The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-12
MANY BIG MEDICINE MEN
Distinguished Physicians and Apothe-
carries Gathering in the City.
Not Little Discussion of the Wyeth Matter
Among the Doc,Ors-Eclectics May Unite
and Erect New College in This City.

ne nObei cOTTiuoI6 Iasb evening Auueu
to the usual throng q considerable number
of ply sicians and pharmacists These two
classes of body-menders will each hold
an annual meeting to-day, the former in
Plymouth Church and the latter in the
Agricultural Hall. State house. and the adj
vance guard arrived yesterday.
The physicians will hold their forty-third
annual meeting and the pharmacists their
eleventh. The attendance of the older or
ganizatIon may reasonably be expected TO
be much larger than that of the latter, but
as nearly five hundred druggists have
written that they will be here it Is not I'M
likely that the doctors cooks" will have
nearly as large a meeting as the State med
icRl men.
The talk about the hotels among the
doctors continues to be largely about the
Wyeth affair. Dr. Walker president of the
State Medical Society. has received q letter
from DR.. Wyeth in which he said he had
decided not to come; that he had not de-
cided to stay away because of the Grand
Army protest, but because of the embarrass-
ment that his coming would occasion his
friends here owing to the newspaper aglta-
ton of the matter.
physician who recently returned from
q sister State reports o conversation with
an eminent medical man who knows
Wyeth we'll and who expressed himself as
follows: "Wyeth's article was not written
as a contribution to history. Those who
are on the inside circles Of surgery in New
York, as we'll as in the West and South. are
we'll aware that the article was written for
the advertising there was in ii. 1t Will
give him an immense business 10 the South.
The Southern doctors will send him many
| cases." 1t was the opinion that the action
| taken by the Grand Army here would still
further benefit him professionally and
financially.
The Rush County Medical Society, which.
following the action of the q. a. r., sent In
| q communication asking to withdraw from
| the State Medical Society. has since sent
| In q request to withdraw the withdrawal.
There will be large number of distin-
| gushed medical men from outside the
State in attendance upon the meeting of
| the State Medical Society. Among these
will be VIM; I: Belfield, Of Chicago; c. s:
| Cincinnati; Robert Morris. of New York;
| ]. N. Love. editor Of the Medical Mirror.
| st. Louis; Joseph Matthews. VIM. Wathen
and Dudley Reynolds of Louisville.
| There will De q morning. afternoon and
| be short. The meeting will be called TO
| order at 7:3o o'clock. when Preside mt
Walker. of Evansville. will deliver the
| annual address. This will be twenty-five
| lowed by AN address on "Prescri ptions and
| Prescription Writing" by Professor Joseph
| ?. Remington. OF Philadelphia From
Plymouth Church the society will ad-
| journ to the Lilly pharmaceutical estab-
| lishment Oh McCartv street, where. at 9
| o'clock, they will seat themselves at O
| banquet prepared for them and the men,
bers of the State Pharmaceutical Society.
United Eclectics May Build College.
| The Eclectics met yesterday In annual
State convention at Lorraine Hall. The
meeting was opened with prayer by Dr.. j..
T. Williamson. The morning was devoted
to routine business. In the afternoon re-
marks were made by Professor Lloyd. of
Cincinnati. and Joseph r. Perry in connec-
tion with the effort to erect college build
| ing in this city at cost of $4,000. Two
| years ago there was heated controversy
| over the management OF the college. lead
| ing for the second time to q split. The
| about given up the ghost The session was
| d memorable one, the opposing leaders be-
ipgW. p. Atkinson and DR.. Pickeril1. There
was an obvious. if not painful. loss of
| that the factions are about to reunite. and
that half of the $50. 900 has been subscribed.
| The proposed site is located on the South
Side. Prof. Lloyd made donation of 500
| for the college.
Dr.. Z. A. Converse, of Tampico. made his
annual address in the afternoon. Papers
were read by DR.. William +. Curryer on
Our Duty to the National Society" DE-.
Henry Long. Fractures" Or. s; s; Boots.
MeFs
Dr. A. ID. Ayres. Charlottesville, read a
| paper ip support of the college building
enterprise.
School Of Hygiene and Bacteriology