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MisreIIaneous.
FfOceedfdEs OF the Alliance Medical
Union.
PUBLISHED Br REQUEST.


@. Jones offered a resolution to diminish the
number Of members necessary To a quorum
which WITS adopted. The committee Of publ.
lestion made their final report of the settle.
ment Of the Printing bill. According to ap-
Pointment at last meeting, Drs. Jones and Will
lians, presented their report, upon "the Mer-
its Of the different Systems Of Medicine as
practicedin this country" which was read be-
fore the society and ordered to be printed in
connection with an abstract Of the minutes of
the present meeting.
Question for discussion, Are cold applica-
tons justi6able before the parts become IN
famed 2 which was discussed at length by the
Physicians present, but, for want Of time, was
postponed to our next meeting for further con-
sideration.
On motion. the Treasurer was ordered to ob
tain two hundred blank notifications in add
ton to the other printing
DR.. J. L. BrentOn was appointed to read an
essay, at the next meeting
On motion, the Secretary was directed to
extend an invitation to such Physicians at
distance as he might think proper to deliver
addresses or read essays a: our various meet
ings.
On motion the minutes were adopted, and
the meeting adjourned to meet at Alliance, on
the afst Thursday in March, 1854.
L. NORTHUP, President.
L. L. LAMpoRN, Secretary.
ALLIANCE, December 1st, 1858. q.
To hs Alliance Medical Union;
Yodt committee appointed to examine the
merits Of the different "Systems Of medicine"
practiSed id this country, produce the following
REPORT.
In Considering the merits Of the different
SYSTEMS Of medicine practced in this country,
two ddSstiOas present themselves, lst What
are the elementary sciences, essential, when
combihed to constitute system Of medicine?-
and SECONDLY What are the qualities in any
system Which ought to give it merit, end enti-
tie it to the confidence of an enlightened COM
munity? Every system of medicine, whether
meritoriods or not, must necessarily consist of
parts or eletentary branches, which being in
separable, ste therefore indispensable to Consti-
tute the whole and without which elements,
no system could possibly have an existence
Thus knowledge of the stars, however sub
lime in the estimation Of the astronomer, throws
no light upon the animal economy nor gives the
least information respecting the nature Of dis
ease such knowledge, therefore. being total
ly foreign to the subject of medicine, could not
by any possibility, be included in mass of
facts TO be entitled system Of medicine. AS
many Of the elementary sciences have no ne
cessary connection with diseases or their reme-
dies, we are compelled to base all systems Of
medicine upon such branches of knowledge,
only, as stand in immediate relation with the
cure Of disease. But there has never been
any dispute between the different sects Of ply
sicians, about the parts or elements which
ought to compose every system of medicine
All agree that Anatomy, Physiology, and the
other branches Of science, usually taught in the
medical schools, of all denominations in the
United States, are the essential branches of
every system. There is then, scientifically
speaking, but one system Of med icine, which
has been made to assume different names; ac-
eording 10 the peculiar interests Of certain en-
.,;rs,. whose thirst for wealth or fame guided
r.F .he;r efforts But as it has been in the re-
S;oioxs world, so in the medical. Out of few
nudaueAtaI principles in which all agree, a
great mass sfinterenctcs have been drawn dlf-
feEing widely from each cSl'er; ana seeming 70
lprpish grounds for different systems 0l prac-
tice. each Of which having foated awhile IN
Ahs public confidence. has been compelled to
hide it's prSteap form, "ebapge front" and as
sume another name. Thus passed our science
HRil the introduction of Induetive philosophy
Since this suspicious ere degree of certainty
las been attained in medicine fav exceeding
anything previously known; and will doubt
less, at no distant period, enable all well quail
fled physicians to control a large proportion Of
the diseases incident to the human frame, with
90 much certainty as the mariner or engineer
can now follow out the points Of the compass
sbY the aid Of that instrument. Honest medi-
.csl reasoaers no longer feel themselves at lib
erty to draw any iinlferences from post nrsOrte"
inspections, except such, and such only. as are
the necessary results OF morbid conditions dis.
covered during such examinations. This eff
iectually excludes from our Pathology and
Therapeutics, all such Hypothetical reasonings
and fanciful theories as formed the largest part
Of ;he immense folioYss of HypEPOtcrrates, Galen