The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
THE INDIANA HOMEOPATHS
The Twentieth Annual Session Of the State
Society-Address of President Taylor.

The twentieth annual session of the Indiana IN
stitute of Homeopathy began yesterday morning
at Plymouth lecture-room, with about thirty mem
bers present. Rev. Oscar c. McCulloch opened
the session with prayer. The secretary, in his
report bewailed the lamentable lack of interest
in the institute by practitioners over the State.
DR.. j. A. Compton, of the committee on ar
engagements, reported that the committee had
been unable to obtain reduced railroad fares to
the institute for members living outside Of the
city The Indianapolis lines pooled and no
concessions were offered, which doubtless caused
the small attendance
Reports from delegates from other States were
heard. DR.. Sherry editor of the Medical Cur
rent and homeopathic physician at the Cook
County (lllinois) Hospital spoke of the relative
strength and success of homeopathy and allo-
pathy at that institution making very favora-
BILE showing for the former. Prof. j. II. Buffum,
of Chicago Illinois State delegate, reported that
the Illinois State Homeopathic Institute had
held an unusually successful meeting. DR..
II. G. Allen, delegate from Michigan, conveyed
the greetings of the Michigan institute to
the Indiana body. DIR. Allen is a member of
the homeopathic department of the Michigan
University medical school He reported that
homeopathy was holding its own in that insti-
tuition but had been cheated out of the North
thought there would be rafting Of the bones
when the Legislature next meets, and that the
homeopathic will be restored to their own. Dr.
y. >. Rnnnalls, delegate to the American Insti-
tute of Homeopathy, submitted an encouraging
report.
The following new members were admitted:
DR.. W. A. Dunn, Wabash; DR.. A G. Alderman,
Lafayette; Dr. William Hcwley, Indianapolis;
Dr. F. W. Shellhouse. Tell City.
Inc t1rst business Of the afternoon was the
n a adj nv no Il
n. Taylor, which was of great interest its scope
| being the great advance made in homeopathy.
| he said that homeopathy had early attracted to
| itself men of intellect, industry and purity of
| motive, and that men of intellect, education and
| influence became patrons of the school,
aud active in the propagation of its teach
| ing, was natural consequence Cal
| ifornia, he said, has recently put her insttu-
| tons for the deaf and dumb and blind under the
SUPPLEMENTARY of homeopathic physician; so,
| also, her Home for Feeble minded Children. A
homeopathic hospital has lately been completed
at Melbourne Australia, at a cost of $4,000, and
provided with all the modern appliances for
rving out the treatment peculiar to the school.
The National Homeopathic Hospital. the associa-
ton for the building of which was Incorporated
in 1881, with the Hon. Montgomery Blair
president, has recently been opened and dedi-
Gated 1t is said to be the best-arranged hospital
in the District of Columbia, and will comprehend
a training school for nurses, free dispensary,
lying-in wards and course of medical lectures
Congress appropriated $l5 900 to aid in its compile
ton, thus recognizing in substantial manner
| the claim that the school has upon the Nation.
massachusetts, has appropriated $3.50, 600 for the
purpose of carrying on the homeopathic treat
| ment of the insane After a stiff fight In the
Legislature, Ohio has appointed a homeopathic
| physician to have medical charge of the State
Penitentiary. In conclusion. he said that ''if
| there exists to-day a body OF individuals who,
| saving one other, is most indebted for all
increase in freedom of action numbers and pow
er, to free speech and free press, that body is
| the homeopathic profession. Whenever bgotry
| in sect or tyranny in Office has sought an unfair
| advantage over the young truth-clad champion
OF the sick, free press has declared for q fair
| field and combat upon equal terms, and would
| have nothing less. When the shackles were
| sought to be imposed by the enactment of spe-
cial laws, free speech has been heard in denunci
| alton, and the Vaccinations of the enemy have
| proven but arrows that have broken in twain in
| mid fight and but injured the hands that loosed
them. With such generous helps we have grown
to 10, 900 practitioners, and have undergraduates
| with all the appliances that should pertain to
| school in medicine. When we look abroad and
| see now our brethren have been fettered by laws
that have their roots in feudal privilege, had
| their efforts fall spent upon formulas and wig
| ceres in high places, we extend to
| them our heartfelt sympathy. but turn
with ever increasing devotion and loyalty to our
| own land-child of Providence no less in this
than in other things-where the seeds of all
| truth may be sown with hearty approvals to
| quicken the step of the sower and widen the arc
through which his hand sweeps"
Papers were read by Dr. Henry Sherry, of
Chicago on "Osteo-myelitis and amputation of
the thigh for necrosis of the femur and tibia
following legation of the femoral artery for
popliteal aneurism--recovery;" by Prof j. H.
Buffum. of Chicago, on 'The Relation of Gen
eral Diseases to Those of the Eye" and DIR. E.
Lippncott OF Memphis, Tenn, on Hay Fever
and It's Treatment, after which the days session
closed.