Official investigation of the charges preferred against J.W. Freer, M.D., surgeon of the Board of Enrollment, First Dist. of Illinois / by the Homœopathists of Chicago.

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[1865]
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Credit: Official investigation of the charges preferred against J.W. Freer, M.D., surgeon of the Board of Enrollment, First Dist. of Illinois / by the Homœopathists of Chicago. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bki,:. . . Fry, Pro ' , E. 8. A., Washington, D. 0. :— v;lf._1'i:, ippointed by a fully attended meeting of the Hon Chicago, reepectfulJy represent, that the practitioni ra of our School in this city number more than thirty regularly edu- (.at(,,l diplomas emanate from re put- al,],, >• ,, this country, and whose practice embraces the most weohliv, influential, and enligl tened portion of our community. lairo that we are entitled to the rights and privileges apper- tainin '■' ,',imi <>ur Government agaiust insults and abuse at the ts officiala J. W. Freer, M. D., Enrolling Surgeon of this District, lms been guilty of \c or consider cur certificates of disability, while requiring such from the phj g the applicants, on the sole ground that emanate from Somatopathic Physicians, thus in effect forcing the parti I Phyaicinna of the Allopathic School, in order to obtain the exemption to which they arc entitled. Be I ion of a presentation of our c< i tificates, to insult both us and our patrons in the most wanton and brutal main He baa, in some instances, endeavored to make his official position Sul rut to te interests, by making his decisions in fa\ mption depend upon an interested relation of himself to the applicants as patio ! Officer is altogether unacceptable to our community, being Ol his entire ignorance of good bl tin education, and bis consequent unofficerlike and ungentlemanly behavior. Foi I tlich we pledge- ourselves to sustain by abundant and sat- tlullv request his immediateN'emoval from office. ( 0. D. BEEBE, M. I)., Med. Director Stafl' of Mai.-Gen. Thomas. Oommi I COOK, M. D. ( A. B. BMALL, M. D. On the basis of this communication, the Provost-Marshal of the District, Capt. Win. James, was directed by the Provost- Marshal General, through Lieut.-Col. .lames Oakes, A. A. P. M. GK of Illinois, to investigate the same and report in furl, for transmission to the proper department in Washington. On the part of the Complainants at the Court of Investi- gation, held pursuant to this order, were introduced (i. I), Beebe, A. E. Small, and N.F. Cook, said to be Homoeopathic Doctors. Thos. B. Byrne, C. H. Hudson, W. II. Boyle, L. M. Bennett, Thomas Boyle, probably lay members of the same quasi-medical sect. Geo. D. Beebe being duly sworn, deposed as follows, viz.: On the 27th day of August, 1804, I gave to Mr. L. M. Dennett a certificate of disability in support of a claim for exemption from draft, and accompanied him to ine Board of hnrollment where I introduced him to J. W Freer the Enroll- ing Surgt-on, and handed him the certificate, which was accompanied by my affi- davit, and set forth the nature of Mr. Bennett's disability. lh Freer said to me that he would not receive any certificate signed by a Homoeopathic Physi- cian ; that they were a set of pretenders and quacks, and that Buch certificates