Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-18
MEDICAL MISTAKES.
The Biunder the American NJ edieal As
ISOLATION Made I'm n OF Endorsing the
Medieos of New York.
The Strength of the Homeopathic
Can Neither be Denied Nor De
rided-FacIs and Figures.

The Strength of the Homeopathic
Can Neither be Denied Nor De
rided-faeIs and Figures.
CINCINNATI, June 16.-"Gath, ;" in special
to the Enquirer, says: 81 was speaking with
an eminent physician of this city to-day
about the action of the National Medical
Convention in refusing admission to the
New York delegates because they consulted
homeopathists. He said: Nothing could
better show the advance in liberality, and
incidentally in knowledge and wisdom of
the profession in New York over the rest
OF the country than this ridiculous action.
Yet country doctors not to be secuted.
They were honest. Not being thrown into
the variety and character of practice that
the profession here has, they of course ad-
here to their old prejudices, Just as politi-
clans down IN the country keep their intoler-
ance after city people have given it up.
Homeopathy, at the time when the regular
practitioners refused to consult with its de-
voices, was very crude, empirical thing.
But SO is medicine, for all that The men
who assume the least for medicine are those
who know it most. The science is de-
veloped just far enough to show
us the huge chasm between what
we can do and what we do not know
Homeopathy in the intervening years has
I raised itself to consideration among thou
sands, / might almost say millions, of wise
people. In a large city like this we are
called by come respectable family 10 con-
sultation with their homeopathic, who has
been liberal enough on his part to ask that
We be sent for. We walk in the room and
ssy we will have nothing to do with life and
death unless that man goes out. Now, we
neither afford it in New York, nor do we
| propose 10 be dogmatiC and betray our
| hnnriShnpsG Nc know th nj the m on hp
| other side has had medical education in
college, and Is as we'll acquainted with the
| anatomy as We are As far as sending our
delegation away from the convention is con-
cerned, it is laughable. You see, many of
those country doctors never went to
| National Convention before, and they feel
very much elated.'"
"Well," said /, at is said that the New
York men take the homeopathists in because
they are specialists in New York"
"Well, it ID true that in the delegation
which left the convention there were several
men who make large sums of money in
special branches. The tendency of medicine
nowadays is toward specialties. But man
| cannot be a specialist OF any consequence
unless he has pushed far ahead of the usual
trade of doctors, and, after he has been
completely educated at the college, contin-
| ues his reading and experiments IN the dlrec-
| ton OF his specially. One OF the men put
| out of the convention was prominent In skin
| diseases, ssand another in venereal diseases.
l attend chiefly to eve and ear diseases. L
| have sat up many a night reading and ex-
perimenting when these country doctors were
riding around in their gigs"
| "Who makes the most money OF any prac-
titioner in New York;"
81 suppose that Loomis and Thomas make
| the most. Loomis is in the general practice
| of medicine, but he has high reputation as
s,ofa nd oonf for IN
prominent cases by the family doctor. He
told me that last year he made between the
| LIST of January and LIST of July 5000 day,
which is at the rate of $4,000 year"
allow much do you CHARGE" said L to my
friend, who is not hardhsted man.
"Why, 1 charge s. for an office visit, un-
less make an examination as to the patients
condition. The best chance we have to pick
| up money is in an amputation."
"WelI, how much do you charge 10 cut off
a mans arm?"
'That depends very much on the patient
himself-his MEANS etc. About $3.50 is
pretty fair charge TO amputate an arm"
"What will be the end OF this quarrel
about the homeopathists?"
why, it can only have one termination.
Llberality will grow, and finally the last OF
the Bourbons will give way"
The late DIR. Bumstead, who wrote one of
the widest-circulated medical books ever
known--that on venereal diseases-and who
died wealthy, was assisted in the last edition
by DIR. Robert Taylor, who is now at work
on final and magnificent edition OF that
celebrated work. ,g
STRENGTH OF THE MUNICIPALITIES.
As to the merit of the differences between
allopathic and homeopathic physicians we
are in profound ignorance. La view OF the
action of the Allopathic Association in ex-
Guiding the New York delegation from its
National Convention for having recognized
the municipalities as doctors, the strength of
the latter in the country has become of
prime interest The Homeopathic National |
Convention is now in session at indianapolis. |
The American Institute, as the national |
organization is called, consists of representa-
tives of 265 institutions and 1000 physicians.
The total is made up OF: General associa- |
tious, 4 State associations, 26; local socie- |
ties, 102; clubs, IS; miscellaneous societies, |
5; general hospitals g. with Gas beds; dis |
pensaries, Sc; 100 700 patients; colleges, II, |
with $50 graduates the past year; schools |
8, and journals 16.
How long can the regular school of physi- |
clans afford to brand as quacks or pretsnders |
so large body of men? Any school of sci |
ence, medicine or letters Boosting twelve col |
leges with $50 graduates each year, seems to |
the uninitiated worthy of respect for their |
growing learning if not for the wisdom of |
their doctrines.
STUPID MEDICos OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston Advertiser: "The proposition about |
the admission of women to the Massachusetts, |
Medical Society has been postponed, al |
though the majority of the fellows might |
seem to favor the recognition of properly |
qualified female doctors. The councillors, |
however, are strongly opposed TO such recog
milton, and as the bylaws of the society can
not be changed, save upon the advice and /
consent Of the councillors, the women who |
wish to join the Massachusetts Medical So
ciety must either wait or enter associations /
which the regular members of the profession
repudiate as unworthy OF recognition. This
is rather hard on the few women who wish to
practice medicine in Massachusetts, and are
willing 10 be tested as male practitioners are.
1t seems also, that the physicians of Boston
are particularly opposed to the recognition of
women as medical practitioners, while the
country doctors are somewhat less set in their
pleasure. The vote OF the councillors post
pones the question indefinitely but such
matters have way of coming up annually |
until they are decided, and in this case an
affirmative decision is merely a question of
time. Whatever the profession and the laity
may now think of female doctors, in ten
years the matter will stand differently, and
meanwhile it is quite useless to think such
matter of form excessively interesting or i'm
portant."