The inauguration of a Department of Homeopathy in the University, which,
as has been noted, did not come without a struggle, was finally effected
in 1875; though only after long opposition from the Medical Faculty and
the regular medical profession throughout the State. The first Faculty,
which was appointed soon after the Legislature finally authorized the
establishment of the School, was composed of Dr. Samuel A. Jones,
Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical College, '61, of Englewood, N.J., who
was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and Dr. John
C. Morgan, Pennsylvania Medical College, '52, who took the chair of
Theory and Practice. Dr. Jones soon became one of the most interesting
and stimulating figures in the life of the University. Small and spare
in physique, he possessed an extraordinarily keen mind and an interest
in literature and learning far beyond the limits of his profession. His
library, which was particularly rich in material on Thoreau and Carlyle,
became upon his death in 1912 one of the valuable acquisitions of the
University Library.
The Faculty grew slowly as new students came, though the Department
never became as large as the older school, the record enrolment being 79
in 1892. The Department eventually found that the original quarters in
one of the two professorial residences on the north side of the Campus,
to which a long wing had been added at the rear, were inadequate, and in
1900 the present Homeopathic Hospital was erected opposite the northeast
corner of the Campus. To this a nurses' home was added later, and in
1918 an adequate children's ward. An effort made in 1893 by Dr. H.L.
Obetz, Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, '74, at that time Dean,
to amalgamate the two schools proved unsuccessful, and eventually led to
his resignation and a reorganization that necessitated the resignation
of the remainder of the Faculty. A law passed in the same year by the
Legislature reversing its previous position and directing that the
School be removed to Detroit, was successfully resisted by the Regents
on the same ground that had already been urged in the case of the
regular school. Dr. E.C. Franklin, M.D., University of New York, '46,
followed Dr. Jones as Dean in 1878. Dr. T.P. Wilson, Western Homeopathic
College, '57, succeeded him in 1881 and Dr. H.L. Obetz in 1885. After
the reorganization in 1895 mentioned above, Dr. Wilbert B. Hinsdale,
Hiram College, '75, the present Dean, was appointed, and the later and
more untroubled history of the School may be said to date from that
time.
[Illustration: THE DENTAL BUILDING]
[Illustration: THE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND CHILDREN'S WARD]
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