Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-09
DOCTORS mERTISe.
Connecticut Eclectic Medical A ssocia- tion,s Annual Meeting.

tion,s Annual Meeting.
 HARTFORD, May 8.-The thirty ninth annual meeting of the Connecticut Eclectic Medical association was held at the Allyn house to-day. President E. M. Ripley, N. D., of Unionville, presided, with about twenty members present. The address of Pfesidens Ripley arrsignsd the state board of health and commented in vigor- ous terms upon the regular echools of med icine. In his address he eaid: There must be united effort to resist the onset of those sutoorats of tho medical practice of the old school. In these latter days there has arisen . medical priesthood that are thirsty for the brutal supremacy of the dark sges, who would, ii possible. arrest the evolutionary processes of our time and imprison the independent thinker in the dungeons of their ignorance les. he steal from them their waning prestige. The medical legislation that has been and is being enacted Is . foul blot up. on the character of noble pro- fession. Its aims profess to be of the highest character, but It's motives are of the darkest hue end the results, were 1t possible to enfore. their plans, would effectually embarrsss the progress that had frightened the past and made of the practice of medicine something more than mere guess work. The state board of health, the energies of which should be engaged in the direction of conserving the public health to which end it was created, seems to have no other purpose than tc furnish places of emolument for its favor
 ites and the abridgement of the liberties ol all who do not pronounce the medics
 shtbboleth of their sect prostituting theil energies to most ignoble purposes o. the benefit which should most naturally ) How from such @ source. The state board
 of health has been formed into a politics
 machine. The towns of the state hay,
 been deprived of the control of all natter
 Is not all. They have succeeded In prehib iting from practicing the healisg art afte
 the methods of Christ, and applaud them
 selves for so doing, striking down as the.
 do one of the cherished institutions of tn
 church militant, no more laying on O hands, no more exercise of faith, that lad der of the soul. These medical phsrisee
 have succeed in orucifyipg Christ afresh. The following officers were elected President, Dr. c. W. Fitch, Bridgeport vice-president, Dr. James T. Tonks, Water 1 | ou'y, @ooeu1oI, AsIUy A. oiultu, nISSd nun; secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Smitl . of Bridgeport. The old board of censor was reelected. President Ripley appointe, s. B. Mum and Dr. F. A. Bucklsnd dele } gates to the national convention, to b held at Niagara Falls..
 The following resolutions. offered b
 Dr. Alexander Wilber of Newark, N. J
 secretary of the National Electric Medics
 association, were passed:
 Resolved, That the provision of the stat l medical practice act prescribing that tn
 state board of health ehall designate whe the examining committee shall hold e1sn 5 nations, is inapplicable to the eclecti |. school of medicine in the state and is i B violation of the chartered rights of this si
 socistiop, and that we protest and sfirr that we are under no obligation to regard | . Resolved, That In case of the proaecr
 tion of any member of this associatio |, under the medical practice act the men
 bers hereby sgree to rally to his suppol
 and to do every lawful act by psrsoni
 service and contribution to help them |, this exigenoy.