New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-05-31
Eclectic and Homeopathic Physicians
Of the World Ga:;scr by Thousands
~ at Chicago
To D!scuss Matters Pertaining to
Their Professionally Welcomed by
Auxiliary Officials,
EcIectics Get Down to Business and
Homeopaths Dedicate Their EXPO
>ition Building

CHICAGO. May 30-The women's con-
gress and tine congress Of the worlds
press have passed into history, End the
third OF the serie.; of great international
gatherings opened up in the Lake Front
Art palace. 1t is that OF the physicians
and surgeons Of the world, or rather OF
1wo OF the schools of that great frater-
1aity. the Homeopathic and the Ec]ec.
TIC. Difficulty has been experienced
i'll combining what is known at the
Irregular" profession in this congress,
from the fact that over two years ago
an international congress was arranged
Tor at Rome during the present summer.
and vel'' few OF the eminent foreign
members of the fraternity wera a:la to
find time to travel to Chicago, and
afterward find their way TO. Rome.
Hence. for the present, the new school
OF medicine has the field to itse.f, al
though it is probahle that later IN the
year the followers Of the old school may
find it practicable to have Chicago CON
gress Of their own. 1t is, how ever the
opportunity Of the new school. and thar
NAA| A1t ~ iA1tt't~ tiiE 1i1CNt ~ IL CFltlCL
by the fact 1hat the registers OF more
than score OF the principal hot',s are
ai!ed Tor pages III sUct." sion
with the names OF delegates from nearly
every STATE in the Union, and from
many distant countries. At an early
hour special train over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad brought in i. large
contingent Of Eastern and foreign dele
gates, and another special from the
Northwest brought some OF the repre-
sentative NE neal men of that section
Prior to the formal proceedings several
hundred delegates register ed at the Art
palace.
The EcIectn, Congress-
The Eclectic congress was called to
order in the Hall Of Columbus. After
music and opening prayer, addresses of
welcome in behalf Of the congress aux
iliary were delivered by G.. c.. Bonney,
Mrs Potter Palmer and Mrs. Charles
Henrotin. Joseph R. Hughes responded
for England. George F. Gormen for
Mexico, James Neil for New Zealand,
and "A. B. Dunham of Atlanta, and D.
Mclean OF San Francisco, for the
United States. The congress them set
tied down for business, and. listened to
the reading Of a paper on eclectic medi-
cine, its history and scientific basis, by
Alex Wilder Of Newark An address
was also delivered by D. L. Yergley of
Pennsylvania. president of the National
Eclectic association.
The, EsOmecna.ls
The fothy-sixth annual convention of
the American Institute of Homeopathy
opened at II o'clock in another room of
the Art palace under the presidency Of
Dr.. j. H. McClelland. The attendance
was large. An adjournment was taken
in order to enable the delegates to par
ticipate in the dedication of the home
opathic headquarters, hospital and
pharmacy at the worlds fair This
ceremony took place an 2 o'clock. the
exercises comprising a prayer followed
by music, an address by DR.. Walter F.
knott, speech OF welcome to the home
opathic physicians of the world by
DR.. R.. Ludlam and an address in
memory Of DR.. George. A. Hall, first
president Of the institute, by DR.. Duke.
In the evening the delegates to the
homeopathic congress were formally
welcomed at the Art palace The OPEN
ing Of the medical climatology congress
was also marked by interesting exer-
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