The sun., 1890-02-22
TWO DOCTORS DISCIPLINED,
Dh GUERNSEY INVITED TO LEAVE THE
Ho&GOPATHIC SOCIETT.
DR. Rnnkia Censured AIsO-Dr. 0uernaey
Sticks to All he said About the society
and Its Members and VIII Not Apologize

| Sticks to All he Said About the society
aHd Its Members and VIII Not Apologize
The County Homeopathic Society enter
tanned formal charges OF disloyalty against
! DR.. ERbert Guernsey and DR., L. c. Rankin last
| night and after listening TO their replies
formally censured them. A resolution was
also passed requesting DR.. Guernsey to with
draw from the society.
All this was the outcome OF the controversy
which followed the attempt of the County
Homeopathic Society to have the medical
stat OF the homeopathic hospital on Ward 3
Island reorRanized and made more orthodox.
DR.. Guernsey is at the head Of the hospital. A
committee has been considering the state
ments DIR. Guernsey made to newspaper re-
porters and In his own medical journal since
then, and last night made formal charges
against him.
There were about 1876 doctors at the meeting.
at least a third OF whom were women. Tho
committee charged that DR.. Guernsey had
said that the society was unworthy and dis
honest. and based upon Misrepresentation and
falsehood: that he published malicious attacks
upon DR.. Il. +. Allen. President Of the Homuo-
pathc Medical College. and other members Of
the society. and that he had frequently made
published statements that all those VINO called
themselves homeopathic physicians were dis
honest and deceitinl
he committee which presented the charges
Louis do V. Wilder. Edwin West, and Alexander
Berghaus. They proposed the following recon-
mcndatOn:
her: or the hSmioTaIc prSis.s9m generally ar. de-
"fosues men who barter their honor for gold"
tn ana s Tsi s is psS .n GS S Gc G
homeopathic profession. and that prs Guernsey and
members Of sYcrety and proiesson il which society
SsfsHp @ '"' N''1''' "''"
DR.. Guernsey had his lawyer John p. Clark.
with him TO read his reply TO the charges. The
iirmeI the Things G' he had said an and ,H distilled
them. He took back nothing. and finally no
said:
deny the power of this society to discipline me- /
law or machLery lrovidel therefor. II nevertheless
been granted me that The proceedings thus FAR have
that have committed any oienIe against the code Of
ethics violation OF wnich alone by the tuIlsst .,
society.
The reading was scarcely concluded when
the the society society," sWyer wy W Vii Iam MN e. FecE lam eS
plain whether the society could or could not
discipline DR.. Guernsey; LAWYER Peckham
dicipline n member who called 1t IA fraud and
liar as any man had TO resent such language
that he had no doubt that if DR.. Guernsey apol-
oGtzed everything would BE- lovely al once;
Dr Guernsey smiled At thisi ana i, got up
DR.. j. NJ Schey ut once moved that the re-
port. with its recommendation to censure. be
adopted. This was done, with an almost unan-
imous vote. hen DR.. Il. Il. Clark offered the
following resolutions:
"h,r'o. Dr. EsOert GUERNSEY has u,ei Abusiv. terms
for some years past TO his colleagues, who
members Of this society anu to all other hompo.
paine prActit OneES and in recent interviews has Ad
mitted and renew ell his vtcatOn OF hs associates;
hsson,t That pr Guernsey shoud. in the opinion of
his assOCiate resign Ills membership in his society
and discontinue his AffliAuvu with hom1Upat aud
homeopathic Institutions
This was seconded by Dr. A. B. Norton and
passed without opposition. 1t was very late
then. and the case OF Dr. i;ankin was rushed
through In u hurry. Dir. Rankin was charged
with having said that the society had fallen
into disreuute, and indulged in unrroiess onal
had committed no offence against the code OF
medical ethics. and that the society had no
power to discipline him The society adopted
the report with its clause Of censure before
DR.. Rankin had fairly scaied himself.