Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-12
THE HON. OPATHS
MEET IN THEIR EIGHTH ANNUAL
CONVENTION TO-DAY.
An Interesting Time Expected-Papers to
be Read on the Different Branches.
An Address by the President.

The Texas homeopathic medical associ
ation meets this morning in convention al
10 o'clock at the auditorium Of the Board
| of Trade. The disciples OF Hahnemann viii
hold forth for two days to discuss measures
TO conserve the interests OF their practice
and read papers upon cases, the history
OF which came in the course OF
their professional and personal experience.
The local committee, composed of Dr. j.
r. Pollock, DR.. II. F. Fisher and
DR.. Ellen Keller, will do everything
TO make the meeting a success,
| and the friends Of homeopathy, and
as one delegate expressed it, 1.-THE enemies
OF it too for that matter" are cordially in
vited to attend. aggressive measures
looking to the popularizing of homeopathy
IS their slogan. and their great principle,
''si1nilia similibus, curantar" which ex-
pressed in the language Of the laity
Eis the curing OF diseases by
remedies, which if given 10 healthy per-
son produce effects similar to the COM
plant under which he suffers this is the
the school, and for which high and low
potentists stand and battle alike &:
Following is a list of the delegates here.
and those expected to come: Drs. John IL
Thatcher of Bowie, R H Edmondson Of
Austin, I. J. Edwards of Blanco, T. j.
Haughton of Vernon, W. c. Matthews OF
Amarillo, J. W. Barnett of Big Springs, G.
Texas Homeopathic Journal and brother
Worth; T. H. Bragg, the j president of the the
association; DR.. &. =. Leach and wife,
Paris; f. o. Buck, Corsicana;S. ". Cohen
and W. L. Streeter, Waco; Dr. Stammer of
Victoria; G.. f. Parsons OF Kerrville;
NJ j. Bliem, San Antonio: T. ]. Jones,
a11ErIn 4
West, a. P. Davis, f. f. Davis, F. s
spavis, w. +. Thatcher, Z. Hines and F. J.
eDickey, all of Dallas.
Drs. Meadows and Bridges, Drs Hatfield
and King, aud Dr. Annie Warren of Deuisou
are expected. Drs. J. r and w Y. No
Kenzie and J. ". Dickey of Weatherford
are also expected.
Following is the programme of the con-
vention work:
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Roll call. Reading minutes CT last meet
ing. Admission of new members Presis
DENTAL address. New business. RepoExSF
legislative committee. Report of tregsSfer
Report of bureaux. Selection OF neST place
year.
Materia medica-Drs. G.. H. hEbino, H.
Cohen.
r P 1if6e3 DIR e L 4 NJ J. Bm, c.
Surgery-Drs. c. E Fifher, Joseph Jones,
I. Marks, F, Hines and K. H. Edmondson
- o6stetrics-Drs. T. H; Bragg, Mrs. A. II:
H2l, I. @. Edwards and ii. G.. Bayles.
Psedology-Drs. r. H. Edmondson, p.
Stainer and II. B. Stiles
OpthalmO!ogy-Dr II. T. Fisher, z. Z.
Davis and ". F. Thatcher.
Electro therapeutics-Drs n. B. Stiles,
Z. II. Edmondson and William Wilkie.
NOTES. ~
DR.. G.. W. Sherbino, probably the highes&
potentist in Texas, will be missed in ~
convention. DR.. Sherbino goes away u
into the thousandths as a prescriber aiiSas
is the most jealous exponent of the
high potency doctrine in Texas The occa-
sion OF DIR. SherbinO's absence is the cele-
bration of the Twenty-ffth anniversary of
his wedding the l4th of this month
DR.. Fisher and wife received those dele
gates that had arrived at his Office last
night. DR.. Fisher is chairman of the bu-
reau of opthalmology, and will read
paper before the convention
DR.. ]. r. Pollock, ex-preSident of the
association, and wife will give reception at
their home the evening of the last day. to
which all the physicians are cordially in
vited.
The local committee on reception procured
return rates of cents per mile on all the
railroads running into the Fort except from
the Houston and Texas Central. The Hous-
ton and Texas Central said ''No''
Who IS to be the next president of the as
sociations
The The ~ question ton was asked by the
ever gave morphine" The |
answer was, ''that il was used when it was !
indicated as medicinal remedy, and never
used to deaden the sensibilities TO relieve !
pain.'
DR.. ST. Clair Hussey, who has been
practicing medicine over fifty years, and |
in the homeopathic school thirty-five of |
them, will not attend the convention on &C |
count of Ill health
DR.. NJ. \. a. Wolf of Gainesville, IS also |
among the absentees On account Of axaaer-
alton performed upon him f,9n1 1tesf he |
has not yet recovered, 1888