Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-04
Wednesday, June a, 1879.

j. H. Knox Orono.
+. q. Lvford. Pennington.
G.. NJ. Foss. Dexter,
r. f. Piper. Thomaston
:. :. Calderwood, Waidoboro.
DR.. j. O. Moore, delegate from Mas
sachusetts homeopathic Medical Soce-
ty presented his credentials was cor
daily welcomed and invited to take part in
the deliberations of the meeting DR.. Moore
being called upon made some very happy re-
marks giving "A short sketch of his early ex-
periences
Only Dr. Gallupc Of the board of ccnsOrs
being present. Drs. knowles. Dillingham;,
Shepard and Gannctt were appointed bv the
President to complete the committee
The committee on trcasurcrs accounts re-
ported his accounts properly vouched and
correctly cast
The treasurer's report showed balance
in the treasury of S29595
The committee ON nominations reported as
follows:
President-C. NJ. Foss
Vice Presidents-T. NJ. Dillingham;, W.
X. Knowles
Rec. Sew. +. SHEPARD.
Cor. Sec.-.Ias b. Bell.
Treasurcr-I H. Kimhall
Ccnsors-Wm Gallupe, NJ $ Bricrv. G.
II. Burr. w. l.. Thompson. ID. ~ skinner
The following named ladies' and gentlemen
were elected members of the society Ma
than Virgin. NJ. d.. Uuldah NJ Potter. NJ.
d.. Mary W. Bates NJ D.. B. G. Woodbury..
NJ d. Walter NJ. HAYNES. NJ d. W :
THOMPSON. NJ d.
Committee on Publcations-W F. Shep-
ard c. =. Jcfferds
Committee on Legi,lation-.Jas b. Bell,
W. l.. Thompson c. II. Burr.
Delegates to American Institute of IIomp-
opathv-Wm. Gallupc. c. II. Burr
Delegates to the Massachusetts, IIomuo-
pathic Medical Socict,-M = Briery, c. II.
Burr.
Delegates to Vermont HOMEOPATHIC Medi-
cal Societv-W. b. Perkins +. F. Piper
Delegates to New HAMPSHIRE IIompopath-
ic Medical Sociesv-J H. Knox, :. Calder
wood
The Association adjourned to the dinner
table AT the Augusta House where Il sump-
tuous repast was spread in Mr. Miliken's
best style Besides the members. quite a
number of invited guests partook of the hos
pitalitv of the occasion. BY the wav. these
hompo paths have allopathic appettes.
The afternoon session opened with paper
on Mate,ia Hedica bv DR.. c. NJ. Foss of
Dexter. which called forth discussion from
majority of those present
A paper was then read on Clinical Medi-
cine bv DIR. w. +. Shepard of Bangor. tax
ING nm n very critical case of typhoid fever.
and other cases of disease
DR.. NJ. s. Bricry of BATH. read three brief
papers One was on the Medical profes sion.
in which he claimed there are too many phvsi-
clans. A large number of whom are incompe-
tent Once this was learned profession:
it is ANYTHING but that now. They enter it
from the workshops. slaughter house and
stable without anv proper preparation. Col
leges are at fault in giving diplomas to incom-
petcnts There should be a less number of
colleges. He believed in a consolidation of
these institutions. and the standard so raised
that one half of those who apply for adj
mission NAV be rejected. He read paper
on collie. and another on membranous Group.
Dr. Dillingham; of Augusta. gave an ac-
count of the recent severe sickness of DR..
Relrs little how of diphtheretic croup of the
deyelonement of the disease. the remedies
used. and the recovery
paper was read from DR. II. l.. Dodge of
Portland. on Headache, and one from DIR,
Macintosh of Wilton on lIvdrophobia. DIR.
Knowles of Bangor, read a paper giving an
account of the recovery of a patient with
chronic urinary difficulties
In the evening, the annual address was
made nv the President of the Associations
DIR. w L. Thomson of this city and was
highly appreciated bv his associates in the
Association
DIR. THOMPSON said the words "sttaiiia
simiiibus curantur," convey to every mem
Der of the Association an authority which can
never be disregarded, and which will with in
creasing force open up to us sources of light
and truth. We are forcby reminded of this
when reading the report of wonderful cures
by our old school brethren The London
Lancet gives the remarkable effects of sui
phuric acid in diarrhpa and cholera, with the
opinion stated that it operated on the relaxed
nervous coat of the intestine as an astringent.
Cases were given of the application of
the remedy, and one would suppose that they
were reported by some good homeopathic
physician, all being so quickly relieved and
permanently cured and all by the homro-
pathic application of drug of which they
sneak as being almost specific. Their peri
odicals abound in similar illustrations of
truths unrecognized and seldom utilized.
Half century ago, these authors could have
learned at the feet of Hahnemann that sup.
,c;d curos diarrhna cholera dysentery &C.