Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-11
DOCTORS DAY.
DOSlNG TIE 1UACKs AT HARRISBURG.
Ire Danphin District Me,iica: SOciety's
Meeting aud Banquet.

Meeting aud Banquet.
The meeting of the Dauphin district
medical society was held yesterday in As
sociation hail, Harrisburg. and the Occa-
sion proved u very interesting one. About
one hundred doctors were present. COM
prising representatives from Chester,
Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin. Juniata.
Lebanon Lancaster, Niffiin. Perry and
York counties. The meeting was also at
tended by two female physicians,
Dr.. Agnes Kemp, of Harrisburg, aud DR..
Margaret A. Cleavcs, of the state insane
hospital.
The meetin. was called to order by DR..
J. G. Hutton, president Of the Daupliin
county society.
DR.. H. L. Orth was not able to be pres
ent at the opening of the meeting SO the
address of welcome he had prepared was
read by DR.. Curwen.
A session was held in the afternoon from
4 to O'Clock. 4 lunch was then served
at the hall and the exercises were resumed
at.
The following Interesting papers were
read: Medical Education in its Relation
to Quackery. J. l.. Ziegler NJ. D. Mount
JOY; practical Observation in Using
Chloroform,' John T. Carpenter, NJ. ID.
PottsvilIe, Pa, Embo!ism J. W. Kerr, NJ.
D., York. Pa, The Mimicry of Disease,
5. Weir Mitchell. NJ. D., Philadelphia.
Pa; Treatment OF Naso Pharnygeal
Catarrh, J. Montgomery, NJ. D., Cham
bersbury, Pa. Some Diseases Peculiar to
Men and Boys, 5. D. Kictfer, NJ. d., Car
Isle, Pa.
At 10 p. N. tn" company proceeded to
the i4pchel hotel where the dining room
was occupied with Il large table set in
the shape of a ct" to which about 125
persons sat down, and the bill Of fare at
| that hour OF night was the best evidence
in the world that dyspepsia is mere
"mimicry of disease" Fried oysters,
shrimp sauce, chicken salad, ice cream,
white mouatain cake and all sorts Of pas
try went down on top of soup, turkey and
other substautials.
The whole assemb'age acknowledged
their Obligations to the Harrisburg faculty
for their hospitality durin. the entire day.
The following physicians from this
county attended the meeting and partici-
patcd in The festivities: Drs. Bo!enius.
! Eh!er. Compton. NJ. l.. Herr, S. Il. DAVIS,
Welchans. of Lancaster; Berntheisel,
Craig, Linsweaver, Bruner, of Columbia :;
IL. Black. OF Strasburg; Leaman, OF
Leaman Place Miller, of Bird Hand
Lightuer and McCaa, Of Ephrata Miles
! Davis, Of Nlillcrsville !. L. Ziegler and J.
b. Zicsler, Of Mount joy Treichler, Of
Elizabethtown; Weisman and Balm of
Bainbridge, and Gatchell, of Marticvil!e.
Concerning 0aacks.
DR.. J. l.. Ziegicr's paper,as noted above,
| was devoted to the subject Of hum6ug,
empricism and Ignorance, and the relation
to them of medical education. The good
doctor expressed the opinion that with all
the agitation on the subject Of medical ed
ucation, numerous and able reports
Of committees, eloquent addresses
and exhaustive papers read and
presented on these subjects, little
real progress has been made in the dircc-
tion of working the uesded reforms ; and
ignorance, superstition and credulity sup
plant the patient. laborious and untiring
worker i'll the field of true science.
Men of high social. commercial aad pro
fessiGna! position are continually placing
the lives OF themselves and families into
the hands Of those who practice Slarins
frauds and their patronage and eulogy are
readily secured for ilIiteIate charlatans.
OF all the learned professions none, ac-
cording to DR.. Iieg'er, are SO disloyal to
the cause OF true medical science us the
clergy, who are prompt i'll their patron
age and aid to every species OF fraud III
medicine to the injury and humiliation
of those whose services they can command
and willingly DO receive in the hour of dis
ease and danger, without money and with
out price,
In demonstration of his assertions DR..
Ziegler read and commented upon some
recent advertisements and editorials
found in some Of our most respectable
newspapers" One of these was 4 claim
by q certain magnetic" DR.. Flowers,
That he had touched \ lock of Col. Thos.
4. Scott's hair, and, without knowing
whose it was or where it came from, Ger
rectly described the ailments OF the great
railroad president that he had touched
his hand and tie dead member warmed to
life and perfect usefulness. Col. Scott,
the beneficiary of this treatment, has been
elected president Of the managers OF the
hospital department Of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA
DR.. Ziegler also quoted at length from
an article reprinted III the 1NTELLIGENCER
of December II, 1880, giving sketch of
the Italian woman Regina Dal Gin, and an
account OF her famous cures abroad aud
in this country. One story related in the
INTEiLIGESCER account. was specially &c
to be such as was impossible for any in
telligcnt person to believe Except on tn
plea t:la: Dal Gin possessed the greatly
power OF divinity" The editorial
comments of tie lNTELLIGENCEE on the
life, prosecutions and trumphs of Dai
Gin and it's conclusions were quoted
as ''showing hatred to that medical pro.
fcssiOn wEicl, they cannot bend to their
own belief in the efficacy Of the liomGo-
patEic deluSion.
Continuing, DR.. Licgler. expressed the
opinion that the doctors ought not to COM
plain when their own profession was not
guiltless Of as gross derelictiOn as the laity |
in patronizing and practising "such ab- !
surdities.' He fierceiy denounced the |
patronage Of quacks by the regulars the |
advertising devices, then endorsement and |
encouragement of humbuss and tho resort
to the pretty tricks Of the cha:latan by !
members Of the profession.
Regular medical schools, he charged,
are turning out young men by
the thousand who arc notOriOusiy
to exercise the high call
ing Of the physician. The profess
sion has not insisted on more
thorough, exact and extended education.
The address was an earnest plea for better
of the student, SO that p1pu-
lar confidence in the power of medicine
and the skill of its practitioners may be
If the profession hopes to
be respected and to maintain the popu-
lar favor it must keep pace with
The requirements Of the age. insist upon
! more careful training, more
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