the Institute ;  and finally,
in consideration of the fact, that the above are but a few
of a long series of wrongs and insults, which the students,
as well as the Faculty, have suffered at his  hands ; aud
feeling,  as  we do, that whatever of  courtesy or  defer-
ence  may,  heretofore,  have  been  due from  us, by
virtue  of the relation which we  sustained to him, that
'• the time  to suffer and  be  silent"  is now past, and
believing that justice to ourselves, to the Profession, and
to the world, demands from us an expression of our senti-
ments and feelings, with  regard to the  past condition of
affairs;  therefore,
  Resolved, That as the interests of medical science, and
the progress of medical reform, are dependent upon  the
rharacter and ability of those  who are  engaged in  them,
the man, who, pretending to be a physician and teacher,
will basely  prostitute himself to professional trickery and
dishonesty, and use the profession, (involving as it does,
so many  of  the interests of humanity,) for  the vile
purpose of promoting his own pecuniary intercuts and
personal aggrandizement, merits the honest   indignation
and severest censure of every friend  of medical reform,
and of humanity.
  Resolved. That we consider R. S. Newton wholly incom-
petent to fill a Professorship, with credit to himself or the
Institution, or with  profit to the  class; not only from a
want of medical knowledge, but also because of his general
ignorance.
  Resolved, That we believe his boasted authorship  to be
merely titulary, such as any one mightobtnin who possessed
pecuniary means, to secure the lalors of others; and not-
withstanding his vaunted position in  this regard,  in  his
lectures he merely reads to the class  from the so-called
"Newton and Powell's Practice," verbatim, et literatim,
et seriatim.
  ResUved, That the course of conduct pursued by R. S.
Newton, in recommending, and particularly to the class
under his  instruction, quack  nostrums and  adulterated
medicines,  and  in making the Eclectic Medical Journal
not only an advertising sheet for worthless  agents,  but
also a channel for virulent attacks upon others, especially
npon his brother Professors, merits the severest censure.
  Resolved, That in consideration of the empirical and
unscientific course hitherto pursued by R. S.  Newton and
his associate, Z. Freeman, together with the alliance which
they have formed with avowed enemies of the  Institute
and of  Eclecticism, we regard  them as foes of the Eclectic
Reform, as well as of the  Eclectic Medical Institute,  and
denounce, as an  act  unworthy  phyicians or men,  the
means  to which  they  have resorted for the purpose of
breaking down the institute,  by betraying it Judas-like
into the hands of its foes.
  Resolved, That the connection of R. S. Newton with the
Eclectic Medical Institute, has done much to bring  dis-
credit upon the  College  and lower  the character  and
Btanding of Eclectic physicians, in the estimation of the
community.                                ,
  Rfsolved. That his mobocratic demonstration in forcibly
debarring the faculty and the students from the College
building, after having  signally  failed in his attempt  to
embarrass their operations by a process of law, by  the cow-
ardly exhibition of bowie knives and  pistols, amputating
knives,  crowbars and other such weapons, and to intimi-
date, by cannon, those whom words could not awe. together
with  the character of  the persons employed by him,  to
assist in maintaining  insurrectionary possession of the
College  building,  are all characteristic of the man,  and
indicative of the spirit and motives which have prompted
the series of provocations and  annoyances, which  have
so much marred the harmony and retarded  the  advance-
ment of the class —for the welfare of which, he  has
hypocritically professed  such tender regard.
  Resolved, That the act of  R. S. Newton and associates
in forcibly taking possession of the College building, upon
an assumed  right, which is now being  contested in law,
we regard and condemn as an act of usurpation.
  Resolved, That R. S. Newton,  believing success in the
legal  controversy in which  he has  engaged altogether
improbable, is endeavoring to effect his purpose of destroy-
ing the  Institution by  pushing  a series of petty annoy-
ances to such an extent, that the students, becoming har-
assed and discouraged,  shall  leave  the Institution, and
that he has so  far succeeded in  his base  designs, that  a
considerable number of the students have already returned
home.
  Resolved,  That while  we feel called upon  to reprobate
the course pursued by Drs. Newton and Freeman as med-
ical teachers  and  as men — we take great pleasure  in
expressing our eutire satisfaction with the other members
of the faculty, and their labors as  medical instructors, as
well  as our gratification at  their pacific and  gentlemanly
bearing  in  the  late controversy  into which they have
unwillingly been driven.
  Resolved, That as students and friends  of the Institute
and of Eclecticism, our sympathy and co-operation are, and
ever shall be, with  those who  have stood  by and upheld
both; while for the traitor to humanity and to truth,
whose efforts are to obscure with  dust the brightness ho
can not emulate, and to tear down that which  he can-
not attain, in order that he may reign  over the ruins,
ws have only the bitterest reprehension  for his  condnct
and  pity for his  utter destitution of those manly quali-
ties which enoble and adorn humanity.
                           R. P. WHITE, Chairman.
  J. Davison, Secretary.
  The foregoing  resolutions  were also  voluntarily
signed by thirty-three members of the class, to give
the additional  force of  their personal  testimony and
cordial approbation.    Among  the  names of  the
signers were:
     W.  E.  Kemble,        Jno. L.  Morrill,
     Comly Jessop,        Jas. Tallmadge,
     Peyton W.  Henry,   D.  Y. Chalfant,
     M. W. Henry,        F.  M. Tate,
     T.  K. Dashiell,      H.  G. Osgood, Ac, &c.
  These resolutions were published in a Cincinnati
daily, with editorial  remarks.   "These resolutions
(said the editor) show that the great majority of the
students have  undiminished  confidence in  and re-
spect for the Faculty."
  Dr. L. E Jones denounced, also, what had often
been denounced by numbers of the class—Dr. New-
ton's clinical speculation, which consisted in getting
the Faculty to appropriate  one-fifth of the  proceeds
of their tuition fees to  support a  hospital for  clin-
ical instruction, then renting out the  so-called hos-
pital as a boarding house, and introducing dispen-
sary patients  from the street [which  might  have
been done without a  pretended clinic, as it had been
done gratuitously by Prof. Morrow, at the College],
and finally,  after getting a large  revenue from the
College, for an affair of so little value, appropriating
the  whole credit to  himself, by calling it  Newton't
 Clinic, after he had  agreed  to discontinue  that as-
sumption and let it stand forth as it really was, a
clinical lecture room,  maintained, not by Dr. New-
 ton, but by the College.   This double cheat, of sub- 
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5
 Btituting Dispensary practice, to which the Faculty
 had long been accustomed, for the hospital practice
 which had been promised, and finally, monopolizing
 it by name as his own exclusively, was a constant
 source  of dissatisfaction  in  the Faculty and class;
 and Dr. Newton's  first hostility to  his colleagues
 arose from the fact that they were  dissatisfied, and
 at length discussed the necessity of yielding to  the
 demands of the class,  and giving them  access to a
 bona fide Hospital, where they  could  see something
 valuable in Pathology and Surgery.  Fruitful, how-
 ever, in the expedients of the charlatan, the poverty
 of the  clinic  was  made  up by giving  out clinical
 diplomas, signed by himself, his "learned brother"
 and Dr. Freeman,  which  enabled those who had at-
 tended as spectators, thirty-two clinics, such as they
 were, to  show more parchment than  could be  ex-
 hibited by a student of all the Hospitals  of Europe !
 The class, said Dr. L.  E.  Jones,
   "Abhor the compulsory $5 ticket of admission  to
 the empty wards of a private  speculation, called a
 ' clinique.'"—p. 25, 3d pamphlet.
   Did  any of the Faculty ever deny that  accusation,
 excepting, perhaps,  Dr.  Freeman,  after  he became
 interested ?
   The final  death-blow from  Dr. L.  E. J., the con-
 centrated extract of his  opinion of Dr. N., unadul-
 terated with any magnesia, is found on pages 29, 3D,
 31, 32  of the  3d pamphlet.
 L. E. JONES'  OPINION  OF R.  S.  NEWTON — NEWTON'S
   QUERIES AGAINST S. C. BURTON—PUBLIC OPINION
   OF NEWTON AND HIS EXPRESS.
   " In  the next place,  I will  introduce articles from the
 Daily Commercial  of this city, respecting the villainous
 attack of R. 8. Newton  upon  Siduey C. Burton, together
 with his profound 'Queries,' and  no  less profound de-
 fense.   The design of these ' Queries,'  it  is  true, is par-
 tially obscured by lugging  in  unmeaning ones on other
 matters, thus attempting to  cover one base act by another ;
 but still the wit and low  cunning of their author do not
 disguise the malicious design.  Spanish  or Mexican treach-
 ery is but too apparent—want of a ' high moral and intel-
 lectual character ' are  clearly seen.
   "The  deep interest  of the citizens of Cincinnati in the
 ' Martha Washington Trial,' sixteen human beings having
 lost their lives  by the burning of that boat, and the con-
 spicuous part which S. C. Burton has taken in it, with the
 self-evident design on the  part  of the  author of those
 •Queries' lend  an unusual interest to them.  His design,
 f though an Abolitionist in the North, and a member of an
 Abolition society,) appears to have been to excite a feeling
 of hatred and suspicion in  the minds  of slaveholders in
 Arkansas against Burton—perhaps jeopardise his life—de-
 feat justice and a fair trial, by flooding  that state with
 these low and contemptible • Queries," insinuating that he
 (Burton) was thereto steal or run  off their negroes—that
 he had a slave depot at Cleveland, Ohio—that he had some
 Abolition agency and much business with  Canadian Anti-
 Slavery men, &c, Ac, and  when  it is known that  the
 strong popular feeling in Cincinnati, in favor of S. C. Bur-
 ton, caused Spanish cowardice to suppress these  ' Queries'
 in the ' Northern Edition' of his ' Express,' for fear of  the
 overwhelming out burst of indignation  which would have
 been hurled against him,  and in the same number, (North-
 ern Edition,) and in  the  place  of these ' Queries,' insert
 an article on the school question, it truly exhibits a piece
 Of villainy not  equaled by the  imputed libeling a moral
 young lady with an ' intellectual character,' for his  que-
 ries  involve the guilt or innocence of persons charged
 with destroying the lives of sixteen innocent persons. But
 read the muddy intellectual  queries with  the filth  inter-
 spersed, to partially cover their design—then the first ar-
 ticle from the Editor of the Daily Commercial—then R. S.
 Newton's  obscure  reply—notice his positive denial, and
 then admission  in the same short article, and lastly, the
 Commercial's rejoinder.
  " No wonder the author of those queries felt ashamed of
 them, and wished to hide them  from the  intelligent citi-
zens of Cincinnati.  As to the villainy of such acts, I leave
the public to judge.   I learn  that one of the  public jour-
nals  in  Northern Ohio, publicly declared the author of
those ' Queries'  was undeserving life.
  " If a man is ' right—perfectly right—gentlemen, upon the
 School Question,' that does not authorize him to act ths
 scoundrel in other respects.

                      "QUERIES.
  " Who can tell whether S. C.  Burton or  the Martha
 Washington men are the greatest  ******
  " Who knows the men now  living  on  Fourth Street,
 worth one hundred  thousand  dollars, made by burning
 steam boats on the Western waters ?  Who knows when
 S. C. Burton will commence to investigate  this  case, and
 make many other wonderful and miraculous revelations ?
  " Who knows whether these men can be convicted with-
 out any one having to travel fourteen thousand  miles in
 ten days, one-half of this to be  performed on the back of
 an  Ass  to  procure  witnesses,  and whether  they will be
 convicted, hung, and then killed.
  " Who has twelve thousand dollars to  give to one poor
 man, who already has as much money as he wants ?
  " Who knows the man that did'nt shoot a woman some-
 time since on Third street ?
  " Who  knows how Wash McQuay got to Canada from
 the S'.uth?
  "  Who knows all the directors of the underground railroad
 through Ohio?
  " Who keeps the underground depot at or near Cleveland,
 Ohiot
  " Who knows the man that has so much business at the
 negro settlement in Canada?
  " Who knows what became of Cncle Tom  after he died
 and  was  'killed by Old I.agree?'
  " Who  knows the  man that will be employed by the
 Government to bring  the Counsellors  and  Attorneys  of
 the late Dr. Gardner to justice?
  " Who knows when Cuba will be annexed and Mexico
 attached to  this country ?
  " Who  knows whether the expediency of establishing
 an agency for the underground railroad  at Helena, Arkan-
 sas, has been settled, and who is to be. the general agent t
  "  Who knows whether or not the delegates from this State,
 now at that place, will decide the above question ?  If at
 home, some of them could be quite eloquent upon this
 subject:  but perhaps while they are there,  they are mum
 enough to  make our  Southern  friends think them all
 clever fellows, as the/ rt ally an  ' in a horn,'  or a ' horn in
 them."—[Newton's Jijrjiress.]

      [From the Cincinnati Commercial, May, 1854. J
 "Sidney C. Burton— Slanderous attempts to render
  him  odious  in  Arkansas — A  Model  Medical
  Journal.
  " One of the most pitiable evidences of the corruption
 of the times is to be found in the exceedingly low rates at
 which men in respectable positions sell  themselves to the
 commission of dishonorable acts.   A case has come to our
 knowledge of so strange a character, that we have been
 as much  inclined to be surprised as indignant, at  the con-
 duct of the persons implicated ;  to whom, while we should
 hesitate to impute deliberate malice, we cannot but attri-
 bute  a standard of moral consciousness, exceedingly de-
 graded.  In these times, when the public is so  much
 agitated in regard to  the illegitimate means  that  have,
 both here and elsewhere, been employed to defeat  the ends
 of justice, disturb the equilibrium  of judicial  action, and
 place obstacles in the  way of legal prosecutions  in cases
 of great  crimes against society, such an act as  we  are
 about to notice  becomes doubly censurable, because it is
 done in the face of an active public sentiment of which
 no one can be supposed to be ignorant.
  "Sidney C. Burton  is well  known as an active agent in
 the prosecution of the persons charged with the  burning
 of the steamer Martha Washington.  This  has rendered
 him the subject of much persecution, slander, and abuse,
 commencing with the defendants  and their counsel and
 associates ; and extending to others who through sympa-
 thy or venality have been induced to take the part of the
 accused.  Among the most common means that have been
 resorted to against Mr. Burton, has been that of enlisting,
 by means of  bribery or otherwise, the most worthless and
profligate of  the  conductors of the public  press in the
 business of maligning his character generally, or  in mak-
ing specific charges of venality, falsehood, perjury, and  a
variety of other crimes, with the intent to  destroy his
influence and credibility, and to place him in tbe light of
a remorseless  persecutor  of  the  honest and innocent.
 Even while the prosecutions  in  Arkansas are going on,
there is a certain  class of the press here that devotes its 
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embody.  In reply to all thin, it is sufficient to say that
we have tendered to Dr. Newton, and now do it again, the
use of our columns for its republication.   By every rule
of reason and law, he is precluded  from giving  evidence
of the contents of a document in his own possession, other
than the thing itself.  Let him produce  it.   His failure to
do so in the ground of a presumption against him, stronger
than any testimony  that we can adduce, or any argument
that we can construct.  Such a publication is the  primary
requisite in  his defense, without which a  vindication is
impossible.
  '• Whether Dr. Newton wrote the article himself,-and
published it at his own suggestion, or whether it  was  the
production of another, and  inserted for  a consideration, is
of little consequence in determining the character of the
act.  To settle that  question  would be  merely to decide
whether he was depraved by unwholesome association, or by
the instincts of a native  venality.  These things  we  say
with regret.   Our persoual relations with Dr. Newton have
been kindly ;  but we can not look upon that man as a safe
member of society, wbo can assume the  honorable calling
of the conductor of the public press,  for the purpose  of
making that press the vehicle of cowardly and unfounded
slander, or an engine to retard and disturb the course of
public justice.
  " Dr. Newton denies that he  had any acquaintance with
the Martha Washington  defendants, except in  a slight
degree with Cummings ; and wishes us  to infer from that
fact, that he had no  sinister motive for the  publication of
the article in question.  It  is  very  possible that his asso-
ciation with  those individuals has  been limited,  but  the
inference he  would deduce from that   circumstance, is
too violent to  be entertained.  There are other facts which
belong to the same connection.  In spit') of  a guarded and
technical denial,  It is true, that the papers containing  the
article,  were  sent to  Arkansas, in  large — in unusual
quantities, and were circulated there freely.   It is true that
the impression of the Express designed  for circulation at
home did not contain it.   Whether it was in those papers
sent North or South, for exchanges, is of no c onsequeoce.
It was concealed from the public here, and  the first advi-
ces of its  existence which  reached Cincinnati, was from
Helena, the  place where  it was intended to operate.  If
this business  was done so openly as he  would insinuate,
let him prove it; for we apprehend the public will need
some  testimony  more  tangible  than his assertion, in a
matter in which his interest is so strongly implicated.
  " But the  worst  and most conclusive  feature of  the
whole, consists  in  the position of Dr.  Newton  himself.
The article, in substance, charges  Burton with being an
Abolitionist, and engaged in the business of aiding slaves
to escape.  Dr. Newton — although there is ground for  the
suspicion that he has one edition of his  principles for  the
North, and another for the South — is known here as  an
Abolitionist, and has been, if be is not now, a member of
an Abolition society. As an Abolitionist, he could not but
hold Abolition principles and  practies in Burton to  be
laudable;  and acting in conformity with  his own profes-
sions, he could not do otherwise than speak  in their praise.
What motive  then,  but a corrupt one, can be conceived
for a false, malignant and covert attack upon a man  for
entertaining principles similar to his own?   As an act  of
mere  wantonness, it  is incredible.   Men  do not belie
their own professions for amusement; and  under the  cir-
cumstances we can neither apologise to Dr  Newton for the
language we have heretofore employed,  nor acquit him of
the charge we  have made of being  guilty of an  offense
that no man can  commit without rendering   himself
worthy of an infamous notoriety."
columns to the publication of articles intended for the
southern latitude;  some idea of tbe  extent and variety
of which may be gained by the following  incident, which
has c me to our knowledge :
  " There is a little medical journal in this city, known by
the  name of ' Newton's Express.'  It  is  published  by a
certain Dr. Newton, and its pages are devoted  to  the dis-
semination of  intelligence  appertaining  to the  Eclectic
school, of which we believe the Doctor is a Professor.  Tho
State of Arkansas has recently been flooded with numbers
of this journal, got up expressly for that market, and con-
taining in the form of interrogatories addressed to the
people, tiie most false and unfounded charges against Mr.
Burton, calculated to render him odious, if not to endau-
per his personal safety. They are inquired of, among other
things, if they are not aware that he is an Abolitionist—
if they do not know that he is  among  them for the  pur-
pose of aiding their negroes to escape—and if these prose-
cutions are not instituted for  the  purpose of giving him
an opportunity to steal their slaves.  This is bad enough ;
but what is meaner, more curious and more cowardly than
all, is the fact that the same number  of the journal, in-
tended for circulation hereabouts, does  not contain the
article iu question.   It was  carefully cancelled in the
Northern edition, and its place supplied with other matter.
When a man  commits an act of doubtful morality, and of
undoubted dishonor, endeavoring at the same time to con-
ceal  it, it is evident that he thinks  himself a scoundrel:
and  to that  extent his opinion should command implicit
belief."

                "DR.  R. S. NEWTON.
  " We give  place in  another column, to a communica-
tion  from  Dr. R. S. Newton,  in which  he endeavors to
exculpate himself from  blame, for the publication  of an
article in a periodical of his  own, calculated to prejudice
the  minds of the people of Arkansas  against the prose-
cuting witness in the trial of tbe  Martha Washington
defendants, and thereby disturb the  course  of justice.
That we may become obnoxious to no change of partiality
in the premises, we have permitted Dr. Newton  to use his
own  language, offensive and unfounded as are some of his
remarks, holding  that the  facts of the  case  are all in
which the public is interested, and believing that harsh
words coming from a man  in the position in which he
stands, are mure likely to damage  his own cause, than to
inflict au injury upon the  party against whom they are
employed.  It is not  necessary for us to say that, in our
opinion his vindication is exceedingly lame, for in that
respect, the public  is  the  party entitled to pronounce
judgment.  We claim   no authority for  our own views,
beyond  the reasons  npon which they are founded; and
have no desire so strong as that Dr. Newton may establish
for himself a complete defense in the eyes of the com-
munity.
  " In his communication, Dr.  Newton pursues the course
usually chosen by men who  have been  detected in the
commission of acts, whose  expot-ure would  render them
infamous.  So far as he knows the facts to be  susceptible
of  proof, they are  admitted, with  an  attempt to do
away their force by an explanation; so far as he doubts
the ability of  the charging party to produce the testimony,
be puts on  the air of an injured man, and pleads  ' not
guilty ;' and at the same time he asks the public to believe
that his intentions were all fair and honorable.  Whether
the general character of Dr. Newton is  such as to furnish
the  ground of a presumption in his  favor sufficient to
overcome the  evidence in the case, is not for us  to deter-
mine.  Since  modern progress  has so strikingly enlarged
the  right of  self defense, in our  courts of justice, it is
difficult to determine precisely what a man may do,  who
can bring a crowd of witnesses to testify to the good qual-
ities  which they deem  it possible he may number among
bis possesions.  In  the meantime, we  have no desire to
over-state the testimony, to go beyond any rational rule
of evidence, nor to cut  off any presumption legitimately
deducible from the circumstances.  ' Let justice be done,
though the Heavens may fall.'
  " We do not desire to conceal from  the public, the fact
that we have  never seen the article of  which we spoke on
Wednesday.  Our knowledge  of it is  derived  from  the
relation of respectable  gentlemen in  the city, in whose
word we have the most implicit confidence. We  did not
profess to quote it, as Dr. Newton very well understands;
but gave  in guarded language, from the lips of others, its
general drift  and purport.   The charge of misquotation,
therefore, which Dr. Newton makes against us, is a fallacy
which he would fain have understood as a denial  that the
article contained the obnoxious features it was alleged to
  It may be thought that it is unnecessarily attack-
ing private  character  to publish that  Dr. L. E. J.
pronounced  Dr. Newton "a scoundrel," but,  it will
be observed  that this is a public matter, and  that it
relates simply to his flagitious conduct,  as an  editor,
which the press condemned as venal and  dishonor-
able.   Let it be observed, that  notwithstanding  the
terrible  casligation  which  he received, Dr. Newton
had really no  defence.  He neither defended  his
conduct, nor apologized for his  crime.   His response
consisted, not  in  showing that his slanders were
true (he never dared to make  such an assertion),
but merely in trying to show that he  had  not been
quite so clandestine  as the Commercial charged;  but
his statement on this point was not supported by Mr.
Lawyer, the printer, in  whose  office  the trick was 
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performed; and Mr. L. will not say it was true.  The
infamy of the act lies,  not merely in its cunning se-
cresy, but in  its assassin-like purpose, and  its utter
falsehood/ it would have been thoroughly  criminal
without  the  extra meanness of  the concealment
Knowing what Dr. Newton has done in this case,
without apology or repentance, can any one doubt
that if, in any other  case, honest men were  engaged
in a struggle against fraud aud violence, Dr. New-
ton would be very apt to sympathize with the fraud-
ulent, and to assist them, by the same  assassin-like
charges,  secretly  circulated.   We  have no doubt
that he has, in this very manner, secretly made bat-
tle for adulterated  medicines,  against  a   Faculty
Struggling to uphold  professional  honesty.*  We
may judge of his secret slanders from the character
of his public calumnies.
   The depraved character of Newton's  Express, and
the manner in which its editor sought to  use it as
an instrument of power, was alluded  to by Dr. L.
E.  Jones, in  1853,  showing, that from its editor's
unscrupulous character, it was  ready to be used, at
any time, to  blacken the reputation of young men,
commencing  their  professional career.    Thus,  it
enjoyed  the  same kind of influence which is exer-
cised by the scandalous black-mail sheets of the
worst class of publications.
   This has been fully verified  since; a large num-
ber of graduates of  the Institute have  been assailed
by name, in  the Express,  because they would not
sustain Dr. N., and  pay for his worthless diplomas.
He supposes, that by gratuitously puffing those who
patronize him, or those  who have  not actively op-
posed  him, and denouncing, personally, those who
refuse to sustain him, ho  can drive a considerable
number  into the support of bis spurious organiza-
tion.  Whether  the profession will tolerate such
" Satanic press " manoeuvres remains to be seen.
   Such was  the  exposition by Dr. L.  E.  Jones, in
1854, of the  professional character of  Dr.  Newton.
Coarse and vindictive  as his language  was, bis spe-
cific accusations against Dr. Newton were generally
based on facts, and although  Dr.  Newton was do-
fended   by the Committee of  Eclectic  Physicians
from the previous  attack, the  third pamphlet re-
ceived no answer.   It was not convenient then  to
make  any answer.  The members of the Faculty
were not willing to say that Dr. Newton was a learn-
ed, or even a well-qualified teacher—their defense
would have  been too lame to do him much service.
But the  pamphlet had very little weight, because it
contained so many misstatements and  misrepresen-
tations of well known facts, and manifested such a
rancorous malice, it was very  little regarded ; aud
moreover, as the Committee of Eclectic Physicians,
of which Dr.  Powell  was chairman, remarked, Dr.
L. E.  Jones  himself  " had not sufficient char-
acter FOR VERACITY."
   The pamphlets of Dr. L. E.  Jones were  uninten-
tionally  of great service to Dr. Newton, for the ma-
jority of the Faculty, as early as the spring of 1854,
had become deeply disgusted  and  dissatisfied with
Dr. Newton, and nothing  did  so  much  to  uphold
him as the fact that he and the Faculty, generally,
  ♦Since the opinion was formed, it has been verified to the
letter. Dr. Newton, following iu his own footsteps, regard-
less of the past denunciations  of the press, has  brought
out again a batch of queries in  his scurrilous Express, of
Such a character that no one could have written them who
bad not become callous  to  all sense of shame.  They are of
the same character  as bis infamous Martha Washington
articles, and convey  the insinuation that members of the
Faculty are connected with the underground railroad—a
wilful, malicious and groundless fabrication as he knows.
were  assailed by Dr. L. E.  Jones.   The  Faculty
were not willing to aid Dr. L. E. Jones, by making
a violent rupture in tho college, and throwing  Dr.
Newton overboard to unite with Dr. Jones, as it
was even theu affirmed by Dr. Bickley, that he was
capable of doing.   [Dr. Bickley  understood him
then, and knew him to be a desperate demagogue.]
Dr. Newton was sustained  and borne with, simply
because he was a selfish and dangerous  man, who
would not hesitate to destroy that which he  could
not make profitable  to  himself.  He was of little
scientific  utility as he  was,  but dangerous as he
might be; as an old writer says of some people, that
they are like a crumb of bread in the throat, which
gives  very little nourishment if it  goes right, and
a great deal of annoyance if it goes wrong.
  The  chief value of Dr. Newton  to the Institute
was as a publisher, a business man, and a politician.
He attended to matters which  no  one else of  the
Faculty wished to engage in, and for such purposes
he was considered desirable.
  All  the  reputation  that he  has ever acquired for
science, has been acquired by three methods; 1st.
By getting into the company of scientific men ;  2d.
By getting  scientific  men  to  write  for  him, and
prepare articles or books  to be published in his
name;  and  3d. By  a system  of  advertising and
puffing.
  The Faculty announcements, of  course, spoke as
favorably as possible of Dr. Newton.  The Dean set
forth  the  pretensions of Dr. Newton according to
his own claims and  statements, without knowing
any thing of the character of bis lectures, which he
had not heard.  Yet with all the desire existing to
uphold the Faculty against outside attacks, there is
no instance on record in which the Dean  ever pro-
nounced him a ntun of learning, an able professor,
a competent teacher, a  man of fine talents, or even
competent to authorship.  During  the year  of  his
first appointment, not one complimentary word was
published  in reference  to Dr. Newton, as was cus-
tomary in  reference  to  other professors.   During
the second year,  1862,  the  samo silence was  ob-
served.  During the  third and  fourth years, 1853
and 1854, he was  complimented as a mode of help-
ing him against the attacks of Dr. L. E. Jones, by
describing his  mode of lecturing as stated  by him-
self and  speaking of  him as the  most prominent
Eclectic practitioner  and surgeon in  Cincinnati,
(where he had so  little Eclectic  competition,) a
prominence  gained  by  the arts   of  advertising
chiefly—also by referring to his  having had  the
proper education, or " preparation," and to the won-
derful success  which  he claimed in practice.  In
1853,  having lost all  confidence in Dr. Newton's ve-
racity, the Dean struck  out of the Announcement
all reference to Dr.  Newton's xconderful  success, as
claimed  by himself, and to  his mode of lecturing,
since  the character of his lectures became somewhat
known to his colleagues, saying nothing in  his  be-
half, except to refer the reader  to what was known
of his reputation,  and to his  "success  and stand-
ing as a practitioner," to which Dr. Newton added
in the printing office, "one of the authors of Ncic-
ton's and Powell's Practice of Medicine." The Dean,
through politeness, allowed the interlineation to re-
main  as the book was among the text books which
Dr.  Newton  announced  for  his  department.   I
have been particular to explain this  mutter, as it
seems to be the only peg  upon which  Dr.  Newton
hangs  his  hopes, of credit for scientific knowledge,
and he is  continually parading  boastfully the par-
tial recognition which he once received from  those
who were forbidden to criticise him. 
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SPURIOUS FACULTY.
              JONES ON BALDRIDGE.
  Dr.  L. E. Jones'  opinion of  Dr. Baldridge, in
1849, was the same  that was generally entertained
by the  Faculty  and  class, and  was not  concealed,
for he  spoke contemptuously of his capacity as a
teacher, considered  him unfit for a professorship,
and  although they had been personal friends,  he
united with the Faculty in inducing Dr.  B  to re-
sign, simply on  account of his gross incompetency;
after which he  shared with  the entire Faculty the
hostility and opposition  of Dr.  Baldridge and  his
friends, and defended the Institute from their abuse
in the fall of 1851.  It is not necessary now to re-
publish his  article  from  the  Eclectic Journal  of
1851.  Suffice it to say, that he emphatically denied
the  charges  of  Dr. Baldridge's  friends,  declaring
of the  Faculty of  which Dr.  Buchanan  was a
member, and the Dean,
  " Not a single man in the Faculty inclines to either Al-
lopathy or Hunkerism, or to Homoepathy, further than a
spirit of enlightened and liberal  investigation  should
prompt him.
  Again he says:
  " Indeed the school, as now organized, enjoys a  greater
freedom from either influence than it has at  any former
period since the charter was obtained."  See pamphlet
published by Faculty, 1853. page 9.
  The Baldridge party were pronounced  calumnia-
tors  by Dr. L. E. Jones, for this stupid Allopathic,
Homoeopathic story. But when expelled himself, he
took up the same story which  he had previously de-
nounced as false  in  Dr.  Baldridge's friends.  For
doing so he was himself denounced and exposed by
Dr. Newton,  Dr. Powell, and the  entire Faculty and
class, and yet the same old. stale, inconsistent story,
ragged  with  old age and  hard  usage,  has been
picked up by Dr. Newton as soon as he was expelled
and  circulated in the Express, in the form of inu-
endo, implication,  suggestion, and  every style  in
which  a  hunted down calumny crawls  into sight
again.  No one knows  better  than  Dr. Newton,
that  all such insinuations are base  attempts to im-
pose upon parties unacquainted with the Institute.

        JONES ON  FREEMAN AND SANDERS.
  As to Dr. Z. Freeman, Dr.  L. E. Jones having
known  him as a student, and subsequently as de-
monstrator and lecturer on  anatomy, was able  to
appreciate his value.  He became disgusted with
Dr. Freeman as a  Professor, on account of his want
of reliability, and  several other charges of a grave
nature.   In  the spring  of 1852, this disgust came
to a crisis.  The Faculty generally regarded Dr.
Freeman's services as of but little value,  and when
Dr. Jones denounced him, and made grave charges,
thoy did not care to protect him.   Dr. Freeman per-
ceived the general dissatisfaction, and  surrendered
his office  in  a conditional, indefinite way, and left
the  city,  hoping  to be  recalled by the Faculty.
Dr. L.  E.  Jones admits, in his  pamphlet, that he
concurred with Drs. R. S. Newton, I. (x. Jones, and
J. R. Buchanan, in reference to the  " dismission of
Dr. Freeman," and appointment of Dr. Sherwood in
his  place, but claims  that Dr. Buchanan took  the
lead  in reference to this removal or change. It is not
material who took  the lead, but it is certain that Dr.
L. E. Jones was the  chief opponent  of Dr. F.  The
rest  of  the Faculty thought him lacking in  talent
and  reliability, but Dr. L. E. Jones was determined
that  he  should not hold a  position in the same
school with himself,  and in the  latter part of 1852,
wrote to Dr. Buchanan, urging him to write  to Dr.
Freeman, somewhere  in  the south, to prevent his
coming to  Cincinnati, and trying again  to  occupy
 bis chair, to whioh Dr. Sherwood  was  to  be ap-
 pointed if ho would accept.
  " If Sherwood does not take the  chair of Anatomy, we
 shall want him (K). and if he (S.) Arcs, it may be best to
 get K***.  Write what are your views on the  subject.
 Another matter—Newton says you ought to w rite to Free-
 man, and let him know that he is not wanted, or he will be
 up and will not resign, and  we shall have trouble with
 him.  He and  S. (Sanders) have left Memphis, and we do
 not know  where  they are, but  could you not write  to
 Memphis and have the letter forwarded.   WrUe to him  at
 once, and let him know what is the decision  in his  case.*—
 (L. E. Jones, July 22, 1852.)
  An important  reason  for  the removal  of  Dr.
 Freeman  according to  Dr. L. E. Jones, lay in cer-
 tain accusations which  he made against the char-
 acter  and  deportment  of  Drs.  Freeman and San-
 ders—charges so   strenuously urged   against  Dr.
 Freeman, that  he  threatened Dr.  Jones with  a
 prosecution,  and in  1853 he manifested extreme
 anxiety to have  Dr. L. E. Jones punished severely
 for  his personal attacks, although he did not pros-
 ecute  him.   Whether  these  personal accusation!
 were true or false,  we leave to be adjusted between
 the parties—it is not material whether in this case
 Dr. Jones was a slanderer or Dr. Freeman was some-
thing worse, for it is not intended to  discuss private
character, our subject being professional.  It is suf-
ficient to show how deeply and sincerely these par-
ties esteem each other in consequence of being too well
acqainted.  Dr.  Freeman hovered around the Insti-
tute after being dropped out, intrigued among  the
students, and after the expulsion of Dr. L. E. Jones,
obtained the  vacancy, in consequence  of  being  the
only candidate.
  Prof.  J. M. Sanders  stood  still lower in the esti-
mation of Dr. L. E. Jones than  Dr. Freeman.  The
same personal charges were made against him by
Dr. Jones.   He affirmed  that both  Freeman and
 Sanders "cared for nothing but the honors and emol-
uments of the E.  31. I.,"  and ridiculed  the  titles
of Sanders.   Like  Freeman,  Sanders withdrew  in
the summer  of 1852, to the general satisfaction of
all  parties, followed by sundry maledictions  of  Dr.
 L. E. Jones alone,  for the liberties he bad taken  in
carrying off certain apparatus, denouncing also Dr.
Newton for permitting it.  No member of the Fa-
culty  wished  to recall J. M.  Sanders,  after thia
trial of his capacities, and Dr.  L. E.  Jones espe-
cially exulted greatly in  the improvement  made,
by giving  his department  to  Dr.  Hoyt, an opinion
in which all  concurred.
               JONES ON BICKLEY.
  Of Dr. Bickley, Dr. L. E. Jones says:  " Think you Ec-
 lectics, bis feeble intellect is adequate to the dissemination
of the great truths  of American Medical Reform? Can
 graduates be honored and respected  who  have his insig-
 nia."  (2nd pamphlet, page 16.)
  Again, he predicts  the ruin of the cause " if suchfeebla
 and frivolous  minds are  to control medical reform."
 Again, "it  was said  hundreds of times by his class, they
 would not give three  cents  for all they should learn from
 him — that  they  should leave  knowing as little about
 Materia Medica as when they came."   Page 15.
  '•1 thought  Prof. Buchanan had more regard for truth
 than common, when  he wrote me, and the best recommen-
 dation he could give of  Prof.  Bickley's fitness  for the
 important chair he now holds, was that he "is a showy
 man " — " dressed fine, and has a good address;"  and
 again, " I don't consider him a deep man, nor a very strong
 man."
  In the resolutions  gotten up by himself and privately
 adopted at his own house, by a small squad of conspirators,
 (signed by Dr. Baldridge, as chairman of the meeting,) he
 speaks of Dr. Bickley as having «■ disgraced himself, "  and
 '• rendered himself deserving of the sent and contempt of
 all honorable members of the profession.''   It is to be hoped
 that Drs. Jones and  Baldridge will not express their scorn 
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9
and  contempt to  Dr. Bickley every  day,  although Dr.
Bickley mi_rht not choose to notice it, as he has said of Dr.
L.E.Jones — " It  is  not becoming the dignity of a gentle-
man to quarrel  with  a man so  lost  to every principle of
honor."  (Letter from Dr. Bickley, July 7th, 1853, now in
my possession.)
  The  16th  resolution of Jones and  Baldridge reads as
follows:  " 15. That  Prof. Bickley is  a good reader, but
no  teacher of medicine, that  he knows but little about
Eclecticism practically —that he is therefore incompetent
to teach it. and that his peculiar province is in the broad
field of novelty, romance and fiction."
  In the same batch  of resolutions, Dr.  Jones, Baldridge
& Co.,  pronounced, among  others, Drs. Bickley  and Free-
man "incompetent to impart practical instruction." and Drs.
Bickley and Newton to be " but recent converts to Eclecticism,
if indeed they be  not still Allopathic in sentiment."  (1st
pamphlet, page 2d.)
  Not satisfied  with charging Dr. B. with  frivolity weak-
ness and  incompetency, he  brings forward the graver
charge of plagiarism, as  follows.  Any  one who has  a
feeling of curiosity on this subject can compare the two
books together.  There are copies of both in Cincinnati:

     DR. L.  E.  JONES  ON  BICKLEY's  PLAGIARISM.
   "Since giving the Dr. credit  for what he  claims — i.e.
his  lectures  ' are  the product of his own  brain, and  not
taken from the original ideas of others,' I find I have been
too  liberal,  for a  review of  his  ' Physiological  Botany,'
reveals nothing not  found in  other  works on the same
subject — not a single new thought — all a plagiarism — I
challenge the proof that it contains any original or new
ideas.   In a  work styled ' Popular  Physiology of Plants,'
the reader will  find  the same  matter — especially on the
Subject of light and  heat of plants, electricity,  movement,
contractility, reproduction, change of growth of the stem
downward,  by reflected light  from a  looking-glass, endos-
nose  and exogens and endogens,  etc.    Much of  the
lauguage is  verbatim — the coincidence is striking, as Prof.
B. writes 'without the aid of books.'"
   To express my  candid opinion of  Dr. B.'s reputation,
I would say, that although  his friends  may have given
him credit for  graceful fluency as  a speaker,  and for  a
ready stock of ideas, I have never heard that any body con-
sidered him  a man of good judgment, a sound thinker, or a
 man  of any accuracy and reliability in science, or of any
capacity for  philosophy.
   If Dr. L. E. Jones  had been called upon twelve months
ago to write an honest report of the character of  a school
containing Newton,  Freeman,  Bickley and Sanders, he
would have  pronounced each  one unfit to hold a  profes-
sorship, and the  whole group a disgrace to  any medical
school, with  the exception that he considered Dr. Freeman
capable of teaching Anatomy.  And if the four,  Newton,
 Freeman, Bickley and Sanders,  had  been all  interrogated
as to  their candid opinion of Dr. L. E. Jones, I would  not
disfigure the  paper  by recording their answers, or  the
epithets  they  would have  used in reply.  Such are  the
 candid opinions these men have entertained of each other.
 Such are the opinions they still entertain.  Each one believ-
 ing, with entire sincerity, that his  associates, with but a
 few exceptions, are dishonest and unfit for professorships.
 Each  one has declared, in  times past, that  several of his
 £ resent associates deserved to be expelled from the Eclectio
  [edical Institute, as unfit to be associated with such men
 as its present faculty.
   Dr. L.  K.  Jones considered it a slander to compare  Dr.
 Newton with his " sickly course  on Practice," to so able and
 eminent a Professor  as Dr. I. G. Jones.   He pronounced
 Dr. Bickley  weak and frivolous, a man of feeble intellect,
 vastly inferior to  himself— but even in his paroxysm  of
  rage,  be  spoke of Dr. Buchanan's "commanding talents,"
  (letter of Dr.  L.  E.  Jones) aud conceded to him  "all the
 superiority " in literary attainments that he could possibly
 elaim, (page 8,  2d pamphlet).  Dr.  Baldridge he  aided to
 remove.  Dr. King (his own choice) was one of the Faculty
 whom he complimented as  the best organization the school
 had ever had.   Dr. Hoyt he eulogized  aud  recommended
 as urgently, on  account  of his scholarship, fidelity, aud
 fitness, etc., as he had previously denounced J.  M. San-
 dors for unfitness.  Dr. Freeman he was glad to get rid of,
 and fearful  he might  return to annoy the Professor  of
 Anatomy.
     dr. newton's standing  with the faculty.
   Next to Dr.  L. E. Jones, upon whose stock the whole
faction sprung into existence, and whose breath could an-
nihilate it, Da. Newto* is the embodyuient.  It is necessary,
therefore, that his colleagues should candidly report to the
public their knowledge of his endowments and qualifica-
tions.  Dr. L. K. Jones, as we  have seen, considers him
one  of  the most unsound, incompetent pretenders  to
Eclectic, teaching, destitute of truth, and prone to assassin-
like attacks upon character.  Dr. Baldridge, according to
the testimony of Dr.  VV. Byrd Powell, (see proceedings  of
Eclectic Physicians)  considered him, in l.->4'i. not fit for a
professorship, and "not of the right grit," as to  his  Eclec-
ticism.  The organ of Dr. Baldridge's medical school, (the
abortion at Louisville) denounced Dr. Newton's  unfitness,
and his old school proclivities.  (We can not attach any
value it is true to Dr. B.'s opinions.  But if  he is fit  to
lecture now, still further advanced in age as he is, he was
still nvii-e fit to give an opinion  in 1849.)
  Dr. Bickley was one of the first, if not the first man  in
the Faculty, to censure the character aud conduct of Dr.
Newton,  as exhibited toward  the  Faculty in  lN~>:i, and
when the notorious  publication  of Dr. Newton  against
Sidney C. Burton, brought down on him the terrible cen-
sures of the press, Dr. Bickley was, of all the Faculty, the
most disgusted and  indignant against  Dr.  Newton ;  so
much so, that he wrote his resignation forthwith, although,
upon consultation with the Faculty, he consented to with-
hold it.  Drs.   Hoyt, King, and myself, were all disgusted
and  indignant  alike.  Dr. Buchanan  also regarded the
act as worthy of the severest censure.  So thoroughly
was  Dr.  Bickley convinced of the deleterious influence
of Dr-  Newton's  character  and  conducr, upon the pro-
gress of  American Eclecticism, that he  proposed to Drs.
King and Freeman an agreement to unite and co-operate
with each other in breaking down his  influence and
thwarting his machinations, and even wrote an article  of
agreement, the language of which is not  recollected, but
the purpose of which was to unite the subscribers against
Dr.   Newion,  and in professional co-operation.  At this
 time, while these three gentlemen were  agreed in senti-
ment adverse  to Dr. Newton, Dr.  Buchanan being of a
less  impulsive temperament, did not anticipate the  neces-
sity of coming  to a  rupture  or a state of discord, as his
aim had always  been to preserve harmony in the school,
and  when  changes were necessary, to let them be  peace-
fully effected, as was the case in a majority of the changes.
That Dr.  Newton  was  both incompetent and injurious
to the College, as a Professor, was the opinion of a ma-
jority of  the  Faculty, as well  as of others who had  an
opportunity of judging in 1S.">4.  In 1855, the opinion was
unanimous, but personal motives, resentments,  and  in-
terests, led Dr. Freeman to combine with him.  None of
us ever considered Dr- Newton a man of science or intel-
lectual ability ; but  his usefulness as a man  of busiuess,
of political tact and  publishing enterprise, caused  his
scientific deficiencies to be tolerated,  until  we had dis-
covered, by sad experience, that he had  greatly lowered
the  reputation of the school and  its graduates.
   Dr. Freeman could not fail to  perceive Dr.  Newton's
deficiencies, being in daily contact with  him.   He was the
first to denounce the deficiencies of the  so-called clinic, to
myself and Prof. Cleaveland, and to point out Dr. New-
ton's deficiency in anatomical knowledge.  He explained
his  co-operation with Dr. N. by suggesting that be could
thus establish himself as  a surgeon,  at  the  expense  of
Dr. N., as  the  patients could  not  fail  to perceive  which
was  the  operator,  and  which best understood surgical
anatomy.  He even  remarked,  that when Dr. Newton was
 engaged in surgical  operations he was sometimes  obliged
 to take the knife from him and finish the operation, which
 Dr. X. did not know ho™ to perform.
   To complete the  testimonials of Dr. Newton, I  might
 refer to the expressions of J. M. Sanders, but as they
relate to personal, rather than  professional matters, I  let
them pass, with the remark, that these  two understand
each other's merits,  and may at some future time enlighten
 the  public.
   It would be more pertinent, perhaps, to illustrate  by
 Dr. Newton's opiuion of himself, as exhibited in the fact
 that his first proposition as a candidate for a professorship
 in the life-time of Dr. Morrow, was a proposition to sub-
 scribe $2,000 to tbe stock of tbe Institute as a bonus, to
 accompany his election—the  proposition, however, did  not
 find  favor. His entrance into the Institute, at  a time
 when it was nearly disorganized by death, and changes in
 the  Faculty,  was accompanied by the express condition
 that the older members of the  Faculty should hold on to
 their places, as he had no faith in the  capacity of himself
 and  other new  appointments, to sustain  the Institute
 without their services.   These other members were  Dr.
 Buchanan, Dr. I. G. Jones, and Dr.  L. E.  Jones.  The
 latter was soon after unanimously expelled as unfit.  The
 former two were the men  upon whom he relied, and to 
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whom he was devoted until he found that they (Dr. I. G.
Jones first, and Dr. Buchanan afterward) regarded him as
an incumbrance on the Institute.  It was then that he
unmasked his desperate intrigue, fortbe subversion of the
old organization, by a combination of off-casts, and forgot
the ■' ignorance and inexperience " as a writer w hich he con-
fessed in 1852;  believing, that as he  had the entire  pos-
session of the only organ by which the  school communi-
cated with the public, the Faculty were at his mercy.

             DR. BALDRIDGE'S  MERITS.
  Dr. Baldridge is another of the  corps, who needs to be
hcnestly announced and  presented  to  the public as he
really is.  He has not been so much denounced as Dr. L.
£. Jones and Dr. Newton, simply for the reason that he
has attracted less notice—his leading characteristics being
senility, dullness  and a singular species of harmless vanity.
He has been treated with compassionate forbearance by
all, as a relic of the past.  Dr. L. E. Jones co-operated in
procuring his iuvoluntary resignation in 1849.*  Drs. New-
ton and Powell refused him admission  into the Memphis
Faculty, when they were about to organize it; and  each
of his associates alike has regarded him as a feeble, barm-
less old mau.  Dr. Bickley took a pride in  saying of Drs.
Baldridge and Jones, in the lecture which he published in
ls.jo, " if such men are Eclectics, then  be  it known that
I  am their antipodes."  The present  associates of Dr.
Baldridge are  ashamed of him, and their  gossip mongers
give out,  privately, that he is only appointed for a tem-
porary purpose.
  The  prof mud  aversion, disgust and  contempt, enter-
tained by Drs. Newton, Bickley aud Freeman toward Drs.
Jones and Baldridge can not easily be exaggerated. It had,
moreover a good, substantial basis, and is, therefore, the
Sentiment which they still entertain.  Similar feelings were,
to a great extent, entertained by the enlightened friends
of the Institute generally, who regarded  them as the offen-
sive off-casts of tbe College—effete materials.  The feeliugs
of Dr. Bickley were expressed in his lecture as follows;
    DR. BICKLEY*S OPINION  OF JONES, BALDRIDGE
                    AND  COMPANY.
   " The first time I saw Prof. Jones I was satisfied, merely
from the appearance  of the man, that if there was any
truth   in  the   philosophy of Gall, Spurzheim,  Combe,
and  Buchanan, he must be  a very  selfish  man, and
one that would strive to   make  the rest  of  the Fa-
culty submit to him  in  matters  pertaining to the  In-
stitute,  t-o dissatisfied was I, that 1 stated  to several per-
sons that I  was  sorry that Dr. Joues and  myself had not
met previous to tbe commencement of the course, inasmuch
a* 1 did not feel willing to associate with such a man as
he appc ared to  be.  With such feelings, of course  few of
the civilities of life passed between u>."
   Speaking of the number  of students attending Prof.
Buchanan's lectures,  he  says:  p. 4, 5, "a circumstance

   *As an attempt has been made by Baldridge and Newton
to conceal tbe involuntary resignation or virtual expulsion
of Dr. Baldridge, I must refer to the following statement
published b\ the committee  of Eclectic Physicians, with
the signatures of Dr.  W.  B. Powell and the others of the
committee attached.
   After remarking, that " in matters  of  which we  have
positive knowledge, Dr. Jones not only disregards the truth
but asserts  the  very opposite of truth."   The committee
continue (page 8) —
   " Let us next inquire if the general  statements of Dr.
Baldridge can be relied upon  as accurate, when judged by
what the committee know to be true.  One conspicuous
 statement of Dr. B. refers to the history of the E. M. In-
stitute.   He denies that he  was removed from office or
requested to resign, and affirms  in substance, that his
resignation  was entirely voluntary, and  in  accordance
 with a previous intention. This  the committee can not
 believe, as they are too familiar with tbe facts  concerning
 Dr. B's removal.  They must  say that his removal was
not voluntary on his part, and that Dr. Baldridge as soon
 as remo\ed was very anxious to procure  a Professorship
 some where else, as well as hostile to his  late  colleagues
 for his rejection on account of incompetency.  If, then,
 self-interest would lead Dr. Baldridge to pervert facts of such
a nature, when  there are so many individuals living who
 can correct his misstatements, we do not  feel  that he is a
 reliable witness upon any subject in which his own interest
or reputation is concerned.  Especially, when he is known
 as having for several years been hostile and abusive toward
 the E. M. Institute.   Iu  addition  to these two witnesses,
 who appear to be unreliable for correct inlbnnation,"-^-&c
which  offended  our worthy  colleague,  Prof. Jones, inas-
much as  it gave  the  public an  opportunity  to  judge of
Prof. Buchanan's merits, while  be  (^Prof -ssor Joues) was
left to growl  in  ot scurity over his niisl irtune, in  being
denied  the ability  to  appear before an  intelligent au-
dience, as the discoverer of.those brilliant truths which
Prof. Buchanan  has, from time to time, declared through
the journals of science, or by  public lectures in the prin-
cipal cities of the Union.
  " Thi-s  circumstance  gave  rise to  what  the  Faculty
thought to be  ungentlemanly conduct on the part of Prof.
Jones, which  was aggravated by a similar course toward
Prof. King, from  a  similar cause, and other conduct not
to be borne."
  Speaking of Dr. Buchanan's appointment as Dean, he
says, in his peculiar, verbose style :
  " And  the  cabinet  of Eclecticism, in  their wisdom, ap-
pointed one to fill a  post, from the discharge of the duties,
of which any mind  but  that  of a Buchanan would have
swervud,  and,  iuslead of leading the  Eclectic army  into
tbe domain of  anti-progression, have  retreated to the
elements of Thomsonianism.
  " From the moment the  brilliancy of his  intellect and
the depth of his philosophy  came  in contrast  with the
alchemistic pretensions of his inferiors, a bhick hatred
and a spirit of revenge seem to have fired their  breasts;
aud every burst of popular applause which the indomitable
Dean of  our Faculty has elicited from the public, by his
learning  aud science, has fanned the little spark of envy
into an all-consuming flame, for the  satiation of which,
even the  school and cause of  Eclecticism is to be offered
up a sacrifice." p. 8.
  After  denouncing  Dr. Jones  as  a revengeful traitor*
comparing him to "Judas" and "Arnold," he says :
  " Supposing it were possible to break down  this school
(and, it seems, to effect its ruin no screw is to be left un-
turned),  what would be the result?  All who have  grad-
uated from it, in whatever part of the Uniou they may
live, would suffer, because it is  not  to be  supposed  that
our anti-eclectic enemies would suffer  its failure to remain
a secret.   When  you should be  met by the  bedside  and
told that you knew  nothing of medical science, could you
reply by  referring to a diploma which had  been granted
by a defunct college ?  I am very sure  you would not like
to do this.
  " If you were to lend your assistance to break down this
school, do you think you would be doing that which would
promote our cause?   Allopaths, Homrcopaths, l'hysopaths,
Hydropatbs,  Sarsaparillapaths,  and Orthopaths, might,
and we  are to expect they would, be  indifferent to, or
even desire the  destruction of such a school; but, 1 am
not willing to believe that Eclectics of the true stamp will
ever tolerate such a thought.  It is  useless to say to you
that this school  has already built up a liberal profession,
which, in turn, has built up the school.  Vou  can not
fail to see the  important relation which must ever exist
between you and your alma mater.
  " If you do not wish to aid in  its overthrow, may I not
expect that you  will repudiate,  with utter uontempt, any
movements from pseudo-friends, calculated to  mar our
peace, or disturb the equanimity of  our lubors ?"
  *• The truth  is, I should be  much  surprized if some of
you were not  deceived with the constant gossip which has
been poured into your ears, by a designing man or his in-
struments." p. 10, 11, 12.
  In reference to the selfishness of Dr. Jones, he  says:
  "Who  will haul down the  flag of medical  reform, and
bow in supplication  to the dictates of a mind  too small to
do aught for the cause of Eclecticism,  where self is not
taken into consideration?   Who will hug a Shylock to his
breast, and have his own  life's interest  supped by  the
miserly graspings of a Jew."  p. 12, 13.
  July 7th, 1S.',3.—Dr.  Bickley  wrote to  Dr.  Buchanan
that he bad read Dr. Jones' pamphlet, and that " many of
his charges against  you  are to entirely false that  no notioa
ought to be taken of them, specially.  Those which are
misrepresented ought to be corrected, and then  have  the
public to understand that it is not becoming the dignity
of a gentleman  to  quarrel with a  man  so  lout to every
principle of honor."
   Finally, his exact conception of  the relative  chnrii'ten
of Dr. Jones and the object of his slanders, is expressed ad
follows:
   " In answer to this,  it is only necessary to inform the
public that, since the death of tbe  lamented Morrow, the
responsibilities  of  the  school have fallen mostly on the 
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shoulders of the present Dean, (Jos. R. Buchanan, M. D.),
and  that without his exertions,  in  all probability  the
school would either have had no existence, or been known
only to a limited  extent.  The peculiar views and teach-
ings of Buchanan  have been one of the chief sources of
attraction to students, as is evidently eviuced  by all who
have matriculated in the school since be became connected
with it.  Not only so  but  the publie may easily satisfy
themselves that it has  always fallen on  Professor Buch-
anan to defend the school when assailed by enemies to the
cause; and if Professor Jones was the leading spirit of the
school, how comes it  that its defense has fallen on Prof.
Buchanan ?
  " Professor Jones is comparatively an obscure individual,
as he does not seem to  possess the education  necessary to
impress his  ' talents and energies'  upon the public.  It
U a  pity, and 1 sympathise with bim ; but since his organ-
ization  does not  admit  of either  vivacity or originality,
we must put up with  things as we find  them.  Yet it is
strange  that  a man of Professor Jones' age should  not
have found out his real condition before;  for he seems to
have relied on his own ' money, energy and talents ' for a
reputation,  until his  late  attempt  to save himself  by
clinging to, and appropriating to himself, the reputatiou
of others.      *****
   " Then, I deny that I ever did, or ever will occupy a chair
in a medical  college built up  by the  ' money, energy  and
talents'  of Vie 'said Professor L. E. Jones'
   "  I have no wish to be associated with a man who can not
even interchange with gentlemen the common civilities of
life, or look upon the reputation of others but  with feel-
ings of  the  blackest hatred.  That low but dear jewel of
little minds, revenue, seems  now to be the end and object
of the ' money, talents, and energies' of  Professor Jones.
It is, however, only necessary that the public be informed
that the (greatly injured)  man, finding  himself destitutt
of Vie sympathy of gentlemen of worth in the profession,
has gladly called around bim some six or seven irresponsi-
ble  meu, whom he has vainly tried  to palm  on  the com-
munity aa a conveution of Eclectic physicians." Pp. 15-16.
   That " gentleman of worth "  did  not  sympathise with
Dr.  Jones  at that  time, was very true, and is  truer, if
possible, at present.  His plan of upholding himself now,
is still the same as above mentioned by Dr. Bickley, viz : by
getting a small squad of disappointed, disaffected individ-
uals, aud endeavoring to palm them upon the community
as proper representatives of Eclecticism.
   Nothing but the most desperate circumstances, however,
could have  driven  such men, still  smarting under the
denunciations of Dr. L. E,  Jones, to humble themselves
before him, and accept a fictitious position, based entirely
upon his  votes as  stockholder.  Of course  they will gut
rid  of him as speedily as possible, when opportunity offers,
and then apologize for being in his company, by the neces-
sity  of the case which  required his  aid.  Dr. Jones, how-
ever much he despises them, can not get rid of them, for
he can do nothing alone.
   The language of Dr. Bickley, however, was not adequate
to doiug full justice to Jones and  Baldridge.  It required
Drs. Newton and Powell to  finish  the picture, the foulest
portions being reserved for Dr. Newton, who delights in
such subjects.
   When Dr.  Powell, as an  impartial spectator,  in 1853,
addressed the meeting of Eclectic physicians in reference
to the affairs of the Institute, he expressed his sentiments
candidly.  The following is his language,  written by him-
self. This language is the  more remarkable  on account
of the fact that Dr. Powell and Dr. Buchanan were not on
friendly terms.   Their scientific doctrines were discordant,
aud severe criticisms had been made by each on the other.
Nevertheless, they had sufficient magnanimity to do justice
to each others talents :
            "REMARKS OF  PROF. POWELL.
   "  Ex-Professor Jones  and myself have  always been on
social aud friendly terms ;  I  have, therefore, no motive to
indulge in any unkind remarks or reflections concerning
him. I have read his late pamphlet, aud from its personal,
rancorous  and revengeful tone, I  am  forced  to couclude
that the promotion of the Eclectic Medical Institute, of
this city, is not his object.   It appears to me that no oue
can  read it and  avoid the conclusion that  he would wil-
lingly destroy the  Institution and  the prospects  of  its
cause in the West, to  ruin  Professor Buchanan, and to
cripple the other  members of the faculty."
  Again he says:
  " And if we are to regard his pamphlet as a true index
Of the depth  and strength of his  hatred for the faculty,
and  particularly of Professor Buchanan, we may rest
 assured  that nothing less than their extermination will
 satisfy him."
  Of Prof. Buchanan, he remarks:
  " Neither Professors nor students, nor even yet Prof'ssor
Jones, have  said  that he  is  not a talented man, a r ady
writer, aud a fluent lecturer—that he has not been one of
Vie main pillars of the Institution since his election to it."
  Then, after speaking of Professors Caldwell of Kentucky,
and Jackson of Philadelphia, he says that objections were
made to them, but they were retained in their places,
" because they were able men — able because  they  had
the power to make the students think, and consequently
to make  them more effective.   Professor  Buchanan's con-
dition is precisely parallel—he has not been so fortunate as
to make all his colleagues and students  believe his  doc-
trines to  be true and useful;  and, on the other  hand, his
disbelievers have  not succeeded iu proving them  to be false
and mischievous."
  ------" We have frequently done Professor Buchanan
the justice to say, that we know of  no one who  has more
power to  make others think, who can think, than  he, and
if Prof. Jones has failed to be benefited, in this wise, by hi*
intercourse with him, the fault is his own misfortune."
  It is not necessary to  quote this testimony in reference
to Dr. Buchanan's abilities as one of the foremost teachers
of philosophy in the present age, for his  reputation is  not
confined  to the west, nor to the United States, but it  an-
swers the purpose of the present exposition, to show that
even his  opponents recognize what they can not  deny.
  It is refreshing  to observe how deferentially the members
of the spurious Faculty  have  6poken of the professors who
now belong to the Faculty, especially of Dr. Buchanan, in
whose talents and reputation  they have felt a commenda-
ble pride, so long  as they ware able to  retain a  position
near him.
  When  the serpent-like malice of Dr. L. E. Jones having
exhausted itself in every other  direction,  endeavored to
show that the members of the Faculty  had privately de-
nounced and opposed Dr. Buchanan, the brand of falsehood
 was fixed upon the charge, by the specific and  positive
written  denials*  from Professors I  (i. Jones, J. King, W.
 Sherwood, J. W. Hoyt, Q.  W. L.  Bickley, and K. S.
 Newton.
  Referring to these statements, we find  that Dr. Newton,
 who had been accustomed privately to speak in the strong-
est terms of Buchanan's eminence  as  a  physiologist, and
 the indispensable importance of his services in sustaining
the college,  made  the following  brief and comprehensive
 statement. (See Eclectic Journal, March, 1853, page 136-7)

  " To all whom it may concern.—It is stated in a certain
libellous pamphlet, signed, by Drs. A. II.  Baldridge and
 S. Kyle, that four  members of the  present Faculty are
opposed  to Prof.   Buchanan s views in   respect to Neu-
 rology.  As one  of that Faculty, I beg to deny that such
are my feelings  toward the  science  of Neurology;  on
 the contrary, I regard it as the only true science of man.
                               R. S. NEWTON, M.D.
  "Cincinnati, 0., Feb.  19,1853."

  This is Dr.  Newton's own  language,  written  without
 assistance, and cltarly written, for  him.  It declares  Dr.
 Buchanan's system of Anthropology a true science.  The
word Neurology includes not only Anthropology, but  the
 entire science of the nervous  system iu  the animal king-
dom.  If Dr. Buchanan s system be recognized as true, he
is necessarily recognized as the  foremost physiologist of
the present age, for he has  advanced far beyond  his pro
decessors, and completely  revolutionized the science of
man by new discoveries.  Such was Dr. Newton's opinion,
although he has lately combined with the authors of the
  * Prof. Morrow was unfortunately dead, but his  senti-
ments  are sufficiently indicated by his own  publications
in the Eclectic  Journal, and by the declarations of his
most intimate friend, his  brother-in-law, Prof. B. L. Hill,
and his colleagues, Profs. I. G. Jones and II. P. Gatchell,
by whom his true sentiments were shown to be in  accord-
ance with his public declarations. The committee  of the
Eclectic Physicians, of Cincinnati and Covington, includ-
ing (Dr. Powell, Iir. Wilson, and others) say, in their report
in reference  to Dr. Morrow; "Being  now dead he can not
speak, but his most intimate associate aud brother in law,
Prof. Hill, states in his behalf, (in a  letter which we have
seen) that in bis private conversations, be often expressed
his approbation  of Dr.  Buchanan's private course of lec-
tures, and  never expressed any  disapprobation  to his
knowledge." 
12                       ANNOUNCEMENT OF  THE  SPURIOUS  FACULTY.
 |« libellous pamphlet," to make a little capital by circulat-
 ing th«ir scurrility against the science.
  Dr. G. W. L. Bickley, whose encomiums upon  Dr.  Bu-
 chanan  as a man of science, and as  one of the greatest
 writers of the age, were freely uttered and published from
 his first  acquaiutauce until  a few months ago, gave  the
 following statement:
  " Eds. E. M. Journal.—Permit me to  state in answer
 to an assertion occuring in what purports to be a " Report
 of Eclectic Physicians," stating that the present Faculty,
 or a large part of them, had ridiculed the science  of  An-
 thropology, as taught by Prof. Buchanan, Its discoverer.
 Allow me to say, as an individual of the body of gentlemen
 on whom this charge is made, to state that I have always
 (since I knew any thing of it) regardtd the Neurological
 system of Anthropology as the  true  Science of .Man, and
 that it was a chief source of attraction to the school.  Nor
 have I ever heard any member of the Faculty ridicule or
 speak disrespectfully of Professor Buchanan in  any way ;
 but, on the contrary, so far as I am  informed, have heard
 the present Faculty ever when referring to Prof. Buchanan
 speak of him as a gentleman of thorough scientific attain
 ments, and a Philosopher in every sense of the word.
                     Respectfully yours,
                          G. W. L. BICKLEY, M.D."
  1 This is Dr. Bickley's own phraseology—not very accurate
 in language, but very full and conclusive as to the senti-
 ments of the Faculty.  Yet when Professors are expelled for
 a want of integrity and fitness, a change of tone is not sur-
 prising.  Perhaps  Dr. Bickley may  have sufficient self-
 respect not to change bis position.
  Dr. Powell expresses himself  further as follows, after
 complimenting, separately and collectively, the  members
 of the Faculty:
  '•' Now, in review, I beg  leave to remark, that, however
 people may differ in opinion as to the value of Professor
 Buchanan's labors, it  has ever been admitted by his col-
 leagues, as  a  body, that  he  is, as an  acquisition to  the
 school, too  valuable to be dispensed  with, so long as  he is
 retainable."
  Dr. Powell expresses a very just estimate of Jones and
 Baldridge, on the 5th page of his address:
  " As I have said, (with reference to  Prof. Jones)  I  have
 personally no  unkind feelings  towards  Prof. Baldridge;
 but as be has been intriguing to injure  that organization
 upon which  the  principal weight  of responsibility  of
 medical reform, in this section of our country, rests, I can
 not forbear to expose  him as one of the disaffected, who
 would brook or risk any mischief to the  cause, to break
 down certain  individuals  of  the organization  above  al-
 luded to.
  " When I was seeking professors for the  Memphis Insti-
 tute, he  desired to be one,  and when I spoke of King,
 Newton, and Freeman, he told me  that  they would not
 do,  that  King was not capable, Newton was not of the
 right grit, and Freeman could  not be trusted, and  conse-
 quently he would  not serve  with  them;  but he had, he
 said, two sons-in-law, who were just the men for  the  occa-
 sion.  Upon a subsequent occasion I informed him  that I
 had decided upon accepting the services of those gentle-
 men, and, upon  finding that  my purpose was  fixed,  he
 consented to serve with them, but it so happened that they
 would not serve with him.   But he was premature in  all
 he did in  this relation, for, at no time had I solicited his
 services.   He was not what I wanted, and was too  old to
 become it.   It is proper to add, in this  place, that before
my acquaintance with him, he was  hostile to  Prof. Bu-
chanan, and to Jones also, I believe.
  " We now find that  Ex-profes60rs Jones and Baldridge
were at the head of this secretly gotten up convention  of
Eclectic (f)  physicians, and under  all the circumstances
connected with this subject can any one imagine it  to  be
possible  that  opposition  to  the Institute,  iuculcated,
hatched, and promoted by these  gentlemen, can effect
 anything more than  a public contempt for themselves?
Gentlemen, I have more confidence in the wisdom of the
public mind than to believe it.
  " There is, gentlemen, but one other  topic upon which
I desire to make a few remarks before concluding.
  " Ex-professor  Jones has endeavored  to  make much
 capital out of the practice of the professors in delivering
  Erivate lectures.  He would have the public to believe that
  e is singularly honest in refusing to do so—that he taught
 all he knew in his public course.  Upon this subject we
 can  scarcely separate  him from the idea  of knavery or
 stupidity."
  In the report of the committee, of which Dr. Powell was
  chairman, the charge of wilful mendacity and  misrepre-
  sentation was fixed upou Dr. Jones beyond  all escape.  So
  much  for the  "stupidity,"  " kuavery,"  "intrigue,"
  " revenge," "stale and exploded calumnies," which dis-
  interested spectators attributed to Jones  and  Baldridge
  after full investigation of the subject. Dr. Newton has the
I  honor of going a step further, as will presently be shown.
  It was he who first suggested the removal of Dr. Jones,
  although he now wishes to shift his ground and deny his
I  participation, since he has fallen into tbe company of the
  man he expelled. August 8, 1852, Dr. Newton  wrote to Dr.
  Buchanan verbatim et literatim et punduatim, as  follows:
|   " I am perfectly disgusted with Joues, and  from  his
  expressed intention, there will be no  harmony in our
  school this winter,  for this reason I would rather withdraw
  from the enterprise aud let my place  be filled  by some
  one who  will  aoquitse in his  views,   for my own part I
I  can not nor will not, & I  will  not be charged with  caus-
  ing any trouble, so this will fix the matter at once"  *  *
   " He has expressed himself  iu this way to many—saying
  that we  Buchanan and Newton wish to fill  the chairs
  with old  school men.  He said to me tbe day before he
  left that  he would be darned if you  or  King or any other
 of  the  Prof, deliverd   a  Private course   of  lectures
  this winter, that he would leave the school "      *     *
   " Now  this whole school has to yield every thing to him
 or be continually in hot water "       *       *        *
   *  *  " but so soon as  you gave  him  these points be
 becomes  worse than ever he wishes  to fill  both chairs
  himself of this 1 am well satisfied  I talked plain with
 him and tried to convince  him that  tbe course  he was
 taking  would be an  injury to us all, but it was like talking
 to a barn  post I am at  a loss to know how you  ever got
 along with him as you have."       *     *      *     *
   '■ 1 am now sick of this childish disposition and told  him
 if he could not have a better feeling towards us all and
 had no  better opinion of our friendship, that some of us
 bad better leave the concern ;  he said if bis stock was out
  be would  leave it at once'' which Dr. N. agreed would be
 well.
   August 20, 1852, Dr. Newton wrote  to Dr.  Buchanan,
 urging him, as the  senior professor, to take steps  to settle
 the difficulty  with Dr. Joues at once, as *' no man, with the
 spirit which  should prompt  an action,  will quietly sub-
 mit to such a course " as Dr. Jones was  taking.  He also
 declared in the letter that he claimed the right to deliver
 private lectures himself, if he chose, aud sent a letter from
 Prof. King, saying,  " you will find a letter from Dr. King,
 which coincides with my views," in which Dr. K.  appealed
 to Dr. Buchanan as Dean of the Faculty, ai^ainst the disturb-
 ance created by Dr. Jones, saying, " 1 will not consent to be
 brow beaten,  or rode over rough shod, by any member of
 the  Faculty," and addiug, " I  would respectfully suggest,
 that if the minority  of the Faculty can not act iu harmony
 with the  rest, and in acordance with the  understanding on
 this  subject,  they  be requested to withdraw from  the
 Faculty."   *   *   "If the   Faculty ure to be arbitrarily
 governed  by one man, the sooner it is known the better."
   August 22, 1852, Dr. Newton  wrote to Dr. B.  " You will
 see from Dr. Jones'   letter, which,  I send  you, and which
 you will pleas preserve that things are taking  an unplea*
 sant and  injurious  course, but which  I  feel that we can
 remedy by prompt action.  Dr. Jones's course is wrong in
 every aspect  of the  case, aud  hereafter,  for one, I feel
 willing to let himoutat once, unless he will act  in  concert
 with you King Sherwood and others.   You three are
 now his special eyesore, and if you will, you can cure him
 at once."   *  ■ * "If Jones quits he will do every thing
 against us, and may, for  a time, be r-uccessful.  1 know
 that he will leave, unless you and Dr. King will  yield to
 him or leave the Institute, this will  not do  under any
 circumstances, as you well know.
   " As to buying his stock, this I would not do "
   What occurred in '53 was rep'-aled iu '56; afactious and
 stubborn  minority  would not submit,  and  would  not
 withdraw.  The mere scientific  and  capable men. the
 majority of the Faculty, would not abandon the Institute
 to ruin, by surrendering it to the unworthy, and the Board
 of Trustees  settled the  difficulty by  expelling  the dis-
 turbers.
   In addition to co-operating  actively in denouncing Dr.
 Jones, before the medical class and tbe public, saying even
 more in private than was ever published, he denounced
 him  before  tbe  Board of Trustees, and signed  several
 papers  embodying accusations of the Faculty  against Dr.
 Jones, among which were the following.  Drs.  Buchanan,
 King, and Newton,  signed an  address to the Board of
 Trustees, containing the following passages ; 
ANNOUNCEMENT  OF THE  SPURIOUS  FACULTY.
13
         CHARGES AGAINST DR.  L.  E.  JONES.
  '«The undersigned, members of the Faculty, are compelled
 to declare, that if Prof. L. E. Jones continues to occupy his
 position as  a member  of the  Faculty, they will, without
 hesitation,  resign their respective chairs;  and  in  this
 declaration they believe  that  two or three of the gentle-
 men who have been announced as professors, but who  are
 absent at this time, will heartily concur."
  Subsequently, Drs. Newton and Bickley signed with their
 colleagues, Drs.  Buchanan, King, and Sherwood, the  fol-
 lowing arraignment:

  " The undersigned, members of the Faculty of the Eclectic
 Medical  Institute, hereby arraign Dr. L.  E.  Jones,  the
 present Professor of Theory and  Practice, as unworthy of
 a position in the Institute, and request his expulsion;  in
 proof of the propriety and necessity of which, we offer the
 following  charges, which we declare to be true, to the best
 Of our knowledge and belief."
  There are eight  separate  charges, from  which  I  copy
 merely the leading passages of each paragraph :
  " Charge 1. Falsehood, fraud, and  imposition practiced
 upon the Board of Trustees and Faculty."    *    *
  " 2.  Inveterate  hostility  to the  existing  Faculty of the
 Institute."     *       *     *
  "3.  Systematic warfare against the  Eelectic  Medical
 Institute," by invectives, intrigues, Ac, aiming to estab-
 lish a separate school.
  "4.  Dishonorable and  undignified  bearing as  a  Pro-
 fessor,"       *      *
  " 5. Violations of law and order, by refusing to obey the
 regulations  of  the school" — and by a  lawless  course
 which compelled the Faculty, "in self-defense, to lock and
 fasten the doors of the Institute."
  '' 6.  A discordant and quarrelsome temper, rendering him
 unfit to associate with  any but his inferiors " —     *     *
 [Query — is he  associated with his inferiors at present ? ]
  "7. Intense selfishness, and unwillingness to participate
 in  any liberal measures for the promotion of the  reputa-
 tion of the Institute,"      *      *
  " 8. Confirmed  and  hopeless  incompatibility with  the
 present Faculty—"      *      *
  Another charge was embodied in this paper at first, and
 would have been retained,  but for the  fact that  it was
 expunged  by Dr. Buchanan, for the reason that  he con-
 sidered it  absurd for Dr. Newton to present  such  charges
 of  illiteracy  against Dr.  L. E.  Jones, who could have
 retorted on Dr. Newton  with justice aud truth, in a simi-
 lar style.   The following is the charge:
  " Professional disqualification for his  present position,
 not being  a practitioner of medicine, being incompetent to
 sustain Vie reputation of  the  Institute  by authorship —
 being incompetent to address an  enlightened public audi-
 ence in a respectable manner, or in any other way to  give
 the Institute an honorable position in the public mind —
 being defective as to the  general knowledge of the differ-
 ent branches of medical science,  remarkably ignorant of
 medical literature, and  settled in  confirmed habits of
 illiteracy, which  render it certain  that he can not keep
 pace with the progress of the profession."
  This expressed  the sentiments of the  Faculty, and but
 for their having one illiterate member among them, would
 have been among their charges.  These were the charges
 which, in the opinion of  the Faculty, required his expul-
 sion, and by a curious coincidence there is  not one of these
 eight charges against  Dr L.  E. Jones  in  1852-63, which
 was not substantially applicable to Dr. R. S. Newton in
 1856.   There was the same amount of perfidy and false-
 hood, the same  intrigue and  hostility, the same  selfish-
 ness, differently and more artfully managed, the same
 illiteracy, and a  much  greater degree of turbulence and
 lawlessness.  To complete the parallel,  he  made the same
pledges to keep the peace, and broke them a» treacherously.

       BEACH, NEWTON,  AND DIPLOMA  SHOPS.
  But at that time Dr. Newton was comparatively modest
and inoffensive, understood the interests of the College,
and, like the rest of the faculty, regarded  the three indi-
viduals who, since their  removal for  incompetence and
unprofessional conduct, have united together, (Drs. Jones,
Beach aud Baldridge.)  as utterly unworthy of sympathy.
Beach  and  Baldridge, after Dr. Jones  had co-operated in
their removal for worthlessness and other causes, did  not
hesitate to help him in  abusing the Faculty.  Dr. New-
ton's estimate of Dr. Beach was shown  by the  Eclectic
Journal, and also by Dr.  Jones' third pamphlet, page 27—
speaking of Dr. Beach, he says:
  " Although charged by Dr. Buchanan with  imbecility,
 Ac.,  and  by Dr. Newtou with ignorance, incompetency,
 aud incapacity to write a single sentence correctly or gram
 matically, and declared not to be  the author of his many
 works," Ac, Ac.
  Et tu Brute I  It was certainly cruel in Dr. Newton to
 speak of Dr. Beach as being unable to write correctly, or not
 being the author of his own works — such charges, if true,
 should have produced a frier dly fellow feeling and sympathy
 between the two illustrious  authors.  By what  strange
 oversight   or  cruel  inju lice was Dr. Beach   omitted
 from  the  Jones  and   Newton   Faculty ?   Can they
 not   give   him  an   honorary  emeritus  title?   It  is
 no  objection that  the Faculty of  the Eclectic Med-
 ical Institute were unanimously ashamed of  him, aud
 dropped his  name as quietly as possible, that tbe public
 might forget bis former  connection with  the Institute.
 The  fact  that he  is one of  the  offcasts of the  Institute
 should  be the highest  recommendation to  a Faculty of
 offcasts.  We insist that the venerable Beach shall  not be
 slighted to make room for mere fledglings.   He can not be
 more incompetent than Dr. Baldridge, nor has  the failure
 of his diploma shop been so much more disgraceful than
 the failures of Baldridge and  Jones.  If Beach considers
 Anatomy a superfluous  study, Baldridge considers Chem-
 istry a humbug  when it teaches that there is iron in  the
 blood — a  prodigious error, according to Dr. Baldridge.  If
 Beach retailed his diplomas indiscriminately by his own
 authority,  Baldridge's establishment disposed of, at least
 one of his, for $100 down,  in advance, before   medical
 study.  If Beach and Baldridge supplied diplomas to men
 who did not deserve them, Jones surpassed their devotion
 to suffering humanity, iu giving diplomas to  those who
 had been rejected by the tyrannical Faculty of the  Eclectio
 Medical  Institute,  who practically deny  the rights  of
 American  citizens to have diplomas whenever  they can
 pay for them.  Detestable aristocrats 1  They would make
 distinctions in a democratic profession,  and give diplomas
 to their favorites, but refuse them  to every young man who
 can not answer their  troublesome scientific questions.
 The reign of such tyrants must soon come to an end.
 The generous liberality of Newton and Jones can supply all
 demands,  and their " learned brother, O. E. Newtou," tbe
 aspiring demonstrator of Anatomy, can furnish  as many
 cliuique diplomas to first courue students as are required
 to astonish tbe natives — each of  which diplomas is based
 upon the fact that its learned  bearer has attended thirty-
 two lectures, and is therefore entitled to a  parchment I
  Ludicrous as these statements appear, they are all sim-
 ple naked facts, which can be incontestibly proved with
 names and dates, to the respective transactions.   What
 must be the  necessary consequence?   Simply, that the
 entire  mass  of  smattering, indolent, profligate students
 and candidates for diplomas, who wish  to possess a parch-
 ment  upon any terms, and care nothing for the character
 of the school, will  resort to the diploma shop where they
 believe  there is the least amount of science and the great-
 est willingness to drive the simple bargain — give me your
 money and your name, and 1  will insure that you shall
 have a diploma. The same class of men who have hereto-
 fore resorted to Dr. L. E. Jones for diplomas,* which they
 could not obtain from the Faculty of the Eclectic Medical
 Institute,  will continue to resort to him and his associates;
 and  if  that fungus establishment  is  maintained, it  is
 difficult to see how  the  profession at  large can  escape
 the disgrace  which it will  bring  upon  the entire move-
 ment.
  But in addition to all this, Dr. Newton took the lead in
fixing upon  Dr. Jones  charges which  sunk  him  irre-
coverably  into infamy,—charges which were generally
believed at the time, which are still believed, and which
were made the basis of a legal prosecution.

                GROVELING MALICE.
  The leading charge was, that Dr. Jones, in order to vent
his groveling malice against the College which had ejected
  * I have no record of the extent  of this diploma busi-
ness, but I know that  in  three  instances, men who could
not graduate in the Institute, have been graduated by the
school  of Jones A Bahiri l^c, and the  members of  the
Faculty have received letters from worthy and intelligent
physicians, complaining of such a course as discreditable
to the profession.  Of  two of these iudividuals, Dr. J.  T.,
one of  tbe most  intelligent graduates  of  the  Institute,
says, " I have felt it a duty that 1 owe alike to the cause
aud to  myself, to disclaim any brotherhood  with them,
and state to all who have said anything  to me about it,
that they did not get  their diplomas at my alma mater." 
14
ANNOUNCEMENT OF  THE  SPURIOUS  FACULTY.
him, (.being at tbe  same time a violent and vulgar oppo-
nent  of female medical  education, which he  assailed in
his owuobscene manner.) attempted to gratify his revenge
by winding to an estimable lady in tbe class, a number of
slanderous,  insulting,  and obscene  anonymous  letters,
filled  with the basest abuse and insults, directed at herself
and various gentlemen and ladies  of the  Institute, de-
signed to convey the idea  that her character was infamous,
and that she was so esteemed by the class.  The letters
purported to come  from  members of the class, and  were
expressed  in the foulest language that  evsr emanated
from  ABtwmr hoose.  The letters were written in a  dis-
guised hand, but the disguise was  so imperfect that the
handwriting of Dr.  Jones was easily recognized by  all who
were funiliar with it.   Every member of the faculty was
satisfied as to  the  authorship of Dr. Jones, and  a large
number of students were also sufficiently  famUiar  with
his handwriting  to recognize it.   To  place the  matter
beyond all doubt, the letters were submitted by Dr. New-
t>n aud certain legal gentlemen, to tbe inspection of the
best professional experts  in the city, who  confirmed the
opinion that they were  in the handwriting of Dr. Jones.
Dr. Powell, who is also an expert in  handwriting, of great
experience  in  its study,  was equally positive as to its
authorship.  Dr.  Newton was ready to  testify in court,
and the proof was generally considered entirely conclusive.*
  In addition to these  foul anonymous  assaults,  reports
against the lady were set afloat  in  the class, which were
traced up  immediately  to Dr. Jones himself.   His object
was to  break up tbe attendance of female students, to
disgrace the school, and to produce a difficulty between the
faculty and the class, by tbe efforts of the former to detect
tbe anonymous slanderers among the members of the class,
and the probable aversion of the latter to tbe  presence of
females under such  circumstances.  Dr. Jones was confi
dent that he could  thus  produce a disturbance, disgrace
the Institute, and thus injure the faculty, caring nothing
for the fate of the ladies, through whose ruin  he expected
to glut his revenge.  With the usual short sightedness of
low cunning, he only exposed his own infamy.  The char-
acter of the  lady was beyoud  all reproach — no one could
have  been  selected for his attack, who  could have  been
safer from his malice, in  the strength of her  own integ-
rity.   Her only offense consisted in  her having refused to
lend her signature as a student, to aid his  factious opera-
tions  against his colleagues.  The  evidence of a deadly
design  in  Dr.  Jones,  to injure an honorable lady, as
a means of injuring the  Institute, was so complete, that
she adopted the only legal method of obtaining redress for
the injury, anxieties, and mental suffering produced  by
his  foul  and malipnant^attack.  A suit for slander was
instituted against Dr. Jones by bis intended victim, laying
the damages at $20,000.  I'nder  the influence  of this
prosecution, he has  felt a portion of the  suffering which
he wished to inflict upon others, and a wholesome terror
of the law has ehecked  the  current of his obscene out-
pourings.
  It is due to this prosecution alone, that the female stu-
dents  of the Institute have been able to live in peace, and
  * Tbe active part taken by Dr. Newton in fastening the
eharge on  Dr. Jones, may  be further  illustrated by the
statement of A. B. Fryrear, published by Dr. L. E. Jones:
  " Prof. Newton  appealed to  me in solemn and  pathetic
terms, to remain with them — he said he was a Christian
— a member of tbe Methodist Church — said his aspira-
tions were not of earth, but of Heaven,  Ac. lie, when  be
appealed to me, as a Minister of the Gospel,  to avoid  Prof.
Jones — to  not suffer my moral character and standing in
the Church, and  in society, to become contaminated  by
such a man ; for,  said he,  Prof. Jones  is disgraced upon
the records  of our College — he is also sued for $20,000 for
slandering an innocent female, Ac, Ac."
  The peculiarly pious and oily style of Dr. Newton's con-
versation, as reported by Mr.  Fryrear, does not  surprise
me, as some of his colleagues, including myself, were once
of the opinion, from his own intimations that he belonged
to the Methodist Church!
that tbe faculty have been  able to open their doors to the
worthy ladies, who have graduated from their halls.
  Tbe course of justice is slow, but sure, and although Dr.
Jones has not yet been tried and  convicted, the  time will
yet arrive  when his infamy  will crush him out of sight,
and when those who have been duped  by him will blush
at the recollection, and will hold to a severe accountability
the miserable faction who have lifted him again into notice,
after he had sunk out of sight, and abandoned the profes-
sion.
  It did not avail  Dr. Jones, that he charged Dr. Newton
with  being himself the  author of those  obscene letters.
Tbe guilt was  fixed on himself bv the handwriting, and
the proof was  regarded  as conclusive. Nor will it avail
him  that  Dr.  Newton has  finally  come down  to  bis
own  level of  infamy,  and  made  him   a  companion.
Their mutual  dishonor  is  established by mutual testi-
mony, and although it may seem like a farce to attempt to
prove anything by  either or both  of them, they are fully
competent  to prove each other,  by mutual admissions,
charges, and contradictions unworthy of all reliance.

            SHALL ECLECTICISM SUFFER?
  Was there ever in the history of medicine, such a " con-
glomeration" of every  thing  professionally  unworthy,
unfit,  unqualified, and dishonorable  as  this  miserable
faction  has gathered together?  Was there ever such an
example of unblushing audacity in meu who, while assail-
ing their own  acknowledged  superiors, men of high pro-
fessional standing—demand the public  patronage  and
approbation for an organization based upon illegal and
spurious pretensions, upheld only by  mob violence  and
scurrility; consisting of men who not only believe and
know, but have  publicly declared  each  other utterly
unworthy ?  Can it be possible that the  public, whom they
address, contains  any number  of individuals, who are
willing  to patronize and  identify themselves with  this
morbid mass, this malignant cancer upon the body of the
medical profession ?
  Is there any reason why American Eclecticism especially
should be  thus dishonored ?  The  old  school institutions
of America and Europe have never presented any thing
to compare with this foul conspiracy.   The great mass# of
the medical profession have  too much  sense of  honor to
tolerate any  approximation  to such quackery and degra-
dation.  Are American Eclectics less  sensitive  to  their
professional honor?   Do they  value  their position  and
character so lightly as  to lend  their countenance to this
malignant conspiracy which  has  for one  of its leading
aims, the  encouragement of adulterated  medicines,  and
the removal of all the wholesome restraints which belong to
professional ethics. It is certain, at least, that if American
Eclectics  tolerate  and  support this  establishment  of
diploma-shops, by unprincipled men — the  name and the
cause will  speedily become so foully dishonored, that all
honorable  teachers and students will hereafter be kept far
aloof  from such associations.
  Whatever may  be the merits of tbe  Eclectic system of
medicine,  students and physicians will be unwilling to
connect themselves with  an  association  of men  whose
public career is discreditable. The organization will dwindle
into insignificance and obscurity, and the name will finally
be repudiated by all.  But  I anticipate no such result.
The present is the crisis of  American  Eclecticism.  Ths
Institute is now in a better condition tban  it has  ever yet
been,  for giving a  thorough  education to its graduates.
Let the profession at large treat with silent contempt, as
they have  done  heretofore, the movements of factious pre-
tenders, and the future of our cause will be more encour-
aging than ever.               W. SHERWOOD, M.D.
  N. B.  Anticipating that all the arts of falsehood and
misrepresentation will be used to counteract the effect of
this plain exposition, I would remark that it is  but a just
and/air statement, the truth of which  can be established
In every particular, and the documeuts upon which  it is
based are  in my possession, and may be seen by any gen-
tleman who wishes to inspect them.            W. S.

  243 Court Street, Cincinnati.