New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-27
ECLECTICIsM-A PROTEST AND DIS
CLAIMER.

To The Editor Of The N. y Tribune
SIR: 10 The TRIBUNE Of the 9th and 9Th of June /
observe report ofwhat is somewhat aceiiously called
tie National Eclectic Medical Association consisting
of an assembly, according TO the reporters count oi
the votes, of 25 medical gentlemen.
II will be presumed of course from its high-sounding
title Il at this assembly bears some resemblance In Its
character to the National Medical Association and is
TO be considered al authorized national representative
of not less than 5000 physicians, who are known as
American Eclectics. As such an impression would DO
erroneous and unjust permit me to remark that the
so-ca,d National Eclectic Association is in no sense
national affair and does not represent the views or
sentiments of American Eclectics.
No realy maternal Eclectic Medical Association has
ever existed An attempt 10 organize such an Eciecuc
Medical Association was made in Cincinnati IN 1879
which resulted only in collecting together some seventy
or eighty Western physicians. Since the termination
of tbat attempt local meetings have been held IN Eastern
Stats osteisibIv in continuation of the sO-caled
National Eclectic Medical Association OF CINCINNATI
but without any legitimate connection WITH the dsunct
parent society and without any nationality CONSISTING
In of come w or three dozen gentlemen from neigh
Ioing regions without siy authority right to repre-
sent the senm, ns ofany large portion the profession
The late New York meeting had still less rght 10 re-
present those who known as Ececncs as IL appears
10 have consisted OF miscellaneous gaiuefne' III
uhicI Fele cticsn Botanco- Medica lism, Ihomsonsm
Plysi- Medicalism and other indescn6abie forms OF
ipdtpeudent radicalism were harmonlousy lumoi
together As for being presented before the medical
Uulic by this accidental ola Podrida, meeting Deg
leave to enter very decided protest, not only IN
belsfofmysefa az an individual and medical professor
but as dear in behalf of faculty OF the Eclecuc
Medical Institute who do not desire TO have the niue
reputation they may have enjoyed rendered eniueIy
udirrops By the position in which they would De placed
II The New-YoIk meeting were recognized as tneir
representative. A.
lie Eclectic Medical Institute of CINCINNATI Is the
parent school, in which the title Eclectic was hrst
hdorted as designation of liberal American priuci-
esin Medicine anterior to which time the Tile Amer
lean Eclectic unknown.
In tbis school majority of those educated Amen
can Ecect;cs who are fully acquainted with the Ecec-
t system have received their educatiou-ihe number
Of nafriculans in tie Eclectic Medical Institute OF
Cincinnati since lie establishment III ls45 being 49,
As TO the ;, nmens and proceedings of the NeS-lorA
Meeting, our space does not permit proper commen-
tsry AS 10 the individuals composing the meeting
We desire none but harmonious relations win them'
md with al osker portions of the medical proiession
Int Justice 10 Ourselves compeh US 10 declare that We
entirely dsavow and repudiaIe the New-f ORR meeting
and we boue that the Press and the public viii no. DC
deceived by the highsounding title Of National Eclec-
tic Medical Association and induced TO attach any IN
dine inn ortance TO such Unauthorized and promise aouS
meenes nor TO hold others responsible Tor tnelr pro-
ceeGines who distinctly and totally dis1yow al re-
spor siblity for and connection with the New-ioIA
meeting, with which they are not and val mol 90 Pio
fessionally identified. JOS H. DO0hA'AS'