The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-06
HOMEOPATHY.


Twenty-eighth Anniversary of the Ameri-
can Institute Of HomeOpathy-First
Days Sessien-Address by the President
Reports of the Secretary, Treasurer,
and Other ohicers-The Bureau OF Ciini-
cal Medicine.
For years past 1t has been the custom of the
medical men of the new school to hold a meet
ing of the delegates from the various States and
from subordinate societies, and In this assem-
blage the best talent of the profession meet to-
gether.
At the twenty-seventh anniversary of the
American Institute of Homeopathy, held in
Chicago in June, 1870, invitations were ex-
tended to the Institute to meet in Philadelphia
in June, 1871, by the Homeopathic Medical
Society of Pennsylvania and by the Homeo-
pathic Medical Society of this city. These
Invitations were accepted, and q committee
appointed to make the necessary arrangements.
Early yesterday morning the members of the
Institute commenced to arrive in the city. In
the evening an initiatory levee held at the
residence of Constantine Herring, NJ D., Nos
112 and ia N. Twelfth street. DR.. and Mrs.
Herring entertained their guests in handsome
At ten o'clock this morning the delegates as
sembled in the hall of the Mercantile LIBRARY
Association for the transaction of business.
Dr. H. N. Guernsey, chairman Of the Com
mittee of Arrangements, in a brief speech well
coined the delegates to the city.
The President of the Institute, DIR. D. Fl.
Beckwith, of Cleveland, Ohio, then replied as
follows
beg leave to express my gratitude for the honor
you have conferred on me In selecting my humble
self to preside over your deliberations respect
0n co q, The Sztias that GexnIva 1non me-
ing the present session. 1t 5 now eleven years since
we last met In this great and beautiful city-the
second metropolis Of our country honored in history
as the birth place Of our Constitution.
Almost within hearing OF cur voices the tree OF
American liberty was planted! Here q few noble
patriots, with daring scarce known in the worlds
history, broke the shackes OF our bondage aud de-
clareo our national freedom; with asartels 1s graft
those few fearless men who vouchsafed TO
our country its liberties and TO glori:
is the spot on which they stood-the same
ground we to-day occupy-made memorable through
all time Of our countrys existence as the birth
place OF freedoml And since our national banner
iirst waved In unmoested freedom from the tower
of yen old Independence Hall until now, has this
city been truly called the Mecca OF American medi
cal literature.
This city has not alone the honor of originating
the first medical college on this side OF the Atlantic
but it has the higher honor OF establishing the first
medical college in the world where the pure and
taught and in ali the arts and sciences she has been
second to nOne
we received from our brethren at that meeting,
eleven years ago, and how harmonious were all our
transactions, by representatives from every State in
year at the "Queen City OF the West" little did
anticipate the great and momentous events
that c%snfrv %sTe about tDsn anSpirs sOo0vhf In
that an intestine strife was about to take place
among our heretofore united people OF the rivers OF
blood that would now, and OF the thousands upon
thousands OF human lives that were soon to be
sed and the untold treasures that were to be spent
to save our national unity, and TO preserve un-
harmed the tree OF liberty, originally planted on
this very soil.
And while we mourn with numberless tears the
dead, whose lives were sacrificed to maintain our
national perpAtuty our hearts are hlled with graft
tude TO Him, the restorer OF all peace that are
again permitted to meet in our annual gathering
truly national institute, with division OF senti-
meIt; body OF representatives from the Lakes to
the Gulf, and from ocean to ocean. We are again
here TO receive the same cordial welcome that was
so generously bestowed upon us before.
Gentlemen, 1t is with indnite delight that we may
contemplate the growth and prosperity OF our Instl
tute. little more than quarter OF century ago
few pioneers less in numbers than the Institute Is
years old, met in the city OF New York and origi
mated what is now the largest medical body In the
world, and the oldest In this country, "rhe Anefi-
70 be amember OF such distinguished body may
well awaken the pride OF every true and honest
| physician. Some OF those noble pioneers We have
| still with us-little did they think when they orga-
niZed this body that such would be its rapid gToyth
prosperity and usefuness-not even the most sap-
euine among them could have conceived that In
their lifetime an organization representing an iinn0i
walton in the timeworn theories or the ecleRca Of
medicine with so few representatives. and patrons,
could have attained its present aImensions, aud
that give more heed to their o0unsels and heeome
willing listeners 70 their long and extensive eXp peril
the institute that mere properly belOhgs to tasn by
right OF age. We may well pension athein- wttlour
gratitude for their noble undertaking, i4 Organizing
MANY Of the respected founders 81 ths Institute
have gone TO a better land. lney died WIN their
armOr on, working In full iattn 9l the lmportal
NAV their memory never depart ifoIi aE, Snd hIay
their noble example OF selfsaofneel and dev0tion
70 the cause Of Hoegopssny e Initiated ~ "a sna
4 thelrs-the good alone are great '""I fuH~h